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	18,707,641	7,076,799
2	Marvin Gaye	18,444,905	5,915,914
3	Bill Withers	17,993,293	1,975,810
4	Ray Charles	10,150,841	2,586,920
5	Aretha Franklin	10,111,956	3,769,777
6	The Temptations	9,213,697	3,255,063
7	Otis Redding	8,176,113	2,512,281
8	Al Green	8,154,858	2,248,061
9	Commodores	8,096,892	2,094,147
10	Sam Cooke	5,890,111	1,837,437
11	Barry White	5,380,228	2,233,282
12	Four Tops	5,356,829	1,241,733
13	James Brown	4,442,732	2,304,983
14	War	3,942,361	515,370
15	The Isley Brothers	3,938,929	2,007,420
16	The Supremes	3,504,391	1,822,613
17	The Spinners	3,404,140	1,023,651
18	Sam & Dave	2,730,095	366,882
19	Booker T. & the M.G.'s	2,620,108	335,883
20	Curtis Mayfield	2,534,160	1,173,672
21	Solomon Burke	2,464,625	290,613
22	The Five Stairsteps	2,312,301	103,512
23	Gladys Knight & The Pips	2,258,649	1,408,628
24	Sly & The Family Stone	2,095,721	1,089,931
25	The Notations	2,061,439	39,856
26	The O'Jays	2,007,104	1,400,676
27	Donny Hathaway	1,955,195	650,143
28	Percy Sledge	1,923,775	558,795
29	Minnie Riperton	1,857,918	471,794
30	Smokey Robinson & The Miracles	1,823,517	1,255,830
31	Brenton Wood	1,811,383	270,871
32	Bobby Womack	1,779,709	756,229
33	Jackie Wilson	1,741,147	487,398
34	Wilson Pickett	1,528,567	657,111
35	Dobie Gray	1,386,674	56,559
36	Anita Baker	1,375,492	1,522,804
37	Martha Reeves & The Vandellas	1,373,926	492,005
38	Billy Paul	1,349,308	330,857
39	The Stylistics	1,345,609	924,381
40	Rose Royce	1,259,116	502,657
41	Teddy Pendergrass	1,249,731	1,627,174
42	Aaron Neville	1,232,553	162,712
43	Randy Crawford	1,232,382	382,142
44	Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes	1,176,865	665,988
45	Bobby Hebb	1,145,618	48,712
46	Smokey Robinson	1,126,161	1,352,536
47	George McCrae	1,121,813	158,622
48	The Manhattans	1,120,577	696,239
49	Darondo	1,082,106	141,391
50	Lou Rawls	1,072,546	252,941
51	Dennis Edwards	1,071,593	27,575
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	932,334	382,239
56	Edwin Starr	880,513	171,772
57	Isaac Hayes	879,027	742,162
58	Mary Wells	868,849	328,483
59	William DeVaughn	830,583	41,475
60	The Miracles	817,059	428,110
61	Stephanie Mills	745,870	612,234
62	The Delfonics	732,757	578,587
63	Jean Knight	722,289	35,928
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	536,733	98,863
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	158,241	19,336
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	Tami Lynn	35,835	3,471
188	The Brothers Of Soul	34,043	18,019
189	Soul Clan	32,010	1,186
190	Sylvia	31,665	3,464
191	Mable John	31,389	14,381
192	The Superbs	30,767	7,527
193	The Funky Boys	30,670	220
194	D.J. Rogers	30,003	6,120
195	Ronnie Dyson	29,007	5,449
196	Brighter Side of Darkness	28,888	9,407
197	The Soul Children	28,392	35,100
198	La Mission	27,939	8,506
199	The Natural Four	27,804	24,408
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	7,986	1,648
260	Lorraine Chandler	7,661	2,095
261	The Fantastic Four	7,356	8,731
262	Prince Phillip Mitchell	7,055	3,759
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	Johnny Soul	1,372	143
325	Eritrean Classical	1,355	396
326	Boscoe	1,332	1,172
327	Benito Piazza	1,300	124
328	The Charmaines	1,284	678
329	The Fabulous Wailers	1,283	144
330	Veda Brown	1,263	2,799
331	Jimmy Briscoe & the Little Beavers	1,261	983
332	Dean Courtney	1,260	211
333	Chris Bartley	1,250	102
334	Bob Brady	1,217	86
