Daniel Ek

Swedish businessman (born 1983)

Daniel Georg Ek is a Swedish businessman and technologist. He is the founder and executive chairman of Spotify. As of December 2025, his net worth was estimated at $8.7 billion by Forbes.

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Spotify Celebrates 20th Anniversary

Taylor Swift leads the rankings as Spotify celebrates 20 years of transforming the global music landscape.

Spotify has been around for 20 years. These are the artists we’ve listened to most Sydney Morning Herald — Apr 24, 01:20 AM
Spotify Reveals Its Most Streamed Music of the Last 20 Years Gizmodo — Apr 24, 00:25 AM
Most Streamed Spotify Artist of All-Time Revealed Daily Beast — Apr 23, 22:02 PM
Happy 20th Birthday, Spotify. Here's the Platform's Most Streamed of All Time CNET — Apr 23, 19:17 PM
Spotify reveals most-streamed artists, albums and songs of all time The Hill — Apr 23, 18:12 PM
Taylor Swift tops Spotify list of most-streamed artists of all time UPI — Apr 23, 15:13 PM
Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny top Spotify’s most streamed artists list CBC — Apr 23, 14:44 PM
Revealed: The most streamed artists, songs and podcasts in Spotify's 20-year HISTORY - so, did your favourite make the cut? Daily Mail — Apr 23, 14:22 PM
Spotify shares its all-time most-streamed music, podcasts. See lists USA Today — Apr 23, 20:58 PM
Spotify just turned 20. Here’s how founder Daniel Ek built it into a $100 billion music empire by being the ‘least powerful person’ at the company Fortune — Apr 23, 20:48 PM