Top-ranked artists from India

The top-ranked artists from India that appear most prominently in over 56,000 greatest album charts on BestEverAlbums.com are listed below:

N.B. Artist from before the mid-1960s may not be as well represented in this chart, because this chart only takes into account their albums. (Before that time, singles were far more prevalent than albums).

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Rank Artist Albums The number of albums by this artist featuring in the greatest album charts. Top Ranked Album The top ranked album by this artist and where it ranks in the overall chart. Score Total rank score for this artist (made up of the total rank score from all of their albums)
India1Ravi Shankar36Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas) (2,447th)1,063
India2Ali Akbar Khan16Morning And Evening Ragas (10,570th)185
India3Kishori Amonkar4Samarpan: The Joy Of Surrender (12,911th)130
India4Charanjit Singh1Synthesizing: Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat (9,877th)121
India5A. R. Rahman11Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India (15,183rd)109
India6Sundaram Balachander7Marvellous Melakarta Melodies Vol. 1 (18,362nd)98
India7Surashri Kesarbai Kerkar3Kesarbai Kerkar: 1944​-​1953 (12,696th)91
India8Sarathy Korwar4More Arriving (14,652nd)88
India9Zakir Hussain1Making Music (13,134th)87
India10Avial1Avial (14,955th)75
India11Shivkumar Sharma / Brijbushan Kabra / Hariprasad Chaurasia1Call Of The Valley (15,939th)70
India12Ananda Shankar3Ananda Shankar (16,892nd)65
India13Annapurna Devi1Debut Surbahar Recital (18,800th)56
India14M.S. Gopalakrishnan1Violin Melody (20,490th)50
India15Hariprasad Chaurasia5Raga Darbari Kanada - Dhun In Raga Mishra Pilu (20,543rd)50
India16Indus Creed2Indus Creed (29,861st)43
India17Advaita2Grounded In Space (34,079th)36
India18R.D. Burman / Bappi Lahiri1Shalimar / College Girl (25,541st)36
India19Debashish Bhattacharya And Friends1Beyond The Ragasphere (25,820th)35
India20Ravi Shankar & Ali Akbar Khan3The Master Musicians Of India (38,276th)31
Total artists: 112. Page 1 of 6
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