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This is a list of songs about Pakistan (known as Milli naghmay, Urdu: ملی نغمے) listed in alphabetical order. The list includes songs by current and former solo-singers and musical bands. The list includes songs by current and former solo-singers and musical bands.
The song "Ko Ko Korina" (Urdu: کوکوکورینا) sung by Ahmed Rushdi in 1966 is considered to be the first pop song of Pakistan. Rushdi was born in present day India in 1934, where he started his musical career, but later migrated to Pakistan in 1954. [ 16 ]
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. The popularity of music is based on the individual sales of a ...
Masood Rana (Urdu: مسعُود رانا), (6 August 1941 – 4 October 1995) was a Pakistani film playback singer.He began his singing career in 1962 with the film Inqalab, became one of the top male singers in Urdu and Punjabi films for more than three decades and remained a busy singer until his death in 1995.
"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.
Rushdi has recorded the highest number of film songs in the history of Pakistani cinema in Urdu, English, Punjabi, Bengali, Sindhi, and Gujarati and found unprecedented success as a playback artist from the mid-1950s to early 1980s. [12] He was also known for his stage performance. [13]
Armaan (Urdu: ارمان) is a 1966 Pakistani black-and-white film produced by Waheed Murad and directed by Pervez Malik. It was the first Pakistani film to complete 75 weeks in cinemas and, thus, became the first Pakistani (Urdu) "Platinum Jubilee" film. The film was picturized in black-and-white prints in Karachi.
Mehdi Hassan Khan NI PP TI HI (Urdu: مہدی حسن خاں; 18 July 1927 – 13 June 2012), known as Mehdi Hassan, was a Pakistani ghazal singer and playback singer of great renown. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential figures in the history of ghazal singing, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Hassan is referred to as the Shahenshah-e ...