Top 50 Classical musics in India

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest classical musics in India, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 81 classical musics tracked in India, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Anoushka Shankar and Orchestre symphonique de Montréal lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 1,093,922 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 36,851, and the largest, Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, reaches around 737,224 people in India. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with each classical music, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across India and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan	737,224	74.7%	Classical music	Music & Radio
2	Anoushka Shankar	243,018	34.7%	Classical music	Music & Radio
3	Orchestre symphonique de Montréal	113,680	1.8%	Classical music	Music & Radio
4	Ludwig van Beethoven	99,037	2.7%	Classical music	Music & Radio
5	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	95,107	2.5%	Classical music	Music & Radio
6	HAUSER	84,033	5.2%	Classical music	Music & Radio
7	David Foster	70,338	2.8%	Classical music	Music & Radio
8	Richard Wagner	30,713	1.5%	Classical music	Music & Radio
9	Ludovico Einaudi	27,268	0.6%	Classical music	Music & Radio
10	Antonio Vivaldi	22,222	1.1%	Classical music	Music & Radio
11	Johann Sebastian Bach	20,813	1.0%	Classical music	Music & Radio
12	David Garrett (musician)	19,766	0.9%	Classical music	Music & Radio
13	Dmitri Shostakovich	19,051	1.1%	Classical music	Music & Radio
14	Vangelis	17,409	1.2%	Classical music	Music & Radio
15	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	17,278	2.3%	Classical music	Music & Radio
16	Gustavo Dudamel	16,374	1.6%	Classical music	Music & Radio
17	Leonard Bernstein	16,225	1.2%	Classical music	Music & Radio
18	Joseph Haydn	11,829	0.9%	Classical music	Music & Radio
19	Yiruma	11,261	2.3%	Classical music	Music & Radio
20	Franz Liszt	11,202	0.9%	Classical music	Music & Radio
21	Gustav Mahler	10,835	1.0%	Classical music	Music & Radio
22	Andre Rieu	10,429	0.2%	Classical music	Music & Radio
23	Lang Lang (pianist)	10,148	0.7%	Classical music	Music & Radio
24	Frédéric Chopin	9,559	1.4%	Classical music	Music & Radio
25	Sergei Prokofiev	9,477	2.1%	Classical music	Music & Radio
26	Yo-Yo Ma	9,436	0.8%	Classical music	Music & Radio
27	Claude Debussy	9,234	0.9%	Classical music	Music & Radio
28	Yuja Wang	8,017	0.5%	Classical music	Music & Radio
29	Franz Schubert	7,438	0.6%	Classical music	Music & Radio
30	Felix Mendelssohn	7,383	1.5%	Classical music	Music & Radio
31	André Rieu	7,313	0.2%	Classical music	Music & Radio
32	Umm Kulthum	6,931	1.2%	Classical music	Music & Radio
33	Robert Schumann	5,891	0.6%	Classical music	Music & Radio
34	Gioachino Rossini	5,268	0.3%	Classical music	Music & Radio
35	Giuseppe Verdi	4,845	0.3%	Classical music	Music & Radio
36	2Cellos	4,630	0.9%	Classical music	Music & Radio
37	Igor Stravinsky	4,514	0.7%	Classical music	Music & Radio
38	Sergei Rachmaninoff	4,507	1.3%	Classical music	Music & Radio
39	Maurice Ravel	4,264	0.4%	Classical music	Music & Radio
40	Béla Bartók	2,696	0.3%	Classical music	Music & Radio
41	Giacomo Puccini	2,627	0.5%	Classical music	Music & Radio
42	Johannes Brahms	2,294	0.9%	Classical music	Music & Radio
43	Alma Deutscher	2,273	1.2%	Classical music	Music & Radio
44	Antonín Dvořák	1,948	0.6%	Classical music	Music & Radio
45	Alfie Boe	1,429	0.2%	Classical music	Music & Radio
46	Nellie Melba	1,291	0.9%	Classical music	Music & Radio
47	Richard Strauss	1,152	0.1%	Classical music	Music & Radio
48	Fito Páez	1,082	0.5%	Classical music	Music & Radio
49	Julia Fischer	959	0.4%	Classical music	Music & Radio
50	Ignacy Jan Paderewski	871	0.5%	Classical music	Music & Radio