Roots Reggae artists, songs, decades and similar genres

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List of roots reggae artists

Here is a list of roots reggae artists on Spotify, ranked based on popularity, who exemplifies the roots reggae genre. You can find out what roots reggae 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	Bob Marley & The Wailers	79	2	78	51	20	77	119	11549262
2	Stephen Marley	61	0	63	62	18	65	105	618448
3	Jimmy Cliff	59	1	76	52	27	79	117	755385
4	Barrington Levy	58	8	77	53	12	69	121	239275
5	Alborosie	58	12	75	64	8	67	116	633683
6	Steel Pulse	57	0	81	62	8	85	116	608743
7	The Wailers	57	14	78	60	41	77	113	503765
8	Ini Kamoze	57	0	81	58	9	62	117	132807
9	Gregory Isaacs	57	11	81	49	12	81	103	618414
10	Alpha Blondy	57	0	77	67	15	82	122	585267
11	Ziggy Marley	56	0	75	61	22	71	110	1181523
12	Peter Tosh	56	15	76	61	12	82	121	1023220
13	Toots & The Maytals	55	0	70	56	31	87	132	453890
14	Capleton	55	0	67	72	16	75	117	301837
15	10 Ft. Ganja Plant	54	33	78	57	10	73	119	74623
16	Beres Hammond	54	0	71	64	10	68	108	300269
17	Israel Vibration	53	1	83	51	8	79	119	472780
18	Max Romeo	53	9	81	56	15	78	113	111699
19	Wailing Souls	52	4	80	53	10	81	123	141609
20	John Holt	51	1	77	56	16	78	125	127355
21	The Gladiators	51	2	82	47	10	81	115	162651
22	Anthony B	51	0	72	69	23	75	118	296868
23	Dennis Brown	51	3	76	57	22	78	108	272887
24	Don Carlos	51	14	77	44	7	65	105	205872
25	Lutan Fyah	50	0	72	65	15	75	103	145513
26	Eek-A-Mouse	50	3	80	52	12	73	109	237364
27	Groundation	50	5	76	56	5	60	114	306161
28	Bunny Wailer	50	4	74	46	16	76	95	335716
29	Althea And Donna	50	1	85	58	11	84	106	37374
30	Freddie McGregor	49	1	77	53	11	75	104	159082
31	Cutty Ranks	49	1	83	75	8	71	131	91310
32	The Upsetters	49	50	76	63	31	87	130	51277
33	Morgan Heritage	49	0	67	70	22	76	97	328652
34	Burning Spear	49	14	73	47	11	74	112	475420
35	Alton Ellis	49	7	77	46	28	82	102	109411
36	Lee "Scratch" Perry	48	8	76	65	27	72	115	185158
37	Culture	48	0	73	56	12	76	124	314681
38	Augustus Pablo	47	72	76	57	14	71	123	86598
39	Marcia Griffiths	47	13	72	56	13	80	111	56936
40	Jacob Miller	47	0	78	47	13	80	120	79225
41	Third World	47	1	79	59	7	79	126	159905
42	Ken Boothe	47	0	75	50	27	82	111	75353
43	U-Roy	46	16	79	54	24	78	95	43393
44	Yellowman	46	0	81	56	15	74	100	150031
45	Cocoa Tea	46	0	79	54	15	75	115	158963
46	Sanchez	46	0	72	54	18	73	107	126056
47	The Viceroys	46	5	79	50	14	81	126	14433
48	Richie Spice	46	0	74	62	17	73	97	192360
49	I Wayne	46	0	68	70	18	70	99	163871
50	Romain Virgo	46	0	64	67	12	62	101	191527
51	The Congos	45	9	73	54	15	71	130	110671
52	Black Uhuru	45	22	77	52	6	74	119	355560
53	Johnny Osbourne	45	3	76	51	17	72	117	61051
54	The Heptones	45	18	75	44	28	83	116	87824
55	Mighty Diamonds	45	1	80	51	20	81	130	101649
56	Aswad	45	11	73	61	12	73	124	167642
57	Bob Andy	45	4	76	48	37	88	117	29931
58	King Tubby	44	60	75	53	10	63	123	106861
59	Delroy Wilson	44	7	75	53	26	80	107	41111
60	Junior Byles	44	2	82	51	30	77	125	24616
61	Etana	44	0	72	67	18	69	101	118817
62	The Ethiopians	44	13	81	51	39	82	101	66171
63	Sly & Robbie	44	61	82	56	17	61	122	48391
