Soul

535 tracks by 355 artists, spanning 1931–2026 — every one chosen and shelved by a person, not a model. This page is the room’s soul shelf, counted honestly.

5 of 535 tracks placed by a hand on the room’s four dials · 530 still waiting — a genre default, a placeholder, or a reading estimated from the record rather than taken from it

Across time

Heaviest in the 1970s — 154 of 503 dated tracks.

The biggest shelves

• Chick Corea26 tracks
• Carla Thomas21 tracks
• Shuggie Otis18 tracks
• Gil Scott-Heron12 tracks
• Sam Cooke11 tracks
• John Mayall8 tracks
• Stevie Wonder7 tracks
• Joe Byrd and The Field Hippies6 tracks
• Sly & The Family Stone5 tracks
• The Grateful Dead5 tracks
• The United States of America5 tracks
• Bill Withers4 tracks
• Donny Hathaway4 tracks
• Al Green3 tracks
• Aretha Franklin3 tracks
• Grachan Moncur III3 tracks
• Jimmy Cliff3 tracks
• Michael Kiwanuka3 tracks
• Ray Charles3 tracks
• Ry Cooder3 tracks
• Skip James3 tracks
• Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane3 tracks
• Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice2 tracks
• Azar Lawrence2 tracks

Where this shelf plays

• Long Shadows56 artists in common
• Stray Hour44 artists in common
• Threshold Crossings40 artists in common
• Drawn Blinds19 artists in common
• Wax Hours19 artists in common

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hand-curated by zubair jeewanjee · no algorithm

Counts computed from the room’s own catalogue on 2026-10-06. Tracks that arrived carrying this genre’s default settings are counted here but held out of the room’s maps until somebody listens — a placeholder is not a placement. — Zubair Jeewanjee · zubair.jeewanjee@gmail.com