335	Reparta & The Delrons	1,178	138
336	Oscar Mack	1,165	376
337	The Eight Minutes	1,158	489
338	Joshua Gellman	1,151	23
339	Tony Wison	1,148	103
340	Christian Pisani	1,092	91
341	Susan Barrett	1,086	268
342	Ghanz Grooves	1,060	32
343	Charles May	1,034	466
344	Dahlia Dumont	1,032	116
345	Sofía Giraldo	1,031	449
346	Ike Noble & The Uptights	1,021	154
347	The Sweet Things	1,017	44
348	Henry Charles	1,015	71
349	Barbara Schuster	1,000	136
350	The Nightingales	1,000	183
351	Musikkapelle St. Anton am Arlberg	748	61
352	Denis Brice	575	4
353	Jay Wiggins	520	121
354	Harold Melvin's Blue Notes	442	545
355	Annette May	431	184
356	Wolfgang Amadeus	366	109
357	Miguel Acosta	355	7,721
358	The Joe Mooney Quartet	345	97
359	Tico & The Triumphs	334	202
360	Temptations Review Featuring Dennis Edwards	271	898
361	Hazel Miller	217	789
362	Bill Moss	186	386
363	The Sweaters	154	23
364	Arthur Conley & The Sweaters	153	31
365	Big Dre	144	144
366	Carlos Augusto	133	131
367	DORA	107	341
368	Brendan De Laney	104	13
369	Soul Generation	101	980
370	Svenska Hotkvintetten	101	153
371	Cliff Ellis	101	129
372	Tessa Niles	94	156
373	Black Latin Soul	85	12
374	Pedro Sousa Silva	74	70
375	Down & Dirty	69	11
376	Project 111	68	96
377	Orlando et son orchestre du Bagdad	64	5
378	Officium Consort	61	33
379	Oscar Aleman Y Su Quinteto De Swing	61	190
380	Softones	59	898
381	David Rimmel	54	106
382	Le Trio Ferret	51	106
383	Marcel Quillevere	50	33
384	Drew McWeeney	41	4
385	John Mays	40	17
386	Jimmi Amoore	39	1,298
387	Soul Crackers	39	48
388	The Magnificent Seven	36	2
389	The Stone Mg's	35	163
390	Gabriela Thierry Palomino & Davide De Lucia	33	7
391	Kobra	33	54
392	White Slave	31	3
393	East Boutique	29	17
394	Uplift Classic	28	48
395	Soulman Snipes	26	137
396	Organic House Elements	26	193
397	Neusa Maria	25	155
398	Pepe Dougan	24	131
399	Joy Orleans	24	89
400	デルフォニックス	24	276
401	Aerial Revision	24	51
402	Ouranos	23	40
403	Orquesta Bianco-Bachicha	23	21
404	Soulville	21	15
405	La Chambre du Roy René	20	23
406	Bill Drowning	20	4
407	Valerio Scrignoli	18	120
408	Orchestre Argentin Bachicha	18	1
409	Maria Helena Raposo	17	154
410	Michael Wildman	16	27
411	Louis Paul	16	32
412	L'Énigme Sacrée	16	14
413	George & the Highlanders	15	30
414	Philosophy Route	14	76
415	China Redd	14	14
416	Roger Reggor	12	97
417	The Razor	12	23
418	Diana Montez	11	110
419	Kevin Davies	10	111
420	Frank Fusion	9	116
421	Mahdi	8	149
422	Cinzia Prampolini	8	24
423	Jean Ferret	8	68
424	Benjamin Bennett	8	132
425	4 Sonique	8	137
426	Alone Art	7	13
427	Beach Project	7	95
428	Universe 314	7	9
429	Juliane Petrussen	6	14
430	Duo Bellerofonte	6	8
431	Giorgio Somalvico	6	9
432	Unwritten Smooth	6	120
433	Four-Leaf Corrupt	6	56
434	Charanga Típica de Conciertos	6	9
435	Pamelia Stickney	6	78
436	Cobalto Ensemble	5	7
437	Tito Burns & His Sextet	5	42
438	Orquesta Pesenti Du Coliseum de Paris	5	0
439	Miika Kalliala	4	11
440	Revolving Hamster	4	88
441	Tony' Jones	4	15
442	Lee Pratt	4	3
443	Marco Riva	3	9
444	La Follia Ensemble	3	11
445	Robert Cordoba	3	111
446	House Elements	3	119
447	Rolf Syversen Og Ans Solister	3	22
448	Svend Jørgensen	2	8
449	Future Collusion	2	0
450	The Futile of the Crying	1	2
451	Katrine Gregersen	1	12
452	Gino Van Gennep	1	17
453	The Within Affirmatives	1	7
454	Betty Clements	1	15
455	Twodoer	1	7
456	Lynette Project	1	3
457	Johnnie Gee	1	116
458	Jay	1	1
459	Me Bambero	1	5
460	Llyod Price and His Orchestra	1	23
461	Perry Solton	1	1