Top-ranked artists from South Africa

The top-ranked artists from South Africa that appear most prominently in over 53,000 greatest album charts on BestEverAlbums.com are listed below:

N.B. Artist from before the mid-1960s may not be as well represented in this chart, because this chart only takes into account their albums. (Before that time, singles were far more prevalent than albums).

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Rank Artist Albums The number of albums by this artist featuring in the greatest album charts. Top Ranked Album The top ranked album by this artist and where it ranks in the overall chart. Score Total rank score for this artist (made up of the total rank score from all of their albums)
South Africa1Abdullah Ibrahim33Water From An Ancient Well (11,952nd)375
South Africa2Seether9Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces (9,234th)351
South Africa3Miriam Makeba11Miriam Makeba (5,343rd)326
South Africa4Orville Peck3Pony (7,260th)279
South Africa5Die Antwoord5Ten$ion (15,950th)152
South Africa6Hugh Masekela18Home Is Where The Music Is (17,630th)119
South Africa7Ladysmith Black Mambazo16Shaka Zulu (12,612th)98
South Africa8Kongos4Lunatic (15,747th)74
South Africa9Alice Phoebe Lou6Paper Castles (29,457th)74
South Africa10Dear Reader5Replace Why With Funny (27,555th)64
South Africa11Juluka6Scatterlings (19,907th)58
South Africa12Koos Kombuis1Niemandsland And Beyond! (19,230th)54
South Africa13Civil Twilight3Civil Twilight (30,567th)50
South Africa14The SoapGirls4Elephant In Room (38,598th)47
South Africa15Boyoyo Boys1Back In Town (22,223rd)44
South Africa16Assagai2Assagai (23,894th)39
South Africa17Mankunku Quartet1Yakhal’ Inkomo (25,309th)36
South Africa18The Third Eye3Searching (27,460th)31
South Africa19Tribe After Tribe4Tribe After Tribe (42,794th)30
South Africa20BCUC (Bantu Continua Uhuru Consciousness)3Emakhosini (34,211th)27
Total artists: 135. Page 1 of 7
 
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