64	Horace Andy	44	6	76	57	18	78	113	69664
65	Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers	44	0	77	47	16	76	125	228052
66	The Abyssinians	44	11	72	48	26	80	115	112036
67	Fantan Mojah	44	0	74	67	26	68	105	128794
68	Julian Marley	44	0	73	69	20	77	114	270968
69	Dennis Bovell	43	0	87	63	12	89	134	13798
70	Peetah Morgan	43	0	65	64	4	68	109	20449
71	Junior Murvin	43	7	81	44	7	70	119	44931
72	Sugar Minott	43	0	77	52	20	73	107	82718
73	Junior Reid	43	0	78	54	10	74	92	50664
74	Clinton Fearon	43	0	83	51	16	73	122	81517
75	Junior Kelly	42	0	72	71	14	81	104	126608
76	Mad Professor	42	33	77	51	2	68	126	62689
77	Cornell Campbell	42	9	75	55	21	77	101	32969
78	Luciano	42	1	66	56	23	66	111	197642
79	Bushman	42	0	73	61	10	75	105	79068
80	Duane Stephenson	42	0	73	61	12	70	115	82737
81	Half Pint	41	0	77	52	4	63	111	64568
82	Garnett Silk	41	0	71	62	23	75	120	134116
83	Chezidek	40	0	71	67	12	83	144	60453
84	Scientist	40	58	73	52	10	65	123	62091
85	The Aggrovators	39	39	75	48	24	69	103	17642
86	Big Youth	39	8	78	50	23	73	109	28279
87	Josey Wales	39	0	80	42	17	72	114	23554
88	Tony Curtis	39	0	74	53	17	73	107	25104
89	Pablo Moses	39	11	84	59	16	74	123	65254
90	Pressure	39	0	67	67	7	65	99	42545
91	Queen Ifrica	39	0	62	72	15	66	108	135270
92	Niney The Observer	38	41	82	51	22	69	106	8731
93	Jah Mason	38	0	64	69	10	74	103	94208
94	Linval Thompson	38	14	79	52	12	79	118	41205
95	Leroy Sibbles	38	1	78	51	14	81	116	4821
96	Hugh Mundell	38	13	74	44	6	70	128	51894
97	Frankie Paul	38	0	77	40	12	61	103	62670
98	Rita Marley	38	1	78	43	10	70	113	83206
99	Midnite	38	0	76	59	9	73	108	75050
100	Yabby You	38	15	82	50	11	83	128	41503
101	Ras Shiloh	37	0	72	52	16	71	106	46095
102	Roots Radics	37	78	80	60	5	68	141	25116
103	Tony Rebel	37	0	75	67	22	83	106	76111
104	Mykal Rose	37	0	78	65	10	73	126	42161
105	Glen Washington	37	0	74	50	12	73	98	64108
106	Errol Dunkley	37	6	75	46	32	80	122	16057
107	Everton Blender	37	0	76	55	12	79	101	45263
108	The Twinkle Brothers	36	34	81	49	13	71	131	55120
109	Turbulence	36	0	68	66	13	66	127	85525
110	Richie Stephens	36	0	79	64	12	76	88	40141
111	Mikey Dread	36	11	76	63	8	81	131	66995
112	Tenor Saw	35	0	69	60	12	60	98	42214
113	Yami Bolo	35	0	73	58	33	72	130	20442
114	Jah Shaka	34	56	68	52	1	46	137	28716
115	Johnny Clarke	34	12	81	51	7	70	115	36638
116	Chuck Fenda	34	0	70	69	31	73	105	62139
117	Lukie D	34	0	68	67	13	80	112	33764
118	Mikey Spice	34	0	67	55	18	73	97	30152
119	Terry Linen	34	0	67	56	15	70	85	30374
120	Admiral Tibet	34	0	78	49	6	75	132	26248
121	Sylford Walker	34	6	80	54	6	70	131	22772
122	Ijahman Levi	34	0	79	45	9	78	126	53782
123	Keith Hudson	33	40	74	60	13	66	132	18922
124	Prince Jammy	33	84	75	50	1	62	116	21159
125	Joe Higgs	33	1	80	49	42	86	133	18703
126	George Nooks	33	0	74	56	3	72	102	33668
127	Lloyd Brown	32	0	77	48	14	74	94	17863
128	Prince Far I	32	23	76	48	7	72	129	27624
129	Apple Gabriel	32	24	83	43	9	72	120	9284
130	Dillinger	32	6	79	55	14	81	115	27597
131	Warrior King	31	0	64	72	16	72	113	49137
132	Lone Ranger	30	0	72	61	19	63	88	10714
133	Pam Hall	30	0	72	56	21	75	126	20225
134	Ranking Joe	30	0	76	72	11	83	129	12672
