Swedish composer becomes Spotify’s most-famous musician you’ve never heard of

Johan Röhr’s success puts him among Spotify’s Top 100 most-streamed artists. Photograph: FabrikaSimf/Shutterstock

A “secret” composer who has released music under hundreds of different names has been identified as Sweden’s most-listened-to artist on Spotify – pulling in more plays than Britney Spears or Abba.

Johan Röhr, a Stockholm-based musician, has been unmasked as the person behind more than 650 different artists on the streaming service who have been played 15bn times, making him Sweden’s current most-played artist.