The finalists for the Aga Khan Music Awards (AKMA) 2025 have been announced, bringing global attention to a diverse line-up of artists whose work reflects both tradition and innovation. Among the 22 ...

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Arooj Aftab became the first Pakistani Grammy winner when she took home the global music performance award for her song “Mohabbat” in 2022. A year later, actor and singer Diljit Dosanjh stepped onto ...

Pakistani music is reaching global audiences at an unprecedented pace, with new data indicating a sharp rise in international streaming over the past five years.The trend became particularly visible ...

A few years ago, the musician Ali Sethi was driving through Punjab, behind a jingle truck—the long-haul trucks known in his native Pakistan for their filigreed paint designs—when he spotted a phrase ...

Disney+ show "Ms. Marvel" has brought global attention to Pakistani music. But, in the early 2010s, Pakistan's music industry was on its knees. Coca-Cola and Pepsi stepped in with TV shows like "Coke ...

Spotify completed five years of operation in Pakistan towards the end of February, and as we’ve come to expect, they marked ...

U.A.E.-based platform Begin has secured worldwide streaming rights to “Pakistan Idol,” expanding the South Asian music competition series beyond its local market to international territories including ...

Walking into a relatively quiet café in Lahore, a bespectacled Abdullah Siddiqui is dressed all in black with a pair of headphones wrapped around his neck. He greets me shyly while pulling out a chair ...

Spotify has completed five years in Pakistan, reporting significant growth in listenership, playlist creation, and engagement ...

To celebrate five years in Pakistan, Spotify released on Thursday statistics about its users in the country and what they listen to. Since the music streaming platform launched in 2021, listeners have ...

While conflict raged between the powerful militaries of India and Pakistan, a battle was also fought on the cultural front lines despite years of shared love for films and music. The deadly fighting ...