Malay
Malay here means popular music sung in the Malay language, mainly from Malaysia and, in its early decades, Singapore.
The label is broad. It takes in the film songs of the 1940s and 1950s, sentimental pop ballads, the rock ballad bands that peaked in the 1980s and early 1990s, and modern pop, hip hop and R&B. Some songs draw on traditional Malay dance rhythms such as joget and zapin. It has long traded influences with neighboring Indonesian pop.
Artists it is known for: P. Ramlee, Sudirman, Siti Nurhaliza.
- Family
- Pop
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Malaysia and Singapore
- Also called
- malay pop, pop melayu
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,300 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have malay among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Malay artists
Sheila On 7
Raim Laode
Nadhif Basalamah
Afgan
Noah
Tenxi
Glenn Fredly
Mahalini
Armada
MarcellThe malay 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.