135	Black Roots	30	13	81	41	8	79	117	36358
136	Tappa Zukie	30	36	76	61	14	59	137	12430
137	Prince Alla	30	1	80	57	2	75	138	13929
138	U-Brown	30	0	73	66	23	96	141	7792
139	Ninjaman	30	0	85	66	10	86	131	62176
140	Vivian Jones	29	4	75	50	9	81	106	12042
141	Junior Delgado	29	8	78	48	11	70	113	30727
142	Natural Black	29	0	74	58	32	66	101	39520
143	Dennis Alcapone	29	5	79	56	26	77	92	10486
144	Judy Mowatt	29	6	76	46	11	78	111	27560
145	Martin Campbell	29	16	91	43	6	82	130	12706
146	Prince Jazzbo	29	0	76	60	21	89	113	8130
147	Lacksley Castell	29	0	84	42	4	72	122	22861
148	The Revolutionaries	29	85	74	46	6	70	126	20142
149	Leroy Smart	28	0	80	57	16	74	118	22754
150	Joe Gibbs & The Professionals	28	55	73	51	2	60	116	9080
151	Barry Brown	28	4	83	51	13	69	121	25428
152	Al Campbell	27	2	76	50	23	69	105	28712
153	Willie Williams	27	4	74	53	10	63	111	3781
154	Jahmali	27	0	72	61	14	78	106	7308
155	Rockamovya	27	54	76	58	7	66	104	8679
156	Misty In Roots	27	7	81	56	3	70	127	49394
157	The Itals	26	0	81	34	7	81	118	27121
158	The Meditations	26	0	78	48	13	73	127	13140
159	Soul Syndicate	26	7	76	45	10	86	130	6418
160	I-Roy	26	0	74	68	23	70	108	31484
161	Michael Prophet	26	3	73	56	12	72	117	28625
162	Mikey General	26	0	82	54	11	76	150	12305
163	KIDDUS I	26	2	91	45	13	84	127	14929
164	Triston Palma	26	7	72	44	10	64	122	13072
165	Pablo Gad	25	15	79	54	1	68	123	12822
166	Dr. Alimantado	25	9	76	61	3	67	116	17462
167	Love Joys	25	10	83	61	4	81	133	7069
168	Rod Taylor	25	0	79	59	18	85	139	9623
169	Norris Man	25	0	61	71	10	77	101	24270
170	Freddie McKay	24	2	79	53	26	77	134	4542
171	Fred Locks	24	0	71	53	5	78	99	14857
172	The Rastafarians	24	0	79	63	6	77	97	7929
173	Ginjah	24	0	65	61	19	68	117	40811
174	Capital Letters	24	9	80	68	8	82	123	9483
175	Aston 'Family Man' Barrett	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	1494
176	Carlton Livingston	23	17	83	50	5	77	134	14562
177	Rockers All Stars	23	65	75	48	18	52	134	6820
178	Andrew Tosh	23	0	78	58	36	75	88	12391
179	Lee Perry & The Upsetters	22	75	79	40	9	65	115	32937
180	Ronnie Davis	22	0	69	47	44	58	128	6400
181	Ras Michael and The Sons Of Negus	22	0	82	41	27	78	129	4718
182	Natty King	22	0	76	71	20	84	124	35313
183	Ranking Dread	22	0	76	68	23	67	117	15711
184	Lloyd Parks	21	4	77	49	37	85	134	4363
185	Joe Gibbs	21	74	80	57	13	74	121	2944
186	Cultural Roots	21	0	78	44	13	73	112	16371
187	Jah Stitch	21	0	72	50	4	56	127	8132
188	Anthony Johnson	21	1	74	49	22	71	112	9332
189	Noel Ellis	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	2444
190	Daweh Congo	20	0	77	49	9	70	103	7489
191	Jimmy Riley	20	0	80	52	12	77	112	8386
192	Edi Fitzroy	19	0	83	59	2	84	148	1022
193	Glen Brown	19	0	79	49	31	76	119	3042
194	Wayne Jarrett	18	20	75	47	9	65	127	8695
195	Peter Broggs	18	10	81	66	10	84	143	29375
196	Earth & Stone	11	13	75	75	7	94	139	1241
197	Israel Vibration\|Cocoa Tea	11	1	83	44	15	50	130	360
198	Jonny Clarke	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	3175
199	Delroy Washington	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	2941
200	Tetrack	10	0	74	66	4	96	142	3878

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