Continuing its tradition of empowering our surfers, Bollywood Hungama brings to you a first-of-its kind Music Awards, that's based on an online polling from surfers across the globe. We are sure that even the late Abraham Lincoln must be extremely happy with these awards, for these awards reflect his ideology, which is, 'Of the people' and 'By the people'. The USP of these awards is that there are no judges and panelists. It's YOU guys who have chosen the deserving winner. Moreover, though online, this is also the First award ceremony for the year 2008.

(In order to ensure zero spamming and nullify multiple votings, we made the voting system to pass through a fool-proof 3-step process of Email Validation, Cookie Check and IP check)

Best Soundtrack

Here's the first award, which is for the 'Best Soundtrack', and which quite deservingly goes to Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na! The film's music was composed by none other than music maestro A.R. Rahman himself. The soundtrack of this film swayed back the listeners to a nostalgic trip of the melodious 'Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak' days! Even though the chartbuster track 'Aditi' (sung by the debutante Rashid Ali) got itself the honour of being hailed as the sweet love anthem, all the other tracks in the album equally struck the right chord with the listeners.

When Bollywood Hungama spoke to the legendary Rahman himself about this achievement, he said, It feels really good when the hard work and sincerity one puts in a song is appreciated. Thanks to your website (www.bollywoodhungama.com) and all the voters for the love and the awards."

While Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na walked away with the top honours, we have the first runner up in Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (with Salim Sulaiman as its composers) and the second runner up in Ghajini (Rahman again!). Even though the talented duo of Salim-Sulaiman faced some early criticism, they sailed their way into the hearts of the listeners 'Haule Haule'.

On the other hand, when you have the divine magical fingers of Rahman calling the (musical) shots in Ghajini, one can never go wrong on the tracks that simply gets (read 'mesmerizes') the listeners under its sway.

Based on the votes provided by our surfers and the validation done by us, the Award for the 'Music Company of the Year' goes to T-Series. While the Award for the 'Music Director of the Year' goes to A.R.Rahman.

Best Song

They say 'If Music be the food of life, then play on'. Well, it's indeed 'Play On' time for the entire gang of Jaane TuYa Jaane Na, for the reason that it's 'Aditi time' again at the winner's desk and this time, it's for the 'Best Song'. Well, with names like Aamir Khan, A. R. Rahman, Imran Khan, Genelia D'Souza and the icing on the cake being in the form of the sea-breezy cool vocals of the debutante Rashid Ali, can things evergo wrong !

While its 'Kabhi Kabhi Aditi' at the top, let us also put our hands together for the first runner up: the super melodious 'Haule Haule' from Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, and also for second runner up position, that's gracefully held by the 'Love-meets-eternity' song of the decade 'Guzarish' from the super hit film Ghajini.

Best Male Playback Singer

After having crowned the Best Soundtrack, its time for us to move onto the next category, which is the 'Best Male Playback Singer'.

While the first runner-up of this award happened to be Atif Aslam, whose 'mellow-dious' rendition of 'Pehli Nazar', till date, reignites the magic of first love, the second runner-up was the debutante Rashid Ali, whose rendition of 'Aditi' not just gave all the Aditis the world over a reason to smile about, but also the listeners a reason to feel proud about!

Best Music Video

While 'Haule Haule' from Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi bagged the second place, 'Pappu Cant Dance Saala' from Jaane TuYa Jaane Naa, came third.

When Bollywood Hungama asked the ace director Abbas Tyrewala, as to how he felt about 'Pappu Cant Dance' being featured in the Top 3 in the Best Music Video category, he said, "Frankly speaking I don't know how I feel. I don't think I've shot 'Pappu Can't Dance' really well but I guess it's due to the popularity of the song that it featured in the Top 3 in the 'Best Music Video' category. Honestly, I am much happier about 'Kabhi Kabhi Aditi' bagging the Best Song award. That means a lot more to me.