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Genre
carnatic
Parent Genre: jazz

Carnatic music is a classical music genre from South India, characterized by complex rhythms and melodic structures. It is traditionally performed by a vocalist accompanied by instruments such as the veena, violin, and mridangam. The genre has a rich history and is deeply rooted in Indian culture and spirituality. Its practitioners are highly skilled musicians who undergo rigorous training to master the intricate techniques and nuances of the music.


Top artists of carnatic genre

Bombay Jayashri
Charulatha Mani
O.S. Arun
Sudha Ragunathan
P. B. Sreenivas
Nithyasree Mahadevan
M. S. Subbulakshmi
Sirkazhi Govindarajan
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carnatic music timeline

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List of carnatic artists

Here is a list of carnatic artists on Spotify, ranked based on popularity, who exemplifies the carnatic genre. You can find out what carnatic genre sounds like where you can preview artists or sort them the way you want, just click the headers to sort.

#namePopularity instrumentalnessdanceabilityenergyacousticnessHappinesstempofollowers
1
Bombay Jayashri
64 0 57 41 66 49 122 385447
2
Charulatha Mani
50 5 55 58 78 61 150 2210
3
O.S. Arun
50 0 0 0 0 0 0 10323
4
Sudha Ragunathan
49 0 52 57 65 56 123 110751
5
P. B. Sreenivas
47 33 48 39 93 73 112 240418
6
Nithyasree Mahadevan
46 0 57 72 41 78 146 62778
7
M. S. Subbulakshmi
46 15 47 33 97 52 106 184347
8
Sirkazhi Govindarajan
44 2 50 51 92 73 118 139610
9
Sowmya
43 1 61 55 44 52 129 31599
10
Nithyasree
40 0 73 63 25 75 97 14382
11
T. L. Maharajan
40 0 59 58 62 73 103 81842
12
P. Leela
39 11 50 34 96 64 124 66753
13
Mahesh Raghvan
39 13 50 66 21 16 150 24468
14
Mahanadhi Shobana
39 0 59 49 77 76 133 46832
15
Priya Sisters
37 0 54 48 79 81 128 79602
16
Prasanna
36 60 44 46 64 49 131 4721
17
M. Balamuralikrishna
33 4 52 53 88 65 116 61414
18
Sikkil Gurucharan
33 0 52 57 62 69 132 37593
19
Bombay Sisters
32 8 52 50 88 57 134 104792
20
T. S. Ranganathan
32 0 59 44 71 59 123 12801
21
M. S. Rajeswari
30 19 54 31 97 76 141 23696
22
T. R. Mahalingam
30 18 35 35 98 63 102 26389
23
K. B. Sundarambal
30 18 45 37 97 64 106 68099
24
Bombay Saradha
30 0 68 50 77 80 131 16065
25
Mambalam Sisters
30 0 62 40 67 57 114 26305
26
Veeramanidasan
29 0 67 45 47 65 116 41065
27
Bhanumathi Ramakrishna
29 9 46 47 98 91 164 19352
28
Jamuna Rani
29 37 42 56 61 81 148 19102
29
Thiruchi Loganathan
29 11 51 40 96 70 98 17018
30
Rajhesh Vaidhya
28 68 51 58 53 72 136 12251
31
Veeramani Raju
28 0 53 51 79 71 123 42719
32
T. M. Krishna
28 0 49 66 92 86 163 49811
33
A. R. Ramani Ammal
28 21 56 55 93 85 133 13383
34
Malola Kannan
28 0 64 41 81 57 119 17623
35
Veeramani Kannan
27 0 57 54 68 70 105 25406
36
T. V. Gopalakrishnan
26 0 0 0 0 0 0 1319
37
Participants Of South India Female Choir
26 0 0 0 0 0 0 6070
38
L. Subramaniam
26 91 41 68 97 83 118 54970
39
Kadri Gopalnath
25 69 53 54 69 63 129 27054
40
Phani Narayana
24 62 69 44 60 44 102 2674
41
U. Srinivas
24 88 50 67 79 72 117 19364
42
Karthick Iyer
24 83 45 40 55 36 136 6974
43
Ranjani-Gayatri
24 0 40 47 87 49 117 56084
44
Sanjay Subrahmanyan
24 1 47 50 87 67 148 52573
45
Nithyasri
23 0 51 51 64 66 124 34304
46
Aruna Sairam
23 0 51 54 88 63 122 44270
47
Rajkumar Bharathi
23 0 52 36 93 55 121 22403
48
