British folk

This chart is based on the monthly listeners metric for all artists tagged with the genre british folk by Spotify. It may contain some errors or some data may not be up to date. You can check the artist profile to update data if necessary.

#	Artist	Monthly Listeners	Followers
1	Yusuf / Cat Stevens	10,620,307	1,918,440
2	Nick Drake	2,102,525	815,307
3	Donovan	1,600,928	702,091
4	Laura Marling	881,807	494,815
5	Vashti Bunyan	609,339	174,374
6	John Martyn	526,167	155,041
7	Ralph McTell	298,403	29,035
8	Mike Scott	273,098	10,902
9	Fairport Convention	272,409	121,541
10	Peter Sarstedt	262,916	24,807
11	Richard Thompson	245,591	91,497
12	Dougie MacLean	189,648	29,282
13	Bert Jansch	144,894	84,894
14	Richard & Linda Thompson	121,184	33,047
15	Jon Boden	118,833	10,095
16	Lindisfarne	102,418	35,545
17	Mark Fry	97,529	9,876
18	Bill Fay	97,434	28,668
19	Terry Reid	89,162	34,977
20	Tír na nÓg	85,511	4,502
21	Molly Drake	84,237	24,882
22	Kevin Ayers	78,290	52,972
23	Kate Rusby	77,136	56,084
24	Matthews' Southern Comfort	72,534	8,081
25	Planxty	69,048	46,886
26	Davy Graham	67,585	16,487
27	Steeleye Span	66,005	55,125
28	Strawbs	61,583	50,394
29	Sandy Denny	59,494	59,763
30	Roy Harper	52,946	37,414
31	Karine Polwart	52,479	25,396
32	Pentangle	50,324	56,225
33	Kris Drever	50,173	11,187
34	Ewan MacColl	48,291	12,940
35	Eddi Reader	46,436	22,615
36	Shirley Collins	45,818	17,386
37	Dick Gaughan	43,038	14,358
38	Iain Matthews	42,881	9,188
39	Bridget St John	38,993	17,624
40	Linda Thompson	37,199	10,563
41	The Unthanks	33,987	42,218
42	John Renbourn	33,400	25,956
43	Anne Briggs	32,386	19,744
44	Martin Simpson	32,339	14,476
45	The Incredible String Band	30,328	53,266
46	Seth Lakeman	30,128	30,349
47	June Tabor	28,201	16,684
48	Andy Irvine	26,976	14,641
49	Bellowhead	25,820	25,937
50	Oysterband	25,754	10,433
51	Eliza Carthy	25,302	14,758
52	Alan Hull	24,544	7,187
53	Michael Chapman	24,166	19,430
54	Jackie Oates	23,449	7,572
55	Kathryn Tickell	22,613	6,215
56	Maddy Prior	21,728	15,364
57	Show Of Hands	20,588	18,925
58	Archie Fisher	19,885	4,470
59	The Watersons	19,640	10,956
60	Magna Carta	19,024	10,547
61	Ruth Notman	17,702	3,208
62	Battlefield Band	17,441	14,049
63	Nancy Kerr	17,230	3,880
64	Duncan Browne	16,783	4,135
65	Fotheringay	16,619	15,938
66	Lau	16,371	17,779
67	Martin Carthy	15,412	14,844
68	Bella Hardy	15,260	6,844
69	Alexander 'Skip' Spence	14,971	15,082
70	Ewan McLennan	14,889	2,624
71	Trees	14,361	10,853
72	Beverley Martyn	13,529	999
73	Kathryn Williams	13,269	8,792
74	Nic Jones	13,069	7,913
75	Andy Cutting	12,896	2,565
76	John McCusker	11,299	4,421
77	Jake Thackray	11,077	9,304
78	Heidi Talbot	10,866	5,400
79	The Imagined Village	8,830	9,329
80	Spirogyra	8,679	8,997
81	Bob Fox	8,622	2,042
82	Jackie Leven	8,097	5,895
83	Boo Hewerdine	7,877	3,618
84	Maddy Prior & Tim Hart	7,484	5,572
85	Norma Waterson	7,475	4,876
86	Barry Coope	7,109	901
87	Heron	6,651	3,344
88	Alasdair Roberts	6,441	6,625
89	Simon Finn	6,398	5,291
90	Trader Horne	6,202	3,640
91	Spiers & Boden	6,074	5,511
92	Catherine Howe	6,029	2,674
93	A. L. Lloyd	5,979	3,389
94	Peter Bellamy	5,541	2,739
95	The Humblebums	5,352	4,325
96	Ian Campbell Folk Group	5,095	2,460
97	John Kirkpatrick	5,036	2,616
98	Fay Hield	4,964	3,293
99	The Full English	4,800	2,158
100	Nick Harper	4,737	1,663
101	John Tams	4,719	4,625
102	Dave Swarbrick	4,707	5,490
103	Waterson:Carthy	4,438	4,510
104	Jez Lowe	4,105	2,729
105	The Albion Band	3,860	6,693
106	Shelagh Mcdonald	3,539	4,454
107	Steve Tilston	3,311	2,668
108	Vin Garbutt	3,159	2,433
109	Ashley Hutchings	2,900	3,656
110	The Poozies	2,752	2,242
111	Plainsong	2,723	1,521
112	Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies	2,688	703
113	The John Renbourn Group	2,681	7,148
114	Lal Waterson	2,643	958
115	Robin Williamson	2,568	3,762
116	Albion Christmas Band	2,519	518
117	The Sallyangie	2,407	1,076
118	Silly Sisters	2,361	5,148
119	Barry Dransfield	2,290	1,721
120	Wizz Jones	2,265	2,529
121	Shirley Collins & Albion Country Band	2,265	904
122	Jim Moray	2,216	4,045
123	Roy Bailey	2,182	2,203
124	Dando Shaft	2,172	2,965
125	Tim Hart & Maddy Prior	1,872	868
126	Claire Hamill	1,666	1,148
127	Fresh Maggots	1,597	2,656
128	Shirley & Dolly Collins	1,541	1,823
129	Dr. Strangely Strange	1,517	4,476
130	Synanthesia	1,415	2,531
131	Cyril Tawney	1,332	1,213
132	Christine Collister	1,318	850
133	Davey Graham	1,316	2,501
134	Brass Monkey	1,262	1,509
135	The Copper Family	1,257	1,851
136	Chris Wood	1,251	3,094
137	Albion Country Band	1,250	715
138	The Young Tradition	1,144	2,681
139	The Bunch	1,093	795
140	Bread, Love And Dreams	1,090	1,338
141	Steve Knightley	1,049	2,794
142	Home Service	1,041	792
143	Keith Christmas	1,023	852
144	Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band	1,011	4,230
145	Tim Van Eyken	1,004	1,035
146	Mike Heron	671	989
147	Amazing Blondel	599	1,659
148	Simon Nicol	592	387
149	Frankie Armstrong	508	1,232
150	Phil Beer	448	1,450
151	Tudor Lodge	441	1,031
152	The Albion Dance Band	371	740
153	Rory McLeod	215	1,544
154	Dave Burland	194	434
155	Mick Softley	135	402
156	The Eighteenth Day of May	129	212
157	Kerfuffle	17	1,052