Top Deep Soul Albums
Rank All Time Artist Album Subgenre(s) Other Genre(s) Year
1
74
 Otis Redding Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul 1965
2
87
 Aretha Franklin I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You 1967
3
935
 Otis Redding Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul 1966
4
1646
 Donny Hathaway Live 1972
5
1798
 Aretha Franklin Young, Gifted and Black Smooth Soul 1972
6
1872
 Aretha Franklin Spirit in the Dark 1970
7
2094
 Wilson Pickett The Exciting Wilson Pickett 1966
8
2238
 James Carr You Got My Mind Messed Up 1967
9
2272
 Aretha Franklin Aretha Live at Fillmore West 1971

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Otis Redding The Soul Album 1966
Otis Redding In Person at the Whisky a Go Go 1968
Bobby Womack The Bravest Man in the Universe 2012
Otis Redding The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads 1965
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Soul of a Woman 2017
Mavis Staples We Get By 2019
Charles Bradley Victim of Love 2013
Mavis Staples One True Vine Gospel 2013
Charles Bradley No Time for Dreaming 2011