C. S. Jayaraman
23 20 52 39 96 60 120 17754
49
A. Kanyakumari
22 93 44 53 94 47 78 24452
50
A. L. Raghavan
22 0 0 0 0 0 0 11520
51
Radha Jayalakshmi
22 4 40 43 95 81 127 6104
52
Sulamangalam Sisters
22 0 67 74 81 86 97 41052
53
Sreevalsan J. Menon
21 0 53 41 81 37 107 6134
54
Ramakrishnan Murthy
21 0 50 34 67 17 83 6301
55
Ambi Subramaniam
21 0 0 0 0 0 0 3525
56
S. Sowmya
21 9 50 38 91 67 124 49895
57
G. Anand
21 1 49 54 78 73 119 28710
58
Vignesh Ishwar
20 0 0 0 0 0 0 661
59
T.M. Krishna & Sangeetha Sivakumar
20 0 74 63 70 96 115 506
60
M. L. Vasanthakumari
20 25 59 48 86 77 106 41310
61
S. Varalakshmi
20 0 0 0 0 0 0 13025
62
Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan
20 70 54 59 89 77 124 40228
63
Pithukuli Murugadas
20 0 56 51 88 60 115 16529
64
Tyagaraja
19 0 0 0 0 0 0 1797
65
Malladi Brothers
19 0 48 65 82 81 125 20965
66
Maharajapuram Santhanam
19 0 44 39 84 63 113 47952
67
Apoorva Krishna
19 1 84 76 63 52 102 1753
68
Meera Krishna
19 0 56 48 81 80 138 7108
69
M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar
19 22 54 35 95 85 103 10409
70
Sivaji Ganesan
19 7 39 60 93 60 124 26876
71
Madurai Somasundaram
18 0 0 0 0 0 0 925
72
Lalgudi G.J.R. Krishnan
18 0 0 0 0 0 0 1625
73
Lalgudi G. Jayaraman
18 64 41 40 96 60 137 32286
74
N. Ramani
17 67 51 41 94 80 123 28382
75
Mahanadi Shobana
16 0 57 60 80 89 153 20607
76
Jayanthi Kumaresh
16 65 56 44 81 25 111 10012
77
Soolamangalam Rajalakshmi
16 92 50 32 99 47 82 4269
78
Abhishek Raghuram
15 0 64 40 87 64 132 15940
79
Kudamaloor Janardanan
15 84 52 45 85 58 180 2161
80
E. Gayathri
15 74 40 76 56 60 165 28973
81
Ranjani
14 0 0 0 0 0 0 7081
82
Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman
14 0 0 0 0 0 0 3907
83
M. K. Sankaran Namboothiri
14 0 51 58 60 55 154 2659
84
T. N. Seshagopalan
13 9 44 49 80 58 132 16034
85
T. N. Krishnan
13 6 45 29 71 28 134 30070
86
R. Vedavalli
13 0 0 0 0 0 0 8507
87
Akkarai Subhalakshmi
13 85 50 74 92 73 110 4702
88
Jayshri Prakash
13 0 73 71 18 50 125 3656
89
Sandeep Narayan
12 10 63 49 76 40 122 4717
90
Revathy Krishna
12 72 68 28 80 70 131 23161
91
Ravi Chandra
12 0 0 0 0 0 0 1398
92
Mambalam M.K.S. Siva
12 0 0 0 0 0 0 1525
93
Neyveli Santhanagopalan
12 0 51 70 88 84 141 21226
94
Namagiripettai Krishnan
12 0 0 0 0 0 0 9538
95
Ganesh & Kumaresh
11 93 49 59 95 69 175 8602
96
Kalaimamani Prabhavathi Ganesan
10 0 73 59 20 79 91 880
97
Flute J A Jayant
10 92 50 44 95 95 169 424
98
N. Ravikiran
10 0 0 0 0 0 0 5864
99
Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer
10 0 0 0 0 0 0 17307
100
Kodhanda Raman
10 93 58 69 59 51 136 1092
101
Chitti Babu
9 50 53 29 99 54 102 13837
102
Gayathri Girish
9 0 52 40 38 96 198 17390
103
Sangeetha Sivakumar
9 0 0 0 0 0 0 9294
104
G. N. Balasubramaniam
9 0 0 0 0 0 0 14197
105
M.S. Gopalakrishnan
9 63 58 58 96 69 110 14970
106
Sheik Chinna Moulana
9 95 45 47 99 59 142 1624
107
Raghunath Manet
8 0 0 0 0 0 0 2261
108
Sikkil Mala Chandrasekhar
8 0 0 0 0 0 0 1131
109
U. Rajesh
8 0 0 0 0 0 0 219
110
Doraiswamy Iyengar
7 0 0 0 0 0 0 2665
111
Madurai Mani Iyer
7 0 0 0 0 0 0 22726
112
D. K. Pattammal
7 0 0 0 0 0 0 26998
113
MadRasana
7 0 0 0 0 0 0 2080
114
Sound Creed
7 0 0 0 0 0 0 1255
115
Jayashankar
7 0 0 0 0 0 0 1602
116
Sikkil Sisters
6 0 0 0 0 0 0 15250
117
Hyderabad Brothers
6 0 48 53 70 76 134 23549
118
K. V. Narayanaswamy
5 0 0 0 0 0 0 9676
119
Jyotsna Srikanth
4 77 63 77 76 82 104 970
