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	9,366,418	2,017,531
2	Nick Drake	2,436,790	864,595
3	Donovan	1,558,989	719,384
4	Laura Marling	1,419,048	519,401
5	John Martyn	1,299,907	162,220
6	Vashti Bunyan	561,001	187,475
7	Ralph McTell	309,714	30,699
8	Mike Scott	287,220	11,893
9	Fairport Convention	255,471	127,978
10	Bert Jansch	253,346	88,369
11	Peter Sarstedt	234,821	26,449
12	Dougie MacLean	198,299	30,909
13	Tír na nÓg	190,610	7,848
14	Richard Thompson	189,683	95,970
15	Steeleye Span	180,976	57,211
16	Mark Fry	124,884	11,499
17	Jon Boden	123,789	10,677
18	Kate Rusby	121,595	58,306
19	Richard & Linda Thompson	118,110	34,777
20	Molly Drake	114,233	28,143
21	Terry Reid	100,047	38,920
22	Lindisfarne	99,046	37,118
23	Bill Fay	85,236	29,839
24	Planxty	83,177	48,815
25	Karine Polwart	81,342	26,754
26	Kevin Ayers	71,309	55,146
27	Sandy Denny	63,202	62,828
28	Davy Graham	62,356	17,390
29	Matthews' Southern Comfort	60,993	8,746
30	Strawbs	57,034	51,842
31	Ewan MacColl	54,372	13,864
32	Kris Drever	54,358	11,666
33	The Unthanks	54,100	44,193
34	Pentangle	52,127	59,298
35	Bridget St John	50,295	19,082
36	Roy Harper	48,137	39,338
37	Shirley Collins	47,189	18,879
38	Eddi Reader	45,249	23,662
39	Iain Matthews	42,262	9,758
40	Dick Gaughan	39,793	15,032
41	Family	39,187	14,338
42	Archie Fisher	36,983	5,013
43	Martin Simpson	35,785	15,023
44	Seth Lakeman	35,452	31,419
45	The Incredible String Band	35,016	54,744
46	Martin Carthy	32,911	15,533
47	John Renbourn	32,644	26,987
48	Anne Briggs	31,299	21,054
49	Maddy Prior	30,255	15,844
50	Andy Irvine	29,952	15,367
51	Eliza Carthy	28,884	15,324
52	June Tabor	28,574	17,247
53	Kathryn Tickell	27,947	6,694
54	Michael Chapman	27,824	19,994
55	Bellowhead	26,628	26,893
56	Oysterband	25,103	10,949
57	Linda Thompson	23,851	11,644
58	Alan Hull	22,484	7,631
59	Jackie Oates	22,458	7,874
60	The Watersons	22,203	11,390
61	Magna Carta	20,455	10,968
62	Ruth Notman	20,363	3,485
63	Nic Jones	20,083	8,200
64	Battlefield Band	18,299	14,467
65	Nancy Kerr	17,263	3,954
66	Lau	17,086	18,361
67	Andy Cutting	17,019	2,753
68	Show Of Hands	16,223	19,383
69	Fotheringay	16,070	16,625
70	Trees	15,779	11,530
71	Duncan Browne	15,264	4,424
72	Ewan McLennan	14,756	2,781
73	Bella Hardy	13,838	7,192
74	Jake Thackray	13,641	9,821
75	Jackie Leven	13,489	6,264
76	Kathryn Williams	12,289	9,081
77	John McCusker	12,289	4,542
78	Alexander 'Skip' Spence	11,884	15,543
79	Beverley Martyn	11,454	1,092
80	Heidi Talbot	9,337	5,608
81	Norma Waterson	9,258	5,060
82	Barry Coope	8,803	977
83	Spiers & Boden	8,225	5,722
84	Spirogyra	7,932	9,433
85	Boo Hewerdine	7,859	3,839
86	Catherine Howe	7,782	3,204
87	A. L. Lloyd	7,705	3,560
88	The Imagined Village	7,466	9,527
89	Waterson:Carthy	7,031	4,638
90	The Full English	6,744	2,368
91	Dave Swarbrick	6,668	5,671
92	Alasdair Roberts	6,620	6,928
93	Trader Horne	6,413	3,819
94	Jez Lowe	6,277	2,843
95	Heron	6,247	3,630
96	Bob Fox	6,125	2,156
97	Maddy Prior & Tim Hart	6,059	5,778
98	Peter Bellamy	5,887	2,892
99	Ian Campbell Folk Group	5,696	2,569
100	Fay Hield	5,651	3,536
101	Mellow Candle	5,490	2,897
102	Simon Finn	5,409	5,561
103	Silly Sisters	5,248	5,295
104	Shelagh Mcdonald	4,779	4,721
105	Albion Christmas Band	4,659	638
106	The Humblebums	4,335	4,675
107	Lal Waterson	4,208	1,096
108	The Albion Band	4,136	6,837
109	The Young Tradition	4,128	2,813
110	John Tams	3,929	4,791
111	John Kirkpatrick	3,902	2,640
112	Steve Tilston	3,872	2,832
113	Steve Knightley	3,731	3,110
114	The John Renbourn Group	3,682	7,377
115	Ashley Hutchings	3,420	3,749
116	The Poozies	3,161	2,343
117	Wizz Jones	2,836	2,639
118	Barry Dransfield	2,811	1,810
119	Robin Williamson	2,656	3,960
120	Shirley Collins & Albion Country Band	2,621	1,058
121	Shirley & Dolly Collins	2,574	1,952
122	Dando Shaft	2,573	3,161
123	Plainsong	2,524	1,549
124	Jim Moray	2,431	4,202
125	Roy Bailey	2,349	2,281
126	Fresh Maggots	2,136	2,895
127	The Sallyangie	2,066	1,158
128	Dr. Strangely Strange	2,041	4,741
129	Mike Waterson	1,998	743
130	Vin Garbutt	1,943	2,524
131	Claire Hamill	1,701	1,226
132	The Copper Family	1,700	1,960
133	Christine Collister	1,637	926
134	Amazing Blondel	1,591	2,007
135	Jez Lowe & The Bad Pennies	1,436	755
136	Synanthesia	1,425	2,729
137	Tim Hart & Maddy Prior	1,379	970
138	Davey Graham	1,316	2,501
139	Chris Wood	1,275	3,232
140	Brass Monkey	1,262	1,509
141	The Woods Band	1,256	1,070
142	Albion Country Band	1,250	715
143	Nick Harper	1,203	1,963
144	Tudor Lodge	1,180	1,228
145	Bread, Love And Dreams	1,090	1,338
146	Simon Nicol	1,076	522
147	The Bunch	1,049	806
148	Home Service	1,041	792
149	Keith Christmas	1,023	852
150	Mike Heron	671	989
151	Frankie Armstrong	508	1,232
152	Phil Beer	448	1,450
153	The Albion Dance Band	371	740
154	Rory McLeod	215	1,544
155	Dave Burland	194	434
156	Mick Softley	135	402
157	The Eighteenth Day of May	129	212
158	Kerfuffle	17	1,052