Indian pop
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Indian pop music, also known as Indi-pop,
History
Pop music began gaining popularity across the Indian subcontinent in the early 1980s, with Pakistani singers Nazia and Zoheb Hassan forming a sibling duo whose records, produced by Biddu, sold as many as 60 million copies.[6] Biddu himself previously had success in the Western world, where he was one of the first successful disco producers in the early 1970s, with hits such as the hugely popular "Kung Fu Fighting" (1974).[7][8][9]
The term Indipop was first used by the
In the late 2000s, Indi-pop music faced increasing competition from filmi music. Major pop singers stopped releasing albums and started singing for movies. Recently, Indian pop has taken an interesting turn with the "remixing" of songs from past Indian movie songs, new beats being added to them.
Lists
Best-selling albums
Music video streams
Year | Song | Artist(s) | Language | YouTube streams (millions) | Ref |
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2020 | "Butta Bomma" | Thaman S, Armaan Malik | Telugu | 820 | [32] |
"Brown Munde" | AP Dhillon, Gurinder Gill, Shinda Kahlon | Punjabi | 605 | [33] | |
2019 | "Rowdy Baby" | Yuvan Shankar Raja, Dhanush | Tamil | 1400 | [34] |
2017 | "Jai Deva Ganesha" | Abhay Jain | Hindi
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29 | [35] |
"Lahore" | Guru Randhawa | Punjabi | 750 | [36] | |
"Bom Diggy" | Zack Knight and Jasmin Walia | Punjabi | 720 | [37][38][39] | |
"High Rated Gabru" | Guru Randhawa | Punjabi | 1168 | [40] | |
2014 | "Zaroori Tha" | Rahat Fateh Ali Khan | Hindi | 1427 | [41] |
2015 | "Dheere Dheere" | Yo Yo Honey Singh | Hindi | 450 | [36] |
2011 | "Why This Kolaveri Di" | Dhanush and Anirudh Ravichander | Tamil | 227 | [42][43] |
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With her brother Zoheb Hassan, Nazia sold a staggering 60 million records and became an international name at the tender age of 13.
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Tony Palmer knocked off a film account of someone called Biddu (LWT), who appears to have been mad enough to invent disco music.
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Daler Mehndi eventually switched from classical music to pop, and in 1995 his first album Bolo Ta Ra Ra, with tunes based on those given to him by his mother, sold half a million copies in four months and 20 million copies total, making him the best selling non-soundtrack album in Indian music history.
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The album sold 6 million units worldwide and broke his sound into World music stations across the US.
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All of Chinai's previous success was eclipsed with the 1995 release of Made in India. A series of uptempo songs indebted to traditional Indian music but revealing a definite Western influence, the album reached #1 in the Indian charts and stayed there for over a year as it sold over 5 million copies.
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