◆ Special · Ranking · Women of Dominica bouyon
Written by TIITII NBA, artist of the New Bouyon Wave collective.
Sources : the ranking is built from the monthly listener counts shown on official Spotify artist pages. Every artist links to her profile on the blog.
In short. These are the women bouyon artists from Dominica present on Spotify, ranked by monthly listeners and rebuilt every month. At the latest count, Faithii leads, ahead of Ebony Empress and Carlyn XP. Four names: that is all streaming shows of this side of the scene.
On the island where bouyon was born, the female side comes down to four measurable names. That is not the real size of this scene, it is the share the platforms show. Click a name to open her profile.
This month's ranking
Spotify count · September 2026.
- Faithii3Kmonthly listeners
- Ebony Empress3Kmonthly listeners
- Carlyn XP1Kmonthly listeners
- Tehilah35monthly listeners
Four names, and two titles that weigh more than the numbers
This table is short and the numbers are modest. They say very little about what these artists represent.
Carlyn XP is the Bouyon Queen, a major figure of Dominican female bouyon, and she sits third here with fifteen hundred listeners. Faithii, known as Bouyon Barbie, won Female Artist of the Year at the Dominica Music Awards and plays the World Creole Music Festival: she weighs three thousand listeners.
Streaming does not measure an artist's place in a scene that lives on stage, at Carnival and on the island's big festivals. It measures online listening, and on this island that stays low for everyone, men included.
Reading this table as a hierarchy would be a mistake. Reading it as a door into four artists rarely played elsewhere is closer to the truth.
How to read this ranking
The number is the monthly listener count shown on each artist's Spotify page.
Gender comes from an explicit marker in the blog profile, never from the first name. That matters here: Shelly, the lead voice of Signal Band, is a man, and so is Sukie. Two names a first-name-based ranking would have filed on the wrong side.
From one island to the other
Female bouyon is deeper on the Guadeloupe side, where ten artists are measurable. The two scenes have been answering each other since 2010. TIITII NBA belongs to the Gwada wave: the current release puts you in the present tense of the genre.
FAQ : common questions
Who are the women of Dominica bouyon? Four artists have a measurable Spotify page: Faithii, also known as Bouyon Barbie, Ebony Empress, Carlyn XP nicknamed the Bouyon Queen, and Tehilah. Other voices exist on the island but appear on no platform.
Who is the Bouyon Queen? Carlyn XP, a major figure of Dominican female bouyon. Her influence on the scene goes well beyond what her monthly listeners show.
Why is this ranking so short? Because it only counts artists with a Spotify page. The Dominican scene lives mostly on stage, at Carnival and at the World Creole Music Festival, and many of its artists were never distributed to streaming.
Sources
Web sources
- Spotify, artist pages (monthly listeners). open.spotify.com · monthly listeners read off the official Spotify artist pages; a popularity measure, refreshed every month. - Internal editorial synthesis. TIITII NBA Bouyon blog. tiitii-nba.com/en/bouyon/ · gender identified from the blog profiles, never guessed from a first name.
Going further
- Dominica bouyon top 20. The island's general ranking, men and women. - Top 10 women of Guadeloupe bouyon. The female side of the genre's other home. - Bouyon Hub. The full guide: origin, BPM, history, artists. - Every chapter of the Bouyon blog. The complete documentary series.
Glossary
Bouyon. A music genre born in 1988 in Dominica, with WCK. Fast tempo (152 BPM classic, 160 BPM hardcore).
Monthly listeners. The number of different people who played an artist on Spotify over the last 28 days.
