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List of indian classical artists

Here is a list of indian classical artists on Spotify, ranked based on popularity, who exemplifies the indian classical genre. You can find out what indian classical 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	Bombay Jayashri	64	0	57	41	64	49	123	389924
2	Sultan Khan	53	0	53	58	38	55	98	24128
3	Charulatha Mani	50	5	55	58	78	61	150	2300
4	O.S. Arun	49	0	0	0	0	0	0	10419
5	Sudha Ragunathan	49	0	52	57	65	56	123	111467
6	Rashid Khan	47	0	60	41	59	32	103	80626
7	Anoushka Shankar	46	46	27	21	51	7	126	232670
8	Rakesh Chaurasia	45	81	35	19	95	24	92	41389
9	Shubha Mudgal	45	0	57	56	39	51	130	169958
10	Nithyasree Mahadevan	45	0	57	72	41	78	146	63630
11	M. S. Subbulakshmi	45	15	47	33	97	52	106	186730
12	Sirkazhi Govindarajan	44	2	50	51	92	73	118	140673
13	Sowmya	43	1	61	55	44	52	129	31856
14	Ravi Shankar	43	23	47	39	72	37	126	598984
15	Nithyasree	40	0	73	63	25	75	97	14646
16	Soolamangalam Sisters	40	0	59	37	88	67	117	18564
17	Radha Viswanathan	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	341
18	Mahesh Raghvan	39	13	50	66	21	16	150	24609
19	Bhimsen Joshi	39	2	42	47	74	58	99	429275
20	Pandit Jasraj	39	0	46	46	73	38	102	122590
21	Hariprasad Chaurasia	38	40	45	21	93	28	108	206219
22	Sangeetha Katti	38	0	60	55	81	63	121	38025
23	Zakir Hussain	37	87	53	82	63	91	124	622361
24	Priya Sisters	37	0	55	47	77	79	123	80276
25	Rattan Mohan Sharma	36	0	56	38	66	56	99	57488
26	Prasanna	36	60	44	46	64	49	131	4742
27	Rahul Deshpande	35	0	51	62	44	46	112	109961
28	Shankar	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	13000
29	Sikkil Gurucharan	33	0	52	57	62	69	132	38024
30	G.S. Sachdev	33	67	27	9	98	28	106	28138
31	M. Balamuralikrishna	32	4	51	53	89	65	115	62162
32	Bombay Sisters	32	8	52	50	88	57	134	105522
33	Kedar Pandit	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	4524
34	Niladri Kumar	32	55	40	60	45	37	117	37825
35	Bickram Ghosh	32	86	70	40	89	44	128	13037
36	Ronu Majumdar	31	62	35	30	90	24	121	41058
37	Vasantrao Deshpande	31	2	40	57	76	61	145	50105
38	Sanjeev Abhyankar	31	0	50	41	56	29	133	38169
39	V. Selvaganesh	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	20995
40	Sirkazhi G. Sivachidambaram	31	0	59	84	67	67	106	2001
41	Mambalam Sisters	30	0	62	40	67	57	114	26673
42	Shivkumar Sharma	30	46	40	44	76	55	122	133127
43	K. B. Sundarambal	30	18	45	37	97	64	106	68455
44	Kaushiki Chakraborty	30	0	50	47	82	44	122	83240
45	Ali Akbar Khan	29	27	43	37	82	37	107	89562
46	Amaan Ali Bangash	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	825
47	Purbayan Chatterjee	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	26717
48	T. R. Mahalingam	29	18	35	35	98	63	102	26883
49	Amjad Ali Khan	28	49	48	32	73	28	118	303110
50	Rajhesh Vaidhya	27	68	51	58	53	72	136	12347
51	Alam Khan	27	93	48	28	85	23	92	4222
52	Debashish Bhattacharya	27	32	50	29	79	41	114	26832
53	T. M. Krishna	27	0	49	66	92	86	163	50239
54	Vijay Ghate	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	689
55	Manik Varma	27	0	40	43	92	57	110	63718
56	Vedavathi Prabhakar	27	0	46	63	80	58	157	6859
57	T. V. Gopalakrishnan	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	1375
58	Baluji Shrivastav	26	17	45	36	68	29	127	24632
59	L. Subramaniam	26	91	41	68	97	83	118	55377
60	Begum Akhtar	25	23	35	29	92	40	86	199182
61	Kadri Gopalnath	25	69	53	54	69	63	129	27211
62	Ajoy Chakrabarty	25	0	43	46	80	42	117	45935
63	Jitendra Abhisheki	25	56	36	41	96	54	102	56377
64	Ranjani-Gayatri	24	0	40	47	87	49	117	56679
65	Veena Sahasrabuddhe	24	43	21	30	90	22	123	79627
66	Vilayat Khan	24	83	48	35	82	52	97	31289
67	Ram Narayan	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	41337
68	Sanjay Subrahmanyan	24	1	47	50	87	67	148	53000
69	Phani Narayana	24	62	69	44	60	44	102	2696
70	Vishwa Mohan Bhatt	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	54047
71	U. Srinivas	24	88	51	65	80	71	121	19493
72	Rupak Kulkarni	23	93	31	19	99	28	80	634
