World Map Shows the Top Musical Production in Every Country (Your News)

by Paul Johnson | Jul 6, 2020

By Andrew Stuckey

Plus… The 100 most searched for musicals in the world over the past fifteen years

TicketSource has scoured the globe to reveal the Top Musical in every country of the world.

Using unique data gathered from Google Trends and Adwords, the ticketing tech company has found the top three most searched musical productions in every country.

The interactive online maps allow visitors to simply hover over a country to reveal the top musical.

The Top 100+ Musicals in the World

Using a unique index scoring system** TicketSource has also predicted the 106 most searched for musical productions in the world over the past fifteen 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 making up the top three.

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 in 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 worldwide 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 ‘Top 20 Most Searched for Musicals’ over the past fifteen years by visiting the online league table, with the full list of 106 musicals… plus all of the other interactive maps – and lots more – at: www.ticketsource.us/blog/top-musicals-around-the-world

Snapshot: The top-50 most-searched for musical productions in the world over the last fifteen years are…

1. The Lion King
2. High School Musical
3. School of Rock
4. Notre-Dame de Paris
5. Cats
6. Wicked
7. Chicago
8. Rock of Ages
9. Les Misérables
10. Mamma Mia!
11. Shrek: The Musical
12. Hamilton
13. Matilda: The Musical
14. Hair
15. Jesus Christ Superstar
16. My Fair Lady
17. Aladdin
18. Evita
19. Romeo and Juliet
20. A Bronx Tale
21. Grease
22. Dracula el Musical
23. Charlie and the Choc’ Factory
24. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
25. The Phantom of the Opera
26. Annie
27. The Fantasticks
28. The Sound of Music
29. We Will Rock You: The Musical
30. A Chorus Line
31. Dirty Dancing
32. Gypsy: The Musical
33. Hairspray
34. Legally Blonde
35. Oklahoma!
36. Oliver!
37. Spring Awakening
38. The Percy Jackson Musical
39. Cabaret
40. South Pacific
41. Tarzan
42. 14-18 musical
43. Be More Chill
44. Bella: An American Tale
45. Boys in the Band
46. Cinderella
47. Crazy for You: The Musical
48. Four Reigns the Musical
49. Frozen
50. Madiba: The Musical