Classic soul

This chart is based on the monthly listeners metric for all artists tagged with the genre classic soul 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	Stevie Wonder	18,754,549	7,089,682
2	Marvin Gaye	18,452,338	5,928,899
3	Bill Withers	18,403,546	1,981,786
4	Ray Charles	10,215,332	2,593,041
5	Aretha Franklin	9,739,639	3,777,382
6	The Temptations	9,142,719	3,261,009
7	Otis Redding	8,542,090	2,517,705
8	Al Green	8,305,423	2,254,098
9	Commodores	8,052,367	2,099,738
10	Sam Cooke	6,005,300	1,842,321
11	Four Tops	5,371,734	1,244,126
12	Barry White	5,314,739	2,238,002
13	Roberta Flack	4,877,357	1,108,615
14	James Brown	4,458,576	2,308,014
15	The Isley Brothers	3,886,903	2,011,266
16	War	3,529,794	517,010
17	The Spinners	3,493,085	1,025,950
18	The Supremes	3,459,858	1,824,649
19	Sam & Dave	3,140,373	367,490
20	Curtis Mayfield	2,493,872	1,175,061
21	The Five Stairsteps	2,312,301	103,512
22	Booker T. & the M.G.'s	2,271,830	336,457
23	Gladys Knight & The Pips	2,255,814	1,411,422
24	Donny Hathaway	2,155,994	651,893
25	Solomon Burke	2,154,633	291,063
26	The Notations	2,061,439	39,856
27	Sly & The Family Stone	2,038,208	1,090,904
28	The O'Jays	1,967,722	1,403,424
29	Minnie Riperton	1,901,060	473,578
30	Smokey Robinson & The Miracles	1,864,799	1,257,621
31	Brenton Wood	1,819,387	271,563
32	Bobby Womack	1,817,081	757,012
33	Percy Sledge	1,788,261	559,874
34	Jackie Wilson	1,706,429	488,168
35	Wilson Pickett	1,573,291	657,685
36	Dobie Gray	1,386,674	56,559
37	Martha Reeves & The Vandellas	1,341,720	492,665
38	Anita Baker	1,340,434	1,526,522
39	Billy Paul	1,338,732	331,674
40	The Stylistics	1,317,921	925,723
41	Randy Crawford	1,280,400	382,651
42	Teddy Pendergrass	1,270,928	1,632,000
43	Rose Royce	1,259,116	502,657
44	Aaron Neville	1,252,151	163,247
45	Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes	1,181,617	667,773
46	Bobby Hebb	1,145,618	48,712
47	George McCrae	1,121,813	158,622
48	The Manhattans	1,120,577	696,239
49	Smokey Robinson	1,096,124	1,354,260
50	Darondo	1,082,106	141,391
51	Dennis Edwards	1,071,593	27,575
52	Lou Rawls	1,059,663	253,711
53	The Whispers	1,008,756	711,530
54	Bobby "Blue" Bland	990,893	174,501
55	The Staple Singers	971,594	364,298
56	The Marvelettes	934,527	382,915
57	Edwin Starr	880,513	171,772
58	Isaac Hayes	879,027	742,162
59	Mary Wells	839,773	328,976
60	William DeVaughn	830,583	41,475
61	The Miracles	791,392	428,811
62	Stephanie Mills	745,870	612,234
63	The Delfonics	732,757	578,587
64	Jean Knight	713,927	36,093
65	Fontella Bass	688,365	46,386
66	Ann Peebles	672,404	130,530
67	Freddie Jackson	660,276	879,673
68	Ohio Players	657,164	698,488
69	Irma Thomas	633,460	121,294
70	Jimmy Ruffin	616,303	209,052
71	Maze	576,049	537,876
72	The Chi-Lites	554,164	619,755
73	Timmy Thomas	551,890	21,878
74	Diana Ross & The Supremes	538,382	99,424
75	The Dramatics	528,043	396,488
76	The Impressions	513,160	286,899
77	Billy Stewart	511,399	99,832
78	Betty Wright	491,823	311,776
