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Hindi film music

Songs featuring in Hindi films

Hindi film music

Summary

Songs featuring in Hindi films

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Hindi film songs, more formally known as Hindi Geet or Filmi songs and informally known as Bollywood music, are songs featured in Hindi films. Derived from the song-and-dance routines common in Indian films, Bollywood songs, along with dance, are a characteristic motif of Hindi cinema which gives it enduring popular appeal, cultural value and context. Hindi film songs form a predominant component of Indian pop music, and derive their inspiration from both classical and modern sources. Hindi film songs are now firmly embedded in North India's popular culture and routinely encountered in North India in marketplaces, shops, during bus and train journeys and numerous other situations. Though Hindi films routinely contain many songs and some dance routines, they are not musicals in the Western theatrical sense; the music-song-dance aspect is an integral feature of the genre akin to plot, dialogue and other parameters.

The first song recorded in India by Gauhar Jaan in 1902 and the first Bollywood film Alam Ara (1931) were under Saregama, India's oldest music label currently owned by RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group. Linguistically, Bollywood songs tend to use vernacular Hindustani, mutually intelligible to self-identified speakers of both Hindi and Urdu, while modern Bollywood songs also increasingly incorporate elements of Hinglish. Urdu poetry has had a particularly strong impact on Bollywood songs, where the lyrics draw heavily from Urdu poetry and the ghazal tradition. In addition, Punjabi is also occasionally used for Bollywood songs.

The Indian Music Industry is largely dominated by Bollywood soundtracks, which account for nearly 80% of the country's music revenue. The industry was dominated by cassette tapes in the 1980s and 1990s, before transitioning to online streaming in the 2000s (bypassing CD and digital downloads). As of 2014, the largest Indian music record label is T-Series with up to 35% share of the Indian market, followed by Sony Music India (the largest foreign-owned label) with up to 25% share, and then Zee Music (which has a partnership with Sony). As of 2017, 216million Indians use music streaming services such as YouTube, Hungama, Gaana and JioSaavn. As of 2021, T-Series is the most subscribed YouTube channel with over 170 million subscribers.

History

Hindi film songs are present in Hindi cinema right from the first sound film Alam Ara (1931) by Ardeshir Irani which featured seven songs. This was closely followed by Shirheen Farhad (1931) by Jamshedji Framji Madan, also by Madan, which had as many as 42 song sequences strung together in the manner of an opera, and later by Indra Sabha which had as many as 69 song sequences. However, the practice subsided and subsequent films usually featured between six and ten songs in each production.

Right from the advent of Indian cinema in 1931, musicals with song numbers have been a regular feature in Indian cinema. In 1934 Hindi film songs began to be recorded on gramophones and later, played on radio channels, giving rise to a new form of mass entertainment in India which was responsive to popular demand. Within the first few years itself, Hindi cinema had produced a variety of films which easily categorised into genres such as "historicals", "mythologicals", "devotional, "fantasy" etc. but each having songs embedded in them such that it is incorrect to classify them as "musicals".

The Hindi song was such an integral features of Hindi mainstream cinema, besides other characteristics, that post-independence alternative cinema, of which the films of Satyajit Ray are an example, discarded the song and dance motif in its effort to stand apart from mainstream cinema

The Hindi film song now began to make its presence felt as a predominating characteristic in the culture of the nation and began to assume roles beyond the limited purview of cinema. In multi-cultural India, as per film historian Partha Chatterjee, "the Hindi film song cut through all the language barriers in India, to engage in lively communication with the nation where more than twenty languages are spoken and ... scores of dialects exist". Bollywood music has drawn its inspiration from numerous traditional sources such as Ramleela, nautanki, tamasha and Parsi theatre, as well as from the West, Pakistan, and other Indic musical subcultures.

For over five decades, these songs formed the staple of popular music in South Asia and along with Hindi films, was an important cultural export to most countries around Asia and wherever the Indian diaspora had spread. The spread was galvanised by the advent of cheap plastic tape cassettes which were produced in the millions until the industry crashed in 2000. Even today Hindi film songs are available on radio, on television, as live music by performers, and on media, both old and new such as cassette tapes, compact disks and DVDs and are easily available, both legally and illegally, on the internet.

Style and format

The various use of languages in Bollywood songs can be complex. Most use variations of Hindi and Urdu, with some songs also including other languages such as Persian, and it is not uncommon to hear the use of English words in songs from modern Hindi movies. Besides Hindi, several other Indian languages have also been used including Braj, Avadhi, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Bengali and Rajasthani.

