An intriguing study has measured the vocal ranges of some of music’s greatest voices, and you might be shocked to landed at number one.
Concert Hotels‘ interactive chart ranked Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose at the top of their list.
Rose beat out artists from all genres, including Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, Barry White and Michael Jackson.
Each artist’s range is visualized on digital piano keys.
The site listed its methodology:
To create this piece, we took the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time as compiled by Rolling Stone magazine in 2008. To this list, we added some of today’s top singers including the nominees for top male and female artist at the Billboard Music Awards 2014. We cross-referenced the resulting list with vocal range data curated by The Range Place. We included all of the singers on the list for whom the data was readily available.
The chart is embedded below.
Mariah Carey, Prince, James Brown, and Marvin Gaye made the top ten.
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