Revision as of 21:08, 2 May 2015

Jacqueline Fernandez smiling about ‘goldan jhumkey’ in the song Chittiyaan Kalaiyaan from the film Roy
The film was a turkey at the box office but it stormed all the charts. Roy has five songs in this list including three in the Top 4. All five songs are in the Top 7.

Sunny Leone in the song Tere bin nahi laage jiya from the film Ek Paheli Leela
Ek Paheli Leela has seven songs in this list.

The 18 most popular Hindi-Urdu songs of Jan-April 2015

The sources that this page has relied upon

Only Bollywood Hungama, and that site does not have charts or ranks. (See Notes of caution below.)

Notes of caution

i) Except for the Binaca Geet Mala years, all of Indpaedia’s annual charts for Hindi-Urdu songs are based on an amalgam of all publicly available charts for that year. This has been done to ensure total objectivity. Typically, we have consulted at least three charts for every recent year.

However, as on 1 May 2015 no other chart was ready for the Jan-April 2015 period.

ii) Bollywood Hungama does not have its own charts. Nor does it award ranks to songs. Indpaedia has calculated the number of ‘times played’ from the above link, combining the listenership of all versions of each song into one, to arrive at the ranks mentioned under IP. Incidentally, this link will take you to songs that were released between 2012 and April 2015.

We looked at the 240 songs from this period that had been played the most often. Of these 22 were from 2015, including three songs with two versions each and one song that had been listed twice. It was thus that we arrived at the 18 most popular Hindi-Urdu songs of Jan-April 2015.

iii) The combined listenership of all versions of Too hai and Tere bin on Bollywood Hungama has helped them, respectively, pip the two top hits of Jan-April, namely, Sooraj and Chittiyaan.

iv) This list is not likely to be updated till the end of the year.

The charts

See also

Indpaedia is trying to compile year-wise lists of the most popular songs in every Indian, inded, South Asian, language.

We have made a beginning with the titles of the most popular Hindi-Urdu film/ pop songs of each year.

For the years 1952-1974 we have already uploaded the titles (and authorship) of the songs that made it to the annual hit-parades of Binaca Geet Mala 1952: greatest hits to Binaca Geet Mala 1974: greatest hits. In addition, we are working on lists of the chhaon (‘in the shade’) songs of these years.

For the remaining years, from roughly 1930 to the present (excluding the BGM years) we aim to cite at least two sources for each year. If the hyperlink is red it means that the page is still under construction.

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