In a film, music, both in itself and accompanied with dance, has been used for many purposes including "heightening a situation, accentuating a mood, commenting on theme and action, providing relief and serving as interior monologue."

In a modern globalisation standpoint, Bollywood music has many non-Indian influences, especially from the West. Many Hindi film music composers learned and mimicked Hollywood's style of matching music to scene atmospheres into their own film songs, the result being Bollywood music. These songs can be considered a combination of Western influences and Hindi music.

Production

Songs in Bollywood movies are deliberately crafted with lyrics often written by distinguished poets or literati (often different from those who write the film script), and these lyrics are often then set to music, carefully choreographed to match the dance routine or script of the film. They are then sung by professional playback singers and lip-synched by the actors. Bollywood cinema is unique in that the majority of songs are seen to be sung by the characters themselves rather than being played in the background. Although protagonists sing often, villains in films do not sing because music and the arts are a sign of humanity. In Western cinema, often a composer who specialises in film music is responsible for the bulk of music on the film's soundtrack, and while in some films songs may play an important part (and have direct relationship to the subject of the film), in Bollywood films, the songs often drive large-scale production numbers featuring elaborate choreography.

The key figure in Bollywood music production and composition is the music director. While in Western films, a "music director" or "music coordinator" is usually responsible for selecting existing recorded music to add to the soundtrack, typically during opening and closing credits, in Bollywood films, the "music director" often has a much broader role encompassing both composing music/songs specifically for the film and (if needed) securing additional (licensed) music. In this sense, a Bollywood music director also plays the role of a composer and music producer.

The lyricist of Bollywood songs is less likely to be the same composer or music director, as Bollywood films often go to great lengths to include lyrics of special significance and applicability to the film's plot and dialogue, and/or the words of highly regarded poets/lyricists set to music written specifically for such words in the film, as noted above.

Bollywood film songs have been described as eclectic both in instrumentation and style. They often employ foreign instruments and rework existing songs, showing remarkable inventiveness in the reinvention of melodies and instrumental techniques.

Bollywood film songs often tend to be accompanied by expensive music videos. Some are among the most expensive music videos of all time. The most expensive Indian music video is "Party All Night" (for the 2013 film Boss), which cost () to produce. Adjusted for inflation, the most expensive Indian music video was "Pyar Kiya To Darna Kya" (for the 1960 film Mughal-e-Azam), which at the time cost more than (), equivalent to () adjusted for inflation.

Genres

M.P.

Main article: Filmi devotional songs

Dance

Main article: Hindi dance music

Hindi dance music encompasses a wide range of songs predominantly featured in the Bollywood film industry with a growing worldwide attraction. The music became popular among overseas Indians in countries such as South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States and eventually developed a global fan base.

Disco

In the Indian subcontinent of South Asia, disco peaked in popularity in the early 1980s, when a South Asian disco scene arose, popularised by filmi Bollywood music, at a time when disco's popularity had declined in North America. The South Asian disco scene was sparked by the success of Pakistani pop singer Nazia Hassan, working with Indian producer Biddu, with the hit Bollywood song "Aap Jaisa Koi" in 1980. Biddu himself previously had success in the Western world, where he was considered a pioneer, as one of the first successful disco producers in the early 1970s, with hits such as the hugely popular "Kung Fu Fighting" (1974), before the genre's Western decline at the end of the 1970s led to him shifting his focus to Asia. The success of "Aap Jaisa Koi" in 1980 was followed by Nazia Hassan's Disco Deewane, a 1981 album produced by Biddu, becoming Asia's best-selling pop album at the time.

In parallel to the Euro disco scene at the time, the continued relevance of disco in South Asia and the increasing reliance on synthesizers led to experiments in electronic disco, often combined with elements of Indian music. Biddu had already used electronic equipment such as synthesizers in some of his earlier disco work, including "Bionic Boogie" from Rain Forest (1976), "Soul Coaxing" (1977), Eastern Man and Futuristic Journey (recorded from 1976 to 1977), and "Phantasm" (1979), before using synthesizers for his later work with Nazia Hassan, including "Aap Jaisa Koi" (1980), Disco Deewane (1981) and "Boom Boom" (1982). Bollywood disco producers who used electronic equipment such as synthesizers include R.D. Burman, on songs such as "Dhanno Ki Aankhon Mein" (Kitaab, 1977) and "Pyaar Karne Waale" (Shaan, 1980); Laxmikant–Pyarelal, on songs such as "Om Shanti Om" (Karz, 1980); and Bappi Lahari, on songs such as "Ramba Ho" (Armaan, 1981). They also experimented with minimalist, high-tempo, electronic disco, including Burman's "Dil Lena Khel Hai Dildar Ka" (Zamane Ko Dikhana Hai, 1981), which had a "futuristic electro feel", and Lahiri's "Yaad Aa Raha Hai" (Disco Dancer, 1982).

