Justin Bieber Breaks a New Record Weeks After Coachella Performance
Justin Bieber is riding a major music wave-and the numbers are proving it.
Just weeks after his highly anticipated Coachella performance, the pop star has officially has the most monthly listeners on Spotify globally, reaching a new career high. According to recent data which was shared with Rolling Stone on Tuesday, May 5, Bieber surpassed 140 million monthly listeners on May 3, marking a massive jump from just under 100 million in early April.
Notably, in the days leading up to Coachella, the 32-year-old's streaming numbers steadily climbed, with each festival weekend pushing him up even further. By April 20, shortly after his set, he recorded his biggest single streaming day ever on the platform, pulling in more than 105 million streams.
Interestingly, it wasn't just his newer music driving the surge. The outlet notes that older hits saw a major revival, including his 2012 collaboration "Beauty and a Beat" with Nicki Minaj, which racked up more than 75 million streams during the Coachella window alone.
Still, while the streaming success tells one story, the reaction to his Coachella set has been more mixed. Bieber headlined the April 11 show, leaning heavily into songs from his recent albums SWAG and SWAG II, with a stripped-down setup that featured little more than a laptop on stage.
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For some fans expecting a high-production spectacle, the performance fell short. Others, however, appreciated the more intimate approach, with many viewers calling it genius.
There was also speculation that Bieber's 2022 decision to sell his music catalog may have limited what he could perform, but industry insiders quickly shut that down, with one noting to Billboard Canada that there are "no restrictions on what he can or can't do in live performance."
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This story was originally published May 5, 2026 at 1:57 PM.