Top 50 Composers in India

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest composers in India, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 98 composers tracked in India, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. A. R. Rahman, Amaal Mallik and Anirudh Ravichander lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 4,701,624 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 176,328, and the largest, A. R. Rahman, reaches around 1,846,352 people in India. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with each composer, 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	A. R. Rahman	1,846,352	28.6%	Composer	Music & Radio
2	Amaal Mallik	1,525,593	95.1%	Composer	Music & Radio
3	Anirudh Ravichander	1,329,679	78.0%	Composer	Music & Radio
4	Hans Zimmer	738,448	5.7%	Composer	Music & Radio
5	John Williams	685,579	5.7%	Composer	Music & Radio
6	Tansen	591,356	97.4%	Composer	Music & Radio
7	Ilaiyaraaja	347,373	72.8%	Composer	Music & Radio
8	S. Thaman	331,024	48.2%	Composer	Music & Radio
9	Henry VIII of England	169,359	2.5%	Composer	Politics & Society
10	Sona Mohapatra	149,987	93.3%	Composer	Music & Radio
11	Krishna Das	142,367	45.0%	Composer	Music & Radio
12	G. V. Prakash Kumar	123,674	63.1%	Composer	Music & Radio
13	Arjun Janya	86,018	96.7%	Composer	Music & Radio
14	M. Jayachandran	76,474	95.8%	Composer	Music & Radio
15	Stephen Devassy	74,520	79.2%	Composer	Music & Radio
16	Arjun Kanungo	60,905	94.6%	Composer	Music & Radio
17	Ricky Kej	57,995	92.6%	Composer	Music & Radio
18	Muffler	49,955	1.9%	Composer	Cars & Mobility
19	Danny Elfman	49,800	1.1%	Composer	Music & Radio
20	M. S. Viswanathan	39,966	77.9%	Composer	Music & Radio
21	Nachiketa Chakraborty	32,830	95.1%	Composer	Music & Radio
22	Yanni	32,567	2.5%	Composer	Music & Radio
23	Björk	31,368	1.5%	Composer	Music & Radio
24	Ehsaan Noorani	28,190	92.7%	Composer	Music & Radio
25	Ennio Morricone	21,961	0.7%	Composer	Music & Radio
26	Giorgio Moroder	15,970	1.4%	Composer	Music & Radio
27	Habib Wahid	12,354	11.8%	Composer	Music & Radio
28	Alan Silvestri	11,847	3.0%	Composer	Music & Radio
29	Mura Masa	11,528	2.3%	Composer	Music & Radio
30	SACHIN AHUJA	10,730	88.7%	Composer	Music & Radio
31	Michael Giacchino	10,456	1.6%	Composer	Music & Radio
32	Imran Mahmudul	10,344	40.9%	Composer	Music & Radio
33	Jean-Michel Jarre	9,539	0.4%	Composer	Music & Radio
34	James Newton Howard	9,176	2.6%	Composer	Music & Radio
35	Caetano Veloso	8,409	0.2%	Composer	Music & Radio
36	Jon Lord	8,190	2.9%	Composer	Music & Radio
37	Kevin Murphy	8,189	0.5%	Composer	Beauty & Wellness
38	Stephen Sondheim	7,563	1.0%	Composer	Music & Radio
39	Max Richter	7,374	0.8%	Composer	Music & Radio
40	Philip Glass	6,343	0.7%	Composer	Music & Radio
41	Kelela	5,503	3.0%	Composer	Music & Radio
42	Roy Ayers	5,013	0.5%	Composer	Music & Radio
43	Daniel Barenboim	4,989	0.7%	Composer	Music & Radio
44	Umer Shareef	4,847	39.5%	Composer	Music & Radio
45	John Cage	4,609	0.8%	Composer	Music & Radio
46	Atticus Ross	4,544	1.4%	Composer	Music & Radio
47	Vanessa-Mae	4,473	1.1%	Composer	Music & Radio
48	Idan Raichel	3,802	3.3%	Composer	Music & Radio
49	Alan Menken	3,638	0.8%	Composer	Music & Radio
50	Yann Tiersen	3,634	0.6%	Composer	Music & Radio