It may surprise you to find out that Freddie Mercury could sing just over 3-octaves. So he's not a chart-topper in range terms, although he was a legendary chart-topper in music terms. But he made the most of every single one of those notes and had an amazing falsetto, not to mention an incredible performance style.
Then, there are those of musicians from the pop world. While David Bowie and Freddie Mercury both had ranges spanning four octaves, Prince could hit a gobsmacking B6.
Reputed to have that rare four-octave vocal range, Mercury's voice could escalate, within a few short bars, from a deep, dark growl all the way up to a bright, shining coloratura (via various chromatic shades of tenor).
One study on Freddie's vocal range even confirmed that he was able to vary from about 92.2 Hz to 784 Hz, meaning he was reliably able to hit notes from the booming low of F#2 to the high pitch G5 – that covers a full three octaves!
Chanté Moore. Chanté Moore's incredible, eight-octave range voice has always set the atmosphere and gets the crowd screaming with sweet melodies.
This is Tim Storms, a singer in possession of an incredible 10 octaves!!! He's a Guinness World Record Breaker and has recorded material, although has never seen significant success in the industry.
Storms also holds the record for the widest vocal range of any human at 10 octaves, ranging from G/G#-5 to G/G#5 (0.7973 Hz – 807.3 Hz). Listen to Storms sing below.
The seventh octave is the range of notes between C7 and C8. It is easier for very high coloratura sopranos to sing in this octave, but some people who are capable of singing in the bass range (like singers Adam Lopez, Virgo Degan, Nicola Sedda or Dimash Kudaibergen) can do it.
Whitney Houston had a vocal range of approximately three octaves and and a major second, spanning C#3 – G#5 – D#6. Some have incorrectly labeled her range as being at five octaves; they are likely confusing Houston with her contemporary, Mariah Carey.
A trained singer has an average range of 1.7 to 2.4 octaves, so around a G2 to G4. Freddie's range was F2 to F6 with a powerful mix up to an F#5, which, to be quite frank, I would struggle with as a soprano.
Prince had a wide vocal range when accounting for his unwieldy exclamations and shrieks, approximately four and a half octaves, from F2 – C7. The majority of these sounds at the top of his range are generally not accepted as a part of a singer's vocal range because they bypass the functions of the vocal cords.
Elvis Presley's three-octave vocal range was exceptional, 'very narrowly all at once a tenor, baritone, and bass'. A 1987 article in the Village Voice included an assessment of his voice in classical terms, categorizing it as a 'lyric baritone ...
According to music critic Henry Pleasants "The voice itself was a typical Italian light baritone with a two octave range from G to G, declining, as it darkened in later years, to F to F and with greater potential at the top than he was commonly disposed to exploit.
While he credited the extra teeth for changing the shape of his mouth and allowing for better vocals, some very interesting research out of the UK suggests otherwise. Turns out his gifted vocal range was likely due to his uncanny ability to use a larger part of his vocal cords than most of us do.
Roger Taylor tops the final chord with a falsetto B♭ in the fifth octave (B♭5). Using the 24-track technology available at the time, the "opera" section took about three weeks to finish.
Ariana Grande can sing in four octaves; her vocal range spans approximately D3 – B5 – E7.
Did you know? Michael had a four octave vocal range.
How Many Octaves Can Adele Sing? Adele's vocal range spans three full octaves, from a low C3 to a high C6. She really shines in her lower-range and mid-range belts and head voice, delivering a lot of emotional intensity to her performances.
Mariah Carey has a five-octave vocal range, spanning approximately G#2 – G#5 – G#7.
Andrews' chief asset? That glorious soprano voice. She reportedly had a five-octave range during the height of her powers as a singer. For comparison, the great Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti had a four-octave range.
What is Taylor Swift's vocal range? Taylor Swift's vocal range is approximately three octaves, spanning A2 – G5 – D6.
The highest note on record is a G10 sung by Georgia Brown, a Brazilian dance/electric singer.
Elvis held Roy Orbison is very high regard, publicly stating that Roy had ' most perfect voice' and referring to him as the 'greatest singer in the world' during one of his Vegas concerts.
The countertenor is the rarest of all voice types. The countertenor was not originally an operatic voice type as historically it was the castrati who would sing the female operatic roles in an age when it was not proper for women to sing in the opera.
Christina has a phenomenal range, spanning four octaves from around C3 to C7. In her Carpool Karaoke sketch she reaches an F6, putting her 'limitations' down to the fact that “it's daytime”. An F6, by the way, is what Mozart's Queen of the Night sings.