Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Madonna, jay z, King Crimson, Garth Brooks, and move on. Spotify has 16 million paying subscribers, with another 66 million free users. TPG and Dragoneer led the company's new funding round of 1 billion dollars. One of the most famous artists on Spotify is Ed Sheeran, who grossed more than $6.3 million in 2016 from Spotify alone.