Top 50 Folks in Brazil

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest folks in Brazil, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 151 folks tracked in Brazil, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Ney Matogrosso, Bob Dylan and Emilia (Bulgarian singer) lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 12,999,435 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 333,070, and the largest, Ney Matogrosso, reaches around 8,990,982 people in Brazil. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Brazil who actively engage with each folk, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Brazil and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Ney Matogrosso	8,990,982	97.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
2	Bob Dylan	2,225,309	5.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
3	Emilia (Bulgarian singer)	1,783,144	44.2%	Folk	Music & Radio
4	Crosby, Stills & Nash	888,134	8.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
5	Geraldo Azevedo	513,859	99.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
6	Mark Schultz (musician)	371,697	7.5%	Folk	Music & Radio
7	Clannad	226,278	6.7%	Folk	Music & Radio
8	Mercedes Sosa	196,090	38.2%	Folk	Music & Radio
9	Paul Simon	168,193	2.7%	Folk	Music & Radio
10	Tom Zé	135,468	98.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
11	Galena (singer)	121,222	13.2%	Folk	Music & Radio
12	Pete Seeger	112,287	3.0%	Folk	Music & Radio
13	Tiny Tim (musician)	98,758	1.9%	Folk	Music & Radio
14	Cat Stevens	91,779	2.5%	Folk	Music & Radio
15	Sufjan Stevens	75,472	5.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
16	Marcos Witt	70,255	11.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
17	Fela Kuti	64,386	8.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
18	Ceca (singer)	55,986	2.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
19	Nívea Soares	53,077	97.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
20	Crisis	46,993	1.8%	Folk	Music & Radio
21	Roy Harper	42,105	8.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
22	Phil Wickham	36,588	2.5%	Folk	Music & Radio
23	Corvus Corax	31,293	6.7%	Folk	Music & Radio
24	The Band	31,253	1.9%	Folk	Music & Radio
25	Hollow Coves	24,385	11.0%	Folk	Music & Radio
26	Hakim (Egyptian singer)	22,110	2.7%	Folk	Music & Radio
27	Vicente Fernández	20,930	0.8%	Folk	Music & Radio
28	Mišo Kovač	15,876	59.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
29	Peter Tork	15,848	3.5%	Folk	Music & Radio
30	Heilung	14,175	1.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
31	Matt Maher	13,620	5.7%	Folk	Music & Radio
32	Soledad Pastorutti	10,371	1.0%	Folk	Music & Radio
33	Lingua Ignota	8,778	6.0%	Folk	Music & Radio
34	Anna von Hausswolff	7,054	2.8%	Folk	Music & Radio
35	Cocco	6,927	0.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
36	Myrkur	6,676	5.2%	Folk	Music & Radio
37	Scott Kelly	6,217	1.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
38	Jesse Welles	5,853	0.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
39	Ocie Elliott	5,415	1.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
40	Bowerbirds	5,071	1.1%	Folk	Music & Radio
41	Jeremy Riddle	4,961	6.0%	Folk	Music & Radio
42	Steven Curtis Chapman	4,273	0.9%	Folk	Music & Radio
43	Whitley	3,925	1.5%	Folk	Music & Radio
44	Luluc	3,524	23.5%	Folk	Music & Radio
45	José González (singer)	3,397	4.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
46	Silvio Rodríguez	3,255	4.7%	Folk	Music & Radio
47	Caamp	2,676	0.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
48	Julión Álvarez	2,666	0.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
49	Ahmet Kaya	2,514	0.1%	Folk	Music & Radio
50	Bert Jansch	2,404	2.1%	Folk	Music & Radio