Disco Deewane
The cover features Nazia Hassan holding a microphone.
Studio album by
Nazia Hassan
ReleasedApril 3, 1981 (1981-04-03)
StudioHMV India / Saregama Ltd Calcutta Studio
Genre
LabelHMV India/Saregama
ProducerBiddu
Nazia Hassan chronology
Disco Deewane
(1981) 		Star/Boom Boom
(1982)

Disco Deewane (Urdu: ڈسکو دیوانے) is a 1981 Pakistani pop album released by Pakistani singer Nazia Hassan.[1] The music was composed by Indian-British music director Biddu[2] who also produced it under the label of HMV India/Saregama. It charted in fourteen countries worldwide and became the best-selling Asian pop record to-date.[3] The debut album led Nazia Hasan to overnight fame. It changed trends in music across South Asia, where it broke sales records. In India, it sold 100,000 records within a day of its release in Mumbai alone, went Platinum within three weeks,[4][5] and went Double-Platinum soon after.[6]

In South Asia, where the music industry was previously dominated by filmi Bollywood soundtracks, Disco Deewaane was the first non-soundtrack album to become a major success across the region, paving the way for the emergence of independent Pakistani and Indian pop music scenes.[3][4] It was also the first South Asian pop album to top the charts in Brazil,[3] while also becoming a hit in Russia, South Africa, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia and Latin America, and a success among the South Asian diaspora in regions such as Canada, the United Kingdom, United States, and West Indies.[5]

This song also appeared on the soundtrack of the series Ms. Marvel in Seeing Red, and was remixed in the Bollywood movie Student of the Year as "The Disco Song".

Track listing

Back cover of album "Disco Deewane"
No.TitleLyricsMusicSinger(s)Length
1."Aao Na"Nazia Hassan and Zoheb HassanBidduNazia Hassan4:07
2."Disco Deewane" (I)Anwar KhalidBidduNazia4:00
3."Leykin Mera Dil"Nazia and ZohebBidduNazia4:02
4."Mujhe Chahay"MeeraJiBidduNazia and Zoheb3:43
5."Komal"Farooq QaiserArshad MehmoodNazia3:43
6."Teray Qadmon Ko"Nigar SebhaiBidduNazia and Zoheb3:30
7."Dil Mera"Nazia and ZohebBidduNazia4:24
8."Dhundli Raat"MeerajiZoheb and MehmoodNazia 
9."Gaein Milkar"Anwar KhalidZoheb and MehmoodNazia 
10."Disco Deewane" (II)  Nazia4:03

Credits

Music directors

Most of the songs were composed by Biddu[7]

Lyricists

Cover versions

Dreamer Devané

Nazia Hassan performed a remixed cover version of title track "Disco Deewane" in the English language, called "Dreamer Devané" (1983), which was released as a single. It became the first single by a Pakistani Female singer to enter the UK singles chart.[9]

Paara Ushar

In 1997, the title song "Disco Deewane" was reused in the Tamil song "Paara Ushar" sung by K.S. Chithra.[10][11][12]

The Disco Song

In 2012, a revamped cover version of the title song "Disco Deewane" was incorporated into the Indian Bollywood film Student of the Year.[13] Called "The Disco Song", it incorporates Nazia Hassan's vocals, along with the vocals of Sunidhi Chauhan and Benny Dayal, while the music video features Bollywood actors, such as Alia Bhatt, Sidharth Malhotra, Varun Dhawan and Kajol.

Director Karan Johar used the song in his 2012 film after licensing the song from Sa Re Ga Ma. It has been contested by Nazia Hassan's family, as they claim that HMV doesn't own the album because it was financed by them in London.

References

  1. ^ The Herald, Volume 38, Issues 7-9, 2007: "It would not be amiss to say that music was never the same again after "Aap Jaisa Koi..." Over the next several years Nazia and Zoheb continued to rock not just the Pakistani but also the Indian disco scene. Disco Deewane that broke sales records across the subcontinent was followed by four more albums - Boom Boom, Young Tarang, Hotline and Camera Camera - released between 1982 and 1992. They were also pioneering enough to release videos of their tracks — another first."
  2. ^ "Nazia Hassan, Biddu - Disco Deewane". Discogs. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  3. ^ a b c Sangita Gopal & Sujata Moorti (2008). Global Bollywood: travels of Hindi song and dance. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 98–9. ISBN 978-0-8166-4579-4. Retrieved 2011-06-07.
  4. ^ a b Asiaweek, Volume 7. Asiaweek. 1981. p. 39. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  5. ^ a b "Nazia-Biddu Team - 'Disco Deewane': Hit In Hindu". Billboard. Vol. 93, no. 28. 18 July 1981. p. 70. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 2011-06-24.
  6. ^ "India Today". India Today. Thomson Living Media India Limited. 7 (13–16): lvii. 1982. More importantly, Nazia Hasan's Disco Deewane last year broke the popular industry myth that only film sound-tracks sell when sales of the non-film record shot past four lakh to make a double platinum.
  7. ^ "'We'd wonder how the girls could go out with five guys who smelt so much of onions'".
  8. ^ Saregama Ltd, HMV India (2 June 2020). "Music Label". Saregama/ HMV India. Archived from the original on 2018-02-10. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  9. ^ Abjorensen, Norman (2017). Historical Dictionary of Popular Music. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 23. ISBN 9781538102152.
  10. ^ "Disco Deewane" (Tamil Version) on YouTube, archived from the original on 2021-12-21, retrieved 2021-08-29
  11. ^ "Disco Deewane" (Tamil Version) on JioSaavn, 12 March 1997, retrieved 2021-09-05
  12. ^ "Disco Deewane" (Tamil Version) on Spotify, 12 March 1997, retrieved 2021-09-05
  13. ^ "Nazia's 'Disco Deewane' in KJo's Student of the Year". The Express Tribune. 6 September 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2012.
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