Classic Bollywood artists, songs, decades and similar genres

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List of classic bollywood artists

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#	name	Popularity	instrumentalness	danceability	energy	acousticness	Happiness	tempo	followers
1	Lata Mangeshkar	76	2	45	48	82	59	115	9454329
2	Kishore Kumar	72	2	45	54	65	57	116	7440127
3	R. D. Burman	70	18	55	64	62	50	122	3059408
4	Sadhana Sargam	69	0	59	60	53	67	118	870773
5	Asha Bhosle	69	5	54	50	73	62	115	5248814
6	Mohammed Rafi	68	6	47	48	79	61	110	5462294
7	Jatin-Lalit	67	33	61	55	60	75	121	192926
8	Laxmikant–Pyarelal	64	0	40	44	73	47	122	293083
9	Gulzar	63	2	58	31	74	45	123	621986
10	Mukesh	63	4	50	47	75	63	114	1941244
11	Anand Bakshi	61	0	0	0	0	0	0	6154
12	Kalyanji-Anandji	60	0	0	0	0	0	0	99571
13	S. D. Burman	60	39	43	30	94	58	106	579453
14	Suresh Wadkar	60	0	54	54	58	63	115	1258693
15	Uttam Singh	59	7	59	72	57	72	113	793768
16	Javed Akhtar	59	0	0	0	0	0	0	90239
17	Vinod Rathod	59	0	62	80	42	80	115	890009
18	Mohammed Aziz	58	0	48	71	62	65	119	108291
19	Madan Mohan	58	63	54	55	78	48	120	1349640
20	Amit Kumar	58	3	51	72	58	63	136	655533
21	Poornima	56	1	63	72	49	84	109	50302
22	Jaspinder Narula	56	2	59	75	28	62	131	161198
23	Altaf Raja	56	0	65	66	36	83	120	308288
24	Amitabh Bachchan	56	0	65	59	42	54	120	1628223
25	Manna Dey	55	3	43	43	89	52	102	1257330
26	Swanand Kirkire	54	0	41	54	34	32	126	152075
27	Hemant Kumar	54	22	48	35	89	58	104	1292184
28	Sapna Awasthi	53	0	62	71	34	74	109	24773
29	Shailendra Singh	53	13	52	59	46	63	121	275078
30	Sudesh Bhosle	52	0	59	68	51	68	122	30463
31	Anupama	52	0	55	72	60	64	116	31666
32	Nitin Mukesh	52	2	46	58	62	70	106	401701
33	Hema Sardesai	52	0	78	77	11	63	115	21398
34	Aamir Khan	51	0	0	0	0	0	0	207115
35	Mahendra Kapoor	50	6	56	48	80	66	109	542164
36	Anup Jalota	50	5	54	69	45	80	113	407090
37	Salil Chowdhury	50	0	0	0	0	0	0	21964
38	Hemlata	50	1	45	47	87	62	101	308795
39	Shabbir Kumar	50	5	45	60	64	66	131	187175
40	Manhar Udhas	49	0	51	40	76	50	106	411646
41	Anand-Milind	48	0	42	87	64	73	78	122371
42	Chitra Singh	48	4	49	34	77	59	120	217248
43	Geeta Dutt	48	16	49	37	94	56	115	907222
44	Kanchan	48	0	74	70	28	93	110	230292
45	Bhupinder Singh	48	2	46	43	81	43	102	285840
46	Sapna Mukherjee	48	2	65	77	17	70	132	10084
47	Salma Agha	47	4	44	52	67	54	126	351774
48	Ghulam Ali	47	3	48	51	69	60	116	1340244
49	Usha Mangeshkar	47	1	63	40	73	59	108	262117
50	Tabassum	46	0	0	0	0	0	0	1765
51	Ila Arun	46	0	58	67	40	75	132	41887
52	Nazia Hassan	45	2	62	49	26	75	118	168575
53	Shubha Mudgal	45	0	57	56	39	51	130	166387
54	Jolly Mukherjee	45	2	60	64	37	63	111	3845
55	Talat Mahmood	45	41	44	25	94	59	103	850531
56	Usha Uthup	44	0	60	61	38	50	130	704772
57	Suman Kalyanpur	42	1	47	41	95	64	127	127108
58	Rajesh Roshan	42	50	55	59	39	74	115	893615
59	Jaspal Singh	42	0	48	65	61	75	96	18629
60	Ram Shankar	42	0	62	54	63	70	125	75835
61	Aadesh Shrivastava	42	5	66	70	5	60	122	157720
62	Shamshad Begum	42	3	62	49	87	83	114	529642
63	Mehdi Hassan	41	15	45	44	88	55	115	1162047
64	Sanjay Dutt	39	0	74	56	4	39	127	43363
65	Shweta Shetty	38	0	79	91	13	83	130	11465
66	Noor Jehan	37	1	50	48	78	70	122	710269
67	Sharda Sinha	37	0	51	52	78	71	136	27232
68	Farida Khanum	37	1	45	40	81	49	105	420376
69	Talat Aziz	35	0	53	47	64	47	116	145287
70	Bhupen Hazarika	35	0	45	41	87	45	117	66712
71	Sridevi Kapoor	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	42063
72	Reshma	34	11	45	41	79	54	116	182451
73	Aarti Mukherji	34	13	53	37	95	68	114	19557
74	Asha Parekh	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	797
75	Nadeem Shravan	34	78	58	59	21	71	109	96761
76	Vijay Benedict	34	0	59	69	55	63	123	12876
77	O. P. Nayyar	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	47910
78	Shankar Jaikishan	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	46226
79	Viju Shah	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	400345
80	Ismail Darbar	33	79	44	22	91	17	117	615631
81	Bhushan Dua	32	34	47	87	78	73	151	93342
82	Usha Khanna	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	47399
83	Jaywant Kulkarni	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	56280
84	Rajesh Khanna	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	58386
85	Dilraj Kaur	32	0	57	54	66	93	119	3972
86	Vanita Mishra	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	930
87	Hero And King Of Jhankar Studio	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	2183
88	Kundan Lal Saigal	31	49	48	30	99	56	106	7589
89	Ravi	30	69	43	30	96	49	121	8306
90	Hridaynath Mangeshkar	30	31	53	39	93	74	102	56914
91	Pamela Chopra	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	5653
92	Jagjit	29	0	44	52	52	47	108	75529
93	Chandrani Mukherjee	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	5084
