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The music of the Kannada-language movie industry brings all the vibrance and variety you might well expect. Top composers and playback favourites come together to create memorable melodies overlaid with touching lyricism, leaving space for notes of pop, rock, hip-hop and more to add some spice to the mix. Our editors regularly update this playlist, so if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

These are the best of Malayalam's latest, both from Mollywood film soundtracks and dubbed Malayalam tracks from the rest of India's vibrant cinemas. Slow heartbreakers swell into dreamy, romantic numbers and fun, pop-inspired action hooks from the films' most climactic scenes. This playlist is updated regularly, so if you like a song, add it to your library.

A deluge of talent has been flooding onto the Telugu film music scene. Artists breaking through to the upper echelons include confident new playback singers and seasoned composers, who can always be relied on to come up with fresh bangers perfect for singing (or dancing) along. This playlist is updated regularly, so if you like a song, add it to your library.

Today’s Tamil film music includes a nod to its traditional roots, but it also mines a rich vein of worldwide trends, including EDM, pop, hip-hop and more. In this collection of current hits, soulful choruses pair with orchestral interludes while chunky synths add dance beats to well-timed bass drops. This playlist is updated regularly—if you like a song, add it to your library.

In the past, Bollywood dictated the sound of Indian popular music. Today, an independent scene flourishes with fresh talent, resulting in a rapidly diversifying movement that serves as an alternative to movie soundtracks. Consider this a taster’s menu of the cream of the crop for your listening pleasure. We regularly update this playlist, so if you like a track, add it to your library.

Bollywood songs have an unmistakable sense of language and melody. From intricate, metaphor-heavy poetry to charged-up electronic beats mashed with folk rhythms, these numbers elevate the mood of films across the industry. Our collection of Bollywood Hits is updated regularly. If you hear something you like, add it to your library.

Punjabi bhangra, pop and hip-hop makes the world go around. The music resonates far beyond India’s borders, with Canada, UK, Australia and other diasporic communities fuelling its popularity. With a buoyant sonic aesthetic at their core, these songs encompass pride, love and life’s peaks and valleys, fitting any mood. This Punjabi Hits playlist is updated regularly so if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

Each week, our editors round up the best new Punjabi tracks. You’ll find them all right here. We update this playlist regularly, so if you hear something you like, add it to your library.

Today’s Hits is home to the biggest songs in pop, hip-hop, R&B and more. Here are the biggest hits anywhere and everywhere—an ever-changing snapshot of now. At the top of this week’s playlist is Mariah the Scientist’s “Burning Blue”. The smouldering ballad finds the singer-songwriter singing about a lover who melts her heart despite being jaded. “I got that blue fever/Cold as ice till you came near/You’re like another fire-breathing creature/But it don’t burn how it appears,” she lilts on the first verse. Mariah compares the intensity of being in love to the level of combustion that yields a blue flame—an idea which could only have been written by a woman who was once a biology major. Our editors are constantly searching for new music and updating this mix—so if you hear a song you like, add it to your library.

Rap Life is home to hip-hop's heavy hitters and its vanguard—the songs that speak to the moment and define the culture today. This week, that means a link-up between one of the game’s most accomplished elder statesmen and one of its most promising new stars. “Me N OG Snoop” is a cross-generational banger from the one and only Snoop Dogg and Sexyy Red. The track appears on Snoop’s recently released <i>Iz It a Crime?</i>, the follow-up to last year’s Dr. Dre collaboration <i>Missionary</i>. He might not have Dre co-piloting this go, but as “Me N OG Snoop” proves, there’s no shortage of talent eager to work with a legend. Hear it on the Rap Life playlist, and if you hear something you like, add it to your library.