vocalrange

Chart · bands and singers

Vocal range chart: 7 voice types and 21 singers.

Two tables. The first is the classical voice types with the band each one covers, in note names and in MIDI numbers. The second is every singer in the catalogue, sorted by their lowest sung note.

Every one of the 7 bands is exactly 2 octaves wide as the cited articles give it. What separates them is not width but where they sit. Together they run from E2 to C6.

A singer range here is the sustained sung range across released recordings, not a lifetime best: whistle register, screams, growls, spoken lows and one-off falsetto squeaks are left out, and where sources disagreed the narrower reading was taken. This is what the catalogue holds, not every singer there is.

The voice types

The band is the span the cited article gives. The tessitura is the part of it a voice of that type actually lives in, which is the number a choir director asks about.

Each classical voice type, its band, its tessitura and the article the row was read from.
Voice typeBandMIDITessituraSpanSource
BassE2–E440–64G2–C42 octavesWikipedia
BaritoneG2–G443–67B2–F42 octavesWikipedia
TenorC3–C548–72B2–A42 octavesWikipedia
CountertenorE3–E552–76G3–D52 octavesWikipedia
ContraltoF3–F553–77G3–D52 octavesWikipedia
Mezzo-sopranoA3–A557–81A3–F52 octavesWikipedia
SopranoC4–C660–84G4–A52 octavesWikipedia

The 21 singers, lowest note first

Sorted by the bottom of the range rather than the top, because the bottom is the note most people can place against their own.

Every singer in the catalogue, with the range they sing on released recordings.
SingerSung rangeSpanMIDISourcesConfidence
Johnny CashE2–E42 octaves40–643high
Leonard CohenE2–E42 octaves40–642medium
Freddie MercuryF2–A#42 octaves and 5 semitones41–703high
Robert PlantF#2–C52 octaves and 6 semitones42–722medium
Elvis PresleyG2–B42 octaves and 4 semitones43–713high
Paul McCartneyG2–C52 octaves and 5 semitones43–722medium
Bruno MarsG#2–D52 octaves and 6 semitones44–742high
Frank SinatraA2–G41 octave and 10 semitones45–673high
David BowieA2–C52 octaves and 3 semitones45–722medium
Whitney HoustonA2–G52 octaves and 10 semitones45–793high
Brendon UrieA#2–G52 octaves and 9 semitones46–792high
Amy WinehouseC3–C52 octaves48–722medium
Lana Del ReyC3–C#52 octaves and 1 semitone48–732medium
Christina AguileraC3–G52 octaves and 7 semitones48–793high
Lady GagaC#3–G52 octaves and 6 semitones49–793medium
Tina TurnerD3–D#52 octaves and 1 semitone50–752high
Fiona AppleD3–E52 octaves and 2 semitones50–763high
Ariana GrandeD3–G52 octaves and 5 semitones50–793medium
Janis JoplinD3–A52 octaves and 7 semitones50–813high
Billie EilishD#3–G52 octaves and 4 semitones51–792medium
CherF3–E51 octave and 11 semitones53–763high

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