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Binaca Geetmala was a highly popular radio countdown show of songs from Indian cinema that was broadcast on Radio Ceylon from 1952 to 1994. It was the first radio countdown show of Indian film songs,[1] and has been quoted as being the most popular radio program in India during its run. [2] Movie poster for one of Bollywoods most popular films—Sholay (1975) Bollywood (Hindi: बॉलीवà¥à¤¡Ù )is the informal name given to the popular Mumbai-based Hindi language film industry in India. ...
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On a weekly basis, the program ranked the most popular Hindi film songs, based on record sales, listener requests and lists prepared by music clubs in India. At its onset in 1952, the program did not rank songs, but rather played seven contemporary songs in no particular order. [3] It moved on to become a countdown based show, with songs being played as they were ranked. The first countdown show's topper in 1954 was Talat Mahmood’s Jayen to jayen kahan from the film Taxi Driver.[4] The program terminated the year with a list of the top 30-40 songs, that were tallied and presented over the last two Wednesdays of the year. Hindi (हिनà¥à¤¦à¥€ or हिंदी in DevanÄgarÄ«; pronunciation: ), an Indo-European language spoken mainly in northern and central India, is one of the official languages of the Union government of India. ...
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The show was hosted during its entire run by Ameen Sayani, and was very popular in India, with estimated listenership ranging from 900,000 to 2,000,000.[1] It greatly increased the popularity of Radio Ceylon, making it the primary source of popular film music on radio for the Indian subcontinent.[5] Similar American radio shows include American Top 40 playing the Billboard Hot 100. Ameen Sayani was probarbly one of the most famous popular announcer from India. ...
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. ...
The show later aired on Vividh Bharati initially as Cibaca Sangeetmala, and later as Cibaca Geetmala and Colgate Cibaca Geetmala.[4] // Overview All India Radio (AIR for short), officially known as Akashwani (Devanagari: आकाशवाणी, ÄkÄshvÄnÄ«) is the radio broadcaster of India and a division of Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India), an autonomous corporation of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. ...
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Lists of top songs per year
1954: jayen to jayen kahan 1955: mera joota hai japani 1956: ae dil hai mushkil 1957: zara samne to aao 1958: hai apna dil 1959: haal kaisa hai 1960: zindagi bhar nahin ...more later
See also Ameen Sayani was probarbly one of the most famous popular announcer from India. ...
A Radio Jockey or RJ is a person who hosts a Radio Talk Show, where he/she selects the music to be played by interacting with the audience via telephone. ...
References - ^ a b Back on air with Geetmala. Bella Jaisinghani. The Financial Express (India), Sunday, March 11, 2001. Transcript available online at [1], accessed online on 29 July 2006
- ^ "Comeback for radio countdown show". Retrieved on 2006-07-29.
- ^ "Radio speak with Ameen Sayani", exchange4media.com Radio Channel. Retrieved on 2006-07-29.
- ^ a b Reliving the Geetmala lore. S.K. Screen, Friday, September 22, 2000, transcript available online at [2], accessed online on 29 July 2006
- ^ Sambandan, V.S., "When Ceylon ruled the airwaves", The Hindu, 2006-01-01. Retrieved on 2006-07-29.
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