69% of Spotify Streams in the US are by American Artists

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Spotify releases some listening stats for America’s 250th birthday, revealing that 70% of the Spotify Top 50 in the US is made up of American music.

The United States is turning 250, and Spotify has released some fun listening statistics to celebrate the occasion. According to the streamer, 69% of all streams in the country go to American artists, and American music makes up 70% of the Spotify Top 50 chart in the U.S. in 2025.

Unsurprisingly, listeners in the South and the Midwest stream the most music made in America. In just the past week, Spotify says Mississippi topped that list, followed by West Virginia, South Dakota, Alabama, and Louisiana.

The artists driving those numbers “capture the breadth of the American sound,” says Spotify, including chart-topper Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Morgan Wallen, Kendrick Lamar, and Post Malone. Of those, Morgan Wallen has an “exceptionally strong” home-market audience, with 74% of his streams coming from U.S. listeners—the highest share among American artists.

Globally, Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Ariana Grande, Billie Eilish, and Eminem are among the most-streamed American artists of all time. In the past year, people outside the U.S. streamed songs featuring at least one American artist 776 billion times.

Each year, Americans play over 650,000 Fourth of July-themed playlists, featuring tracks like Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA,” Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” Katy Perry’s “Firework,” John Mellencamp’s “ROCK in the USA,” and Ray Charles’ “America the Beautiful.”

Pop, hip-hop, rock, indie, and country are the American genres most streamed within the country, while pop, hip-hop, rock, dance, and indie lead internationally. Over the last five years, streams of American country music have grown more than 94% outside the United States.

Interestingly, English-language tracks only account for 86% of streams in the United States, a number that’s steadily dropping in the face of the continued rise of Latin and K-pop music. Bad Bunny, who mostly sings in Spanish, has undoubtedly contributed to this number, especially after headlining the Super Bowl Halftime Show earlier this year.