List of favorite composers
This is a list of my top 50 favorite composers as of 2023-08-15, according to my Music Metrics program. There is some wiggle room based on the fact that not all of the songs I like have accurate composer credits and many bands don't accurately accredit their composers.
- Brian May
- Jenny Lewis
- Freddie Mercury
- Blake Sennett
- Max Collins
- Tony Fagenson
- John Deacon
- Jon Siebels
- Jesper Anderberg
- Alanis Morissette
- Rivers Cuomo
- Roger Taylor
- Annika Norlin
- Billy Joel
- Félix Rodríguez
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Tuomas Holopainen
- Steven Page
- Tim Minchin
- Frank Turner
- Billie Joe Armstrong
- Mike Dirnt
- Tré Cool
- Fredrik Nilsson
- Johnny Rzeznik
- Glen Ballard
- Ed Robertson
- Tom Petty
- David Bowie
- Jonathan Larson
- Roy Zimmerman
- Jon Fratelli
- Liz Phair
- Johan Bengtsson
- Tegan Quin
- Barry Fratelli
- Mince Fratelli
- Trey Parker
- James Hetfield
- Lars Ulrich
- Nobuo Uematsu
- Félix Rodríguez
- Maria Taylor
- Orenda Fink
- Andrew Volpe
- Dan Hawkins
- Justin Hawkins
- Axl Rose
- Frankie Poullain
- Elton John
- Alice Cooper
- Maja Ivarsson
- Bob Seger
- Roger Waters
- Robert Lopez
- Bret McKenzie
- Jemaine Clement
- Alan Menken
- Toby Martin
- Takashi Tateishi
- Kirk Hammett
- Cameron Emerson-Elliott
- Danny Lee Allen
- Patrick Matthews
- Howard Ashman
- Stephen Trask
- Billy Corgan
- Fredrik Blond
- Jewel Kilcher
- Ed Graham
- Robby Takac
- Jeff Lynne
- Steven Tyler
- Koji Kondo
- Voltaire