Retro Soul artists, songs, decades and similar genres

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retro soul playlist created by Chosic

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List of retro soul artists

Here is a list of retro soul artists on Spotify, ranked based on popularity, who exemplifies the retro soul genre. You can find out what retro soul genre sounds like where you can preview artists or sort them the way you want, just click the headers to sort.

#	name	Popularity	instrumentalness	danceability	energy	acousticness	Happiness	tempo	followers
1	Black Pumas	60	1	55	61	27	62	120	815557
2	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings	59	3	62	66	43	76	113	267030
3	St. Paul & The Broken Bones	56	21	51	59	33	47	116	391631
4	The Dip	55	15	58	58	38	75	116	120112
5	Scary Pockets	55	0	0	0	0	0	0	300576
6	Allen Stone	55	0	61	59	30	56	124	339283
7	The Meltdown	51	1	66	47	54	68	111	14929
8	Lawrence	50	0	51	54	47	49	117	191353
9	Matt Duncan	50	8	75	41	40	61	101	25195
10	Izo FitzRoy	49	0	65	66	22	70	109	24302
11	Theo Katzman	49	3	69	44	50	58	107	70888
12	Cory Henry	48	25	60	59	25	50	118	163070
13	Busty and the Bass	46	14	61	66	24	57	111	71245
14	Thee Sinseers	46	39	59	34	59	60	109	35060
15	Bobby Oroza	45	43	65	42	54	32	98	36447
16	Los Yesterdays	44	0	58	55	57	54	120	31228
17	Mamas Gun	43	4	56	65	30	64	114	33291
18	Jalen Ngonda	42	0	56	52	43	60	142	17820
19	Joey Dosik	42	6	56	50	61	49	98	36488
20	The Main Squeeze	41	1	59	72	17	59	119	100397
21	Jr Thomas & The Volcanos	38	30	74	60	33	88	85	7911
22	Sonny Cleveland	38	0	69	77	20	74	120	9232
23	Caleb Hawley	36	0	66	67	17	66	119	15640
24	Jonny P	36	2	75	37	59	67	103	8066
25	Hannah Williams	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	18393
26	Mr Day	35	0	76	65	24	86	122	4381
27	Sister Sparrow	32	11	59	76	19	70	131	29641
28	Nicole Willis	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	7909
29	The Tibbs	31	0	66	64	21	77	115	7595
30	Sugaray Rayford	31	0	57	70	39	67	133	5853
31	The Echocentrics	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	8138
32	Stone Foundation	29	0	64	63	3	58	102	9740
33	Kyle Thornton & The Company	28	0	64	53	31	61	112	10812
34	The Milk	28	0	59	63	28	55	123	15024
35	Lance Ferguson	26	88	74	67	55	93	101	2496
36	Jason Joshua & The Beholders	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	7900
37	Mike Farris	25	0	50	59	29	39	147	6265
38	Freedonia	25	3	60	46	61	49	125	17399
39	Carlton Jumel Smith	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	2827
40	Joel Sarakula	25	0	72	61	9	88	114	4876
41	The Get Ahead	23	0	66	58	40	62	102	1859
42	Tomar and the FCs	23	0	67	66	25	68	125	3105
43	J.P. Bimeni	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	5874
44	Anaut	22	0	85	25	48	64	96	5948
45	Paul & The Tall Trees	21	2	43	46	52	48	153	3207
46	D/troit	21	0	53	71	8	68	114	5747
47	Collin Miller & the Brother Nature	21	1	60	51	39	58	150	2519
48	Soul Scratch	21	0	67	70	35	78	106	3172
49	The Excitements	21	0	57	70	44	76	130	6475
50	Grace Love and the True Loves	21	2	67	80	20	84	119	3692
51	Aurora & The Betrayers	20	18	44	84	2	58	136	12581
52	Marta Ren & The Groovelvets	20	6	66	71	8	69	129	7496
53	Alexis Evans	18	0	53	72	29	69	130	1831
54	The Soul Jacket	17	0	71	28	46	56	115	4549
55	The New Review	16	0	65	54	4	55	93	1182
56	Ben Pirani	16	13	49	57	24	58	124	2566
57	Dharmasoul	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	1404
58	The Commonheart	14	4	54	88	14	65	88	5226
59	Julian Taylor Band	14	0	63	57	16	61	110	2979
60	Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar	13	0	62	41	35	40	107	4692
61	Shirley Davis	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	3163
62	Karen Lee Andrews	12	3	62	76	9	71	111	1399
63	Josh Hoyer and Soul Colossal	11	0	59	66	19	82	94	2179
64	The Savants of Soul	10	1	77	83	27	65	122	971
65	Alanna Royale	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	2038
66	The Nightowls	8	0	63	50	59	58	88	1605
67	Julie Rhodes	7	0	50	54	66	70	128	2765
68	King Corduroy	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	504
69	Brian Scartocci	7	0	83	55	14	91	114	668
70	BJ Wilbanks	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	407
71	Stina Stenerud & her Soul Replacement	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	243

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