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hindustani classical
Parent Genre: World/Traditional

Hindustani classical music is a traditional genre of music originating from northern India. It is characterized by the use of ragas, which are melodic structures that evoke different emotions and moods. The music is often accompanied by a tabla, a percussion instrument, and a stringed instrument such as a sitar or sarangi. The genre has a rich history and has been influenced by various cultures and religions. It is known for its complex rhythms and improvisation.


Top artists of hindustani classical genre

Sultan Khan
Rashid Khan
Rakesh Chaurasia
Shubha Mudgal
Ravi Shankar
Bhimsen Joshi
Pandit Jasraj
Hariprasad Chaurasia
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List of hindustani classical artists

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

#namePopularity instrumentalnessdanceabilityenergyacousticnessHappinesstempofollowers
1
Sultan Khan
53 0 53 58 38 55 98 24042
2
Rashid Khan
48 0 60 41 59 32 103 80028
3
Rakesh Chaurasia
45 80 30 14 96 14 89 41133
4
Shubha Mudgal
45 0 57 56 39 51 130 166387
5
Ravi Shankar
43 24 47 37 72 34 127 598405
6
Bhimsen Joshi
39 3 42 48 72 57 97 427095
7
Pandit Jasraj
39 0 46 46 73 38 102 121081
8
Hariprasad Chaurasia
38 40 45 21 93 28 108 205673
9
Zakir Hussain
38 87 53 82 63 91 124 621871
10
Farida Khanum
37 1 45 40 81 49 105 419819
11
Talat Aziz
35 0 53 47 64 47 116 145149
12
G.S. Sachdev
33 74 29 11 98 29 115 27780
13
Bickram Ghosh
32 95 63 41 90 63 120 12846
14
Niladri Kumar
32 55 40 60 45 37 117 37508
15
Vasantrao Deshpande
31 2 40 57 76 61 145 49690
16
Ronu Majumdar
31 62 35 30 90 24 121 40866
17
Sanjeev Abhyankar
31 0 50 41 56 29 133 37794
18
Ali Akbar Khan
30 27 43 37 82 37 107 88991
19
Shivkumar Sharma
30 46 40 44 76 55 122 132467
20
Kaushiki Chakraborty
30 0 50 47 82 44 122 82734
21
Purbayan Chatterjee
29 0 0 0 0 0 0 26409
22
Amjad Ali Khan
28 49 48 32 73 28 118 302155
23
Alam Khan
28 93 48 28 85 23 92 4108
24
Vijay Ghate
28 0 0 0 0 0 0 669
25
Debashish Bhattacharya
28 32 50 29 79 41 114 26379
26
Baluji Shrivastav
26 2 41 40 84 36 129 24266
27
Jitendra Abhisheki
26 56 36 41 96 54 102 55884
28
Begum Akhtar
25 23 35 29 92 40 86 196747
29
Ajoy Chakrabarty
25 0 43 46 80 42 117 45642
30
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
25 0 0 0 0 0 0 53573
31
Veena Sahasrabuddhe
24 43 21 30 90 22 123 79027
32
Kishori Amonkar
24 0 40 33 88 43 104 98761
33
Bismillah Khan
24 0 0 0 0 0 0 131708
34
Ram Narayan
24 0 0 0 0 0 0 40951
35
Alla Rakha
24 0 0 0 0 0 0 9025
36
Vilayat Khan
24 83 48 35 82 52 97 31027
37
Kumar Gandharva
23 0 55 28 80 32 128 73592
38
Shujaat Khan
23 0 40 57 42 49 86 33794
39
Nikhil Banerjee
23 66 31 47 63 59 95 83658
40
Buddhadev DasGupta
23 93 48 42 82 31 115 12366
41
Parveen Sultana
22 0 0 0 0 0 0 14863
42
Kala Ramnath
22 0 0 0 0 0 0 19838
43
Lakshmi Shankar
21 1 42 42 83 46 110 61571
44
Ghulam Mustafa Khan
21 0 54 65 84 59 140 4578
45
Raghunath Seth
21 0 41 24 86 6 116 4464
46
Bade Ghulam Ali Khan
21 93 43 53 99 63 70 71842
47
Rajan & Sajan Mishra
20 0 39 46 65 38 124 67270
48
Swapan Chaudhuri
20 0 0 0 0 0 0 2727
49
Rajan Mishra
20 0 0 0 0 0 0 6407
50
Budhaditya Mukherjee
20 46 41 52 50 59 152 21063
51
Tabla Beat Science
20 83 52 91 11 54 135 52620
52
Shahid Parvez
20 94 32 45 97 26 139 34388
53
Shruti Sadolikar
20 1 32 37 55 42 140 38713
54
Anuradha Pal
19 0 0 0 0 0 0 1202
55
Ajay Pohankar
18 7 14 13 87 4 169 9754
56
Pandit Chhannulal Mishra
18 0 44 55 64 54 114 1920
57
Shobha Gurtu
18 0 34 51 68 45 153 75194
58
Brij Bhushan Kabra
18 0 0 0 0 0 0 5574
59
Gundecha Brothers
17 0 45 27 67 19 126 23188
60
Shivkumar Sharma & Zakir Hussain
17 0 0 0 0 0 0 46579
61
Aashish Khan
16 0 0 0 0 0 0 633
62
Amir Khan
16 41 24 35 92 23 155 88378
63
Tarun Bhattacharya
16 86 44 42 84 71 116 4458
64
Anindo Chatterjee
16 92 42 65 56 57 124 8288
65
Ken Zuckerman
16 0 0 0 0 0 0 15479
66
Yogesh Samsi
15 0 0 0 0 0 0 2495
67
Satish Vyas
15 84 33 10 82 7 109 19218
68
Jugalbandi
13 5 57 71 83 63 130 1913
69
Nayan Ghosh
13 0 0 0 0 0 0 16148
70
Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande
13 0 43 44 73 42 131 35462
71
Chhannulal Mishra
13 0 50 33 57 73 92 6004
72
Sabri Khan
13 0 0 0 0 0 0 2536
73
Girija Devi
12 11 32 51 64 46 85 59806
74
Fateh Ali Khan
12 0 0 0 0 0 0 8934
75
Zia Mohiuddin Dagar
10 0 0 0 0 0 0 13696
76
Vidyadhar Vyas
10 2 35 21 84 31 105 9477
77
Prabha Atre
10 0 0 0 0 0 0 50011
78
Prabhakar Karekar
10 0 0 0 0 0 0 26503
79
Kushal Das
10 0 0 0 0 0 0 19870
80
Arnab Chakrabarty
10 0 0 0 0 0 0 472
81
Hamid Ali Khan
10 0 51 73 19 62 86 9256
82
Imrat Khan
10 0 0 0 0 0 0 30603
83
Tejendra Majumdar
9 6 52 35 90 18 119 21365
84
Sangeeta Shankar
9 0 0 0 0 0 0 827
85
Shakir Khan
9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1613
86
Shekhar Sen
7 0 0 0 0 0 0 273
87
Uday Bhawalkar
7 0 0 0 0 0 0 20740
88
Rais Khan
7 0 0 0 0 0 0 13146
89
Rajan & Sajan Mishra & Shruti Sadolikar
7 0 0 0 0 0 0 32998
90
Bhimsen Joshi, Umakant & Ramakant Gundecha
