Indian pop explained

Indian pop
Cultural Origins:1960s—1990s, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, United Kingdom

Indian pop music, also known as Indi-pop,[1] refers to pop music produced in India that is independent from filmi soundtracks for Indian cinema. Indian pop is closely linked to Bollywood, Tollywood, Pollywood, 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

See also: Hindi film music, Pakistani pop music, Bangladeshi rock and Asian Underground.

Pop music originated in the South Asian region with the playback singer Ahmed Rushdi's song "" 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 British-Indian fusion band Monsoon in their 1981 EP release on Steve Coe's Indipop Records.[10] [11] Charanjit Singh's (1982) 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.[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

See also: Indian Music Industry.

Best-selling albums

RankYearAlbumArtist(s)Sales (millions)
1 1984 Young Tarang 40 [14] [15]
2 1995 Bolo Ta Ra Ra.. 20 [16] [17]
3 1995 16 [18] [19]
4 1981 14 [20]
51998 "" 10 [21]
2002 10
7 1999 Bay Ja Cycle Tay 6.5
81997 6
Only One Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Mahmood Khan 6 [22]
101992 Thanda Thanda Pani 5 [23]
1995 Made in India 5 [24]
12 1997 Tum To Thehre Pardesi 4 [25]
13 1993 Tootak Tootak Toothian 2.5 [26]
141996 2 [27]
1997 Vande Mataram 2 [28]
1998 Sifar 2
2004 Me Against Myself 2 [29]
18 2004 1.8
191999Deewana 1.2 [30]
Oye Hoye 1.2 [31]
20 1996 Naujawan 1

Music video streams

See also: List of most-viewed Indian music videos on YouTube.

YearSongArtist(s)LanguageYouTube streams
2020""Thaman S, Armaan MalikTelugu820[32]
""AP Dhillon, Gurinder Gill, Shinda KahlonPunjabi605
2019"Rowdy Baby"Yuvan Shankar Raja, DhanushTamil1400
2017""Abhay JainHindi29
"Lahore"Guru RandhawaPunjabi750[33]
"Bom Diggy"Zack Knight and Jasmin WaliaPunjabi
"High Rated Gabru"Guru RandhawaPunjabi1168
2014""Rahat Fateh Ali KhanHindi1427
2015""Yo Yo Honey SinghHindi625
2011""Dhanush and Anirudh RavichanderTamil227[34] [35]

