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Canadian music star&nbsp;The Weeknd&nbsp;has been officially declared the most popular artist in the world by record-keeping organisation The Guinness Book of Records.

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Adeayo Adebiyi

<h2>In an announcement on March 20 2023 by Guinness World Record,&nbsp;Abel Makkonen Tesfaye&nbsp;popularly known as The Weeknd is the most popular artist in the world with the organisation stating that&nbsp;"No one else comes close".&nbsp;</h2>

The Weeknd became the first artist to surpass over 100 million monthly listeners (112 million as of March 24, 2023) on Spotify a record he exclusively holds with&nbsp;Miley Cyrus&nbsp;coming distant second at 83 million monthly listeners.

The Weeknd also boasts of the most streamed song on Spotify with his hit single&nbsp;'Blinding Lights'&nbsp;released in November 2019 holding the record with 3.4 billion streams.

The 33 years old popstar has enjoyed huge digital success across the world with his hit single&nbsp;'Die For You'&nbsp;featuring&nbsp;Ariana&nbsp;Grande&nbsp;going viral on Tik Tok.

In 2021, the award-winning artist dubbed the&nbsp;"King of streams"&nbsp;by the Guinness World Record headlined Superbowl 55 after boycotting the Grammys who failed to nominate his album&nbsp;'After Hours'.

In total, his songs have been streamed 40.7 billion times on Spotify.

That's according to Chart Masters, which says The Weeknd is the fifth most-streamed Spotify artist of all time behind Drake, Bad Bunny, Taylor Swift, and Ed Sheeran.

The Weeknd declared the most popular artist in the world

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