Pre 2000s Artists in the Top 500 on Spotify

Maybe a specific album would be better instead of genres

Spotify, probably. They show the listeners of each artist on their profile and the rankings of those in the top 500. Since the data was taken a month ago and the listener counts update daily, you won't be able to see the exact same numbers again, although it should (mostly) be pretty close.

Seconded

But Eurythmics is the band name and Eurhythmics is not/ could still be added as a common typo I suppose.

I feel like now that they've split up people will listen to their old stuff a lot because it's kind of nostalgic. I've seen a video about their usage of samples recently and I'm impressed.

I thought that too, but I looked out of curiosity, and even the one-hit wonders all seem to have at least a few songs with a lot of listens. A-Ha is one I looked up. Take On Me has a staggering 2.1 billion plays, but they also have songs (none of which I've heard) with over 98 million, 97 million, and 80 million plays. Coolio has 2.7 billion plays for Gangsta's Paradise, but then three over 39 million, 27 million, and 10 million listens, respectively. Those are not bad numbers. I tried to find an artist that dropped from like 100 million plays to under 200,000, and it's hard to do. Toni Basil's top four tracks are four different versions of Mickey totaling about 17 million plays...then a song with 125,000 plays. Every other one-hit wonder has at least one or two songs with around 8 or 10 million plays.

If it was total internet streams he'd surely be up there haha

Their first album, Curb, came out in 1996. They didn't blow up until 2000-2001 though.

Looks like 60% of the answers are artists that debuted a few years prior to 2000 and had lasting appeal at least through 2010 and the rest are all timers with extensive music catalogs that are in the English speaking world's collective consciousness. The only other artist that is anywhere close to The Outfield in terms of obscurity and lack of recent popularity is Chic/Nile Rodgers. Chic had at least 2 bigger songs than the Outfield and their catalog has been among the most sampled in modern music so it makes some sense. The Outfield is completely out of "leftfield" for lack of better terms.

Except, there are? I would think that the artists who sang La Incondicional, Oye Mi Amor, and Bailando would all qualify.