Such experiments eventually culminated in the work of Charanjit Singh, whose 1982 record Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat anticipated the sound of acid house music, years before the genre arose in the Chicago house scene of the late 1980s. Using the Roland TR-808 drum machine, TB-303 bass synthesizer, and Jupiter-8 synthesizer, Singh increased the disco tempo up to a "techno wavelength" and made the sounds more minimalistic, while pairing them with "mystical, repetitive, instrumental Indian ragas", to produce a new sound, which resembled acid house. According to Singh: "There was lots of disco music in films back in 1982. So I thought why not do something different using disco music only. I got an idea to play all the Indian ragas and give the beat a disco beat – and turn off the tabla. And I did it. And it turned out good." The first track "Raga Bhairavi" also had a synthesised voice that says "Om Namah Shivaya" through a vocoder.

Along with experiments in electronic disco, another experimental trend in Indian disco music of the early 1980s was the fusion of disco and psychedelic music. Due to 1960s psychedelic rock, popularised by the Beatles' raga rock, borrowing heavily from Indian music, it began exerting a reverse influence and had blended with Bollywood music by the early 1970s. This led to Bollywood producers exploring a middle-ground between disco and psychedelia in the early 1980s. Producers who experimented with disco-psychedelic fusion included Laxmikant–Pyarelal, on songs such as "Om Shanti Om" (Karz, 1980), and R. D. Burman, on songs such as "Pyaar Karne Waale" (Shaan, 1980), along with the use of synthesizers.

Ghazal

Main article: Filmi-ghazal

The ghazal tradition of Urdu poetry was the basis for early Bollywood music, ever since the first Indian talkie film, Alam Ara (1931). In turn, filmi ghazals had roots in earlier Urdu Parsi theatre of the mid-19th to early 20th centuries. The ghazal was the dominant style of Indian film music since the 1930s up until the 1960s. By the 1980s, however, ghazals had become marginalised in film music. Reasons for the decline include Urdu ghazal poetry being gradually phased out from the Indian education system, lyricists targeting urban middle-class audiences, and the influence of Western and Latin American music.

Music directors like Madan Mohan composed notable film-ghazals extensively for Muslim socials in the 1960s and the 1970s.

The filmi-ghazal style experienced a revival in the early 1990s, sparked by the success of Nadeem–Shravan's Aashiqui (1990). It had a big impact on Bollywood music at the time, ushering in ghazal-type romantic music that dominated the early 1990s, with soundtracks such as Dil, Saajan, Phool Aur Kaante and Deewana. A popular ghazal song from Aashiqui was "Dheere Dheere", a cover version of which was later recorded by Yo Yo Honey Singh and released by T-Series in 2015.

Qawwali

Main article: Filmi qawwali

It represents a distinct subgenre of film music, although it is distinct from traditional qawwali, which is devotional Sufi music. One example of filmi qawwali is the song "Pardah Hai Pardah" sung by Mohammed Rafi, and composed by Laxmikant–Pyarelal, for the Indian film Amar Akbar Anthony (1977).

Within the subgenre of filmi qawwali, there exists a form of qawwali that is infused with modern and Western instruments, usually with techno beats, called techno-qawwali. An example of techno-qawwali is "Kajra Re", a filmi song composed by Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy. A newer variation of the techno-qawwali based on the more dance oriented tracks is known as the "club qawwali". More tracks of this nature are being recorded and released.

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and A. R. Rahman have composed filmi qawwalis in the style of traditional qawwali. Examples include "Tere Bin Nahin Jeena" (Kachche Dhaage), "Arziyan" (Delhi 6), "Khwaja Mere Khwaja" (Jodhaa Akbar), "Bharde Do Jholi Meri" (Bajrangi Bhaijaan) and "Kun Faya Kun" (Rockstar).

