Top Soul Albums

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Book Albums

Top rated Soul albums featured in the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die book.
Thriller album cover

Thriller

Michael Jackson
1982
4.22 / 5
 Songs In The Key Of Life album cover

Songs In The Key Of Life

Stevie Wonder
1976
4.07 / 5
 Lady Soul album cover

Lady Soul

Aretha Franklin
1968
4.05 / 5
 Back To Black album cover

Back To Black

Amy Winehouse
2006
4.02 / 5
 I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You album cover

I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You

Aretha Franklin
1967
3.94 / 5
 Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul album cover

Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul

Otis Redding
1965
3.93 / 5
 What's Going On album cover

What's Going On

Marvin Gaye
1971
3.93 / 5
 Innervisions album cover

Innervisions

Stevie Wonder
1973
3.88 / 5
 Bad album cover

Bad

Michael Jackson
1987
3.81 / 5
 Off The Wall album cover

Off The Wall

Michael Jackson
1979
3.77 / 5
 Let's Get It On album cover

Let's Get It On

Marvin Gaye
1973
3.77 / 5
 Live At The Harlem Square Club album cover

Live At The Harlem Square Club

Sam Cooke
1963
3.77 / 5
 Let's Stay Together album cover

Let's Stay Together

Al Green
1972
3.75 / 5
 KIWANUKA album cover

KIWANUKA

Michael Kiwanuka
2019
3.74 / 5
 Talking Book album cover

Talking Book

Stevie Wonder
1972
3.72 / 5
 Superfly album cover

Superfly

Curtis Mayfield
1972
3.69 / 5
 Wild Is The Wind album cover

Wild Is The Wind

Nina Simone
1966
3.63 / 5
 The Genius Of Ray Charles album cover

The Genius Of Ray Charles

Ray Charles
1959
3.63 / 5
 The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill album cover

The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Lauryn Hill
1998
3.62 / 5
 Maggot Brain album cover

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic
1971
3.61 / 5

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