Tamil Pop
Tamil pop is popular music sung in Tamil, the language of Tamil Nadu in southern India and of communities in Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore.
Most of it comes from the Tamil film industry based in Chennai, known as Kollywood, where composers write songs for movies and playback singers record them. The sound blends South Indian classical and Western instruments, with orchestral themes and, more recently, synthesizers and electronic beats. Language and its own film industry separate it from Hindi-language Bollywood music.
Artists it is known for: Ilaiyaraaja, A. R. Rahman, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Anirudh Ravichander.
- Family
- Indian
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,400 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have tamil pop among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Tamil Pop artists
A.R. Rahman
Anirudh Ravichander
Sai Abhyankkar
Harris Jayaraj
G. V. Prakash
Yuvan Shankar Raja
Thaman S
Hiphop Tamizha
Santhosh Narayanan
Ilaiyaraaja
The tamil pop 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.