Rock

Main article: Indian rock

Indian musicians began fusing rock with traditional Indian music from the mid-1960s onwards in filmi songs produced for popular Bollywood films. Some of the more well known early rock songs (including styles such as funk rock, pop rock, psychedelic rock, raga rock, and soft rock) from Bollywood films include Kishore Kumar's "O Saathi Re" in Muqaddar Ka Sikandar (1978), Mohammed Rafi's "Jaan Pehechan Ho" in Gumnaam (1965), and Asha Bhosle songs such as "Dum Maro Dum" in Hare Rama Hare Krishna (1971), "Ae Naujawan Hai Sab" in Apradh (1972), and "Yeh Mera Dil Pyar Ka Diwana" in Don (1978).

Unauthorised contrafacta

The Pakistani Qawwali musician Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan had a big impact on Bollywood music, inspiring numerous Indian musicians working in Bollywood, especially during the 1990s. However, there were many instances of Indian music directors plagiarising Khan's music to produce hit filmi songs. Several popular examples include Viju Shah's hit song "Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast Mast" in Mohra (1994) being plagiarised from Khan's popular Qawwali song "Dam Mast Qalandar", "Mera Piya Ghar Aya" used in Yaarana (1995), and "Sanoo Ek Pal Chain Na Aaye" in Judaai (1997). Despite the significant number of hit Bollywood songs plagiarised from his music, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan was reportedly tolerant towards the plagiarism. One of the Bollywood music directors who frequently plagiarised him, Anu Malik, claimed that he loved Khan's music and was actually showing admiration by using his tunes. However, Khan was reportedly aggrieved when Malik turned his spiritual "Allah Hoo, Allah Hoo" into "I Love You, I Love You" in Auzaar (1997). Khan said "he has taken my devotional song Allahu and converted it into I love you. He should at least respect my religious songs."

A number of Bollywood soundtracks also plagiarised Guinean singer Mory Kanté, particularly his 1987 album Akwaba Beach. For example, his song "Tama" inspired two Bollywood songs, Bappi Lahiri's "Tamma Tamma" in Thanedaar (1990) and "Jumma Chumma" in Laxmikant-Pyarelal's soundtrack for Hum (1991), the latter also featuring another song "Ek Doosre Se" which copied his song "Inch Allah". His song "Yé ké yé ké" was also used as background music in the 1990 Bollywood film Agneepath, inspired the Bollywood song "Tamma Tamma" in Thanedaar, and was also copied by Mani Sharma's song "Pellikala Vachesindhe" in the 1997 Telugu film, Preminchukundam Raa.

Cultural impact

Indian cinema, with its characteristic film music, has not only spread all over Indian society, but also been at the forefront of spreading India's culture around the world. In Britain, Hindi film songs are heard in restaurants and on radio channels dedicated to Asian music. The British dramatist Sudha Bhuchar converted a Hindi film hit Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! into a hit musical "Fourteen Songs" which was well received by the British audience. Film-maker Baz Luhrmann acknowledged the influence of Hindi cinema on his production Moulin Rouge! by the inclusion of a number "Hindi Sad Diamonds" based on the filmi song "Chamma Chamma" which was composed by Anu Malik. In Greece the genre of indoprepi sprang from Hindi film music while in Indonesia dangdut singers like Ellya Khadam, Rhoma Irama and Mansyur S., have reworked Hindi songs for Indonesian audiences. In France, the band Les Rita Mitsouko used Bollywood influences in their music video for "Le petit train" and French singer Pascal of Bollywood popularised filmi music by covering songs such as "Zindagi Ek Safar Hai Suhana". In Nigeria bandiri music—a combination of Sufi lyrics and Bollywood-style music—has become popular among Hausa youth. Hindi film music has also been combined with local styles in the Caribbean to form "chutney music".

