Top 50 Folks in Japan

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest folks in Japan, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 158 folks tracked in Japan, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Cocco, Clannad and Crisis lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 3,378,291 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 87,112, and the largest, Cocco, reaches around 1,815,991 people in Japan. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with each folk, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Japan and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Cocco	1,815,991	83.5%	Folk	Music & Radio
2	Clannad	1,237,762	36.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
3	Crisis	324,538	12.7%	Folk	Music & Radio
4	Bob Dylan	255,815	0.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
5	Emilia (Bulgarian singer)	202,204	5.0%	Folk	Music & Radio
6	The Band	122,439	7.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
7	Paul Simon	49,902	0.8%	Folk	Music & Radio
8	Mark Schultz (musician)	46,292	0.9%	Folk	Music & Radio
9	Crosby, Stills & Nash	44,525	0.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
10	Sufjan Stevens	31,914	2.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
11	Tiny Tim (musician)	24,674	0.5%	Folk	Music & Radio
12	Pete Seeger	22,826	0.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
13	Cat Stevens	18,896	0.5%	Folk	Music & Radio
14	Fela Kuti	18,441	2.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
15	Bowerbirds	14,444	3.2%	Folk	Music & Radio
16	Galena (singer)	12,244	1.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
17	Phil Wickham	8,830	0.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
18	Jesse Welles	8,322	0.6%	Folk	Music & Radio
19	Heilung	7,733	0.9%	Folk	Music & Radio
20	Anna von Hausswolff	7,312	2.9%	Folk	Music & Radio
21	Hollow Coves	6,286	2.9%	Folk	Music & Radio
22	Hakim (Egyptian singer)	5,792	0.7%	Folk	Music & Radio
23	Volkan Konak	5,553	0.1%	Folk	Music & Radio
24	Corvus Corax	5,522	1.2%	Folk	Music & Radio
25	Valerie June	4,608	2.1%	Folk	Music & Radio
26	Ceca (singer)	4,112	0.2%	Folk	Music & Radio
27	Ferdi Tayfur	3,951	0.0%	Folk	Music & Radio
28	Bert Jansch	3,223	2.8%	Folk	Music & Radio
29	Sam Amidon	3,126	5.2%	Folk	Music & Radio
30	Myrkur	2,797	2.2%	Folk	Music & Radio
31	Burl Ives	2,725	0.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
32	Ahmet Kaya	2,622	0.1%	Folk	Music & Radio
33	Tall Heights	2,582	6.9%	Folk	Music & Radio
34	Whitley	2,145	0.8%	Folk	Music & Radio
35	Two Gallants	1,961	8.9%	Folk	Music & Radio
36	Talisk	1,920	3.9%	Folk	Music & Radio
37	Julie Fowlis	1,862	1.7%	Folk	Music & Radio
38	Roy Harper	1,826	0.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
39	Caamp	1,806	0.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
40	Christy Moore	1,793	0.8%	Folk	Music & Radio
41	Barbara Dane	1,633	3.9%	Folk	Music & Radio
42	Ocie Elliott	1,573	0.5%	Folk	Music & Radio
43	Scott Kelly	1,563	0.4%	Folk	Music & Radio
44	Reinhard Mey	1,513	0.1%	Folk	Music & Radio
45	Lankum	1,452	1.1%	Folk	Music & Radio
46	Steven Curtis Chapman	1,387	0.3%	Folk	Music & Radio
47	Keaton Henson	1,340	4.9%	Folk	Music & Radio
48	Hazlett	1,337	0.8%	Folk	Music & Radio
49	The Incredible String Band	1,271	2.9%	Folk	Music & Radio
50	José González (singer)	1,251	1.6%	Folk	Music & Radio