120
Gayathri Venkataraghavan
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 15550
121
D. K. Jayaraman
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 9495
122
Nedunuri Krishnamurthy
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 10091
123
Rithvik Raja
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 1281
124
M.D. Ramanathan
4 90 32 45 100 51 168 14356
125
Chembai
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 3899
126
Hemanth Bhagavath
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1301
127
S. Gayathri
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1689
128
Madurai Somu
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 599
129
Akkarai Sisters
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2787
130
O. S. Thyagarajan
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2516
131
Bharat Sundar
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 936
132
Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 9287
133
Vijay Siva
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 5935
134
Dhandapani Desikar
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 311
135
T. V. Sankaranarayanan
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2945
136
Maharajapuram V Santhanam
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 314
137
Voleti Venkateswarulu
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 677
138
Savita Narasimhan
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 782
139
Mala Chandrasekhar
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 67
140
Sethalapathi Balasubramanyam
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 376
141
Prasant Radhakrishnan
1 78 48 54 92 74 176 381
142
Mysore Nagaraj
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 8918
143
Ramnad Krishnan
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2005
144
Sangeetha Swaminathan
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 131
145
Maharajapuram Viswanatha Iyer
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2393
146
M.S.N. Murthy
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 159
147
Dwaram Venkataswamy Naidu
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44
148
D. Seshachary
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2183
149
Pandanallur T. R. D. Anandakumar
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 545
150
dkj
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 395
151
Kunnakkudi M. Balamuralikrishna
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 795
152
Drongomala
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 88
153
Charumathi Ramachandran
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 463
154
Sugandha Kalamegham
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 528
155
Alathur Brothers
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 520
156
Sriranjani Santhanagopalan
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 453
157
Mahamahopadhyaya Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 62
158
K Bharat Sundar
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 726
159
Musiri Subramanya Iyer
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 265
160
P. S. Narayanaswamy
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1039
161
Vijayalakshmy Subramaniam
0 0 45 56 81 74 113 785
162
Hyderabad Sisters
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 448