Top 50 Folks in France

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest folks in France, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 141 folks tracked in France, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Hugues Aufray, Bob Dylan and Isabelle Boulay lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 9,646,684 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 259,413, and the largest, Hugues Aufray, reaches around 5,983,276 people in France. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in France who actively engage with each folk, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across France and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Hugues Aufray	5,983,276	98.7%	Folk	Movies & TV
2	Bob Dylan	2,550,689	6.1%	Folk	Music & Radio
3	Isabelle Boulay	1,112,719	82.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
4	Gilbert Bécaud	875,852	75.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
5	Brigitte Fontaine	490,584	95.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
6	OLDELAF	222,355	98.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
7	Cat Stevens	186,056	5.0%	Folk	Music & Radio
8	Ceca (singer)	172,946	8.1%	Folk	Music & Radio
9	Paul Simon	160,088	2.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
10	Hector (musician)	121,687	11.7%	Folk	Music & Radio
11	Ferdi Tayfur	106,463	0.8%	Folk	Music & Radio
12	Idir	91,903	53.1%	Folk	Music & Radio
13	Clannad	82,745	2.5%	Folk	Music & Radio
14	Crosby, Stills & Nash	75,741	0.7%	Folk	Music & Radio
15	Ahmet Kaya	60,760	1.5%	Folk	Music & Radio
16	Fela Kuti	60,571	7.9%	Folk	Music & Radio
17	Heilung	59,783	7.0%	Folk	Music & Radio
18	Oumou Sangaré	51,465	51.0%	Folk	Music & Radio
19	Sufjan Stevens	45,958	3.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
20	Emilia (Bulgarian singer)	43,817	1.1%	Folk	Music & Radio
21	Tiny Tim (musician)	42,158	0.8%	Folk	Music & Radio
22	Crisis	34,512	1.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
23	George Wassouf	29,330	10.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
24	Hakim (Egyptian singer)	27,966	3.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
25	Têtes Raides	27,865	94.0%	Folk	Music & Radio
26	Carlos Núñez	20,457	40.9%	Folk	Music & Radio
27	The Band	19,833	1.2%	Folk	Music & Radio
28	Aca Lukas	18,765	2.7%	Folk	Music & Radio
29	Corvus Corax	18,239	3.9%	Folk	Music & Radio
30	Sherine Abdel-Wahab	15,322	13.7%	Folk	Music & Radio
31	Anna von Hausswolff	14,261	5.7%	Folk	Music & Radio
32	Roy Harper	13,200	2.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
33	Ocie Elliott	11,133	3.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
34	Jesse Welles	10,667	0.8%	Folk	Music & Radio
35	Valerie June	10,579	4.9%	Folk	Music & Radio
36	Reinhard Mey	10,365	0.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
37	Blanco White	8,632	6.8%	Folk	Music & Radio
38	Myrkur	8,613	6.7%	Folk	Music & Radio
39	Barbara Dane	7,868	19.0%	Folk	Music & Radio
40	Scott Kelly	7,642	2.0%	Folk	Music & Radio
41	Ebru Gündeş	7,271	0.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
42	Vicente Fernández	7,130	0.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
43	Lingua Ignota	6,259	4.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
44	Neşet Ertaş	6,120	0.5%	Folk	Music & Radio
45	Dara Bubamara	5,922	1.7%	Folk	Music & Radio
46	Jelena Rozga	5,215	2.5%	Folk	Music & Radio
47	Lankum	5,206	3.9%	Folk	Music & Radio
48	Bert Jansch	5,170	4.5%	Folk	Music & Radio
49	Hollow Coves	4,930	2.2%	Folk	Music & Radio
50	Ceca Raznatovic	4,585	3.9%	Folk	Music & Radio