| 1 | Claire Martin | Devil May Care | 1993 | 95 |
| 2 | Sade | Love Deluxe | 1992 | 95 |
| 3 | Sade | Diamond Life | 1984 | 92 |
| 4 | Sade | Lovers Rock | 2000 | 92 |
| 5 | Stacey Kent | Breakfast on the Morning Tram | 2007 | 92 |
| 6 | Janet Baker | Mahler Kindertotenlieder & Rückert-Lieder (Barbirolli) | 1968 | 91 |
| 7 | Dusty Springfield | Dusty in Memphis | 1969 | 90 |
| 8 | Sade | Promise | 1985 | 90 |
| 9 | Amy Winehouse | Back to Black | 2006 | 88 |
| 10 | Clare Teal | A Tribute to Ella Fitzgerald | 2016 | 88 |
| 11 | Everything but the Girl | Amplified Heart | 1994 | 88 |
| 12 | Everything but the Girl | Eden | 1984 | 88 |
| 13 | Jessie Ware | What's Your Pleasure? | 2020 | 88 |
| 14 | Rumer | Seasons of My Soul | 2010 | 88 |
| 15 | Tasmin Little | VW The Lark Ascending / Sym 6 (BBCSO/Davis) | 2022 | 88 |
| 16 | Barb Jungr | Every Grain of Sand | 2017 | 86 |
| 17 | Beatrice Harrison | Elgar: Cello Concerto (composer cond.) | 1928 | 86 |
| 18 | Emma Kirkby | Dowland Time Stands Still (Rooley) | 1986 | 86 |
| 19 | Jacqueline du Pré | Elgar Cello Concerto / Sea Pictures (Barbirolli/LSO) | 1965 | 86 |
| 20 | Kathleen Ferrier | Blow the Wind Southerly / British folk songs | 1952 | 86 |
| 21 | Myra Hess | Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (her transcription) | 1957 | 86 |
| 22 | Annie Lennox | Diva | 1992 | 85 |
| 23 | Celeste | Not Your Muse | 2021 | 85 |
| 24 | Cleo Sol | Rose in the Dark | 2020 | 85 |
| 25 | Corinne Bailey Rae | Corinne Bailey Rae | 2006 | 85 |
| 26 | Everything but the Girl | Idlewild | 1988 | 85 |
| 27 | Jessie Ware | That! Feels Good! | 2023 | 85 |
| 28 | Katie Melua | Call Off the Search | 2003 | 85 |
| 29 | Lianne La Havas | Lianne La Havas | 2020 | 85 |
| 30 | Norma Procter | Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (Horenstein/LSO; alto solo) | 1970 | 85 |
| 31 | Olivia Dean | Messy | 2023 | 85 |
| 32 | Sade | Soldier of Love | 2010 | 85 |
| 33 | Kathleen Ferrier | Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice (Glyndebourne) | 1947 | 84 |
| 34 | Marjorie Thomas | Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (Sargent/Liverpool Phil; the Angel) | 1955 | 84 |
| 35 | Carol Kidd | The Night We Called It a Day | 1990 | 83 |
| 36 | Beth Rowley | Gota Fría | 2018 | 82 |
| 37 | Duffy | Rockferry | 2008 | 82 |
| 38 | Emma Kirkby | Handel Italian Cantatas (AAM/Hogwood) | 1985 | 82 |
| 39 | Fairground Attraction | The First of a Million Kisses | 1988 | 82 |
| 40 | Felicity Lott | Songmakers' Almanac: Venezia (Graham Johnson) | 1984 | 82 |