Best-selling soundtrack albums

Top ten

RankYearSoundtrackMusic director(s)SalesRef
11990AashiquiNadeem–Shravan20,000,000+ (didn't count after)title=journal=India Todayyear=1994volume=19page=70url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BHYZAQAAMAAJ&q=two+crorepublisher=Aroon Purie for Living Media India Limitedaccess-date=1 December 2020archive-date=15 January 2024archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240115160514/https://books.google.com/books?id=BHYZAQAAMAAJ&q=two+croreurl-status=live}}
21995Dilwale Dulhania Le JayengeJatin–Lalit20,000,000title=Rediff On The Net, Movies: How Gulshan Kumar signed his own death warranturl=http://www.rediff.com/movies/sep/02sup1.htmwork=Rediffdate=2 September 1997access-date=11 December 2018archive-date=26 January 2019archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190126025220/http://www.rediff.com/movies/sep/02sup1.htmurl-status=live }}
1991SaajanNadeem–Shravan20,000,000title=Bringing melody back, Nadeem-Shravan churn out hit after hiturl=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-and-the-arts/story/19920415-bringing-melody-back-nadeem-shravan-churn-out-hit-after-hit-766153-2013-08-19work=India Todaydate=15 April 1992access-date=4 December 2017archive-date=24 December 2017archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171224215302/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/bringing-melody-back-nadeem-shravan-churn-out-hit-after-hit/1/306650.htmlurl-status=live}}
31997Dil Toh Pagal HaiUttam Singh12,500,000title=Music Hits 1990–1999 (Figures in Units)url=http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=284&catName=MTk5MC0xOTk5publisher=Box Office Indiadate=2 January 2010url-status=deadarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100205042906/http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=284&catName=MTk5MC0xOTk5archive-date=5 February 2010}}
41994Hum Aapke Hain KaunRaamlaxman12,000,000last=Morcomfirst=Annatitle=Hindi Film Songs and the Cinemadate=2017publisher=Routledgeisbn=978-1-351-56374-1page=198url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WTQrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA198}}
51996Raja HindustaniNadeem–Shravan11,000,000
61989ChandniShiv–Hari10,000,000title=Audio tape producers ride crest of Bollywoods music boom, composers become starsurl=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/story/19931130-audio-tape-producers-ride-crest-of-bollywoods-music-boom-composers-become-stars-811853-1993-11-29work=India Todaydate=30 November 1993access-date=4 December 2017archive-date=1 January 2018archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101062557/http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/audio-tape-producers-ride-crest-of-bollywoods-music-boom-composers-become-stars/1/303415.htmlurl-status=live}}
Maine Pyar KiyaRaamlaxman10,000,000
1993BaazigarAnu Malik10,000,000
KhalnayakLaxmikant–Pyarelal10,000,000
1995Bewafa SanamNikhil-Vinay10,000,000title=Making Music Like Ne'er Beforejournal=Outlookdate=13 March 1996url=https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/making-music-like-neer-before/200987access-date=9 December 2017archive-date=12 January 2018archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180112025355/https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/making-music-like-neer-before/200987url-status=live}}
1999Kaho Naa... Pyaar HaiRajesh Roshan10,000,000title=Film producers float their own music firmsurl=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Film-producers-float-their-own-music-firms/articleshow/43410031.cmswork=The Times of Indiadate=11 November 2011access-date=29 November 2017archive-date=16 July 2018archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180716235839/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Film-producers-float-their-own-music-firms/articleshow/43410031.cmsurl-status=live}}

By decade

DecadeSoundtrackSalesRef
1950sAwaara (1951)
1960sSangam (1964)title=Music Hits 1960–1969url=http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=281&catName=MTk2MC0xOTY5publisher=Box Office Indiadate=5 February 2010url-status=bot: unknownarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100205042951/http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=281&catName=MTk2MC0xOTY5archive-date=5 February 2010}}
1970sBobby (1973)title=Music Hits 1970–1979url=http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=282&catName=MTk3MC0xOTc5publisher=Box Office Indiadate=5 February 2010url-status=bot: unknownarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100205042855/http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=282&catName=MTk3MC0xOTc5archive-date=5 February 2010}}
Sholay (1975)
1980sChandni (1989)title=Music Hits 1980–1989url=http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=283&catName=MTk4MC0xOTg5publisher=Box Office Indiadate=5 February 2010url-status=deadarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100205042958/http://boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=283&catName=MTk4MC0xOTg5archive-date=5 February 2010}}
Maine Pyar Kiya
1990sAashiqui (1990)
2000sMohabbatein (2000)5,000,000title=As film music industry struggles, Bollywood goes for rightsizing of copyright price tagsurl=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/films/story/20020401-as-film-music-industry-struggles-bollywood-goes-for-rightsizing-of-copyright-price-tags-795378-2002-04-01work=India Todaydate=1 April 2002access-date=10 December 2018archive-date=21 June 2018archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180621170653/https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/society-the-arts/films/story/20020401-as-film-music-industry-struggles-bollywood-goes-for-rightsizing-of-copyright-price-tags-795378-2002-04-01url-status=live }}
2010sAashiqui 2 (2013)title='Komaram Puli' audio creates latest record!url=http://telugu.way2movies.com/exclusivesingle_telugu/%E2%80%98Komaram-Puli%E2%80%99-audio-creates-latest-record!-4-45380.htmlwork=way2moviesdate=16 July 2010access-date=2 December 2017archive-date=10 December 2018archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210063221/http://telugu.way2movies.com/exclusivesingle_telugu/%E2%80%98Komaram-Puli%E2%80%99-audio-creates-latest-record!-4-45380.htmlurl-status=dead}}

