Andrew Stuckey | Posted on Mon 16 March 2020 at 10.00AM

TicketSource have scoured the globe to reveal the "Top Musical" in EVERY country of the world.





Top Musical by Continent





Top Musical by US State





The Top 100+ Musicals in the World

Using unique data gathered from Google Trends and Adwords* over the past 15 years, we have found the top three most searched musical productions in every country.Hover over the countries in the Worldbelow to reveal the "Using an index scoring system** for the top three most searched for musicals in each country, we split the top musicals by continent, and here we can see a clear worldwide divide between High School Musical, which is most popular in Asia, Africa and Europe, and The Lion King in the Americas, with Australia/Oceania bringing School of Rock into the top three.In the USA, international hit Wicked dominates the accolade of "", with Shrek: The Musical and Chicago coming at number one in a few states each. Award-winning and longest-running Las Vegas Musical "Menopause the Musical" pops up as the top musical in Nevada.Browse the map the find the top searched for musical in your state, or you can find a full breakdown of the top ten in each state here Using a unique index scoring system** , TicketSource has also predicted the 106 most searched for musical productions in the world, over the past 15 years.





Disney dominates the very top echelons, with first-place took up by Elton John's blockbuster The Lion King, with High School Musical coming in a close second, even though it's limited to junior performances. The legendary musical composer, Andrew Lloyd Webber, sees his School of Rock production making up the top three.









Full List

Position Musical Production Index Score #1 The Lion King 355 #2 High School Musical 337.5 #3 School of Rock 280 #4 Notre-Dame de Paris 247.5 #5 Cats 177.5 #6 Wicked 177.5 #7 Chicago 135 #8 Rock of Ages 122.5 #9 Les Misérables 92.5 #10 Mamma Mia! 92.5 #11 Shrek: The Musical 85 #12 Hamilton 72.5 #13 Matilda: The Musical 72.5 #14 Hair 47.5 #15 Jesus Christ Superstar 42.5 #16 My Fair Lady 42.5 #17 Aladdin 37.5 #18 Evita 37.5 #19 Romeo and Juliet 37.5 #20 A Bronx Tale 35 #21 Grease 32.5 #22 Dracula el Musical 30 #23 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 25 #24 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat 25 #25 The Phantom of the Opera 22.5 #26 Annie 20 #27 The Fantasticks 20 #28 The Sound of Music 20 #29 We Will Rock You: The Musical 20 #30 A Chorus Line 15 #31 Dirty Dancing 15 #32 Gypsy: The Musical 15 #33 Hairspray 15 #34 Legally Blonde 15 #35 Oklahoma! 15 #36 Oliver! 15 #37 Spring Awakening 15 #38 The Percy Jackson Musical 15 #39 Cabaret 12.5 #40 South Pacific 12.5 #41 Tarzan 12.5 #42 14-18 musical 10 #43 Be More Chill 10 #44 Bella: An American Tale 10 #45 Boys in the Band 10 #46 Cinderella 10 #47 Crazy for You: The Musical 10 #48 Four Reigns the Musical 10 #49 Frozen 10 #50 Madiba: The Musical 10 #51 Mentiras, el musical 10 #52 Miss Saigon 10 #53 Newsies 10 #54 Once: The Musical 10 #55 Panama: The Musical 10 #56 Pirates of the Carribean 10 #57 Rent 10 #58 Shu-bi-dua - The Musical 10 #59 Spongebob: The Musical 10 #60 The Prince of Tennis 10 #61 Tuck Everlasting 10 #62 Green Day: The Musical 7.5 #63 Kinki Boots 7.5 #64 Mary Poppins 7.5 #65 The Book of Mormon 7.5 #66 The Producers 7.5 #67 Tina Turner: The Musical 7.5 #68 1776: The Musical 5 #69 Anastasia 5 #70 Ang Huling El Bimbo 5 #71 Avenue Q 5 #72 Carrie: The Musical 5 #73 Dreamgirls 5 #74 Elisabeth 5 #75 Fiddler on the Roof 5 #76 Hello, Dolly! 5 #77 Mean Girls 5 #78 Motown: The Musical 5 #79 Once on This Island 5 #80 Peter Pan: The Musical 5 #81 Robin des Bois 5 #82 Saro: The Musical 5 #83 Soldier of Orange 5 #84 Stomp 5 #85 The King and I 5 #86 The Musical 5 #87 Waitress 5 #88 A padlás 2.5 #89 Aida 2.5 #90 An American in Paris 2.5 #91 Beauty and the Beast 2.5 #92 Footloose 2.5 #93 Forbidden Broadway 2.5 #94 Heathers: The Musical 2.5 #95 Hoy no me puedo levantar 2.5 #96 Jekyll and Hyde 2.5 #97 King Kong 2.5 #98 King Lear 2.5 #99 Kiss Me Kate 2.5 #100 Pippin: The Musical 2.5 #101 Sister Act: The Musical 2.5 #102 Sunset Boulevard 2.5 #103 The Colour Purple 2.5 #104 The Drowsy Chaperone 2.5 #105 Wakaa: The Musical 2.5 #106 Wizard of Oz 2.5





Methodology

Step 1 - Google Trends - the top three ranked musicals were picked from each country and US state using the topic of "Musical Theatre - Opera Genre"

Google Trends - the top three ranked musicals were picked from each country and US state using the topic of "Musical Theatre - Opera Genre" Step 2 - Google Trends - if no top three musicals were recorded, the topic was changed to "Broadway Theatre" to make up the top three musicals in each country and US state

Google Trends - if no top three musicals were recorded, the topic was changed to "Broadway Theatre" to make up the top three musicals in each country and US state Step 3 - Google Adwords - if still no top three musicals were recorded, Google Adwords was used to make up the top three musicals in each country or US state, using search terms "musical, theatre, musical theatre, west end and broadway"

10 points were awarded to the topmost searched for musical in each country

5 points were awarded to the second most searched for musical in each country

2.5 points were awarded to the third most searched for musical in each country

Having been recorded in a whopping eight different languages, Notre-Dame de Paris is fourth on the list. Even though it failed to live up to the hype, particularly on the West End, it's clearly still popular amongst French speaking countries and Asia. The much-loved and well-travelled Cats completes the top five.Despite its recent rise to world-wide popularity, Lin-Manual Miranda's phenomenon Hamilton doesn't have quite enough punch (at least yet) to break the top ten, coming in twelfth position behind musical stalwarts such as Wicked, Chicago, Les Misérables and Abba-inspired Mamma Mia!You can find the "" over the past 15 years in the league table graphic below, with the full list of 106 underneath. * All data was obtained on w.c 14th October 2019 and was correct at the time of publishing. Data was obtained using Google Trends between 2004-present and Google Adwords keyword volume between 2015-present.Unfortunately, data was not available for every country, e.g Cuba, N.Korea, etc.All data gathered can be found by accessing this Google sheets doc Feel free to use this data and research with proper attribution linking to this study. When you do, please give credit and link to ticketsource.us.