Ranked by fans
Low
1977
126681% won
Station to Station
1976
130984% won
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
1972
122481% won
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101345 votes - 44% won
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74537 votes - 14% won
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- 576votes
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- 999avg rating
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START RANKINGA different ranking, from a different crowd: David Bowie's albums and songs by lifetime Spotify streams. Figures move daily. Nothing here feeds the fan ranking.
Most streamed David Bowie albums
Hunky Dory
1971
912m
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
1972
1.72bn
Let’s Dance
1983
835m
Every play of every song on the album, as of 26 October 2026. Where an album has several editions, the biggest figure counts. No Spotify total for Scary Monsters… and Super Creeps, 1.Outside: The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle, David Bowie and David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf.
Most streamed David Bowie songs
- 1Under Pressure - 2011 Remaster2.3bn781k/day
- 2Starman - 2012 Remaster843m449k/day
- 3"Heroes" - 2017 Remaster752m416k/day
- 4Space Oddity - 2009 Remaster524m209k/day
- 5Rebel Rebel - 2016 Remaster465m86k/day
- 6Life on Mars? - 2015 Remaster409m115k/day
- 7Let's Dance - 2018 Remaster408m151k/day
- 8Moonage Daydream - 2012 Remaster296m70k/day
- 9Modern Love - 2018 Remaster287m102k/day
- 10Changes - 2015 Remaster278m95k/day
Source: Spotify lifetime totals via kworb.net. Albums as of 26 October 2026, songs as of 26 October 2026. Stream counts are not votes and are never mixed into the fan ranking.
David Bowie albums: your questions
- What is David Bowie's best album?
- Station to Station (1976) is David Bowie's #1 album on TakeRank, winning 84% of its 58 head-to-head matchups.
- What is David Bowie's most underrated album?
- ★ (2016) sits at #5 but wins 68% of its matchups, the best record of any David Bowie album outside their top three.
- How many albums has David Bowie released?
- David Bowie has released 27 studio albums, from David Bowie (1967) to ★ (2016).
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