The biggest market for Hindi tracks is the US, while the UK, Canada, Australia, Japan and Ireland are other major markets. The company has been responsible for making Bollywood music available on iTunes. Under iTunes' world category of songs, Bollywood certainly features in the top three," said Neeraj Roy, CEO, Hungama Mobile. "Three years back, when we started off, Bollywood filmmakers were not very bullish about promoting music content on a global platform. What started as a trickle three years ago has now hit big time with music companies putting more and more songs on iTunes. Two years back, there were just about 20 per cent of 12,000 albums or 2,400 albums that featured on iTunes. Just two years ago, there were only a few Bollywood tracks among the top 50.Īccording to industry estimates, there are at least 12,000 Bollywood albums currently available on iTunes, which means over 80,000 tracks for download. And Singh Is Kinng and Baachna Ae Haseeno is 11 th and 17 th in the pecking order. Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na with its popular songs Kabhi kabhi Aditi has grabbed the 9 th position. The theme song of Rock On, the recently released film co-produced by Farhan Akhtar (of Dil Chahta Hai fame) and Reliance Entertainment, ranks 13 th in the charts. iTune downloads are available in 23 countries.
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Even though Apple Inc's iTunes is not available in India, the world's largest legal music download site has 17 Bollywood tracks among the top 100 (world music category) most downloaded tunes. Last Updated: September 10, 2008 15:00 ISTīollywood music is getting increasingly popular on global legal music sites.