7 0 53 42 66 64 93 3904
91
Salamat Ali Khan
7 0 0 0 0 0 0 16734
92
Indrajit Banerjee
6 0 0 0 0 0 0 2482
93
D. V. Paluskar
6 89 46 23 99 82 126 4593
94
N. Rajam
6 0 0 0 0 0 0 6560
95
Mallikarjun Mansur
5 88 54 39 96 58 131 12965
96
Bhismen Joshi & Shruti Sadolikar
5 0 42 33 56 44 110 4195
97
Channulal Mishra
5 0 34 50 77 30 105 2265
98
Padma Talwalkar
5 0 0 0 0 0 0 29467
99
Bhimsen Joshi & Ashwini Bhide
5 0 56 41 52 56 91 2799
100
Ulhas Kashalkar
5 4 43 58 71 44 116 35685
101
Dagar Brothers
5 0 14 1 80 10 102 7277
102
Kumar Bose
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 3284
103
Kesarbai Kerkar
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 7115
104
Madhup Mudgal
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 3823
105
Faiyaz Khan
4 0 0 0 0 0 0 2197
106
Gopal Krishan
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 475
107
Rajeev Taranath
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1333
108
Bahauddin Dagar
3 63 24 3 96 5 114 7211
109
Vilayat Khan, Bismillah Khan
3 66 39 34 77 45 126 715
110
Asad Ali Khan
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 12720
111
Subroto Roy Chowdhury
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 700
112
Ahmed Jan Thirakwa
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2427
113
Hidayat Khan
3 0 0 0 0 0 0 362
114
Pannalal Ghosh
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1115
115
Arvind Parikh
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 413
116
Murad Ali
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 931
117
Jagdeep Singh Bedi
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1412
118
Ashwini Bhide & Veena Sahasrabuddhe
2 0 52 35 48 34 114 3288
119
Rajan & Sajan Mishra & Veena Sahasrabuddhe
2 0 34 35 81 34 116 2601
120
Wasifuddin Dagar
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 9934
121
Abdul Karim Khan
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 6086
122
Ustad H. Sayeedudin Dagar
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2887
123
Kishan Maharaj
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1562
124
Gangubai Hangal
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 16943
125
Sangeet Trio
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 552
126
Barkat Ali Khan
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 5705
127
Santosh Nahar
2 88 40 54 89 57 108 117
128
V. G. Jog
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 684
129
Pandit Jasraj & Ashwini Bhide
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2766
130
Brij Narayan
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3661
131
Allauddin Khan
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 791
132
Parween Sultana
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3483
133
Roshan Ara Begum
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3847
134
Kamalesh Maitra
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1265
135
Manilal Nag
1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4969
136
S.D. Batish
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 425
137
Rimpa Siva
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 418
138
Daya Shankar
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 812
139
Bidur Malik
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 369
140
Padmavati Shaligram
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 131
141
Barun Kumar Pal
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1155
142
Partho Sarothy
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 576
143
Snehasish Mozumder
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 811
144
Swapan Choudhary
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1063
145
Sarwar Sabri
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 947
146
Jerry Johansson
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 700
147
Gopal Shankar Misra
0 0 14 23 77 37 71 697
148
Roshanara Begum
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 209
149
Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin Khan Dagar
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1534
150
Manilal Nag & Ali Ahmad Hussain Khan
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 421
151
Jay Kishor
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2202
152
Biswajit Roy Chowdhury
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1456
153
Ustad Ram Gopal Dangi
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 554
154
Neeraj Prem
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 524
155
Senior Dagar Brothers
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5861
156
Partha Sarathi Mukherjee
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 507
157
Jnan Prakash Ghosh
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 964
158
Roshan Jamal Bhartiya
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 477
159
Amjad Ali Khan & Girija Devi
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 550
160
Vikas Gupta
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1551