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	19,456,065	7,035,087
2	Marvin Gaye	19,247,056	5,876,458
3	Bill Withers	16,927,671	1,956,209
4	Aretha Franklin	10,863,639	3,743,084
5	Ray Charles	10,420,548	2,569,316
6	The Temptations	10,151,021	3,233,853
7	Otis Redding	8,981,815	2,494,859
8	Al Green	8,408,861	2,228,852
9	Commodores	8,313,036	2,078,401
10	Sam Cooke	6,188,861	1,820,451
11	Four Tops	5,735,111	1,233,376
12	Barry White	5,487,286	2,208,690
13	James Brown	4,520,196	2,295,571
14	The Isley Brothers	4,081,955	1,995,726
15	The Supremes	4,016,479	1,814,348
16	War	3,758,892	510,202
17	The Spinners	3,536,622	1,016,262
18	Sam & Dave	3,391,075	364,898
19	Curtis Mayfield	2,677,798	1,169,415
20	Booker T. & the M.G.'s	2,607,954	333,470
21	Solomon Burke	2,402,793	289,006
22	The Five Stairsteps	2,312,301	103,512
23	Sly & The Family Stone	2,284,768	1,086,380
24	Gladys Knight & The Pips	2,272,414	1,399,399
25	The O'Jays	2,063,796	1,390,741
26	The Notations	2,061,439	39,856
27	Donny Hathaway	1,963,228	644,718
28	Brenton Wood	1,901,001	268,866
29	Smokey Robinson & The Miracles	1,845,156	1,252,163
30	Percy Sledge	1,839,446	555,217
31	Minnie Riperton	1,811,084	466,378
32	Jackie Wilson	1,786,434	484,730
33	Bobby Womack	1,750,935	752,711
34	Wilson Pickett	1,671,779	654,970
35	Martha Reeves & The Vandellas	1,500,127	489,395
36	Dobie Gray	1,386,674	56,559
37	The Stylistics	1,363,647	919,917
38	Anita Baker	1,361,965	1,509,800
39	Billy Paul	1,352,798	326,934
40	Rose Royce	1,259,116	502,657
41	Aaron Neville	1,235,074	160,675
42	Teddy Pendergrass	1,230,501	1,610,016
43	Randy Crawford	1,221,441	380,367
44	Smokey Robinson	1,194,994	1,347,234
45	Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes	1,173,195	660,785
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	Darondo	1,082,106	141,391
50	Dennis Edwards	1,071,593	27,575
51	The Staple Singers	1,047,224	363,104
52	Lou Rawls	1,031,903	249,379
53	The Whispers	1,008,756	711,530
54	Bobby "Blue" Bland	990,893	174,501
55	The Marvelettes	984,516	379,695
56	Average White Band	940,493	449,736
57	Mary Wells	921,640	327,131
58	Edwin Starr	880,513	171,772
59	Isaac Hayes	879,027	742,162
60	William DeVaughn	830,583	41,475
61	The Miracles	748,872	425,971
62	Stephanie Mills	745,870	612,234
63	The Delfonics	732,757	578,587
64	Jean Knight	724,629	35,313
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	Diana Ross & The Supremes	559,818	97,344
73	The Chi-Lites	554,164	619,755
74	Timmy Thomas	551,890	21,878
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	158,241	19,336
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	Tami Lynn	35,835	3,471
189	The Brothers Of Soul	34,043	18,019
190	Soul Clan	32,010	1,186
191	Sylvia	31,665	3,464
192	Mable John	31,389	14,381
193	The Superbs	30,767	7,527
194	The Funky Boys	30,670	220
195	D.J. Rogers	30,003	6,120
196	Ronnie Dyson	29,007	5,449
197	Brighter Side of Darkness	28,888	9,407
198	The Soul Children	28,392	35,100
199	La Mission	27,939	8,506
200	The Natural Four	27,804	24,408
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	7,986	1,648
261	Lorraine Chandler	7,661	2,095
262	The Fantastic Four	7,356	8,731
263	Prince Phillip Mitchell	7,055	3,759
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	Johnny Soul	1,372	143
326	Eritrean Classical	1,355	396
327	Boscoe	1,332	1,172
328	Benito Piazza	1,300	124
329	The Charmaines	1,284	678
330	The Fabulous Wailers	1,283	144
331	Veda Brown	1,263	2,799
332	Jimmy Briscoe & the Little Beavers	1,261	983
333	Dean Courtney	1,260	211
