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"Zaroori Tha" by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is the most-viewed Pakistani video on YouTube. It is also the first Pakistani video to reach 1 billion views. On the American video-sharing website YouTube, "Tajdar-e-Haram" sung by Atif Aslam became first Pakistani music video to cross 100 million views.
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan is a Pakistani singer, who has sung several songs in Pakistan and India, including the Pakistani film and drama industries, as well as Coke Studio and Bollywood. He is a well-known Qawwali singer, and has also sung many national songs and ghazals.
The music video features Atif Aslam. It is the first Pakistani music video to cross 100 million views on YouTube. [9] [10] The official video has garnered over 520 million views on YouTube, and became the most viewed Youtube video of Pakistani-origin, as of January 2022, leaving behind Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Momina Mustehsan's rendition of Afreen Afreen having 336 million views. [11]
As per data released by Spotify in December 2022, "Pasoori" was the most-streamed Pakistani song globally as well as the most-streamed song in Pakistan in 2022. [16] [18] [60] In December 2022, "Pasoori" became the first Pakistani song to enter YouTube's Global Top Music Videos chart (week of 16–22 December).
Atif Aslam (Urdu: عاطف اسلم) is a Pakistani pop, rock, film and playback singer, songwriter, composer and an actor. His discography consists of three studio albums, songs from Pakistani films, Hindi films and Hollywood films, and many other popular songs. He predominantly sings in (Urdu) and Punjabi. He has also sung a song in Bengali.
Pakistani popular music or shortly Pak-pop music refers to popular music forms in Pakistan. Pakistani pop is a mixture of traditional Pakistani classical music and western influences of jazz , rock and roll , hip hop and disco sung in various languages of Pakistan , including Urdu .
In 2012, a revamped cover version of the title song "Disco Deewane" was incorporated into the Indian Bollywood film Student of the Year. [13] Called "The Disco Song", it incorporates Nazia Hassan's vocals, along with the vocals of Sunidhi Chauhan and Benny Dayal, while the music video features Bollywood actors, such as Alia Bhatt, Sidharth Malhotra, Varun Dhawan and Kajol.
The Coke Studio version of the song is broadly popular in Pakistan and India. The song surpassed 100 million YouTube views in September 2018, making it the third Coke Studio performance to cross 100 million views after Atif Aslam's performance of "Tajdar-e-Haram" and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Mustehsan's performance of "Afreen Afreen".