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.

1. Brian May
2. Jenny Lewis
3. Freddie Mercury
4. Blake Sennett
5. Max Collins
6. Tony Fagenson
7. John Deacon
8. Jon Siebels
9. Jesper Anderberg
10. Alanis Morissette
11. Rivers Cuomo
12. Roger Taylor
13. Annika Norlin
14. Billy Joel
15. Félix Rodríguez
16. Lin-Manuel Miranda
17. Tuomas Holopainen
18. Steven Page
19. Tim Minchin
20. Frank Turner
21. Billie Joe Armstrong
22. Mike Dirnt
23. Tré Cool
24. Fredrik Nilsson
25. Johnny Rzeznik
26. Glen Ballard
27. Ed Robertson
28. Tom Petty
29. David Bowie
30. Jonathan Larson
31. Roy Zimmerman
32. Jon Fratelli
33. Liz Phair
34. Johan Bengtsson
35. Tegan Quin
36. Barry Fratelli
37. Mince Fratelli
38. Trey Parker
39. James Hetfield
40. Lars Ulrich
41. Nobuo Uematsu
42. Félix Rodríguez
43. Maria Taylor
44. Orenda Fink
45. Andrew Volpe
46. Dan Hawkins
47. Justin Hawkins
48. Axl Rose
49. Frankie Poullain
50. Elton John
51. Alice Cooper
52. Maja Ivarsson
53. Bob Seger
54. Roger Waters
55. Robert Lopez
56. Bret McKenzie
57. Jemaine Clement
58. Alan Menken
59. Toby Martin
60. Takashi Tateishi
61. Kirk Hammett
62. Cameron Emerson-Elliott
63. Danny Lee Allen
64. Patrick Matthews
65. Howard Ashman
66. Stephen Trask
67. Billy Corgan
68. Fredrik Blond
69. Jewel Kilcher
70. Ed Graham
71. Robby Takac
72. Jeff Lynne
73. Steven Tyler
74. Koji Kondo
75. Voltaire