List of Binaca Geetmala records
Binaca Geetmala was an Indian popular radio programme in Radio Ceylon and they annually ranked the most popular songs from Bollywood films from 1954 till 1994. The following is a complete record of best performing singers, lyricists and composers:
Singers with most number one songs
Lata Mangeshkar - 22
Mohammed Rafi - 8
Kishore Kumar, Mukesh - 6
Asha Bhosle, Alka Yagnik - 3
Anuradha Paudwal, Kumar Sanu - 2
Geeta Dutt, Talat Mahmud, Hemant Kumar, Manna Dey, Hemlata, Vyjayanthimala, Amitabh Bachchan, Ila Arun, Udit Narayan, Shabbir Kumar, Pankaj Udhas, S P Balasubrahmanyam, Manhar Udhas, Mohammed Aziz - 1
Actors with most number one songs
Amitabh Bachchan - 7
Dev Anand, Madhuri Dixit, Zeemat Aman, Rajesh Khanna, Sanjay Dutt - 3
Salman Khan, Jaya Bhaduri, Rajendra Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Vyjayanthimala, Nutan, Sunil Dutt, Waheeda Rahman, Rakhee - 2
Composers with most number one songs
Laxmikant-Pyarelal - 11
Shankar Jaikishan - 6
Kalyanji-Anandji - 5
S. D. Burman - 3
Roshan, Ravindra Jain and Nadeem-Shravan - 2
Lyricists with most number one songs
Anand Bakshi - 9
Majrooh Sultanpuri - 6
Sahir Ludhianvi - 5
Anjaan, Hasrat Jaipuri - 4
Shailendra, Rajender Krishan, Sameer - 2
Singers with most songs
Lata Mangeshkar - 322
Mohammed Rafi - 220
Kishore Kumar - 217
Asha Bhosle - 144
Mukesh - 59
Mahendra Kapoor - 24
Shabbir Kumar - 20
Manna Dey - 15
Geeta Dutt and Mohammed Aziz - 11
Hemant Kumar, Suresh Wadkar - 10
Composers with most songs
Laxmikant-Pyarelal - 174
Shankar Jaikishan - 133
R. D. Burman - 118
Kalyanji-Anandji - 74
S. D. Burman - 55
Ravi - 46
BappI Lahiri - 44
Naushad - 34
O. P. Nayyar - 33
Rajesh Roshan - 28
Madan Mohan -24
Roshan - 17
Salil Chowdhury - 15
Hemant Kumar - 14
Usha Khanna - 12
C. Ramachandra and Chitragupta - 8
N. Dutta, Khayyam, Ravindra Jain and Vasant Desai - 7 each
Anu Malik - 6
Jaidev, Biddu - 5
Sonic-Omi and Ghulam Mohammed- 3
Sardar Malik, Shiv-Hari, Uttam-Jagdish, S. N. Tripathi, Jagjit Singh - 2
Lyricists with most songs
Anand Bakshi - 193
Majrooh Sultanpuri - 102
Hasrat Jaipuri - 74
Indeevar - 65
Shailendra - 57
Sahir Ludhianvi - 42
Shakeel Badayuni - 40
Anjaan - 22
Gulshan Bawra - 20
Gulzar - 15
S H Bihari and Bharat Vyas - 12
Prem Dhawan - 11
Raja Mehndi Ali Khan - 10
Neeraj and Verma Malik - 8
Qamar Jalalabadi and Javed Akhtar - 7
Ravindra Jain - 6
Pradeep, Farooq Kaiser, Santosh Anand, Hasan Kamal, Sawan Kumar - 5
Asad Bhopali, Jaan Nisar Akhtar, Asad Bhopali - 4
Amir Qazalbash - 3
Yogesh, Shaharyar, Amit Khanna, M G Hashmat, Naqsh Llayalpuri, Pt Narendra Sharma - 2 each