Top-ranked artists from South Africa

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).

	Rank	Artist	Albums The number of albums by this artist featuring on this site.	Top Ranked Album 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 Total rank score for this artist (made up of the total rank score from all of their albums)
	1	Abdullah Ibrahim	35	Water From An Ancient Well (10,136th)	419
	2	Orville Peck	6	Pony (7,057th)	360
	3	Miriam Makeba	12	Miriam Makeba (5,269th)	346
	4	Seether	9	Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces (13,024th)	254
	5	Die Antwoord	5	Ten$ion (15,425th)	160
	6	Alice Phoebe Lou	7	Glow (23,912th)	113
	7	Hugh Masekela	21	Home Is Where The Music Is (24,619th)	90
	8	Ladysmith Black Mambazo	18	Shaka Zulu (14,420th)	87
	9	Kongos	4	Lunatic (17,084th)	68
	10	Aleah	1	Aleah (16,519th)	67
	11	Tyla	1	Tyla (16,925th)	66
	12	Dear Reader	5	Replace Why With Funny (28,580th)	64
	13	The SoapGirls	4	Elephant In Room (41,248th)	47
	14	Moonchild Sanelly	3	Phases (31,092nd)	44
	15	Civil Twilight	4	Civil Twilight (41,293rd)	41
	16	Nduduzo Makhathini	5	In The Spirit Of Ntu (34,000th)	40
	17	Desire Marea	2	On The Romance Of Being (30,273rd)	39
	18	Juluka	6	Scatterlings (28,612th)	39
	19	Koos Kombuis	1	Niemandsland And Beyond! (25,057th)	38
	20	Mankunku Quartet	1	Yakhal’ Inkomo (25,589th)	37