Notes and References

  1. News: Bora . Pranab . 15 November 1996 . Channel V and MTV create never-before market for global music . .
  2. Web site: Paracha . Nadeem F . December 13, 2004 . Socio-political History of Modern Pop Music in Pakistan . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100618091924/http://www.chowk.com/articles/8459 . 2010-06-18 . 2008-06-27 . Chowk.
  3. Web site: April 11, 2012 . 29th death anniversary of Ahmed Rushdi today . https://web.archive.org/web/20160114050419/http://dunyanews.tv/print_news_eng.php?nid=105193&catid=6&flag=d/2011-04-11/ . Jan 14, 2016 . 2011-03-04 . Duniya News.
  4. Web site: 12 April 2010 . Remembering Ahmed Rushdi . https://web.archive.org/web/20100427003202/http://tribune.com.pk/story/5631/remembering-ahmed-rushdi/ . 27 April 2010 . 28 December 2012 . The Express Tribune.
  5. Book: Banerjee . Indrajit . Asian Communication Handbook 2008 . Logan . Stephen . 2008 . AMIC . 978-981-4136-10-5 . 389 . en.
  6. Web site: 18 November 2005 . NRI TV presenter gets Nazia Hassan Award . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120308235816/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2005-11-18/indians-abroad/27850544_1_presenter-awards-indian-high-commission . 8 March 2012 . 2011-03-04 . . With her brother Zoheb Hassan, Nazia sold a staggering 60 million records and became an international name at the tender age of 13..
  7. Web site: Ellis . James . 27 October 2009 . Biddu . https://web.archive.org/web/20110902182831/http://www.metro.co.uk/showbiz/interviews/412-biddu . Sep 2, 2011 . 2011-04-17 . Metro.
  8. Book: The Listener, Volumes 100–101 . . BBC . 1978 . 216 . Tony Palmer knocked off a film account of someone called Biddu (LWT), who appears to have been mad enough to invent disco music. . 21 June 2011.
  9. Book: Shapiro, Peter . Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco . . 2006 . 0-86547-952-6 . 55 . 7 June 2011 . registration.
  10. http://www.ladyslipper.org/rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=53&upc=73145265272 Ladyslipper Music - Monsoon Featuring Sheila Chandra
  11. Web site: Discography . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110201234619/http://www.sheilachandra.com/information/disco.html . 2011-02-01 . 2010-03-07 . Sheila Chandra.
  12. Web site: Rauscher . William . 12 May 2010 . Charanjit Singh – Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat . 3 June 2011 . . In 1982, armed with a now-iconic trio of Roland gear, the Jupiter 8, TB-303 and TR-808, Singh set out to update the entrancing drone and whirling scales of classical Indian music..
  13. Web site: Geeta Dayal . 6 April 2010 . Further thoughts on '10 Ragas to a Disco Beat' . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100902151454/http://www.theoriginalsoundtrack.com/2010/04/further-thoughts-on-ten-ragas-to-a-disco-beat/ . 2 September 2010 . 3 June 2011 . The Original Soundtrack.
  14. Web site: Young Tarang . 28 November 2017 . . The video album was sold in 40 million number which is the record of most selling video album..
  15. Book: Sheikh, M. A. . Who's Who: Music in Pakistan . 2012 . . 9781469191591 . 192.
  16. Web site: Daler Mehndi . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120614081608/http://www.in.com/daler-mehndi/profile-63087.html . 2012-06-14 . 2014-02-22 . . 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..
  17. Book: Booth . Gregory D. . More Than Bollywood: Studies in Indian Popular Music . Shope . Bradley . 2014 . . 9780199928835 . 151.
  18. Web site: Statistics . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090326225201/http://abraronline.com/statistics.asp . 26 March 2009 . 26 March 2009 . Abrar-ul-Haq Official Website.
  19. News: Lodhi . Adnan . 29 April 2016 . Abrar Ul Haq is back with a bangra . . Abrar formally stepped into the limelight in 1995 with the release of his first album, Billo De Gar, which sold over 16 million copies nationwide..
  20. Web site: Tunda . Franz . 19 September 2010 . "Disco Deewane", Nazia Hassan with Biddu and His Orchestra . La Pelanga . Disco Deewane (recorded with legendary producer Biddu, who has given up music to be a writer, of all things…) went on to sell some 14 million copies worldwide, and the title track was a number one hit in Brazil..
  21. News: Wartofsky . Alona . 13 July 2003 . Rap's Fresh Heir . . 23 May 2012.
  22. News: Ansari . Shahab . 5 July 2017 . Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's 'lost tape recordings' found . . The album sold 6 million units worldwide and broke his sound into World music stations across the US..
  23. News: Raj . Radhika . Khanna . Shubhda . 2 October 2010 . Pop no more . .
  24. Book: Jeffries, Stan . Encyclopedia of World Pop Music, 1980-2001 . 2003 . . 9780313315473 . 35 . 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. . registration.
  25. Book: Limca Book of Records . 1999 . Bisleri Beverages Limited.
  26. Book: Sabharwal, Gopa . India Since 1947: The Independent Years . 2017 . . 9789352140893 . 304.
  27. Book: Kumar, Raj . Essays on Indian Music . 2003 . Discovery Publishing House . 9788171417193 . 18 . en.
  28. Book: Mathai, Kamini . A. R. Rahman: The Musical Storm . A. R. Rahman: The Musical Storm . 2009 . . 9788184758238 . 160.
  29. Web site: Bill Lamb . Jay Sean . 2009-12-14 . . 2009-09-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090924024639/http://top40.about.com/od/s/p/jaysean.htm . dead .
  30. Khatib . Salma . 22 September 2000 . Indi-pop: Down but Not Out . bot: unknown . . https://archive.today/20080302212327/http://www.screenindia.com/old/20000922/msw.htm . 2 March 2008 . 5 October 2013.
  31. News: 19 February 2000 . Punjabi pop hits the jackpot! . .
  32. Web site: Aditya Music India . Feb 25, 2020 . #AlaVaikunthapurramuloo - ButtaBomma Full Video Song (4K) Allu Arjun Thaman S Armaan Malik - YouTube . 2021-02-22 . YouTube.
  33. Web site: T-Series . 19 April 2019 . . T-Series.
  34. Jackson . Joe . 2011-11-30 . Nonsensical, Semi-English Music Video Goes Viral in India . en-US . Time . 2021-05-10 . 0040-781X.
  35. Web site: Singh . Renu . Dec 10, 2011 . B-schools hit by the Dhanush's Kolaveri di attack - Times of India . 2021-05-10 . The Times of India . en.

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