The winners of the first ever Gaana Awards 2013, an initiative by Times Internet, were announced today. Gaana Awards 2013 has honoured both the Indian and International music acts.The awards were selected on the basis of actual play-outs & consumption by millions of users across the digital platforms on Gaana.com. Gaana.com music service claims to have 9 million active monthly users and 6 million apps downloaded in about a year’s time. Gaana.com has 3 million registered users and growing with a content catalogue of over 3 million songs in more than 21 languages.
The Gaana Award, 2013 for “Most popular singer (male)” was awarded to Arijit Singh for the song “Tum Hi Ho” from Aashiqui 2. The Bollywood singing sensation Shreya Ghoshal won the maiden “Most popular singer (female)” for her singing rendition in Aashiqui 2. Aashiqui2 also swept the award for “Most popular Hindi Album.” The “Most popular Hindi Gaana” award was won by “Tum hi ho.” Priyanka Chopra won the “Most Popular International Gaana” for her chartbuster song ‘Exotic’. An innovative and interesting award category like ‘Fastest-to-First Song’ was awarded to ‘Badtameez dil’ from “Yeh Jawaani hai Deewani” and the “Most popular Tamil and Kannada” was given to ‘Vaanganna Vanakkanganna’ and ‘Thangali’ respectively.
On this occasion, Pawan Agarwal, Business Head, Gaana.com, said, “We take this as an opportunity to honor the best in the music fraternity for their contribution to music. The awards also reaffirm our commitment to our valuable listeners who have helped recognise the best talent through our pioneering Gaana Awards, 2013. Music in the digital space is growing at a rapid space. As a leader in this space, Gaana.com is committed to bring the best music experiences to our users. These awards are a token of appreciation on behalf of millions of our users who love great music. Gaana Awards, based on actual online music consumption, are poised to become the bellwether for the industry.”
