Classic Soundtrack artists, songs, decades and similar genres

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List of classic soundtrack artists

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

#	name	Popularity	instrumentalness	danceability	energy	acousticness	Happiness	tempo	followers
1	Ennio Morricone	65	68	31	30	74	22	105	1036517
2	Francis Lai	61	60	30	32	57	31	112	41132
3	Henry Mancini	56	50	46	31	80	41	112	172466
4	John Barry	55	75	19	19	70	13	100	91867
5	Piero Piccioni	55	70	35	35	72	34	100	90701
6	Nino Rota	54	62	37	27	85	31	113	104653
7	Trevor Jones	52	83	20	18	40	7	93	31958
8	Bernard Herrmann	50	46	27	16	87	10	107	63473
9	Jerry Goldsmith	49	58	25	22	66	14	100	85962
10	Michael Kamen	47	81	17	19	85	7	117	30008
11	Marvin Hamlisch	46	40	52	43	35	73	140	9255
12	Luis Bacalov	45	46	33	32	59	26	101	26477
13	Lalo Schifrin	44	66	48	51	39	53	105	44839
14	Bruce Broughton	42	55	31	22	86	20	81	4505
15	Elmer Bernstein	42	55	30	29	79	26	101	25731
16	Basil Poledouris	42	63	26	26	73	9	103	38868
17	Oliver Wallace	42	87	54	31	77	63	101	13718
18	Clint Eastwood	41	62	25	14	55	13	87	11264
19	Carl Davis	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	3190
20	Michael Small	41	75	44	42	79	31	109	1441
21	Brad Fiedel	40	89	26	36	76	11	90	16101
22	Maurice Jarre	40	40	26	18	65	29	97	24250
23	Howard Blake	40	34	34	15	94	13	80	3030
24	Georges Delerue	39	60	25	26	87	26	102	19407
25	MGM Studio Orchestra	39	46	43	17	89	32	103	15366
26	Lennie Niehaus	39	69	55	14	98	31	115	2492
27	Rumon Gamba	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	414
28	Elliot Goldenthal	38	37	33	24	70	14	127	13747
29	Marc Shaiman	37	33	30	19	86	27	104	3936
30	Erich Wolfgang Korngold	36	92	30	36	78	27	123	12534
31	David Hirschfelder	36	83	20	20	72	8	100	5302
32	John Barry Orchestra	35	31	32	48	73	20	126	11232
33	Lionel Newman	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	551
34	Pino Donaggio	34	46	28	37	67	30	99	8653
35	Charlie Chaplin	34	62	29	32	85	27	101	22106
36	Carmine Coppola	33	51	14	11	90	9	120	2149
37	Charles Gerhardt	33	86	17	30	90	10	83	1797
38	Alan Williams	33	84	28	22	92	11	98	664
39	Stu Phillips	31	72	51	55	41	46	110	1955
40	Ron Goodwin	31	69	35	38	67	39	105	4993
41	Malcolm Arnold	30	11	50	46	73	54	112	4003
42	Miklós Rózsa	30	95	19	18	91	12	97	12735
43	Alex North	30	87	15	14	89	6	98	7893
44	Max Steiner	30	83	18	25	85	13	102	11412
45	Dennis McCarthy	30	89	22	11	85	6	85	6529
46	Victor Young	30	31	49	30	94	49	116	4054
47	Gottfried Huppertz	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	453
48	Cliff Eidelman	29	96	55	40	16	22	96	5227
49	Lee Holdridge	29	0	38	26	75	24	118	1719
50	Georges Auric	29	50	19	54	91	16	92	1300
51	Alfred Newman	28	19	33	38	81	30	100	5606
52	Gary Grant	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	562
53	Alexander Courage	26	93	18	14	96	4	109	4065
54	John Scott	25	29	55	65	50	68	110	806
55	Leonard Rosenman	25	96	24	20	95	20	98	3646
56	Monty Norman	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	3348
57	Michel Legrand And His Orchestra	24	56	25	42	68	21	93	1176
58	Dimitri Tiomkin	24	35	30	14	94	19	124	7675
59	Mark Snow	24	73	30	14	73	6	82	7066
60	Ron Jones	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	1596
61	Ernest Gold	23	67	23	29	79	19	105	2101
62	Moscow Symphony Chorus	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	289
63	Franz Waxman	21	88	25	22	93	13	97	6107
64	John Frizzell	21	95	21	8	96	4	87	2522
65	William Stromberg	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	280
66	Roy Budd	21	38	51	58	44	44	112	3864
67	Adolph Deutsch	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	559
68	Ron Howard	20	87	22	28	64	9	85	513
69	Richard Rodney Bennett	20	90	14	22	88	18	51	1342
70	Randy Miller	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	272
71	Warner Bros Studio Orchestra	18	0	32	35	93	8	100	1591
72	David Raksin	17	87	15	15	84	3	87	1533
73	Fred Steiner	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	1154
74	Gerald Fried	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	575
75	Joel Goldsmith	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	2918
76	Jay Chattaway	16	53	32	16	80	6	91	2942
77	Twentieth Century-Fox Studio Orchestra	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	319
78	Jerome Moross	15	94	13	29	88	27	68	1338
79	Richard Band	15	62	37	29	63	12	121	3422
80	Mario Nascimbene	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	731
81	Prague Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	236
82	Craig Safan	14	68	31	13	37	4	111	645
83	Ray Heindorf	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	198
84	Alessandro Cicognini	13	86	18	16	96	19	85	349
85	United Artists Studio Orchestra	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	526
86	Laurence Rosenthal	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	421
87	John Addison	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	580
88	Twentieth Century Fox Orchestra	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	126
89	Morris Stoloff	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	301
90	Frank Skinner	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	537
91	John Morris	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	793
92	Hans J. Salter	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	265
93	Jerry Fielding	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	1974
94	Robert Folk	10	90	59	79	0	65	169	518
95	Richard Hageman	9	1	37	35	80	57	141	376
96	Bronisław Kaper	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	589
97	George Duning	9	0	27	19	93	24	111	824
98	Gerald Fried & Alexander Courage	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	578
99	Ken Thorne	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	286
100	Leith Stevens	8	91	12	27	94	3	85	341
101	Sol Kaplan	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	424
102	Herbert Stothart	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	399
103	Fred Karlin	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	169
104	Hugo Friedhofer	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	963
105	David Buttolph	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	345
106	Leighton Lucas	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	53
107	Bernard Herrmann Orchestra	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1763
108	Ronald Stein	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	265
109	Heinz Roemheld	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	69
110	Paul Sawtell	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	139
111	David Raskin	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	223
112	Morton Stevens	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	292
113	Victor Young Orchestra	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	143
114	Brian Easdale	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	119
115	Roy Webb	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	145
116	Philip Sainton	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	153
117	Dean Elliott	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	84
118	Daniele Amfitheatrof	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	93
119	Clifton Parker	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	51
120	Marvin Hamlish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	58
121	Arthur B. Rubinstein	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	119
122	Russel Garcia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	46

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