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Best Of Bollywood 2014 – Call For Your Rating
As 2014 draws to an end, we are getting into the list season. The Best Of Bollywood lists we drew up for 2012 and 2013 are immensely popular and understandably so. Many of us don’t have as much time as we would like to immerse ourselves in music and a crowd-sourced “best of” list is…
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Film Credits On MySwar
Since MySwar launched 2011, we have steadfastly focused on crediting musicians making Hindi film music – music directors, lyricists, singers and when the information was available, arrangers, assistants, instrumentalists and so on. We believe that musician credits is a sadly overlooked aspect of music metadata in India. That is the reason you didn’t see any credits…
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MySwar App Update On iOS – Going Free!
We released a new version of the MySwar app on iOS yesterday. This update makes the app free and displays banner ads. There is an option to make an in-app purchase to remove the ads for a period of 1 year (Upgrade option in Settings). We realize that some of you have purchased the app only recently…
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2013 Bollywood Music Review
Another eventful year had come to an end and it’s time to take stock of year that was for Hindi film music. We did a similar review last year, if you’re interested. 2013 saw the release of 154 films with 999 songs between them. We lost a number of artists in 2013. Some were young…
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The Top 100 Bollywood Songs Of 2013
So here it is finally – the 100 best rated film songs on MySwar in 2013: Piya Milenge (Raanjhanaa) Khushamdeed (Go Goa Gone) Sawar Loon (Lootera) Manjha (Kai Po Che) Shubhaarambh (Kai Po Che) Murshid Khele Holi (D-Day) Ankahee (Lootera) Meethi Boliyan (Kai Po Che) Manmarziyan (Lootera) Zinda (Lootera) Shikayatein (Lootera) Alvida (D-Day) Kabira Encore…
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What Are Your Favourite Bollywood Songs Of 2013?
As 2013 draws to a close, it is time to review the best songs that came out this year. Last year’s post of The Top 100 Bollywood Songs Of 2012 is amongst our most popular posts and if you haven’t already seen it you might want to visit it because you’ll likely find some wonderful…
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2012 Bollywood Music Review
MySwar has a lot of data on Bollywood music over 2012 and we thought it would be fun to see what the data told us. So here goes: Number of film music albums released: 123 Number of songs: 843 Artists who passed away in 2012: Mehdi Hassan, Ravi, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Anil Mohile, Shahryar Notable…
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Mavrix Monthly Update November 2012
A quick note on what we shipped last month: Filters: All pages that have album or song listings, now have filters. For example, if you are browsing the list of albums released in 2012, and you want to see the films for which Pritam composed the music that year, Click on Filter, enter Pritam as Music Director…
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Playlists – Now on MySwar!
We have playlists on MySwar now! To save you the trouble of individually picking songs for the playlists, we’re rolling out a bunch of pre-packaged ones. You can find the Playlist button all over our website. Here is a list of the types of playlists we have for you: Album playlist – Playlist button on…
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What’s Your Bollywood Music Quotient
How well do you know your Bollywood music? Try out this quiz and find out. [polldaddy survey=”D44FF460D0D14DD7″ type=”button” title=”Take The Quiz!” style=”rounded” text_color=”121AFF” back_color=”78C2FA”] If you need help, try these: Yeh Dosti Hum Nahin Chhodenge Mujhe Pyar Tumse Nahi Kishore Kumar Black’s vocal track Allah Ke Bande Kuch Na Kaho (Female version) Shankar – Jaikishan…