Music has become an integral part of the life of Indian people and many singers of our India have contributed significantly in the field of music. Today we take a look at the top 10 most popular singers in India (male or female) who ranked highest in Pantheon’s 2022 Historical Popularity Index (HPI).
The 10 Greatest Indian Singers of All Time
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Indian Singers of all time. This list of famous Indian Singers is sorted by Pantheon’s Historical Popularity Index (HPI) of 2020, which is a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
The 10 Most Popular Singers in India
10. Manna Dey (HPI : 45.15)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI) 2022, Manna Dey is ranked 10th among the most famous Indian singers of all time. His Historical Popularity Index is 45.15, and His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia.
Manna Dey (1 May 1919 − 24 October 2013) was an internationally acclaimed Indian playback singer, music director, musician and Indian classical vocalist. As a classical vocalist, he belonged to the Bhendibazaar gharana. Singers of India
He was trained under Ustad Aman Ali Khan. He is considered one of the most versatile and celebrated vocalists of the Hindi film industry. He is one of the most Famous playback singers in India.
9. SP Balasubramanyam (HPI : 49.16)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI) 2022, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam is ranked 9th among the Most Popular Singers from India of all time. His Historical Popularity Index is 49.16, and His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia.
S. P. Balasubrahmanyam (4 June 1946 – 25 September 2020) was an Indian playback singer, television presenter, actor, music composer, dubbing artist, and film producer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Indian singers of all time. He predominently worked in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Hindi films and sang in a total of 16 languages.
8. SD Burman (HPI : 49.32)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI) 2022, SD Burman is ranked 8th among the Top 10 Best Indian Singers. His Historical Popularity Index is 49.32, and His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia.
Sachin Dev Burman (1 October 1906 – 31 October 1975) was an Indian music director and singer. A member of the Tripura royal family, he started his career with Bengali films in 1937. He later began composing for Hindi movies and became one of the most successful and influential Indian film music composers.
Burman composed the soundtracks for over 100 movies, including Bengali films and Hindi. Apart from being a versatile composer, he also sang songs in the light semi-classical and folk style of Bengal. His son, R. D. Burman, was also a celebrated music composer for Bollywood films.
7. Kumar Sanu (HPI : 49.77)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI) 2022, Kumar Sanu is the 7th most famous singer in India. His Historical Popularity Index is 49.77, and His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia.
Kumar Sanu (born 20 October 1957) is an Indian playback singer. He is known as the King of Melody in Bollywood. He is famous for singing thousands of Bollywood Hindi songs. Apart from Hindi, he has also sung in other languages. He is one of the most Famous playback singers in India.
He holds the record for winning five consecutive Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer from 1990 to 1994. For his contribution to Indian cinema and music, he was awarded the Padma Shri in 2009 by the Government of India. Many of his tracks feature in BBC’s “Top 40 Bollywood Soundtracks of all time”.
6. MS Subbulakshmi (HPI : 51.28)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI) 2022, MS Subbulakshmi is ranked 6th among the most famous Indian singers of all time. Her Historical Popularity Index is 51.28, and Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. She is the 3rd most famous female Indian singer of all time.
Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (16 September 1916 – 11 December 2004) was an Indian Carnatic singer from Madurai, Tamil Nadu. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honour.
She is the first Indian musician to receive the Ramon Magsaysay award in 1974 with the citation reading “Exacting purists acknowledge Srimati M. S. Subbulakshmi as the leading exponent of classical and semi-classical songs in the carnatic tradition of South India. She is one of the Top 10 Best Indian Singers.
5. Kishore Kumar (HPI : 51.76)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI) 2022, Kishore Kumar is ranked 5th among the most popular Singers from India. His Historical Popularity Index is 51.76, and His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia.
Kishore Kumar (4 August 1929 – 13 October 1987) was an Indian playback singer and actor. He was one of the most popular singers in the Indian film industry and from soft numbers to peppy tracks to romantic moods, Kumar sang in different genres but some of his rare compositions which were considered classics were lost in time. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of Indian music. He is one of the most Famous singers in India.
4. Mohammed Rafi (HPI : 53.62)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI) 2022, Mohammed Rafi is ranked 4th among the most Famous singers in India of all time. His Historical Popularity Index is 53.62, and His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia.
Mohammed Rafi (24 December 1924 – 31 July 1980) was an Indian film playback singer. He is considered one of the greatest and most influential singers of the Indian subcontinent.
Rafi was notable for his versatility and range of voice; his songs varied from fast peppy numbers to patriotic songs, sad numbers to highly romantic songs, qawwalis to ghazals and bhajans to classical songs. He is one of the Most popular singers in India.
3. Asha Bhosle (HPI : 53.69)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI) 2022, Asha Bhosle is ranked 3rd among the most famous Indian singers of all time. Her Historical Popularity Index is 53.69, and Her biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia. She is the second most famous female Indian singer of all time.
Asha Bhosle (born 8 September 1933) is an Indian playback singer and entrepreneur. She is best known for her playback singing in Hindi cinema, although she has a wider repertoire. Bhosle’s career started in 1943 and has spanned over seven decades.
She has done playback singing for over a thousand movies. In 2006, Asha Bhosle stated that she had sung over 12,000 songs, a figure repeated by several other sources. She is one of the Best Singers in India.
2. Lata Mangeshkar (HPI : 64.47)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI) 2022, Lata Mangeshkar is ranked second among the Most popular singers in India. Her Historical Popularity Index is 64.85, and Her biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia. She is the most famous female Indian singer of all time.
Lata Mangeshkar (28 September 1929 – 6 February 2022) was an Indian playback singer, music composer and philanthropist. She is widely considered to have been the greatest and most influential singer in India.
Her contribution to the Indian music industry in a career spanning seven decades gained her honorific titles such as the “Queen of Melody”, “Nightingale of India”, and “Voice of the Millennium”. Lata recorded songs in over thirty-six Indian languages and a few foreign languages, though primarily in Marathi, Hindi, and Bengali.
1. Amir Khusrow (HPI : 67.67)
According to the Historical Popularity Index (HPI) 2022, Amir Khusrau is ranked first among the most famous singers in India. His Historical Popularity Index is 67.67, and His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia.
Abu’l Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrau (1253 – 1325), better known as Amīr Khusrau, was an Indo-Persian Sufi singer, musician, poet and scholar who lived under the Delhi Sultanate. He is an iconic figure in the cultural history of the Indian subcontinent.
He was a mystic and a spiritual disciple of Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi, India. He wrote poetry primarily in Persian, but also in Hindavi. A vocabulary in verse, the Ḳhāliq Bārī, containing Arabic, Persian and Hindavi terms is often attributed to him.
Khusrau is sometimes referred to as the “voice of India” or “Parrot of India” (Tuti-e-Hind), and has been called the “father of Urdu literature.” Khusrau is regarded as the “father of qawwali”, and introduced the ghazal style of song into India. Amir Khusrau is the Greatest Indian musician of all time.
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