From soulful heartbreak anthems to viral romantic hits, these songs defined India’s music mood in 2025, one stream at a time.

This was the year Music Ally offered its most comprehensive coverage of the Indian music market yet, with the launch of our ...

If 2024 focused on catchy starts, 2025 went wild with sound. This year, the Indian internet loved loud beats, raw voices, and music from every corner of the country. People stopped caring about ...

Every so often, a song breaks through and shatters norms of what can be a “hit” all around the world. It’s happened in the past with different genres and languages, and the internet and streaming ...

Saiyaara’s title track has made history by becoming the first Indian song to top Spotify’s Global Viral 50 chart, surpassing global artists like Justin Bieber, Blackpink, and Billie Eilish. 'Saiyaara' ...

This week saw the release of Ed Sheeran’s Play (The Remixes) EP, a four-track project that reimagines songs from his chart-topping ninth studio album Play. The project was inspired by Sheeran’s ...

Dhurandhar’s song Lutt Le Gaya, created in a spontaneous six-hour session just days before the film’s release, has become a ...

Before playlists, reels, and algorithms took over, Indian cinema was already having fun with lyrics that made no literal ...

“Dhoom Machale,” a popular Hindi film song played at the end of Zohran Mamdani’s first speech as New York City’s mayor-elect, nodded to his Indian roots. Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani with his mother ...

The controversy over Vande Mataram made Nehru and Subhas Chandra Bose — both members of the CWC — turn in 1937 to the only ...