334	Chris Bartley	1,250	102
335	Bob Brady	1,217	86
336	Reparta & The Delrons	1,178	138
337	Oscar Mack	1,165	376
338	The Eight Minutes	1,158	489
339	Joshua Gellman	1,151	23
340	Tony Wison	1,148	103
341	Christian Pisani	1,092	91
342	Susan Barrett	1,086	268
343	Ghanz Grooves	1,060	32
344	Charles May	1,034	466
345	Dahlia Dumont	1,032	116
346	Sofía Giraldo	1,031	449
347	Ike Noble & The Uptights	1,021	154
348	The Sweet Things	1,017	44
349	Henry Charles	1,015	71
350	Barbara Schuster	1,000	136
351	The Nightingales	1,000	183
352	Musikkapelle St. Anton am Arlberg	748	61
353	Denis Brice	575	4
354	Jay Wiggins	520	121
355	Harold Melvin's Blue Notes	442	545
356	Annette May	431	184
357	Wolfgang Amadeus	366	109
358	Miguel Acosta	355	7,721
359	The Joe Mooney Quartet	345	97
360	Tico & The Triumphs	334	202
361	Temptations Review Featuring Dennis Edwards	271	898
362	Hazel Miller	217	789
363	Bill Moss	186	386
364	The Sweaters	154	23
365	Arthur Conley & The Sweaters	153	31
366	Big Dre	144	144
367	Carlos Augusto	133	131
368	DORA	107	341
369	Brendan De Laney	104	13
370	Soul Generation	101	980
371	Svenska Hotkvintetten	101	153
372	Cliff Ellis	101	129
373	Tessa Niles	94	156
374	Black Latin Soul	85	12
375	Pedro Sousa Silva	74	70
376	Down & Dirty	69	11
377	Project 111	68	96
378	Orlando et son orchestre du Bagdad	64	5
379	Officium Consort	61	33
380	Oscar Aleman Y Su Quinteto De Swing	61	190
381	Softones	59	898
382	David Rimmel	54	106
383	Le Trio Ferret	51	106
384	Marcel Quillevere	50	33
385	Drew McWeeney	41	4
386	John Mays	40	17
387	Jimmi Amoore	39	1,298
388	Soul Crackers	39	48
389	The Magnificent Seven	36	2
390	The Stone Mg's	35	163
391	Gabriela Thierry Palomino & Davide De Lucia	33	7
392	Kobra	33	54
393	White Slave	31	3
394	East Boutique	29	17
395	Uplift Classic	28	48
396	Soulman Snipes	26	137
397	Organic House Elements	26	193
398	Neusa Maria	25	155
399	Pepe Dougan	24	131
400	Joy Orleans	24	89
401	デルフォニックス	24	276
402	Aerial Revision	24	51
403	Ouranos	23	40
404	Orquesta Bianco-Bachicha	23	21
405	Soulville	21	15
406	La Chambre du Roy René	20	23
407	Bill Drowning	20	4
408	Valerio Scrignoli	18	120
409	Orchestre Argentin Bachicha	18	1
410	Maria Helena Raposo	17	154
411	Michael Wildman	16	27
412	Louis Paul	16	32
413	L'Énigme Sacrée	16	14
414	George & the Highlanders	15	30
415	Philosophy Route	14	76
416	China Redd	14	14
417	Roger Reggor	12	97
418	The Razor	12	23
419	Diana Montez	11	110
420	Kevin Davies	10	111
421	Frank Fusion	9	116
422	Mahdi	8	149
423	Cinzia Prampolini	8	24
424	Jean Ferret	8	68
425	Benjamin Bennett	8	132
426	4 Sonique	8	137
427	Alone Art	7	13
428	Beach Project	7	95
429	Universe 314	7	9
430	Juliane Petrussen	6	14
431	Duo Bellerofonte	6	8
432	Giorgio Somalvico	6	9
433	Unwritten Smooth	6	120
434	Four-Leaf Corrupt	6	56
435	Charanga Típica de Conciertos	6	9
436	Pamelia Stickney	6	78
437	Cobalto Ensemble	5	7
438	Tito Burns & His Sextet	5	42
439	Orquesta Pesenti Du Coliseum de Paris	5	0
440	Miika Kalliala	4	11
441	Revolving Hamster	4	88
442	Tony' Jones	4	15
443	Lee Pratt	4	3
444	Marco Riva	3	9
445	La Follia Ensemble	3	11
446	Robert Cordoba	3	111
447	House Elements	3	119
448	Rolf Syversen Og Ans Solister	3	22
449	Svend Jørgensen	2	8
450	Future Collusion	2	0
451	The Futile of the Crying	1	2
452	Katrine Gregersen	1	12
453	Gino Van Gennep	1	17
454	The Within Affirmatives	1	7
455	Betty Clements	1	15
456	Twodoer	1	7
457	Lynette Project	1	3
458	Johnnie Gee	1	116
459	Jay	1	1
460	Me Bambero	1	5
461	Llyod Price and His Orchestra	1	23
462	Perry Solton	1	1