Disco Deewane

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Disco Deewane (Urdu: ڈسکو دیوانے) is a 1981 Pakistani pop album released by the Pakistani singing duo, Nazia and Zoheb, comprising Nazia Hassan and Zoheb Hassan, sister and brother respectively. The music was composed by Indian-British music director Biddu who also produced it under the label of HMV India/Saregama. The album charted in fourteen countries worldwide and became the best-selling Asian pop record to date. The debut album led Nazia Hasan to overnight fame. It changed trends in music across South Asia, where it broke sales record. In India, it sold 100,000 records within a day of its release in Mumbai alone, went Platinum within three week, and went Double-Platinum soon after. In South Asia, where the music industry was previously dominated by filmi Bollywood soundtrack, 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 scene. It was also the first South Asian pop album to top the charts in Brazil, while also becoming a hit in Russia, South Africa, Philippine, Malaysia, Indonesia and Latin America, and a success among the South Asian diaspora in regions such as Canada, the United Kingdom, United State, and West Indie. .

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