Bollywood
Bollywood music is the song repertoire of Hindi-language films made in Mumbai, and a central part of popular music in India.
Songs are written for scenes in a film and sung by playback singers while the actors mime. Composers freely combine Indian classical ragas and instruments such as tabla with strings, pop, disco or electronic dance music. The name blends Bombay, the old name of Mumbai, with Hollywood. Bollywood is one branch of filmi; Tamil, Telugu and other film industries have their own music.
Artists it is known for: Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar, Asha Bhosle, Arijit Singh.
- Family
- Indian
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- Mumbai, 1930s
- Also called
- Hindi film music, Bollywood songs
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 3%
About 2,600 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have bollywood among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Bollywood artists
Pritam
Vishal-Shekhar
A.R. Rahman
Arijit Singh
Sachin-Jigar
Atif Aslam
Shashwat Sachdev
Yo Yo Honey Singh
Amit Trivedi
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
The bollywood artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.