By year

YearSoundtrackSalesRef
1960Mughal-e-Azamrowspan="9"
1961Junglee
1962Bees Saal Baad
1963Mere Mehboob
1964Sangam
1965Jab Jab Phool Khile
1966Teesri Manzil
1967Upkar
1969Aradhana
1970Johny Mera Naamrowspan="3"
1971Haathi Mere Saathi
1972Pakeezah
1973Bobby
1974Roti Kapada Aur Makaan
1975Sholay
1976Laila Majnurowspan="4"
1977Hum Kisise Kum Nahin
1978Muqaddar Ka Sikander
1979Sargam
1980Qurbani
1981Ek Duje Ke Liye
1982Disco Dancer
1983Herorowspan="2"
1984Pyar Jhukta Nahin
1985Ram Teri Ganga Maili
1986Bhagwaan Dada
1987Premaloka
1988Qayamat Se Qayamat Taktitle=Top 25 films between the years 1985–1994url=https://www.filmfare.com/features/top-25-films-between-the-years-1985-1994_-26676-1.htmlwork=Filmfaredate=18 February 2018access-date=10 December 2018archive-date=10 December 2018archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210110937/https://www.filmfare.com/features/top-25-films-between-the-years-1985-1994_-26676-1.htmlurl-status=live }}
Tezaab
1989Chandni
Maine Pyar Kiya
1990Aashiqui
1991Saajan
1992Deewana
1993Baazigar
Khalnayak
1994Hum Aapke Hain Kaun
1995Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
1996Raja Hindustani
1997Dil To Pagal Hai
1998Kuch Kuch Hota Hailast1=McClurefirst1=Stevetitle=Asian Acts Cross Cultural and National Boundariesmagazine=Billboarddate=8 April 2000volume=112issue=15pages=49, 54 (54)url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0A4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA54access-date=26 March 2022publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.archive-date=26 March 2022archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326001537/https://books.google.com/books?id=0A4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA54url-status=live }}
1999Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai
2000Mohabbatein
2001Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham3,500,000
2002Humraaz
2003Tere Naam
2004Veer-Zaara
2005Aashiq Banaya Aapne
2006Dhoom 2
2007Om Shanti Om
2008Ghajini

Album streams

The following were the most-streamed Bollywood music albums, .

YearSoundtrackComposer(s)Lyricist(s)YouTube streams (billions)Ref
2017Tiger Zinda HaiVishal–ShekharIrshad Kamil1.6
2018Satyameva JayateNadeem–Shravan, Sajid–Wajid, Tanishk Bagchi, Arko, Rochak KohliShabbir Ahmed, Ikka, Kumaar, Arko, Danish Sabri1.5
Sonu Ke Titu Ki SweetyZack Knight, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Amaal Mallik, Guru RandhawaZack Knight, Kumaar, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Guru Randhawa1.5
2017Badrinath Ki DulhaniaAmaal Mallik, Tanishk Bagchi, Bappi Lahiri, Akhil SachdevaShabbir Ahmed, Kumaar, Akhil Sachdeva, Badshah1.4
2017Ek Haseena Thi Ek Deewana ThaNadeem SaifiNadeem Saifi, Faaiz Anwar1.3
2018SimmbaTanishk Bagchi, Viju Shah, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, KumaarShabbir Ahmed, Rashmi Virag, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan1.6
2022Brahmāstra: Part One – ShivaPritamAmitabh Bhattacharya1.2

Notes

References

Citations

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  • Hindi film songs and the cinema by Anna Morcom
  • Music of Hindu Trinidad: Songs from the India Diaspora by Helen Myers
  • Pandits in the Movies: Contesting the Identity of Hindustani Classical Music and Musicians in the Hindi Popular Cinema by Greg Booth
  • Religion, gossip, narrative conventions and the construction of meaning in Hindi film songs by Greg Booth
  • The Cultural Economy of Sound: Reinventing Technology in Indian Popular Cinema by Carlo Nardi
  • The Indian Diaspora: Dynamics of Migration edited by Narayana Jayaram, p. 164 (Trinidad)
  • World Music Volume 2 Latin and North America Caribbean India Asia and: Latin and North America,...by Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham (History)

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