Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p ""Chammak Challo" is a song composed by music director duo Vishal-Shekhar and Giorgio Tuinfort as a part of the soundtrack for the 2011 Bollywood film Ra.One. The female vocals were provided by Hamsika Iyer while male vocals were provided by Akon: It is his first musical collaboration with Indian artists. There are four other versions of the song in the album, including a remix by Abhijit Vaghani, another remix by DJ Khushi and an international version sung solely by Akon. The song, along with the rest of the soundtrack, was officially released on 12 September 2011. However, the song faced controversy when the rough version was leaked on the Internet on 31 May 2011."Chammak Challo" was dubbed as the "trademark of Ra.One's publicity campaign". The song was named the most downloaded song and video of the year in India in a survey by wireless telephone major Airtel. It was rated as the best item number of 2011 in a Mid Day poll. The song also topped the MirchiTop 100 charts as the song of year. "Chammak Challo" also entered the Top 10 "World Songs" list of iTunes in eight countries, reaching No. 1 at three of them. Due to the extremely positive response for the song, Akon decided to branch out and make tracks especially for Bollywood projects and wanted to have a dedicated branch to produce music for Bollywood with local talent. Subsequently, Akon received a nomination for Best Playback Singer (male) at the 2012 Filmfare Awards. According to the insider report, Akon was paid 350K USD to sing this song."@en }
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- Chammak_Challo abstract ""Chammak Challo" is a song composed by music director duo Vishal-Shekhar and Giorgio Tuinfort as a part of the soundtrack for the 2011 Bollywood film Ra.One. The female vocals were provided by Hamsika Iyer while male vocals were provided by Akon: It is his first musical collaboration with Indian artists. There are four other versions of the song in the album, including a remix by Abhijit Vaghani, another remix by DJ Khushi and an international version sung solely by Akon. The song, along with the rest of the soundtrack, was officially released on 12 September 2011. However, the song faced controversy when the rough version was leaked on the Internet on 31 May 2011."Chammak Challo" was dubbed as the "trademark of Ra.One's publicity campaign". The song was named the most downloaded song and video of the year in India in a survey by wireless telephone major Airtel. It was rated as the best item number of 2011 in a Mid Day poll. The song also topped the MirchiTop 100 charts as the song of year. "Chammak Challo" also entered the Top 10 "World Songs" list of iTunes in eight countries, reaching No. 1 at three of them. Due to the extremely positive response for the song, Akon decided to branch out and make tracks especially for Bollywood projects and wanted to have a dedicated branch to produce music for Bollywood with local talent. Subsequently, Akon received a nomination for Best Playback Singer (male) at the 2012 Filmfare Awards. According to the insider report, Akon was paid 350K USD to sing this song.".