Top-ranked artists from India

The top-ranked artists from India that appear most prominently in over 36,000 greatest album charts on BestEverAlbums.com are listed below:

N.B. Artists 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)
	1	Ravi Shankar	27	Music Of India (Three Classical Ragas) (3,164th)	942
	2	Advaita	2	The Silent Sea (16,877th)	147
	3	Ananda Shankar	3	Ananda Shankar (10,202nd)	134
	4	A. R. Rahman	5	Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India (15,905th)	131
	5	Shivkumar Sharma / Brijbushan Kabra / Hariprasad Chaurasia	1	Call Of The Valley (12,126th)	108
	6	Avial	1	Avial (14,394th)	91
	7	M.S. Gopalakrishnan	1	Violin Melody (14,623rd)	89
	8	Anoushka Shankar	5	Rise (18,969th)	86
	9	Ilaiyaraaja	4	Solla Solla: Maestro Ilaiyaraaja And The Electronic Pop Sound Of Kollywood 1977-1983 (15,800th)	82
	10	Zakir Hussain & Shivkumar Sharma	1	Rag Madhuvanti And Rag Misra Tilang (17,630th)	71
	11	Hariprasad Chaurasia	2	Raga Darbari Kanada - Dhun In Raga Mishra Pilu (18,721st)	65
	12	Zakir Hussain	1	Making Music (19,454th)	61
	13	Annapurna Devi	1	Debut Surbahar Recital (21,317th)	52
	14	R.D. Burman / Bappi Lahiri	1	Shalimar / College Girl (21,842nd)	50
	15	Kishori Amonkar	2	Malhar Malika (22,604th)	49
	16	Charanjit Singh	1	Synthesizing: Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat (22,247th)	48
	17	Anu Malik	5	Josh (27,500th)	48
	18	Sachin Dev Burman	2	Guide (23,949th)	43
	19	Ali Akbar Khan	15	Morning And Evening Ragas (33,529th)	37
	20	Debashish Bhattacharya	11	Calcutta Chronicles: Indian Slide Guitar Odyssey (57,732nd)	30