List of prolific songwriters

The following is a list of songwriters worldwide who has written at least 100 songs:

Alphabetical list

Sameer currently holds Guinness Book of world record for writing most songs, an outstanding 3,524 songs.

Rabindranath Tagore won Nobel Prize in literature in 1913. He wrote 2,232 songs, making him the 3rd most prolific songwriter of all time, just behind Sameer and Anand Bakshi. He composed all of these songs, thus he is also one of the top 10 most prolific music directors of all time as well. .

A-E

Songwriter	Country	Number of songs written
Mulugeta Abate	Ethiopia	4,000
K. Abeysekera	Sri Lanka	2,000
Vishwamitra Adil	India	104
Walter Afnasieff	Russia/United States	168
Shabbir Ahmed	India	273
Javed Akhtar	India	856
Jan Nisar Akhtar	India	314
Santosh Anand	India	109
Anjaan	India	1,311
Pandit Anuj	India	337
Masroor Anwar	Pakistan	304
Nawab Arzoo	India	326
Kaifi Azmi	India	411
Babyface	United States	392
Johann Sebastian Bach	Germany	954
Burt Bacharach	United States	100
Shakeel Badayuni	India	753
Anand Bakshi	India	3,492
Khumar Barabankvi	India	115
Gary Barlow	United Kingdom	212
Sambhujit Baskota	Nepal	300+
Felix Baumaine	France	1,300
Gulshan Bawra	India	380
Beethoven	Germany	200+
Irving Berlin	Russia/United States	1250
John Bettis	United States	273
Praveen Bhardwaj	India	155
P. Bhaskaran	India	1,486
Amitabh Bhattacharya	India	253
N. Bhattarai	Nepal	300
Asad Bhopali	India	531
Pandit Bhushan	India	116
S H Bihari	India	422
Pandit Indra Chandra	India	986
Ram Murty Chaturvedi	India	169
Desmond Child	United States	296
Vishal Dadlani	India	114
Walter Dana (veteran Polka singer amd lyricist)	Poland	140+
Joseph David	India	135
S. K. Deepak	India	399
Cathy Dennis	United Kingdom	100+
Willie Dixon	United States	500+
Prem Dhawan	India	927
Bob Dylan	United States	535
Yasushi Akimoto	Japan	200+ (Best Selling Lyricist of Japan)

F-J

Songwriter	Country	Number of songs written
Nida Fazli	India	331
Taslim Fazli	Pakistan	278
David Foster	Canada	118
Stephen Foster	United States	209
G-Dragon	South Korea	159
Dharmasiri Gamage	Sri Lanka	200
Gerry Goffin	United States	107
M. Gopalakrishnan	India	718
Maya Govind	India	320
Gulzar	India	657
Ramesh Gupta	India	225
M. G. Hashmat	India	202
Jung Il-hoon	South Korea	101
M. G. Hashmat	India	202
Fyaz Hashmi	Pakistan	193
Gamble and Huff	United States	143
Julio Iglesias	Spain	250+
Enrique Iglesias	Spain	150+
Indeevar	India	1,875
Kaif Irfani	India	121
Ravindra Jain	India	632
Qamar Jalalabadi	India	708
Nakhshav Jarachavi	India	127
Anjum Jaipuri	India	151
Prasoon Joshi	India	132
Janet Jackson	United States	348
Michael Jackson	United States	227

K-O

Songwriter	Country	Number of songs written
Farooq Kaiser	India	390
Kaithapram	India	1,459
Hasan Kamal	India	186
Irshad Kamil	India	310
Gauhar Kanpuri	India	211
Ishwar Chand Kapoor	India	237
Abdul Karim	India	160
Shah Abdul Karim	Bangladesh	500+
Aziz Kashmiri	India	279
J. S. Kashyap	India	175
Yusufali Kechery	India	650
Jack Keller	United States	300+
Rahim Kermanshahi	Iran	500 (most prolific songwriter in Persi language)
Jerome Kern	United States	700
Alicia Keys	United States	212
Poovachal Khader	India	1,013
Raja Mehendi Ali Khan	India	481
Amit Khanna	India	180
Carole King	United States	220+
Dev Kohli	India	694
Kostas	United States	120
Mehboob Kotwal	India	208
Rajendra Krishan	India	1,675
Kumaar	India	420
ONV Kurup	India	938
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller	United States	100+
Dennis Linde	United States	100+
Tove Lo	Sweden	100+
Aarzu Lucknavi	India	246
Shams Lucknavi	India	104
Sahir Ludhianvi	India	772
Waris Ludhianvi	Pakistan	307
Naqsh Lyallpuri	India	563
Pandit Madhur	India	200
Rani Malik	India	274
Verma Malik	India	607
Bruno Mars	Philippines/United States	157
D. N. Madhok	India	874
Imran Mahmudul	Bangladesh	126
Takashi Matsumoto	Japan	2,100
Shane McAnally	United States	229
Meerabai	India	100+
Johnny Mercer	United States	155
B. D. Mishra	India	269
P K Mishra	India	316
Mozart	Germany	1000+
Tanvir Naqvi	Pakistan/India	527 (303 in Pakistan and 224 in India)
Neeraj	India	136
Gopal Singh Nepali	India	291
Willie Nelson	United States	337

P-T

Songwriter	Country	Number of songs written
Lefteris Papadopoulos	Greece	1,200
Khawaja Parvez	Pakistan	586
V. Perera	Sri Lanka	150+
Anjum Pillibhiti	India	100
Cole Porter	United States	160
Kavi Pradeep	India	561
Mayur Puri	India	108
Girish Puthenchery	India	1,595
Hazin Qadri	Pakistan	683
Ahmad Rahi	Pakistan	151
Dhani Ram	India	175
Swami Ramanand	India	100+
L.A.Reid	United States	103
Ehsan Rizvi	India	459
Shewan Rizvi	India/Pakistan	423
Wali Sahib	India	280
Sarshar Sailani	India	168
Sameer	India	3,595 (updated)
P. L. Santoshi	India	655
Zia Sarhadi	India	170
Sehrazat	Turkey	120
Qateel Shafai	Pakistan	427
Shailendra	India	816
Narendra Sharma	India	311
Kidar Nath Sharma	India	312
Ashford & Simpson	United States	105
Jimmy Sturr (veteran Polka artist, earned 18 Grammies)	United States	300+
Pandit Sudarshan	India	103
Majrooh Sultanpuri	India	2,053
Rabindranath Tagore	India	2,232
Sawan Kumar Tak	India	143
Bernie Taupin	United Kingdom	643 (most by an English lyricist)
Sreekumaran Thambi	India	1,264
Bichu Thirumala	India	966

U-Z

Songwriter	Country	Number of songs written
Kaleem Usmani	Pakistan	134
Valayar	India	1,294
Bharat Vyas	India	1,246
R. S. Wijesinghe	Sri Lanka	140
P G Wodehouse	United Kingdom	238
James Wong (lyricist)	Hong Kong	2,000+
Yogesh	India	568
Park Jin-young	South Korea	165
Miguel Zavaleta	Argentina	200+

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