A dated April 14, 2026 Talk of the Charts post attributed to Luminate put Bad Bunny at the top of its 2026 global all-platform streaming snapshot with 11.5 billion streams. Taylor Swift followed at 8.4B, Drake at 6.5B, Bruno Mars at 5.6B and The Weeknd at 5.4B. BTS ranked sixth at 4.7B, followed by Justin Bieber at 3.8B, Rihanna at 3.7B, Ariana Grande at 3.6B and Billie Eilish at 3.5B. These are the figures from that dated snapshot, not a live August leaderboard.
For the height comparison, BTS is left out because a group has no single human height. The nine solo artists are shown using current Stand Next To effective heights: Drake 182 cm, Bad Bunny 180 cm, Taylor Swift 177.8 cm, Rihanna 173 cm, Justin Bieber 171 cm, The Weeknd 170 cm, Bruno Mars 163 cm, Billie Eilish 160 cm and Ariana Grande 153 cm. That creates a 29 cm spread from Drake to Ariana Grande.
The true-scale stage removes the usual distortion from footwear, camera angle and posing so the height differences can be compared directly.