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