94	Kamal Barot	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	15476
95	Munni Begum	29	0	48	59	36	57	109	378408
96	Ameen Sayani	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	1926
97	C. Ramchandra	28	0	52	50	82	64	122	25652
98	Preeti Sagar	27	0	64	40	90	70	132	5290
99	Mehmood	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	2474
100	K. L. Saigal	27	54	40	24	99	30	138	59345
101	Satyajit Ray	26	76	41	24	97	45	128	16239
102	Chandan Dass	26	10	49	55	78	73	126	79264
103	Nayyara Noor	26	5	41	34	89	48	139	282070
104	Iqbal Bano	25	1	36	45	85	46	128	230829
105	Begum Akhtar	25	23	35	29	92	40	86	196747
106	Sulakshana Pandit	25	0	40	41	87	55	139	12971
107	Suraiya	24	12	56	27	97	70	118	176687
108	Shiv Hari	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	42611
109	Kanan Devi	24	92	46	21	99	78	82	4271
110	Sudha Malhotra	24	0	52	39	95	73	131	37443
111	Dilip Kumar	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	20244
112	Sharada	23	0	50	53	81	62	109	10693
113	Jagjit Kaur	21	0	46	52	77	52	109	49944
114	Anwar Hussain	21	0	31	35	68	29	153	5682
115	Krishna Kalle	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	10265
116	S. Shailaja	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	5376
117	Dev Anand	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	8310
118	Naushad	19	6	51	36	81	67	155	204577
119	Naseeruddin Shah	19	0	48	61	3	35	97	1747
120	Ashok Kumar	18	0	70	65	96	62	114	9335
121	Shailendra	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	1564
122	Mubarak Begum	17	83	34	47	99	58	66	54655
123	Chhaya Ganguli	17	0	47	42	93	51	122	19728
124	Amanat Ali Khan	17	7	41	45	91	52	89	176927
125	Khayyam	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	68568
126	Kalyanji Virji Shah	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	1995
127	Pankaj Mullick	16	3	36	31	98	63	89	23536
128	Uma Devi	16	0	53	32	90	73	79	38469
129	Mitali Singh	15	0	31	52	76	63	169	50357
130	Kabban Mirza	15	2	42	41	64	46	93	12122
131	Amirbai Karnataki	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	24284
132	Premlata	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	281
133	Ram Laxman	14	0	30	64	82	26	142	102957
134	Raj Kapoor	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	123555
135	Surendra	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	13914
136	Raamlaxman	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	40973
137	Majrooh Sultanpuri	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	5519
138	Sanjeev Kumar	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	3867
139	Peenaz Masani	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	20680
140	Rajkumari	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	61201
141	Meena Kumari	10	0	41	12	97	17	96	12483
142	Anil Biswas	10	0	45	51	96	46	82	9276
143	Chitragupta	9	84	52	50	88	72	143	4944
144	Husnlal Bhagatram	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	1053
145	Zohrabai Ambalawali	8	0	64	42	85	88	114	64221
146	Malika Pukhraj	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	33956
147	Vasant Desai	8	0	59	59	97	78	90	6119
148	C. H. Atma	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	37809
149	Meena Kapoor	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	32557
150	Hasrat Jaipuri	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2872
151	Vivian Lobo	5	24	62	57	94	87	86	1153
152	Vijaya Anand	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	12156
153	Parul Ghosh	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3066
154	Anupam Paul	4	0	74	76	2	68	121	750
155	G. M. Durrani	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	10063
156	Vinod Khanna	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	6932
157	Sunny Deol	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	25665
158	Shabana Azmi	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3337
159	Jagmohan Sursagar	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3905
160	Hindi	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	18670
161	Noorjahan	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3460
162	Iqbal Qureshi	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2383
163	Shammi Kapoor	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	7410
164	Hemant Bhosle	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	8107
165	Lata	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1673
166	Khursheed Bano	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5619
167	Asha Bhosle, Geeta Dutt, Chorus	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
168	Ameerbai Karnataki	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	487
169	Sulochana Kadam	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5791

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