Top 50 Jazzes in Japan

This curated ranking covers the 50 largest jazzes in Japan, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 189 jazzes tracked in Japan, the 50 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Cecil McBee, Mezzoforte and Bill Evans lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 541,289 people. Across all 50 entries the average audience size is 50,472, and the largest, Cecil McBee, reaches around 294,857 people in Japan. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with each jazz, 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	Cecil McBee	294,857	87.6%	Jazz	Music & Radio
2	Mezzoforte	130,891	21.7%	Jazz	Music & Radio
3	Bill Evans	115,541	16.0%	Jazz	Music & Radio
4	Miles Davis	112,606	2.9%	Jazz	Music & Radio
5	Kenny G	96,009	5.0%	Jazz	Music & Radio
6	Hiromi	93,987	16.1%	Jazz	Music & Radio
7	Frank Sinatra	93,390	0.6%	Jazz	Music & Radio
8	Weather Report	88,069	0.7%	Jazz	Music & Radio
9	Pat Metheny	72,861	7.2%	Jazz	Music & Radio
10	Michael Bublé	71,142	0.9%	Jazz	Music & Radio
11	John Coltrane	69,256	4.0%	Jazz	Music & Radio
12	Chet Baker	61,911	3.2%	Jazz	Music & Radio
13	Herbie Hancock	58,418	3.3%	Jazz	Music & Radio
14	Janis Joplin	52,463	0.6%	Jazz	Music & Radio
15	Billie Holiday	51,779	0.9%	Jazz	Music & Radio
16	Keith Jarrett	51,126	4.5%	Jazz	Music & Radio
17	Jaco Pastorius	46,217	6.2%	Jazz	Music & Radio
18	Chick Corea	43,339	5.8%	Jazz	Music & Radio
19	Thelonious Monk	43,083	3.4%	Jazz	Music & Radio
20	Louis Armstrong	42,345	0.8%	Jazz	Music & Radio
21	Masayoshi Takanaka	41,170	4.7%	Jazz	Music & Radio
22	George Benson	39,059	2.8%	Jazz	Music & Radio
23	Ella Fitzgerald	38,383	1.3%	Jazz	Music & Radio
24	Nat King Cole	34,287	1.4%	Jazz	Music & Radio
25	Bill Frisell	32,817	12.3%	Jazz	Music & Radio
26	Dirty Loops	31,315	17.5%	Jazz	Music & Radio
27	Sonny Rollins	31,241	8.7%	Jazz	Music & Radio
28	Ghost-Note	30,914	21.7%	Jazz	Music & Radio
29	Diana Krall	29,729	2.0%	Jazz	Music & Radio
30	Duke Ellington	29,336	1.6%	Jazz	Music & Radio
31	Oscar Peterson	29,008	5.2%	Jazz	Music & Radio
32	Wayne Shorter	28,630	10.6%	Jazz	Music & Radio
33	Charlie Parker	28,475	2.2%	Jazz	Music & Radio
34	Robert Glasper	28,260	9.6%	Jazz	Music & Radio
35	Dave Brubeck	27,943	4.9%	Jazz	Music & Radio
36	Brad Mehldau Trio	27,938	8.9%	Jazz	Music & Radio
37	Candy Dulfer	27,175	3.6%	Jazz	Music & Radio
38	John Scofield	26,599	10.0%	Jazz	Music & Radio
39	GoGo Penguin	26,478	14.7%	Jazz	Music & Radio
40	Brad Mehldau	25,660	8.6%	Jazz	Music & Radio
41	Dizzy Gillespie	25,657	2.4%	Jazz	Music & Radio
42	Sun Ra	23,217	6.5%	Jazz	Music & Radio
43	John Scofield Trio	23,000	9.0%	Jazz	Music & Radio
44	Count Basie	22,829	2.6%	Jazz	Music & Radio
45	Django Reinhardt	21,992	2.3%	Jazz	Music & Radio
46	Ezra Collective	21,703	4.0%	Jazz	Music & Radio
47	Art Blakey	20,799	10.4%	Jazz	Music & Radio
48	Medeski, Martin & Wood	20,761	10.4%	Jazz	Music & Radio
49	Ahmad Jamal	20,286	10.7%	Jazz	Music & Radio
50	Esperanza Spalding	19,698	3.1%	Jazz	Music & Radio