79	Jr. Walker & The All Stars	482,375	237,118
80	William Bell	466,100	77,947
81	Eddie Floyd	459,375	61,483
82	Barrett Strong	456,215	33,252
83	O.V. Wright	449,702	49,732
84	Syl Johnson	441,533	61,697
85	Al Wilson	436,823	29,944
86	Clarence Carter	430,065	198,398
87	Carla Thomas	426,836	74,323
88	The Main Ingredient	407,961	233,216
89	King Floyd	389,864	29,353
90	Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose	389,434	30,811
91	The Elgins	380,277	75,996
92	L.T.D.	335,808	24,335
93	Arthur Conley	329,322	45,975
94	Erma Franklin	326,048	27,014
95	James & Bobby Purify	323,959	32,390
96	The Floaters	319,528	49,549
97	Ralfi Pagan	315,537	55,758
98	Kim Weston	286,233	33,972
99	The Intruders	285,044	245,423
100	Bloodstone	283,658	226,535
101	The Jones Girls	279,881	131,176
102	Brook Benton	276,695	81,662
103	The Temprees	273,787	113,640
104	Frankie Beverly	264,355	117,861
105	The Originals	261,200	113,574
106	Dorothy Moore	242,059	57,419
107	The Persuaders	241,531	100,935
108	Millie Jackson	234,161	160,377
109	Archie Bell & The Drells	232,227	109,049
110	Linda Lyndell	231,194	5,051
111	Tyrone Davis	227,925	192,257
112	Blue Magic	219,753	263,075
113	L.T.D.	207,762	6,541
114	Johnnie Taylor	204,469	244,122
115	Brick	203,428	183,676
116	Freda Payne	200,869	24,755
117	Eddie Kendricks	200,642	323,012
118	David Ruffin	193,524	239,743
119	Larry Graham	192,631	73,497
120	Eddie Holman	182,079	37,253
121	Champaign	181,656	16,732
122	The Friends Of Distinction	171,268	61,977
123	The Undisputed Truth	170,823	60,836
124	Bettye Swann	170,749	54,673
125	The Dells	168,051	292,579
126	Papa Bear & His Cubs	167,501	18,095
127	Merry Clayton	164,245	31,581
128	The Velvelettes	162,478	146,994
129	The Tams	160,190	19,472
130	Phyllis Hyman	156,821	351,309
131	Lyn Collins	155,640	49,433
132	Shirley Brown	153,837	114,029
133	Johnny Bristol	150,309	19,661
134	Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir	145,128	33,761
135	Frank Wilson	138,951	21,741
136	Willie Hutch	134,691	95,293
137	Joe Tex	133,946	20,799
138	Bobby Moore & The Rhythm Aces	133,718	5,314
139	Bob & Earl	126,188	9,118
140	Brenda And The Tabulations	123,651	13,907
141	James Carr	115,266	56,517
142	The Moments	114,511	176,555
143	Chairmen Of The Board	112,528	31,021
144	Pete Wingfield	110,382	6,050
145	Leroy Hutson	109,309	40,246
146	Jerry Butler	109,294	176,813
147	Thee Midniters	103,557	24,514
148	Bloodstone	101,602	6,658
149	Sly, Slick & Wicked	97,338	30,545
150	Enchantment	95,512	79,958
151	The Mar-Keys	90,928	31,692
152	Supreme Jubilees	90,036	10,667
153	Yvonne Fair	87,423	9,155
154	Joe Simon	85,729	82,388
155	Jean Carn	85,079	54,269
156	Luther Ingram	84,907	55,096
157	Mel & Tim	84,611	15,613
158	Ray, Goodman & Brown	83,967	93,144
159	The New Birth	82,688	154,843
160	Rufus Thomas	82,182	83,613
161	The Whatnauts	79,476	30,780
162	Barbara Acklin	77,577	10,822
163	Major Harris	74,605	82,088
164	Lovelites	69,673	6,573
165	Norman Connors	67,322	67,213
