Top 50 Folks in Germany

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest folks in Germany, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 233 folks tracked in Germany, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Reinhard Mey, Bob Dylan and Ferdi Tayfur lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 6,653,632 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 285,216, and the largest, Reinhard Mey, reaches around 2,961,308 people in Germany. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Germany who actively engage with each folk, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Germany and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Reinhard Mey	2,961,308	92.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
2	Bob Dylan	2,675,918	6.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
3	Ferdi Tayfur	1,016,406	7.2%	Folk	Music & Radio
4	Ceca (singer)	856,128	40.1%	Folk	Music & Radio
5	Kathy Kelly	808,178	88.5%	Folk	Music & Radio
6	Volkan Konak	761,683	6.9%	Folk	Music & Radio
7	Michael Hirte	441,096	89.2%	Folk	Music & Radio
8	Cat Stevens	396,295	10.7%	Folk	Music & Radio
9	Mark Schultz (musician)	340,013	6.8%	Folk	Music & Radio
10	Paul Simon	277,895	4.5%	Folk	Music & Radio
11	Fredl Fesl	269,593	79.8%	Folk	Music & Radio
12	Michl Müller	268,968	94.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
13	Ahmet Kaya	249,635	6.0%	Folk	Music & Radio
14	Gilbert Bécaud	205,275	17.7%	Folk	Music & Radio
15	Tiny Tim (musician)	178,559	3.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
16	Emilia (Bulgarian singer)	150,581	3.7%	Folk	Music & Radio
17	Clannad	144,849	4.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
18	Pete Seeger	138,886	3.8%	Folk	Music & Radio
19	Nino D'Angelo	137,327	6.8%	Folk	Music & Radio
20	Heilung	133,430	15.5%	Folk	Music & Radio
21	John Phillips (musician)	131,089	15.8%	Folk	Music & Radio
22	Aca Lukas	122,740	17.9%	Folk	Music & Radio
23	Hector (musician)	120,994	11.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
24	Dragana Mirković	95,557	44.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
25	Halid Bešlić	95,025	88.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
26	Corvus Corax	91,626	19.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
27	Crisis	83,565	3.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
28	Azer Bülbül	78,387	8.7%	Folk	Music & Radio
29	Seka Aleksić	76,735	56.2%	Folk	Music & Radio
30	Vesna Zmijanac	72,999	80.5%	Folk	Music & Radio
31	Jelena Rozga	71,214	34.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
32	Crosby, Stills & Nash	64,114	0.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
33	The Band	57,004	3.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
34	Dara Bubamara	56,092	16.0%	Folk	Music & Radio
35	Šaban Šaulić	54,004	50.8%	Folk	Music & Radio
36	Mercedes Sosa	48,601	9.5%	Folk	Music & Radio
37	Sufjan Stevens	47,989	3.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
38	Ebru Gündeş	47,401	2.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
39	Mile Kitić	47,376	52.2%	Folk	Music & Radio
40	Güler Duman	40,913	8.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
41	Rauhbein	38,320	87.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
42	Mario Biondi	38,163	9.0%	Folk	Music & Radio
43	Željko Joksimović	36,426	29.0%	Folk	Music & Radio
44	Ceca Raznatovic	35,138	30.0%	Folk	Music & Radio
45	Hakim (Egyptian singer)	35,060	4.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
46	Ocie Elliott	34,905	10.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
47	Jesse Welles	34,303	2.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
48	Neşet Ertaş	31,808	2.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
49	Haris Alexiou	30,860	52.9%	Folk	Music & Radio
50	Anna von Hausswolff	30,414	12.1%	Folk	Music & Radio