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Here is what Punjabi Music Industry contributed to Bollywood

Months ago, a video was released on varun Grover’s youtube channel, title of the video was “ hme credit de do yaar ”, that video featured 15 contemporary lyricists of Bollywood such as manoj muntashir, swanand kirkire, Sameer anjan, Amitabh bhattacharya, kausar munir, and Varun grover also. According to the description of video “on official youtube channels of every big music company, hundereds of song videos have wrong or missing credits of lyrics writers.” So they urged to music streaming apps/ platforms to give proper credit to lyricists also. According to them, currently no music streaming apps/platforms has any algorithm of prominently displaying lyrics credits or making a song searchable by lyricist’s name. Some days ago, when my cousin asked me “why almost every Punjabi songs have “jaani” word”. That time, I thought that this question could be the best answer to that video. Punjabi music Industry has done a great job of recognizing not only their singers but also lyricists a...