Top-ranked artists from South Africa

The top-ranked artists from South Africa that appear most prominently in over 57,000 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 Help The number of albums by this artist featuring on this site. Top Ranked Album Help The top-ranked album by this artist and where it ranks in the overall chart (N.B. some artists might not have a top-ranked album, if their albums are ranked outside the top 100,000) Score Help Total rank score for this artist (made up of the total rank score from all of their albums)
South Africa2584Abdullah Ibrahim35Water From An Ancient Well (9,865th)424
South Africa2967Miriam Makeba12Miriam Makeba (5,297th)341
South Africa3042Orville Peck5Pony (7,015th)330
South Africa3546Seether9Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces (11,962nd)270
South Africa5144Die Antwoord5Ten$ion (15,381st)158
South Africa7456Hugh Masekela21Home Is Where The Music Is (23,269th)94
South Africa7681Alice Phoebe Lou7Glow (29,072nd)91
South Africa7796Ladysmith Black Mambazo18Shaka Zulu (14,018th)89
South Africa9058Aleah1Aleah (15,700th)71
South Africa9206Kongos4Lunatic (16,708th)70
South Africa9504Tyla1Tyla (16,705th)66
South Africa9704Dear Reader5Replace Why With Funny (28,187th)64
South Africa11703The SoapGirls4Elephant In Room (40,219th)47
South Africa12266Civil Twilight4Civil Twilight (38,073rd)43
South Africa12314Juluka6Scatterlings (26,433rd)43
South Africa12617Koos Kombuis1Niemandsland And Beyond! (23,578th)41
South Africa13506Mankunku Quartet1Yakhal’ Inkomo (25,430th)37
South Africa13758Tribe After Tribe5Tribe After Tribe (36,546th)35
South Africa13760Batsumi2Batsumi (26,647th)35
South Africa13970Desire Marea2On The Romance Of Being (34,536th)34
Total artists: 157. Page 1 of 8
 
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