166	Linda Jones	65,055	29,277
167	Shirley & Company	62,582	3,030
168	Jimmy Hughes	61,896	11,308
169	The Capitols	61,120	7,959
170	Jackie Moore	60,049	9,093
171	Ace Spectrum	58,181	9,494
172	Rotary Connection	55,205	21,285
173	The Mad Lads	52,236	24,635
174	The Fuzz	52,145	9,552
175	Brenda Holloway	49,601	45,856
176	Garnet Mimms & The Enchanters	48,598	10,444
177	The Ethics	48,471	4,024
178	Helene Smith	45,290	6,221
179	Dee Clark	44,702	17,206
180	Lamont Dozier	44,524	40,962
181	The Escorts	43,778	50,787
182	Willie Mitchell	42,511	17,056
183	Major Lance	41,868	30,747
184	Linda Fields	38,750	833
185	Maxine Brown	38,734	18,550
186	Laura Lee	37,968	11,581
187	Frankie Karl & The Dreams	37,065	1,890
188	The Natural Four	35,894	24,631
189	Tami Lynn	35,835	3,471
190	The Brothers Of Soul	34,043	18,019
191	Soul Clan	32,010	1,186
192	Sylvia	31,665	3,464
193	Mable John	31,389	14,381
194	The Superbs	30,767	7,527
195	The Funky Boys	30,670	220
196	D.J. Rogers	30,003	6,120
197	Ronnie Dyson	29,007	5,449
198	Brighter Side of Darkness	28,888	9,407
199	The Soul Children	28,392	35,100
200	La Mission	27,939	8,506
201	Alice Clark	27,269	8,177
202	Howard Tate	26,859	9,085
203	Darrell Banks	26,748	11,101
204	Ray	26,160	397
205	David Porter	25,805	6,923
206	Ann Sexton	24,896	7,707
207	Garnet Mimms	24,523	4,091
208	Honey Cone	24,465	11,369
209	Ronnie McNeir	24,127	3,983
210	Ruby Johnson	23,696	9,491
211	The Sweet Inspirations	23,624	14,358
212	Don Covay & The Goodtimers	23,589	832
213	Margie Joseph	23,541	14,105
214	Frederick Knight	23,376	2,792
215	The M.V.P.'s	22,885	1,104
216	Renaldo Domino	22,776	2,302
217	Don Covay	22,580	21,830
218	Billy Butler	22,228	6,657
219	Shorty Long	21,708	13,382
220	Geater Davis	21,008	2,940
221	High Inergy	20,588	950
222	The Ebonys	20,060	43,684
223	The Dynamic Superiors	20,002	10,541
224	Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum & Durr	19,662	2,293
225	The Controllers	19,443	4,969
226	Jack & The Mods	19,152	1,661
227	Dan Penn	16,871	8,358
228	Tobi Legend	16,850	1,181
229	New York City	15,151	1,816
230	Jeanne & The Darlings	15,134	2,391
231	Eddie Holland	15,051	21,592
232	The Independents	14,455	4,892
233	Grupo Pentecostes	14,216	399
234	The Soul Brothers Six	14,105	4,773
235	Dee Dee Warwick	14,007	12,405
236	Ted Taylor	12,963	5,396
237	The Astors	12,502	8,805
238	The Montclairs	12,135	12,926
239	Luther	11,658	1,179
240	Mark Capanni	11,599	702
241	Mike And The Censations	11,032	2,047
242	The Pips	11,019	1,042
243	Ruby Andrews	11,010	3,894
244	Johnny Johnson & The Bandwagon	10,803	1,196
245	Deon Jackson	10,663	1,445
246	Bill Wright	10,649	643
247	The Velvet Sundown Band	9,916	75
248	The Softones	9,724	6,562
249	Shirley Jones	9,711	1,578
250	Machine Soul Collective	9,636	71
251	John Gary Williams	9,150	1,857
252	Siggi Schwarz	8,881	1,216
253	Bobby McClure	8,765	1,004
254	Walter Jackson	8,605	7,313
255	Dana Valery	8,603	799
256	Four Mints	8,547	2,189
257	Harold Melvin	8,442	7,077
