Top Modern Classical Songs
Rank
All Time
Artist
Song
Subgenre(s)
Other Genre(s)
Year
1
436
Laurie Anderson
O Superman
Post-Minimalism
Art Pop
,
Experimental
,
Progressive Electronic
1981
2
1086
Paul Whiteman & His Concert Orchestra with George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
Big Band
1924
3
1875
Gavin Bryars
Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Minimalism
1975
4
2163
Terry Riley
In C
Indeterminacy
,
Minimalism
1968
5
2569
John Cage
4'33''
Indeterminacy
1952
6
3642
Steve Reich
It's Gonna Rain
Minimalism
Tape Music
1965
7
8315
Steve Reich/Kronos Quartet
Different Trains: America - Before the War
Minimalism
1989
8
8603
Terry Riley
A Rainbow in Curved Air
Minimalism
Progressive Electronic
1969
9
9859
Sigur Rós
Untitled 3
Minimalism
Ambient
2002
Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10000:
Aphex Twin
Avril 14th
Impressionism
2001
Ennio Morricone
The Mission
Cinematic Classical
,
Film Score
1986
Bernard Herrmann
Prelude [Psycho]
Cinematic Classical
,
Film Score
1960
Glenn Branca
Lesson No. 1 for Electric Guitar
Totalism
No Wave
1980
Craig Armstrong/Evan Dando
Wake Up in New York
Electronic
2002