Top-ranked artists from Mali

N.B. Artist from before the mid-1960s may not be as well represented in this chart, because this chart only takes into account their albums. (Before that time, singles were far more prevalent than albums).

	Rank	Artist	Albums The number of albums by this artist featuring on this site.	Top Ranked Album The top-ranked album by this artist and where it ranks in the overall chart (N.B. some artists might not have a top-ranked album, if their albums are ranked outside the top 100,000)	Score Total rank score for this artist (made up of the total rank score from all of their albums)
	1	Ali Farka Touré	16	Savane (5,815th)	896
	2	ⵜⵏⵔⵓⵏ [Tinariwen]	14	Aman Iman: Water Is Life (10,026th)	624
	3	Amadou & Mariam	14	Dimanche À Bamako (3,964th)	500
	4	Salif Keita	10	Moffou (6,153rd)	407
	5	Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté	2	In The Heart Of The Moon (5,040th)	330
	6	Toumani Diabaté	4	The Mande Variations (10,410th)	253
	7	Songhoy Blues	4	Music In Exile (9,508th)	211
	8	Rokia Traoré	6	Bowmboï (17,860th)	162
	9	Boubacar Traoré	11	Mariama (10,028th)	148
	10	Fatoumata Diawara	4	Fatou (13,686th)	139
	11	Tamikrest	7	Kidal (15,589th)	126
	12	Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba	5	Ba Power (21,598th)	124
	13	Oumou Sangaré	10	Mogoya (26,025th)	123
	14	Toumani Diabaté & Ballaké Sissoko	1	New Ancient Strings (10,981st)	109
	15	Ballaké Sissoko	4	Djourou (12,929th)	101
	16	Djelimady Tounkara	3	Solon Kôno (14,414th)	80
	17	Toumani Diabaté & Sidiki Diabaté	1	Toumani & Sidiki (17,453rd)	63
	18	Samba Touré	6	Binga (33,383rd)	57
	19	Vieux Farka Touré	6	The Secret (39,101st)	45
	20	Habib Koité & Bamada	4	Baro (43,192nd)	37