258	Spencer Wiggins	8,325	5,261
259	Debbie Taylor	8,257	1,452
260	The Brotherhood	8,199	1,668
261	Lorraine Chandler	7,661	2,095
262	The Fantastic Four	7,356	8,731
263	Prince Phillip Mitchell	7,268	3,829
264	The Persuaders	6,996	454
265	Judy Clay	6,941	4,269
266	The Artistics	6,763	7,378
267	Holland-Dozier	6,589	1,961
268	Kool Blues	5,883	2,467
269	Doris Duke	5,849	8,246
270	Lynn Williams	5,794	894
271	Bloodstone	5,785	3,773
272	Jean Wells	5,753	1,785
273	The Bluebelles	5,585	596
274	Baby Huey & The Baby Sitters	5,199	18,110
275	Shirley Walton	5,168	892
276	The Legends	4,818	436
277	The Cavaliers	4,592	1,638
278	Al Hudson	4,146	145
279	The Conchords	4,042	185
280	Altyrone Deno Brown	4,041	681
281	Technicolour Steam Train	4,021	429
282	Chocolate Snow	4,002	1,086
283	Carolyn Franklin	3,982	2,884
284	Entertainers IV	3,969	307
285	Barbara Stant	3,924	822
286	The Continental IV	3,868	2,770
287	The Soul Generation	3,794	6,510
288	The Knight Brothers	3,628	628
289	Ronnie Taylor	3,523	654
290	Tony Wilson	3,511	151
291	Derek Martin	3,428	1,755
292	Nancy Ames	3,192	557
293	Johnny Moore	3,135	756
294	Juan Quintero	3,079	118
295	Manantial Adorador	2,861	83
296	Beverly Ann	2,796	162
297	Pete Rugolo And His Orchestra	2,784	154
298	Lou Bond	2,727	2,039
299	Sir Mack Rice	2,539	1,628
300	Lee David	2,506	299
301	Lou Courtney	2,494	1,246
302	The Chi-Lites / The Whispers	2,485	353
303	MIKI BLIND	2,447	236
304	Al Matthews	2,353	234
305	Phillip Mitchell	2,330	289
306	Johnny Daye	2,259	231
307	The Del Rios	2,205	268
308	Neale Lundgren	2,155	168
309	The Minits	2,056	601
310	Kaldirons	1,993	513
311	The New Stylistics	1,970	281
312	Willie Kendrick	1,938	766
313	The Spellbinders	1,919	5,575
314	Bobbi Lynn	1,913	303
315	Spirit Songs	1,886	104
316	Eddie Ray	1,801	1,136
317	Ollie & The Nightingales	1,798	4,037
318	Alder Ray Mathis	1,726	68
319	Royal Esquires	1,693	390
320	Mavis Rivers	1,654	690
321	The Lost Generation	1,529	1,517
322	Joe Hinton	1,522	559
323	Shane Martin	1,495	350
324	The Satintones	1,480	4,139
325	Velma Perkins	1,400	391
326	Johnny Soul	1,372	143
327	Mcvaigh	1,367	9
328	Eritrean Classical	1,355	396
329	Boscoe	1,332	1,172
330	Benito Piazza	1,300	124
331	The Charmaines	1,284	678
332	The Fabulous Wailers	1,283	144
333	Veda Brown	1,263	2,799
334	Jimmy Briscoe & the Little Beavers	1,261	983
335	Dean Courtney	1,260	211
336	Chris Bartley	1,250	102
337	Bob Brady	1,217	86
338	Reparta & The Delrons	1,178	138
339	Oscar Mack	1,165	376
340	The Eight Minutes	1,158	489
341	Joshua Gellman	1,151	23
342	Tony Wison	1,148	103
343	Denis Brice	1,125	104
344	Christian Pisani	1,092	91
345	Susan Barrett	1,086	268
346	Shorty Rogers And His Orchestra	1,069	585
347	The Sweet Things	1,061	44
348	Ghanz Grooves	1,060	32
349	OFS Unlimited	1,054	257
350	Charles May	1,034	466
351	Dahlia Dumont	1,032	116
352	Sofía Giraldo	1,031	449
353	Ike Noble & The Uptights	1,021	154
354	Henry Charles	1,015	71
355	Barbara Schuster	1,000	136
356	The Nightingales	1,000	183
