Top Southern Soul Albums
Rank All Time Artist Album Subgenre(s) Other Genre(s) Year
1
74
 Otis Redding Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul Deep Soul 1965
2
87
 Aretha Franklin I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You Deep Soul 1967
3
143
 Aretha Franklin Lady Soul 1968
4
338
 Al Green Call Me 1973
5
660
 Al Green I'm Still in Love with You 1972
6
689
 Al Green Let's Stay Together Smooth Soul 1972
7
746
 Sam Cooke Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963 1985
8
843
 Otis Redding The Dock of the Bay 1968
9
935
 Otis Redding Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul Deep Soul 1966
10
959
 Aretha Franklin Amazing Grace Gospel 1972
11
963
 Sam Cooke Night Beat 1963
12
1502
 Millie Jackson Caught Up 1974
13
1516
 Al Green The Belle Album 1977
14
1534
 Otis Redding Live in Europe 1967
15
1541
 Solomon Burke Don't Give Up On Me 2002
16
1646
 Donny Hathaway Live Deep Soul 1972
17
1667
 Etta James Tell Mama 1968
18
1798
 Aretha Franklin Young, Gifted and Black Deep Soul Smooth Soul 1972
19
1872
 Aretha Franklin Spirit in the Dark Deep Soul 1970
20
2035
 Aretha Franklin Aretha Now 1968
21
2045
 Sam & Dave Soul Men 1967
22
2094
 Wilson Pickett The Exciting Wilson Pickett Deep Soul 1966
23
2238
 James Carr You Got My Mind Messed Up Deep Soul 1967
24
2272
 Aretha Franklin Aretha Live at Fillmore West Deep Soul 1971
25
2434
 Allen Toussaint Southern Nights New Orleans R&B 1975

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Otis Redding & Carla Thomas King & Queen 1967
Ann Peebles I Can't Stand the Rain 1974
Al Green Al Green Gets Next to You 1971
Al Green Al Green Is Love Smooth Soul 1975
Otis Redding The Immortal Otis Redding 1968
Wilson Pickett The Sound of Wilson Pickett 1967
Otis Redding The Soul Album Deep Soul 1966
Ann Peebles Straight from the Heart 1971
Otis Redding In Person at the Whisky a Go Go Deep Soul 1968
Leon Bridges Coming Home Rhythm & Blues 2015
Bobby Womack The Bravest Man in the Universe Deep Soul 2012
The Staple Singers Be Altitude: Respect Yourself 1972
Al Green Livin' for You Smooth Soul 1973
Aretha Franklin Soul '69 1969
Otis Redding The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads Deep Soul 1965
Sam & Dave Hold On, I'm Comin' 1966
Otis Redding Pain in My Heart 1964
Aretha Franklin Aretha Arrives 1967
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Give the People What They Want Funk 2014
Mavis Staples We'll Never Turn Back Country Soul 2007
Al Green Lay It Down 2008
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Soul of a Woman Deep Soul 2017
Dan Penn Do Right Man Country Soul 1994
Mavis Staples We Get By Deep Soul 2019
Charles Bradley Victim of Love Deep Soul 2013
Mavis Staples One True Vine Deep Soul Gospel 2013
Charles Bradley No Time for Dreaming Deep Soul 2011