Originally posted by: Ashley.Tisdale
Not at all true 😆
Each music director had their own preferences in terms of singers because of the type of songs they made.
So Pritam generally preferred KK, Atif, Mohit Chauhan and for party songs it was Neeraj Shridhar and Mika.
Vishal-Shekhar got lots of western classical trained singers on board like Nikhil DSouza, Kunal and Gayatri Ganjawala. Vishal also sung a lot of his own songs.
Classic favourites were Sunidhi, Shreya, Shaan and Sonu.
Generally there was at least one song of Shreya and Sunidhi in every album, they were bigger than their male contemporaries imo.
Coming to Sonu, he did not have a music director pairing.
If we take two songs from major hit albums in which Sonu sang then:
If Sonu sang Nagada Nagada, you'd remember from JWM are Mauja Hi Mauja (Mika) and Ye Ishq Haaye (Shreya). The more popular version of Nagada was by Javed Ali.
In Partner, you'd remember are Soni De Nakhre (Labh Janjua) and Do You Want A Partner (Shaan and Udit). Even You're My Love was more popular than Maria Maria.
Even Dabangg, Tere Mast Mast (Rahat sahab) and Munni Badnaam Hui (Mamta Sharma) are the first two songs which will pop in your head. Then its Chori Kiya Re Jiya.
Out of all the songs Arsy's named, the only two memorable ones of Sonu during that time phase would be Shukran Allah, Zoobi-Doobi and Piyu Bole.
The fact remains that while Sonu always has been a great singer, post 2005 there were others who emerged and took the spot from him. And call it bad luck or whatsoever, but other songs from the film album did better. Even if he sang more songs, it didn't matter because other singers' songs did better.
Himesh's phase definitely impacted every singer at the time. I cannot remember a bigger genuine craze than Tera Suroor. HR's hype has to be the last organic and genuine hype there was, which actually lasted.
T-Series obviously would not hesitate to put in more money on HR and favour him because its business at the end of the day. And Sonu's tussle with them regarding royalties is a different issue. Other singers had already taken over before that.
And coming to the Royalty Issue, Recording Artists do not get royalties because they are not the Songwriters aka Composers and Lyricists. Its a global rule. Their earning happens from public performances amongst other ways.
Its a known rule and elaborating on this is...well...exhausting 😆
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