Filmfare Award for Best Male Playback Singer


The Filmfare Best Male Playback Singer Award is given by Indian film magazine Filmfare as a part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films, to recognise a male playback singer who has delivered an outstanding performance in a film song.
Although the Filmfare Awards started in 1954, awards for the best playback singer category started in 1959. From inception of the category through 1967, both the female and male singers used to compete for a single award, after which separate categories were created for female and male singers respectively.

Superlatives

SuperlativeArtistRecord
Most awardsKishore Kumar8
Most nominationsKishore Kumar28
Most consecutive winsKumar Sanu, Arijit Singh5
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Most decadesUdit Narayan3
First WinnerMukesh1960
Most nominations without ever winningKK7
Most nominations in a single yearKishore Kumar 4
Oldest winnerKishore Kumar 57
Oldest nomineeKishore Kumar 57
Youngest winnerArijit Singh26
Youngest nomineeMaster Vignesh 11

Kishore Kumar won the award the maximum number of times 8 in this category, whereas Mohammad Rafi & Arijit Singh won it 6 times each. Kumar Sanu & Udit Narayan have won the award 5 times each. Mukesh has won this award four times. Mahendra Kapoor have won it thrice.
Mohammad Rafi dominated the 60's with 5 wins. Mukesh, Kishore Kumar had the highest win during 70's winning the award 3 times each. Kishore Kumar continued domination during 80's with 5 wins. Kumar Sanu dominated the 1990s with most 5 consecutive wins from 1990 to 1995. Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam and Shaan sharing 2 awards among each other in 2000s. Arijit Singh dominated 2010's with 6 wins among them 5 consecutive wins from 2016 to 2020.
Kishore Kumar has most nomination followed by Mohammad Rafi and Udit Narayan. Sonu Nigam, Arijit Singh, Mukesh & Kumar Sanu are among others.
Udit Narayan holds a unique record of receiving nominations in this category in 3 different decades and getting award in all 3 different decades also the only singer of different origin to win 5 times till date. Arijit Singh & Kumar Sanu holds the record for most consecutive wins, five times in a row. Coincidentally, the songs for which Kumar Sanu won the awards, their music also won the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director. Kishore Kumar won the award four times in a row from 1983 to 1986.
Mukesh is the only playback singer who won this award posthumously.
Himesh Reshammiya became the first music director to win this award in 2006.
Two singers have achieved the feat of receiving all the nominations of this category in a particular year: Mohammed Rafi was the single nominee in 1969, having all the three nominations to his credit, while Kishore Kumar was the single nominee in 1985, having all the four nominations to his credit. Incidentally, Kishore Kumar's all nominated songs were from a single movie, Sharaabi.

Most wins

Most consecutive wins

Multiple nominees

Winners and nominees

Indicates the winner

1950s

Note: The category for Best Playback Singer was established in 1959, and until 1967 both male and female singers used to compete for a single award.

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

YearPhotos of winnersSingerSongFilm
2020
Arijit Singh "Kalank"Kalank
2020
Arijit Singh"Ve Maahi"Kesari
2020
Nakash Aziz"Slow Motion"Bharat
2020
B Praak"Teri Mitti"Kesari
2020
Sachet Tandon"Bekhayali"Kabir Singh
2020
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