British folk

This chart is based on the monthly listeners metric for all artists tagged with the genre british folk by Spotify. It may contain some errors or some data may not be up to date. You can check the artist profile to update data if necessary.

#	Artist	Monthly Listeners	Followers
1	Yusuf / Cat Stevens	9,461,260	1,952,291
2	Nick Drake	2,412,364	832,840
3	Donovan	1,685,361	707,721
4	Laura Marling	1,167,319	501,747
5	Vashti Bunyan	609,339	174,374
6	John Martyn	526,167	155,041
7	Ralph McTell	298,403	29,035
8	Mike Scott	273,098	10,902
9	Fairport Convention	272,409	121,541
10	Peter Sarstedt	262,916	24,807
11	Richard Thompson	245,591	91,497
12	Dougie MacLean	189,648	29,282
13	Bert Jansch	128,506	85,417
14	Richard & Linda Thompson	121,184	33,047
15	Jon Boden	118,833	10,095
16	Tír na nÓg	105,020	5,192
17	Lindisfarne	102,418	35,545
18	Mark Fry	94,076	10,090
19	Terry Reid	89,162	34,977
20	Bill Fay	88,932	28,867
21	Molly Drake	84,237	24,882
22	Kevin Ayers	78,290	52,972
23	Kate Rusby	77,136	56,084
24	Matthews' Southern Comfort	72,534	8,081
25	Planxty	69,048	46,886
26	Davy Graham	67,585	16,487
27	Steeleye Span	66,005	55,125
28	Strawbs	61,583	50,394
29	Sandy Denny	59,494	59,763
30	Roy Harper	52,946	37,414
31	Kris Drever	50,173	11,187
32	Karine Polwart	50,069	25,609
33	Ewan MacColl	48,291	12,940
34	Eddi Reader	46,436	22,615
35	Shirley Collins	45,818	17,386
36	Pentangle	45,448	56,580
37	Iain Matthews	42,881	9,188
38	Dick Gaughan	40,619	14,559
39	Bridget St John	38,993	17,624
40	Linda Thompson	37,199	10,563
41	The Unthanks	33,987	42,218
42	Martin Simpson	32,339	14,476
43	Anne Briggs	32,158	19,941
44	John Renbourn	30,724	26,117
45	The Incredible String Band	30,328	53,266
46	Seth Lakeman	30,128	30,349
47	June Tabor	28,201	16,684
48	Andy Irvine	26,976	14,641
49	Bellowhead	25,820	25,937
50	Oysterband	25,754	10,433
51	Archie Fisher	25,706	4,565
52	Eliza Carthy	25,302	14,758
53	Alan Hull	24,544	7,187
54	Michael Chapman	24,166	19,430
55	Kathryn Tickell	22,613	6,215
56	Maddy Prior	21,728	15,364
57	The Watersons	19,640	10,956
58	Magna Carta	19,024	10,547
59	Show Of Hands	18,188	19,097
60	Jackie Oates	17,861	7,667
61	Ruth Notman	17,702	3,208
62	Battlefield Band	17,624	14,191
63	Nancy Kerr	17,263	3,954
64	Duncan Browne	16,783	4,135
65	Lau	16,371	17,779
66	Martin Carthy	15,412	14,844
67	Bella Hardy	15,260	6,844
68	Alexander 'Skip' Spence	14,971	15,082
69	Fotheringay	14,928	16,055
70	Ewan McLennan	14,889	2,624
71	Beverley Martyn	13,529	999
72	Kathryn Williams	13,269	8,792
73	Nic Jones	13,069	7,913
74	Trees	11,693	11,117
75	John McCusker	11,299	4,421
76	Jake Thackray	11,077	9,304
77	Heidi Talbot	10,866	5,400
78	Andy Cutting	10,554	2,594
79	The Imagined Village	8,830	9,329
80	Spirogyra	8,679	8,997
81	Jackie Leven	8,047	5,932
82	Boo Hewerdine	7,877	3,618
83	Bob Fox	7,706	2,058
84	Maddy Prior & Tim Hart	7,484	5,572
85	Norma Waterson	7,475	4,876
86	Barry Coope	7,466	911
87	Peter Bellamy	6,720	2,797
88	Heron	6,651	3,344
89	Alasdair Roberts	6,441	6,625
90	Simon Finn	6,398	5,291
91	Trader Horne	6,202	3,640
92	Spiers & Boden	6,074	5,511
93	Catherine Howe	6,029	2,674
94	A. L. Lloyd	5,496	3,456
95	Ian Campbell Folk Group	5,391	2,480
96	The Humblebums	5,319	4,431
97	Dave Swarbrick	5,002	5,556
98	Fay Hield	4,964	3,293
99	The Full English	4,924	2,230
100	Nick Harper	4,737	1,663
101	John Tams	4,719	4,625
102	Waterson:Carthy	4,438	4,510
103	Silly Sisters	4,188	5,181
104	John Kirkpatrick	3,902	2,640
105	The Albion Band	3,860	6,693
106	Jez Lowe	3,671	2,772
107	Shelagh Mcdonald	3,539	4,454
108	Lal Waterson	2,959	988
109	Ashley Hutchings	2,900	3,656
110	The John Renbourn Group	2,634	7,217
111	The Poozies	2,556	2,255
112	Plainsong	2,524	1,549
113	Albion Christmas Band	2,519	518
114	Robin Williamson	2,434	3,832
115	Barry Dransfield	2,331	1,738
116	Shirley Collins & Albion Country Band	2,265	904
117	Jim Moray	2,216	4,045
118	Wizz Jones	2,196	2,564
119	Roy Bailey	2,182	2,203
120	Dando Shaft	2,172	2,965
121	Steve Tilston	1,972	2,707
122	The Sallyangie	1,898	1,090
123	Tim Hart & Maddy Prior	1,872	868
124	Vin Garbutt	1,652	2,460
125	Fresh Maggots	1,597	2,656
126	Claire Hamill	1,589	1,182
127	Shirley & Dolly Collins	1,541	1,823
128	Dr. Strangely Strange	1,473	4,572
129	Synanthesia	1,347	2,604
130	Christine Collister	1,318	850
131	Davey Graham	1,316	2,501
132	Cyril Tawney	1,288	1,225
133	Brass Monkey	1,262	1,509
134	Albion Country Band	1,250	715
135	Chris Wood	1,218	3,130
136	The Copper Family	1,096	1,883
137	Bread, Love And Dreams	1,090	1,338
138	The Young Tradition	1,072	2,710
139	Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies	1,054	726
140	The Bunch	1,049	806
141	Steve Knightley	1,049	2,794
142	Home Service	1,041	792
143	Keith Christmas	1,023	852
144	Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band	1,011	4,230
145	Tim Van Eyken	1,004	1,035
146	Mike Heron	671	989
147	Amazing Blondel	599	1,659
148	Simon Nicol	592	387
149	Frankie Armstrong	508	1,232
150	Phil Beer	448	1,450
151	Tudor Lodge	441	1,031
152	The Albion Dance Band	371	740
153	Rory McLeod	215	1,544
154	Dave Burland	194	434
155	Mick Softley	135	402
156	The Eighteenth Day of May	129	212
157	Kerfuffle	17	1,052