Top-ranked artists from South Africa

The top-ranked artists from South Africa that appear most prominently in over 58,000 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 Africa2587Abdullah Ibrahim35Water From An Ancient Well (9,791st)423
South Africa2983Miriam Makeba12Miriam Makeba (5,309th)339
South Africa3058Orville Peck5Pony (7,038th)329
South Africa3667Seether9Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces (12,572nd)259
South Africa5147Die Antwoord5Ten$ion (15,319th)159
South Africa7669Alice Phoebe Lou7Glow (29,131st)91
South Africa7706Hugh Masekela21Home Is Where The Music Is (23,797th)91
South Africa7860Ladysmith Black Mambazo18Shaka Zulu (14,167th)88
South Africa9288Kongos4Lunatic (16,862nd)69
South Africa9470Aleah1Aleah (16,601st)66
South Africa9542Tyla1Tyla (16,759th)66
South Africa9736Dear Reader5Replace Why With Funny (28,232nd)64
South Africa11750The SoapGirls4Elephant In Room (40,395th)47
South Africa12653Civil Twilight4Civil Twilight (40,446th)41
South Africa12771Juluka6Scatterlings (27,679th)40
South Africa13045Koos Kombuis1Niemandsland And Beyond! (24,371st)39
South Africa13126Nduduzo Makhathini5In The Spirit Of Ntu (35,241st)39
South Africa13531Mankunku Quartet1Yakhal’ Inkomo (25,429th)37
South Africa13780Tribe After Tribe5Tribe After Tribe (36,727th)35
South Africa13839Batsumi2Batsumi (26,815th)35
Total artists: 158. Page 1 of 8