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 Africa2597Abdullah Ibrahim35Water From An Ancient Well (10,047th)420
South Africa2978Miriam Makeba12Miriam Makeba (5,310th)340
South Africa3031Orville Peck5Pony (6,954th)331
South Africa3647Seether9Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces (12,443rd)261
South Africa5143Die Antwoord5Ten$ion (15,328th)159
South Africa7629Hugh Masekela21Home Is Where The Music Is (23,485th)92
South Africa7654Alice Phoebe Lou7Glow (29,122nd)91
South Africa7835Ladysmith Black Mambazo18Shaka Zulu (14,107th)88
South Africa9283Kongos4Lunatic (16,824th)69
South Africa9448Aleah1Aleah (16,523rd)67
South Africa9518Tyla1Tyla (16,697th)66
South Africa9733Dear Reader5Replace Why With Funny (28,243rd)64
South Africa11744The SoapGirls4Elephant In Room (40,380th)47
South Africa12647Civil Twilight4Civil Twilight (40,431st)41
South Africa12686Juluka6Scatterlings (27,406th)41
South Africa12968Koos Kombuis1Niemandsland And Beyond! (24,204th)39
South Africa13116Nduduzo Makhathini5In The Spirit Of Ntu (35,217th)39
South Africa13514Mankunku Quartet1Yakhal’ Inkomo (25,451st)37
South Africa13778Tribe After Tribe5Tribe After Tribe (36,704th)35
South Africa13871Batsumi2Batsumi (26,920th)35
Total artists: 158. Page 1 of 8