Justin Bieber was not affected by Spotify’s streaming removals.
Spotify has removed significant numbers of fraudulent streams from tracks every month for over a year. He lost no streams.
Justin Bieber and @NICKIMINAJ's "Beauty And A Beat" returns to #1 on the global Spotify chart with 5.422 million streams.
It has now spent 30 days at #1.
People underestimate Bieber.
He is the most-streamed artist of all time for 14,281,955 Spotify users. Roughly 2% of the entire platform has him at #1 in their library, ranked above every other artist they've ever played. Nobody else clears the number.
He's also the #1 active artist on Spotify right now. 140 million monthly listeners as of this month. Higher than Bruno Mars at 136M. Higher than The Weeknd at 115M. Higher than Drake at 88M. The biggest active number any artist has ever posted on the platform.
Both metrics in the same window. The accumulated loyalty and the present-tense dominance.
The underestimation has a pattern. Every cycle the press declares the run is over. After the 2014 Miami arrest. After the Purpose Tour cancellation in 2017. After the four-year gap following Justice in 2021. The catalog kept compounding plays in the background every single time.
Spotify launched in the US in July 2011. Boyfriend dropped March 2012. Believe in June 2012. Purpose in November 2015. He landed exactly when a generation built their first streaming libraries. Those plays stacked for fifteen years.
Then SWAG dropped as a surprise on July 11, 2025. 198.77 million streams in week one, the biggest career streaming week he had ever posted. Daisies, All I Can Take, Yukon, Go Baby, Things You Do, Butterflies, Way It Is. The entire top 7 of the US Spotify chart on release day, all from one album.
SWAG II followed in September. Combined, the two crossed 1 billion streams in weeks.
The mental model people apply to Bieber is the child star template. Public meltdown, slow fade, residual nostalgia plays. The data shows the opposite. His catalog kept growing through the quiet years and his new music re-activated the loyal cohort the moment it dropped.
The teen Beliebers from 2012 are 28 now. They never deleted the playlist. They just added SWAG to it.
Justin Bieber and @NICKIMINAJ's "Beauty And A Beat" remains at #1 on the global Spotify chart with 6.01 million streams.
It has now spent 29 days at #1.
Beauty and a beat era un semi hit en la carrera de justin y si a principios de año me hubieran dicho que se convertiría en uno de sus grandes hits en pleno 2026, me hubiera reido
Me parece gracioso como otros fandoms se esfuerzan al maximo para llegar o mantener un #1 y luego estamos el de justin que no movemos ni 1 dedo, él simplemente lo consigue y aca se celebra, han pasado años desde la ultima vez que nos esforzamos por una canción 😭
.@justinbieber & @NICKIMINAJ's "Beauty And A Beat" remains at #1 on global Spotify chart with 6.694 million streams.
It has now spent 22 days at #1.