73	Alla Rakha	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	9180
74	Kishori Amonkar	23	0	40	33	88	43	104	99486
75	Bismillah Khan	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	132633
76	Nikhil Banerjee	23	66	31	47	63	59	95	84178
77	Aruna Sairam	23	0	51	54	88	63	122	44573
78	Buddhadev DasGupta	23	93	48	42	82	31	115	12517
79	Rajkumar Bharathi	23	0	52	36	93	55	121	22659
80	Kumar Gandharva	23	0	55	28	80	32	128	74034
81	A. Kanyakumari	22	93	44	53	94	47	78	24671
82	Kala Ramnath	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	20428
83	Sulamangalam Sisters	22	0	67	74	81	86	97	41480
84	Radha Jayalakshmi	22	4	40	43	95	81	127	6268
85	Shujaat Khan	22	0	40	57	42	49	86	34304
86	Parveen Sultana	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	15029
87	Bade Ghulam Ali Khan	21	93	43	53	99	63	70	72964
88	Lakshmi Shankar	21	1	42	42	83	46	110	62313
89	Ramakrishnan Murthy	21	0	50	34	67	17	83	6373
90	S. Sowmya	21	9	50	38	91	67	124	50241
91	Sreevalsan J. Menon	21	0	53	41	81	37	107	6218
92	Raghunath Seth	21	0	41	24	86	6	116	4464
93	Ramesh Mishra	21	0	40	15	95	49	71	194
94	Rajan & Sajan Mishra	20	0	39	46	65	38	124	67999
95	Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan	20	70	54	59	89	77	124	40795
96	Rajan Mishra	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	6407
97	Shahid Parvez	20	94	32	45	97	26	139	34636
98	Ghulam Mustafa Khan	20	0	54	65	84	59	140	4752
99	T.M. Krishna & Sangeetha Sivakumar	20	0	74	63	70	96	115	506
100	Pithukuli Murugadas	20	0	56	51	88	60	115	16648
101	M. L. Vasanthakumari	20	25	59	48	86	77	106	41736
102	Bhavani Shankar	20	0	66	49	62	35	120	2665
103	Ambi Subramaniam	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	3603
104	Pandit Chhannulal Mishra	19	0	44	55	64	54	114	1928
105	Arati Ankalikar Tikekar	19	0	44	59	81	61	123	5213
106	Vignesh Ishwar	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	685
107	Budhaditya Mukherjee	19	46	41	52	50	59	152	21161
108	Maharajapuram Santhanam	19	0	44	39	84	63	113	48280
109	Jayateerth Mevundi	19	0	29	60	55	36	123	1532
110	Swapan Chaudhuri	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	2787
111	Apoorva Krishna	19	1	84	76	63	52	102	1768
112	Shruti Sadolikar	19	1	32	37	55	42	140	39250
113	Malladi Brothers	19	0	48	65	82	81	125	21284
114	M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar	18	22	54	35	95	85	103	10541
115	Anuradha Pal	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	1243
116	Shobha Gurtu	18	0	36	53	73	48	147	76195
117	Ajay Pohankar	18	7	14	13	87	4	169	10234
118	Tyagaraja	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	1830
119	Madurai Somasundaram	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	986
120	Brij Bhushan Kabra	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	5756
121	Lalgudi G. Jayaraman	18	64	41	40	96	60	137	32507
122	Ramakant Gundecha	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	219
123	Abhijit Banerjee	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	222
124	Umakant Gundecha	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	74
125	Amir Khan	16	41	24	35	92	23	155	89556
126	Gundecha Brothers	16	0	45	27	67	19	126	23705
127	Jayanthi Kumaresh	16	65	56	44	81	25	111	10107
128	Aashish Khan	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	633
129	N. Ramani	16	63	48	34	95	70	114	28602
130	Anindo Chatterjee	16	92	42	65	56	57	124	8444
131	Ken Zuckerman	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	15898
132	Tushar Dutta	16	0	52	34	71	24	112	1260
133	Shivkumar Sharma & Zakir Hussain	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	47029
134	Venkatesh Kumar	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	4634
135	Yogesh Samsi	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	2611
136	Satish Vyas	15	84	33	10	82	7	109	19469
137	Tarun Bhattacharya	15	86	44	42	84	71	116	4491
138	Prasad Sawkar	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	11947
139	E. Gayathri	15	74	40	76	56	60	165	29214
