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The 100 most popular Classical Musics in United States

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest classical musics in United States, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 162 classical musics tracked in United States, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Yo-Yo Ma, David Foster and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 3.2M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 173k, and the largest, Yo-Yo Ma, reaches around 1.2M people in United States. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with each classical music, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across United States and are updated quarterly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated quarterly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in United States who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in United States. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in United States, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in United States. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Yo-Yo Ma 1.2M 50.1 64.3% Classical music
2 David Foster 1.1M 51.0 53.9% Classical music
3 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 914k 38.6 48.9% Classical music
4 Ludwig van Beethoven 751k 37.8 47.7% Classical music
5 Gioachino Rossini 633k 41.5 53.8% Classical music
6 John Tesh 570k 43.3 71.6% Classical music
7 André Rieu 538k 51.8 52.1% Classical music
8 Andre Rieu 481k 39.6 52.1% Classical music
9 Yuja Wang 480k 52.5 39.8% Classical music
10 Gustavo Dudamel 429k 49.8 43.2% Classical music
11 Ludovico Einaudi 388k 41.1 49.0% Classical music
12 Leonard Bernstein 378k 48.4 51.8% Classical music
13 Johann Sebastian Bach 348k 43.2 51.9% Classical music
14 Antonio Vivaldi 341k 44.9 59.0% Classical music
15 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 336k 43.3 58.4% Classical music
16 Dmitri Shostakovich 332k 45.9 54.2% Classical music
17 Erik Satie 305k 60.0 46.2% Classical music
18 Claude Debussy 293k 41.1 56.2% Classical music
19 Richard Wagner 252k 43.9 49.8% Classical music
20 Lang Lang (pianist) 250k 47.8 43.4% Classical music
21 Vangelis 214k 36.5 26.6% Classical music
22 Felix Mendelssohn 213k 33.3 52.0% Classical music
23 George Frideric Handel 210k 42.0 55.1% Classical music
24 HAUSER 207k 47.0 53.1% Classical music
25 Henry Mancini 201k 46.2 58.3% Classical music
26 Anoushka Shankar 183k 44.9 42.2% Classical music
27 Franz Liszt 179k 42.7 53.0% Classical music
28 Benny Goodman 177k 42.4 42.5% Classical music
29 Camille Saint-Saëns 166k 54.2 69.7% Classical music
30 Johannes Brahms 166k 36.8 54.5% Classical music
31 Igor Stravinsky 166k 45.8 48.8% Classical music
32 Alexander Rybak 156k 31.8 34.0% Classical music
33 Khatia Buniatishvili 155k 45.0 42.9% Classical music
34 Robert Schumann 151k 40.7 55.4% Classical music
35 Franz Schubert 147k 41.9 56.8% Classical music
36 Béla Bartók 142k 42.6 51.5% Classical music
37 Frédéric Chopin 139k 36.8 53.3% Classical music
38 Gustav Mahler 138k 46.7 52.3% Classical music
39 Gustav Holst 136k 46.7 54.7% Classical music
40 Sergei Prokofiev 134k 46.3 54.3% Classical music
41 Maurice Ravel 132k 42.2 55.2% Classical music
42 Clara Schumann 128k 55.0 77.7% Classical music
43 Richard Clayderman 127k 48.7 100.0% Classical music
44 Richard Strauss 126k 44.9 52.6% Classical music
45 2Cellos 118k 47.3 42.9% Classical music
46 Katherine Jenkins 114k 44.3 62.5% Classical music
47 Orchestre symphonique de Montréal 108k 45.5 57.1% Classical music
48 Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 108k 34.6 44.9% Classical music
49 Edward Elgar 108k 46.3 58.2% Classical music
50 Georges Bizet 103k 40.9 53.9% Classical music
51 Joseph Haydn 101k 44.2 56.6% Classical music
52 Ray Chen 100k 41.7 57.6% Classical music
53 Giuseppe Verdi 100k 40.4 54.7% Classical music
54 Sergei Rachmaninoff 94k 42.3 49.9% Classical music
55 Johann Strauss II 91k 33.9 63.5% Classical music
56 George Winston 90k 52.8 60.3% Classical music
57 David Garrett (musician) 88k 43.6 53.2% Classical music
58 The Priests 87k 54.6 61.6% Classical music
59 Alma Deutscher 79k 37.6 50.3% Classical music
60 Daniil Trifonov 74k 48.4 51.2% Classical music
61 Yiruma 72k 38.3 81.4% Classical music
62 Gilbert and Sullivan 70k 45.9 56.3% Classical music
63 Hector Berlioz 65k 52.0 49.2% Classical music
64 Alexander Scriabin 64k 51.2 67.4% Classical music
65 Giacomo Puccini 59k 34.7 54.3% Classical music
66 Alison Balsom 57k — — Classical music
67 Umm Kulthum 56k 39.0 50.9% Classical music
68 Herbert von Karajan 54k 54.8 28.4% Classical music
69 Los Angeles Philharmonic 51k 47.1 58.1% Classical music
70 Alfie Boe 49k 37.7 42.7% Classical music
71 Arnold Schoenberg 46k 50.4 42.8% Classical music
72 Henry Purcell 45k 41.1 63.8% Classical music
73 Seiji Ozawa 45k 48.3 47.6% Classical music
74 Anne-Sophie Mutter 45k 44.8 34.1% Classical music
75 Natalie MacMaster 42k 54.1 73.4% Classical music
76 Luka Šulić 42k 44.6 50.1% Classical music
77 Antonín Dvořák 40k 42.0 54.8% Classical music
78 Claudio Monteverdi 40k 48.3 45.6% Classical music
79 Nino Rota 39k 44.3 23.5% Classical music
80 Nicola Benedetti 38k 45.3 23.0% Classical music
81 Riccardo Muti 34k 43.9 49.7% Classical music
82 Carl Maria von Weber 33k 39.7 53.2% Classical music
83 Jean-Baptiste Lully 33k 43.6 100.0% Classical music
84 Jacques Offenbach 32k 35.9 54.2% Classical music
85 Sir Simon Rattle 32k — — Classical music
86 Arcangelo Corelli 32k 47.4 45.2% Classical music
87 Domenico Scarlatti 28k 43.9 56.3% Classical music
88 José Carreras 28k 37.1 42.9% Classical music
89 Claudio Abbado 26k 47.0 49.1% Classical music
90 Paul Cardall 26k 47.9 77.4% Classical music
91 Anton Bruckner 25k 47.1 28.7% Classical music
92 Julia Fischer 25k 45.2 63.8% Classical music
93 Christoph Willibald Gluck 25k 46.2 36.4% Classical music
94 Midori Gotō 25k 37.4 56.6% Classical music
95 Fito Páez 24k 40.5 48.3% Classical music
96 Jean-Philippe Rameau 23k 41.7 64.7% Classical music
97 Niccolò Paganini 22k 41.7 51.8% Classical music
98 Max Bruch 21k 53.2 80.3% Classical music
99 Georg Philipp Telemann 21k 60.0 52.2% Classical music
100 Mitsuko Uchida 20k 23.1 47.7% Classical music

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular classical musics compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across United States and ranks each classical music by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is updated quarterly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest classical music in United States?

Yo-Yo Ma currently leads with an estimated audience of 1.2M people in United States.

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