Индийская поп-музыка: история и развитие

Pop music produced in
India

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

Pop music originated in the South Asian region with the playback singer Ahmed Rushdi's song "Ko Ko Korina" in 1966 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. 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. 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). The term Indipop was first used by the British Indian fusion band Monsoon in their 1981 EP release on Steve Coe's Indipop Records. Charanjit Singh's Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat (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. 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.

Rank Year Album Artist(s) Sales (millions) Ref (Refefence(s)) 1 1984 Young Tarang Nazia and Zoheb Hassan 40 2 1995 Bolo Ta Ra Ra Daler Mehndi 20 3 1995 Billo De Ghar Abrar ul Haq 16 4 1981 Disco Deewane Nazia and Zoheb Hassan 14 5 1998 "Mundian To Bach Ke" Panjabi MC 10 2002 Assan Jana Mall o Mall Abrar ul Haq 10 10 1992 Thanda Thanda Pani Baba Sehgal 5 1995 Made in India Alisha Chinai 5 12 1997 Tum To Thehre Pardesi Altaf Raja 4 13 1993 Tootak Tootak Toothian Malkit Singh 2.5 14 1996 Sunoh Lucky Ali 2 1997 Vande Mataram A. R. Rahman 2 1998 Sifar Lucky Ali 2 18 2004 Nachan Main Audhay Naal Abrar ul Haq 1.8 Oye Hoye Harbhajan Mann 1.2 20 1996 Naujawan Shaan 1