140	Shounak Abhisheki	15	0	37	27	88	10	142	1691
141	Kudamaloor Janardanan	14	84	52	45	85	58	180	2204
142	Jayshri Prakash	14	0	73	71	18	50	125	3681
143	M. S. Sheela	14	0	58	50	75	73	132	4122
144	Taufiq Qureshi	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	911
145	M. K. Sankaran Namboothiri	14	0	51	58	60	55	154	2670
146	Ranjani	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	7154
147	Abhishek Raghuram	14	0	64	40	87	64	132	16095
148	Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	3938
149	Ashwini Bhide-Deshpande	13	0	43	44	73	42	131	36022
150	T. N. Seshagopalan	13	9	44	49	80	58	132	16367
151	Lalgudi G.J.R. Krishnan	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	1754
152	Milind Date	13	63	19	32	90	15	74	167
153	Raghunandan Panshikar	13	0	78	52	64	43	120	559
154	Nayan Ghosh	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	16653
155	T. N. Krishnan	13	6	45	29	71	28	134	30312
156	Akkarai Subhalakshmi	13	85	50	74	92	73	110	4774
157	Bundu Khan	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	121
158	Trichy Sankaran	12	86	55	43	52	66	115	718
159	Sabri Khan	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	2628
160	Neyveli Santhanagopalan	12	0	51	70	88	84	141	21636
161	Chhannulal Mishra	12	0	50	33	57	73	92	6074
162	R. Vedavalli	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	8648
163	Mambalam M.K.S. Siva	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	1543
164	Namagiripettai Krishnan	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	9927
165	Revathy Krishna	12	72	68	28	80	70	131	23384
166	Sandeep Narayan	12	10	63	49	76	40	122	4771
167	Fateh Ali Khan	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	8934
168	Jugalbandi	11	5	57	71	83	63	130	1938
169	Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	17665
170	Madhav Gudi	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	44
171	Girija Devi	11	11	32	51	64	46	85	60628
172	T.H. Vinayakram	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	653
173	Gayathri Girish	11	0	52	40	38	96	198	17652
174	Vidyadhar Vyas	10	2	35	21	84	31	105	9898
175	Kushal Das	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	20383
176	Ganesh & Kumaresh	10	93	49	59	95	69	175	8678
177	Shobha Raju	10	0	61	37	58	39	84	672
178	N. J. Nandini	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	371
179	Prabha Atre	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	50899
180	M.S. Gopalakrishnan	9	63	58	58	96	69	110	15279
181	Tejendra Majumdar	9	6	52	35	90	18	119	21729
182	Embar Kannan	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	531
183	Kalaimamani Prabhavathi Ganesan	9	0	73	59	20	79	91	896
184	G. N. Balasubramaniam	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	14477
185	Zia Mohiuddin Dagar	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	13980
186	N. Ravikiran	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	5876
187	Imrat Khan	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	31164
188	Shakir Khan	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	1613
189	Arnab Chakrabarty	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	500
190	Karaikudi Mani	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	270
191	Sangeetha Sivakumar	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	9527
192	U. Rajesh	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	219
193	Dilshad Khan	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	446
194	Sheik Chinna Moulana	8	94	45	42	99	61	142	1641
195	Chitti Babu	8	50	53	29	99	54	102	14093
196	Sikkil Mala Chandrasekhar	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	1131
197	Tanmoy Bose	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	169
198	Visalakshi Nityanand	7	0	37	59	63	61	169	229
199	MadRasana	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	2125
200	Rajan & Sajan Mishra & Shruti Sadolikar	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	33392

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