Indian pop

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Indian pop music, also known as Indi-pop,

Kollywood and the Asian Underground scene of the United Kingdom
. The variety of South Asian music from different countries are generally known as Desi music.

History

South Asian region with the playback singer Ahmed Rushdi's song "Ko Ko Korina" in 1966[2][3][4] and has since then been adopted in India, Bangladesh, and lately Sri Lanka, and Nepal as a pioneering influence in their respective pop cultures. Following Rushdi's success, Christian bands specialising in jazz started performing at various night clubs and hotel lobbies in various Southeast Asian cities. They would usually sing either famous American jazz hits or cover Rushdi's songs.[5]

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

Jupiter-8 synthesizer.[12][13]

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

Rank Year Album Artist(s) Sales (millions) Ref
1 1984 Young Tarang Nazia and Zoheb Hassan 40 [14][15][self-published source]
2 1995 Bolo Ta Ra Ra.. Daler Mehndi 20 [16][17]
3 1995 Billo De Ghar Abrar-ul-Haq 16 [18][19]
4 1981 Disco Deewane Nazia and Zoheb Hassan 14 [20]
5 1998 "Mundian To Bach Ke" Panjabi MC 10 [21]
2002 Assan Jana Mall-o Mall Abrar-ul-Haq 10 [18]
7 1999 Bay Ja Cycle Tay Abrar-ul-Haq 6.5 [18]
8 1997 Majajani Abrar-ul-Haq 6 [18]
Only One Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Mahmood Khan 6 [22]
10 1992 Thanda Thanda Pani Baba Sehgal 5 [23]
1995 Made in India Alisha Chinai 5 [24]
12 1997 Tum To Thehre Pardesi Altaf Raja 4 [25]
13 1993 Tootak Tootak Toothian Malkit Singh 2.5 [26]
14 1996 Sunoh Lucky Ali 2 [27]
1997 Vande Mataram A. R. Rahman (featuring Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) 2 [28]
1998
Sifar
Lucky Ali 2 [27]
2004 Me Against Myself Jay Sean 2 [29]
18 2004 Nachan Main Audhay Naal Abrar-ul-Haq 1.8 [18]
19 1999
Deewana
Sonu Nigam 1.2 [30]
Oye Hoye Harbhajan Mann 1.2 [31]
20 1996
Naujawan
Shaan 1

Music video streams

Year Song Artist(s) Language YouTube streams (millions) Ref
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
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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