All Time Soul Album Rankings

A ranked collection of the most acclaimed, influential, and enduring soul albums ever released, spanning classic soul, Southern soul, Motown, Philly soul, funk-soul, neo-soul, and modern soul.

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What's Going On — Marvin Gaye (1971)—

Songs in the Key of Life — Stevie Wonder (1976)—

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You — Aretha Franklin (1967)—

Innervisions — Stevie Wonder (1973)—

Superfly — Curtis Mayfield (1972)—

There's a Riot Goin' On — Sly and the Family Stone (1971)—

Hot Buttered Soul — Isaac Hayes (1969)—

Lady Soul — Aretha Franklin (1968)—

Otis Blue — Otis Redding (1965)—

Voodoo — D'Angelo (2000)—

Back to Black — Amy Winehouse (2006)—

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill — Lauryn Hill (1998)—

Let's Get It On — Marvin Gaye (1973)—

Call Me — Al Green (1973)—

Stand! — Sly and the Family Stone (1969)—

Talking Book — Stevie Wonder (1972)—

Brown Sugar — D'Angelo (1995)—

Baduizm — Erykah Badu (1997)—

Curtis — Curtis Mayfield (1970)—

Just As I Am — Bill Withers (1971)—

The Dock of the Bay — Otis Redding (1968)—

Young, Gifted and Black — Aretha Franklin (1972)—

Music of My Mind — Stevie Wonder (1972)—

I'm Still in Love with You — Al Green (1972)—

Here, My Dear — Marvin Gaye (1978)—

Pieces of a Man — Gil Scott-Heron (1971)—

Mama's Gun — Erykah Badu (2000)—

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite — Maxwell (1996)—

Live at the Apollo — James Brown (1963)—

The Payback — James Brown (1973)—

Still Bill — Bill Withers (1972)—

Spirit in the Dark — Aretha Franklin (1970)—

Back Stabbers — The O'Jays (1972)—

A Seat at the Table — Solange (2016)—

Black Messiah — D'Angelo and the Vanguard (2014)—

Promise — Sade (1985)—

Love Deluxe — Sade (1992)—

Diamond Life — Sade (1984)—

Control — Janet Jackson (1986)—

Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 — Janet Jackson (1989)—

My Life — Mary J. Blige (1994)—

Who Is Jill Scott? Words and Sounds Vol. 1 — Jill Scott (2000)—

Acoustic Soul — India.Arie (2001)—

Plantation Lullabies — Meshell Ndegeocello (1993)—

Embrya — Maxwell (1998)—

Dangerously in Love — Beyoncé (2003)—

Lemonade — Beyoncé (2016)—

Ship Ahoy — The O'Jays (1973)—

Wake Up Everybody — Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes (1975)—

360 Degrees of Billy Paul — Billy Paul (1972)—

Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music — Ray Charles (1962)—

The Genius of Ray Charles — Ray Charles (1959)—

Pain in My Heart — Otis Redding (1964)—

Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul — Otis Redding (1966)—

Young Hearts Run Free — Candi Staton (1976)—

Naturally — Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (2005)—

100 Days, 100 Nights — Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (2007)—

Coming Home — Leon Bridges (2015)—

A Long Time Coming — Sam Cooke (1964)—

Night Beat — Sam Cooke (1963)—

Live at Harlem Square Club, 1963 — Sam Cooke (1985)—

Cupid Deluxe — Blood Orange (2013)—

Black Radio — Robert Glasper Experiment (2012)—

Comin' from Where I'm From — Anthony Hamilton (2003)—

Voyage to India — India.Arie (2002)—

Heaux Tales — Jazmine Sullivan (2021)—

Aijuswanaseing — Musiq Soulchild (2000)—

An Evening with Silk Sonic — Silk Sonic (2021)—

To Pimp a Butterfly — Kendrick Lamar (2015)—

Faithful Man — Lee Fields (2012)—

Victim of Love — Charles Bradley (2013)—

No Time for Dreaming — Charles Bradley (2011)—

Gris-Gris — Dr. John (1968)—

Gumbo — Dr. John (1972)—

The ArchAndroid — Janelle Monáe (2010)—

Dirty Computer — Janelle Monáe (2018)—

Rapture — Anita Baker (1986)—

Giving You the Best That I Got — Anita Baker (1988)—

Commodores — Commodores (1977)—

Warm Thoughts — Smokey Robinson (1980)—

Cloud Nine — The Temptations (1969)—

Psychedelic Shack — The Temptations (1970)—

I Want You — Marvin Gaye (1976)—

Soul on Top — James Brown (1970)—

Soul Makossa — Manu Dibango (1972)—

Get Lifted — John Legend (2004)—

New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) — Erykah Badu (2008)—

Black Radio III — Robert Glasper (2022)—

The Belle Album — Al Green (1977)—

Channel Orange — Frank Ocean (2012)—

Blonde — Frank Ocean (2016)—

Expansions — Lonnie Liston Smith (1975)—

The Soul Album — Otis Redding (1966)—

Private Space — Durand Jones & The Indications (2021)—

Miseducation of Eunice Waymon — Nina Simone (1961)—

Soul Survivors — The Soul Survivors (1967)—

Street Songs — Rick James (1981)—

Can't Slow Down — Lionel Richie (1983)—

Secrets — Toni Braxton (1996)—

Forever, for Always, for Love — Luther Vandross (1982)—

Never Too Much — Luther Vandross (1981)—

Here, My Dear — Marvin Gaye (1978)—

Anthology — Diana Ross & The Supremes (1974)—

The Heat Is On — The Isley Brothers (1975)—

3 + 3 — The Isley Brothers (1973)—

Heart of the Congos — The Congos (1977)—