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The 50 most-read indian classical artists worldwide, by Wikipedia readership in October 2026. Movement compares against September 2026.
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75 artists are ranked in indian classical. The biggest move was Niladri Kumar, up 9 places.
| # | Artist | Readers | 30d |
|---|---|---|---|
01 | Ravi ShankarUttar Pradesh · India | 51,728 | 0 |
02 | Anoushka ShankarLondon · United Kingdom | 28,901 | 0 |
03 | K. J. YesudasKochi · India | 18,740 | 0 |
04 | Usha UthupMumbai · India | 9,826 | 0 |
05 | Ravindra JainIndia | 6,423 | 0 |
06 | Usha MangeshkarIndia | 6,378 | 0 |
07 | HemlataHyderabad · India | 5,065 | 0 |
08 | Ali Akbar KhanComilla · Bangladesh | 4,628 | +3 |
09 | Hariprasad ChaurasiaAllahabad · India | 4,267 | -1 |
10 | Alla RakhaJammu and Kashmir · India | 3,356 | 0 |
11 | Surinder KaurLahore · Pakistan | 2,988 | +2 |
12 | Mahesh KalePune · India | 2,765 | 0 |
13 | T. M. KrishnaChennai · India | 2,692 | -4 |
14 | Manas MukherjeeIndia | 2,583 | +2 |
15 | Niladri KumarIndia | 2,154 | +9 |
16 | Sudha RagunathanIndia | 1,991 | -2 |
17 | Parween SultanaIndia | 1,979 | +1 |
18 | Shubha MudgalAllahabad · India | 1,950 | -1 |
19 | Aarya AmbekarNagpur · India | 1,889 | -4 |
20 | Aruna SairamMumbai · India | 1,597 | 0 |
21 | Taufiq QureshiMumbai · India | 1,343 | +5 |
22 | Shraddha PanditMumbai · India | 1,313 | +5 |
23 | Shujaat Husain KhanKolkata · India | 1,311 | +2 |
24 | Lalgudi JayaramanIndia | 1,273 | -1 |
25 | Girija DeviIndia | 1,234 | -6 |
26 | Vishwa Mohan BhattJaipur · India | 1,185 | -4 |
27 | Mugdha VaishampayanIndia | 989 | -6 |
28 | Aashish KhanMadhya Pradesh · India | 898 | +3 |
29 | Rahul SharmaIndia | 787 | +1 |
30 | Reghu KumarIndia | 690 | +4 |
31 | Faiyaz KhanSikandara · India | 634 | -2 |
32 | Prabha AtrePune · India | 608 | 0 |
33 | Pandit Swapan ChaudhuriIndia | 554 | +7 |
34 | K. RaghavanKerala · India | 545 | +5 |
35 | Shridhar PhadkeIndia | 519 | -2 |
36 | Khwaja Khurshid AnwarPunjab · Pakistan | 507 | +5 |
37 | Sudeep KumarKerala · India | 492 | 0 |
38 | Sandeep DasPatna · India | 487 | +4 |
39 | Ram NarayanRajasthan · India | 484 | -4 |
40 | Shrinivas KhaleMaharashtra · India | 451 | -5 |
41 | Shanta PrasadUttar Pradesh · India | 450 | -3 |
42 | Suchitra MitraBihar · India | 437 | -14 |
43 | Palani Subramaniam PillaiIndia | 408 | +6 |
44 | Debashish BhattacharyaKolkata · India | 314 | +1 |
44 | DJ Cheb i SabbahConstantine · Algeria | 314 | 0 |
46 | Viram Jasani— | 311 | 0 |
47 | Pandit Shankar GhoshIndia | 276 | +6 |
48 | Tarun BhattacharyaWest Bengal · India | 269 | -5 |
49 | O. S. ThyagarajanIndia | 265 | -2 |
50 | Krishna BhattIndia | 239 | +4 |
55 | Shubhendra Rao— | 190 | +8 |
51 | C.S. MurugabhoopathyIndia | 221 | +8 |
58 | Deepak RamSouth Africa | 169 | +7 |
53 | Lalith J. RaoIndia | 200 | +7 |
56 | Rajeev TaranathBangalore · India | 189 | +6 |
How this is ranked. Artists are matched from the MusicBrainz database by genre and by the area they are based in. An artist appears in a genre when at least 15% of their genre votes are for it. Position is set by readership of their English Wikipedia article in October 2026; movement compares that against September 2026. Readership measures public attention, not streams or sales.