357	Musikkapelle St. Anton am Arlberg	748	61
358	Jay Wiggins	520	121
359	Harold Melvin's Blue Notes	442	545
360	Annette May	431	184
361	Wolfgang Amadeus	366	109
362	Miguel Acosta	355	7,721
363	The Joe Mooney Quartet	345	97
364	Tico & The Triumphs	334	202
365	Temptations Review Featuring Dennis Edwards	271	898
366	Hazel Miller	217	789
367	Bill Moss	186	386
368	The Sweaters	154	23
369	Arthur Conley & The Sweaters	153	31
370	Big Dre	144	144
371	Carlos Augusto	133	131
372	DORA	107	341
373	Brendan De Laney	104	13
374	Soul Generation	101	980
375	Svenska Hotkvintetten	101	153
376	Cliff Ellis	101	129
377	Tessa Niles	94	156
378	Black Latin Soul	85	12
379	Pedro Sousa Silva	74	70
380	Down & Dirty	69	11
381	Project 111	68	96
382	Orlando et son orchestre du Bagdad	64	5
383	Officium Consort	61	33
384	Oscar Aleman Y Su Quinteto De Swing	61	190
385	Softones	59	898
386	David Rimmel	54	106
387	Le Trio Ferret	51	106
388	Marcel Quillevere	50	33
389	Drew McWeeney	41	4
390	John Mays	40	17
391	Jimmi Amoore	39	1,298
392	Soul Crackers	39	48
393	The Magnificent Seven	36	2
394	The Stone Mg's	35	163
395	Gabriela Thierry Palomino & Davide De Lucia	33	7
396	Kobra	33	54
397	White Slave	31	3
398	East Boutique	29	17
399	Uplift Classic	28	48
400	Soulman Snipes	26	137
401	Organic House Elements	26	193
402	Neusa Maria	25	155
403	Pepe Dougan	24	131
404	Joy Orleans	24	89
405	デルフォニックス	24	276
406	Aerial Revision	24	51
407	Ouranos	23	40
408	Orquesta Bianco-Bachicha	23	21
409	Soulville	21	15
410	La Chambre du Roy René	20	23
411	Bill Drowning	20	4
412	Valerio Scrignoli	18	120
413	Orchestre Argentin Bachicha	18	1
414	Maria Helena Raposo	17	154
415	Michael Wildman	16	27
416	Louis Paul	16	32
417	L'Énigme Sacrée	16	14
418	George & the Highlanders	15	30
419	Philosophy Route	14	76
420	China Redd	14	14
421	Roger Reggor	12	97
422	The Razor	12	23
423	Diana Montez	11	110
424	Kevin Davies	10	111
425	Frank Fusion	9	116
426	Mahdi	8	149
427	Cinzia Prampolini	8	24
428	Jean Ferret	8	68
429	Benjamin Bennett	8	132
430	4 Sonique	8	137
431	Alone Art	7	13
432	Beach Project	7	95
433	Universe 314	7	9
434	Juliane Petrussen	6	14
435	Duo Bellerofonte	6	8
436	Giorgio Somalvico	6	9
437	Unwritten Smooth	6	120
438	Four-Leaf Corrupt	6	56
439	Charanga Típica de Conciertos	6	9
440	Pamelia Stickney	6	78
441	Cobalto Ensemble	5	7
442	Tito Burns & His Sextet	5	42
443	Orquesta Pesenti Du Coliseum de Paris	5	0
444	Miika Kalliala	4	11
445	Revolving Hamster	4	88
446	Tony' Jones	4	15
447	Lee Pratt	4	3
448	Marco Riva	3	9
449	La Follia Ensemble	3	11
450	Robert Cordoba	3	111
451	House Elements	3	119
452	Rolf Syversen Og Ans Solister	3	22
453	Svend Jørgensen	2	8
454	Future Collusion	2	0
455	The Futile of the Crying	1	2
456	Katrine Gregersen	1	12
457	Gino Van Gennep	1	17
458	The Within Affirmatives	1	7
459	Betty Clements	1	15
460	Twodoer	1	7
461	Lynette Project	1	3
462	Johnnie Gee	1	116
463	Jay	1	1
464	Me Bambero	1	5
465	Llyod Price and His Orchestra	1	23
466	Perry Solton	1	1