No way. Look who has the biggest vocal range, can hit the lowest notes, and is 4th in hitting the highest notes. Had no idea.
Vocal ranges of the world’s greatest singers
No way. Look who has the biggest vocal range, can hit the lowest notes, and is 4th in hitting the highest notes. Had no idea.
This is amazingly cool. Too bad there’s no search function or sort by name, though.
…and clear confirmation that singing high notes makes you crazy.
TIL that there is a list of The World’s Greatest Singers that includes Eminem but not Barbra Streisand. Oooookay.
I question the omission of Benetar – while the vaunted “8-octave range” was a bit of an exaggeration by her early record labels the definitely had command of a complete seven. I’m pretty sure that her recorded canon would reveal a greater range than Mr. Rose.
On the other hand, I see why they have excluded Barry White from the “lowest note” portion of the list. While he could easily deal with stuff down to a first octave C (and with power, which is a serious trick) his line on the graph would be so short that it might not even show up at this scale. Range was NOT his forté.
Babs had emotion down pat. But as a technically proficient singer, well, she’s not going to work her way into many conversations. Her range was rather limited (and definitely moreso now) and at both ends of her range her tonal control was essentially non-existent. Great performer? Yes. Great singer? Not so much.
And yet Luke Bryan gets on the list? And Taylor Swift? Considering the ranges they have according to the chart, I’d debate they belong on a list of greatest singers. And if they are going by most profitable or popular singers (which I doubt because of other singers on the list), then Babs definitely belongs on it. Like any list of these sorts, there are some highly subjective choices here. The chart would have better been named as just a selection of singers.
For range (and timbre) Linda Ronstadt was pretty amazing. Sad that she can no longer sing.
Barry White is second under Axl Rose.
I agree Benatar is a big omission if we’re talking ranges, as are Kate Bush and Cyndi Lauper. Again, the list is very subjective. It isn’t clear at all how the singers were chosen. Popularity? Earnings? Actual singing skill?
Of course, that’s part of why these lists are created: to drum people like us into talking about them. 🙂
Completely agree on the Swift and Bryan (and, quite frankly, Mathers) entries. The only possibly reason I can come up with is that they wanted something that the typical current-day brain-dead top-40 auto-tune-addicted music consumer could identify with. The people who listen to Taylor whine about her latest man are probably not overly hip on the likes of Sam Cooke or Patsy Cline.
What would make this far, FAR more interesting is to chain it to the Apple Music library and have it dynamically generate both a fully-comprehensive list as well as a “front-page” one based on aggregated searches. Technically, this is entirely feasible.
How do I click an upvote six times on this idea? 🙂
Would be tough, since songs may use an unadvertised voice to hit high notes.
Oh, for crying outside. How did I miss that? Oh, right, I’m dumb. Or I could blame the lack of a search function. But I’ll take the hit on this one … I mean, it was RIGHT there. Also, that range for Barry startles me.
Really?
Which just goes to show that having a wide vocal range doesn’t necessarily make you a good singer.
Missing Lady Gaga, Alison Krauss, and Robert Plant
Lady Gaga and Robert Plant are both included.
No Minnie Riperton, either.
Barbra Streisand had 3 octaves, from B2 to D6, or roughly the same as Miley Cyrus (B2 to E6).
There are many artists on the list that I frankly don’t think have a great voice, such as Paul McCartney. Streisand certainly has a better voice than many artists on the list.
Regardless, I think most people would agree that Streisand is a master of control. Although she no longer possesses the same vocal range (then again, none of the older artists on the list do), I think some aspects of her voice has improved since (i.e., she sounded way more nasally before).
If I remember correctly this list has already been debunked as a bit of hooey (I mean, Axel is great an all but that range is nonsense), especially considering that it doesn’t take into account true “range” but rather lowest note recorded to highest note recorded. When I was a kid I could sing really high, now that I’m an adult I can sing much lower, but that’s not an accurate look at my actual vocal range. So while it’s a neat graph, it’s not an entirely accurate one.
But it does give me the excuse to leave this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjETXaGWPOY
Which does a pretty damn fine job of showing the real vocal range of one Mr. Michael Jackson.
(For those too lazy to click, it’s a recording of one of his vocal training sessions with his trainer Seth Riggs and in it you’ll actually hear him sing incredibly high and incredibly low. It’s quite impressive)
No Céline Dion or Madonna?
Not to mention thats a very western centric and English language view on the greatest singers.
very power
:))
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