Top 50 Classical musics in Japan

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest classical musics in Japan, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 104 classical musics tracked in Japan, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Ludwig van Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 471,302 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 33,829, and the largest, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, reaches around 188,955 people in Japan. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with each classical music, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Japan and are refreshed weekly.

Ranking

Rank	Name	Audience size	Country share	Subtype	Category
1	Orchestre symphonique de Montréal	188,955	3.1%	Classical music	Music & Radio
2	Ludwig van Beethoven	157,055	4.3%	Classical music	Music & Radio
3	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	125,292	3.2%	Classical music	Music & Radio
4	Yuja Wang	56,912	3.2%	Classical music	Music & Radio
5	2Cellos	56,097	11.2%	Classical music	Music & Radio
6	Johann Sebastian Bach	51,761	2.4%	Classical music	Music & Radio
7	Dmitri Shostakovich	47,211	2.7%	Classical music	Music & Radio
8	Claude Debussy	45,800	4.2%	Classical music	Music & Radio
9	David Foster	42,126	1.7%	Classical music	Music & Radio
10	Maurice Ravel	40,828	3.5%	Classical music	Music & Radio
11	Yo-Yo Ma	40,343	3.3%	Classical music	Music & Radio
12	Ludovico Einaudi	40,296	0.9%	Classical music	Music & Radio
13	Yiruma	40,282	8.4%	Classical music	Music & Radio
14	Katherine Jenkins	35,454	3.4%	Classical music	Music & Radio
15	Giuseppe Verdi	32,805	2.2%	Classical music	Music & Radio
16	Antonio Vivaldi	32,456	1.7%	Classical music	Music & Radio
17	HAUSER	31,817	2.0%	Classical music	Music & Radio
18	Julia Fischer	27,449	10.4%	Classical music	Music & Radio
19	Erik Satie	27,301	2.2%	Classical music	Music & Radio
20	Béla Bartók	27,095	3.1%	Classical music	Music & Radio
21	Gioachino Rossini	26,804	1.4%	Classical music	Music & Radio
22	Franz Liszt	25,642	2.0%	Classical music	Music & Radio
23	Midori Gotō	25,333	29.6%	Classical music	Music & Radio
24	Richard Wagner	24,760	1.2%	Classical music	Music & Radio
25	Wiener Philharmoniker	24,012	3.3%	Classical music	Music & Radio
26	Leonard Bernstein	23,971	1.7%	Classical music	Music & Radio
27	Gustavo Dudamel	23,193	2.2%	Classical music	Music & Radio
28	Franz Schubert	22,881	2.0%	Classical music	Music & Radio
29	Richard Strauss	22,746	2.3%	Classical music	Music & Radio
30	Robert Schumann	22,379	2.3%	Classical music	Music & Radio
31	Gustav Mahler	19,688	1.8%	Classical music	Music & Radio
32	Vangelis	19,590	1.4%	Classical music	Music & Radio
33	Edward Elgar	19,133	3.2%	Classical music	Music & Radio
34	Sergei Rachmaninoff	18,278	5.3%	Classical music	Music & Radio
35	David Garrett (musician)	18,059	0.8%	Classical music	Music & Radio
36	Lang Lang (pianist)	17,333	1.2%	Classical music	Music & Radio
37	Andre Rieu	17,152	0.3%	Classical music	Music & Radio
38	Igor Stravinsky	16,753	2.7%	Classical music	Music & Radio
39	Henry Mancini	16,647	4.4%	Classical music	Music & Radio
40	Ray Chen	16,560	7.5%	Classical music	Music & Radio
41	Joseph Haydn	15,394	1.2%	Classical music	Music & Radio
42	Georges Bizet	14,687	1.5%	Classical music	Music & Radio
43	André Rieu	13,844	0.5%	Classical music	Music & Radio
44	Benny Goodman	12,817	2.6%	Classical music	Music & Radio
45	Seiji Ozawa	12,359	14.4%	Classical music	Music & Radio
46	Johann Strauss II	12,207	1.3%	Classical music	Music & Radio
47	Johannes Brahms	11,814	4.9%	Classical music	Music & Radio
48	George Frideric Handel	10,301	1.7%	Classical music	Music & Radio
49	Antonín Dvořák	10,191	3.1%	Classical music	Music & Radio
50	Maurizio Pollini	9,632	6.7%	Classical music	Music & Radio