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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. David Foster, Yo-Yo Ma and Dmitri Shostakovich lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 2.8M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 172k, and the largest, David Foster, reaches around 1.1M 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 David Foster 1.1M 51.0 53.9% Classical music
2 Yo-Yo Ma 952k 50.1 64.3% Classical music
3 Dmitri Shostakovich 792k 45.9 54.2% Classical music
4 John Tesh 779k 43.3 71.6% Classical music
5 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 754k 38.6 48.9% Classical music
6 Ludwig van Beethoven 710k 37.8 47.7% Classical music
7 André Rieu 642k 51.8 52.1% Classical music
8 Yuja Wang 498k 52.5 39.8% Classical music
9 Andre Rieu 496k 39.6 52.1% Classical music
10 Ludovico Einaudi 408k 41.1 49.0% Classical music
11 Leonard Bernstein 375k 48.4 51.8% Classical music
12 Igor Stravinsky 341k 45.8 48.8% Classical music
13 Johann Sebastian Bach 294k 43.2 51.9% Classical music
14 Antonio Vivaldi 290k 44.9 59.0% Classical music
15 Richard Wagner 285k 43.9 49.8% Classical music
16 Gioachino Rossini 280k 41.5 53.8% Classical music
17 Vangelis 275k 36.5 26.6% Classical music
18 Gustavo Dudamel 266k 49.8 43.2% Classical music
19 Erik Satie 262k 60.0 46.2% Classical music
20 Franz Liszt 250k 42.7 53.0% Classical music
21 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 240k 43.3 58.4% Classical music
22 Claude Debussy 236k 41.1 56.2% Classical music
23 Lang Lang (pianist) 210k 47.8 43.4% Classical music
24 Felix Mendelssohn 206k 33.3 52.0% Classical music
25 HAUSER 198k 47.0 53.1% Classical music
26 Benny Goodman 195k 42.4 42.5% Classical music
27 Anoushka Shankar 194k 44.9 42.2% Classical music
28 Gustav Mahler 186k 46.7 52.3% Classical music
29 Franz Schubert 184k 41.9 56.8% Classical music
30 Béla Bartók 179k 42.6 51.5% Classical music
31 Henry Mancini 178k 46.2 58.3% Classical music
32 George Frideric Handel 171k 42.0 55.1% Classical music
33 Joseph Haydn 171k 44.2 56.6% Classical music
34 Orchestre symphonique de Montréal 171k 45.5 57.1% Classical music
35 Katherine Jenkins 152k 44.3 62.5% Classical music
36 Richard Strauss 141k 44.9 52.6% Classical music
37 Khatia Buniatishvili 138k 45.0 42.9% Classical music
38 Robert Schumann 138k 40.7 55.4% Classical music
39 Alexander Rybak 129k 31.8 34.0% Classical music
40 Clara Schumann 127k 55.0 77.7% Classical music
41 Richard Clayderman 127k 48.7 100.0% Classical music
42 Camille Saint-Saëns 126k 54.2 69.7% Classical music
43 Maurice Ravel 126k 42.2 55.2% Classical music
44 Sergei Prokofiev 124k 46.3 54.3% Classical music
45 2Cellos 120k 47.3 42.9% Classical music
46 The Priests 118k 54.6 61.6% Classical music
47 Edward Elgar 117k 46.3 58.2% Classical music
48 Frédéric Chopin 116k 36.8 53.3% Classical music
49 Gustav Holst 110k 46.7 54.7% Classical music
50 Gilbert and Sullivan 109k 45.9 56.3% Classical music
51 David Garrett (musician) 108k 43.6 53.2% Classical music
52 Sergei Rachmaninoff 103k 42.3 49.9% Classical music
53 Giuseppe Verdi 100k 40.4 54.7% Classical music
54 Georges Bizet 99k 40.9 53.9% Classical music
55 George Winston 95k 52.8 60.3% Classical music
56 Johann Strauss II 89k 33.9 63.5% Classical music
57 Hector Berlioz 79k 52.0 49.2% Classical music
58 Ray Chen 79k 41.7 57.6% Classical music
59 Alma Deutscher 78k 37.6 50.3% Classical music
60 Umm Kulthum 77k 39.0 50.9% Classical music
61 Alexander Scriabin 75k 51.2 67.4% Classical music
62 Yiruma 69k 38.3 81.4% Classical music
63 Arnold Schoenberg 61k 50.4 42.8% Classical music
64 Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 61k 34.6 44.9% Classical music
65 Henry Purcell 60k 41.1 63.8% Classical music
66 Alison Balsom 60k — — Classical music
67 Daniil Trifonov 58k 48.4 51.2% Classical music
68 Giacomo Puccini 51k 34.7 54.3% Classical music
69 Natalie MacMaster 50k 54.1 73.4% Classical music
70 Nicola Benedetti 49k 45.3 23.0% Classical music
71 Antonín Dvořák 48k 42.0 54.8% Classical music
72 Alfie Boe 46k 37.7 42.7% Classical music
73 Anne-Sophie Mutter 46k 44.8 34.1% Classical music
74 Luka Šulić 45k 44.6 50.1% Classical music
75 Herbert von Karajan 44k 54.8 28.4% Classical music
76 Johannes Brahms 43k 36.8 54.5% Classical music
77 Claudio Monteverdi 42k 48.3 45.6% Classical music
78 Jean-Baptiste Lully 41k 43.6 100.0% Classical music
79 Carl Maria von Weber 41k 39.7 53.2% Classical music
80 Seiji Ozawa 40k 48.3 47.6% Classical music
81 Los Angeles Philharmonic 40k 47.1 58.1% Classical music
82 José Carreras 36k 37.1 42.9% Classical music
83 Riccardo Muti 34k 43.9 49.7% Classical music
84 Nino Rota 33k 44.3 23.5% Classical music
85 Midori Gotō 30k 37.4 56.6% Classical music
86 Arcangelo Corelli 28k 47.4 45.2% Classical music
87 Jacques Offenbach 26k 35.9 54.2% Classical music
88 Julia Fischer 25k 45.2 63.8% Classical music
89 Anton Bruckner 25k 47.1 28.7% Classical music
90 Domenico Scarlatti 24k 43.9 56.3% Classical music
91 Sir Simon Rattle 24k — — Classical music
92 Paul Cardall 22k 47.9 77.4% Classical music
93 Michel Petrucciani 22k 41.7 71.4% Classical music
94 Niccolò Paganini 22k 41.7 51.8% Classical music
95 Max Bruch 21k 53.2 80.3% Classical music
96 Fito Páez 20k 40.5 48.3% Classical music
97 Claudio Abbado 20k 47.0 49.1% Classical music
98 Christoph Willibald Gluck 19k 46.2 36.4% Classical music
99 Gaetano Donizetti 19k 40.4 54.9% Classical music
100 Jean-Philippe Rameau 18k 41.7 64.7% 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?

David Foster currently leads with an estimated audience of 1.1M people in United States.

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