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Guinness World Records declares The Weeknd as World's Most Popular Artist

R&B superstar The Weeknd. (Courtesy)

The Guinness World Records has officially declared The Weeknd as the world's most popular artist on Monday. This title has been awarded to the R&B superstar based on his Spotify streams, which according to the organization, makes him statistically the most popular musician on the planet.

The Weeknd has broken records, being the first artist to achieve 100 million monthly listeners on Spotify, as of February. Currently, he has a whopping 111.4 million monthly listeners, which is 30 million more monthly listeners than the runner-up, Miley Cyrus, with 82.4 million.

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