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The top two songs both came from Saiyaara, 69 votes apart. Together they took 44.7% of 3,123 votes.

Saiyaara against Saiyaara

Fifteen songs were on the ballot for Most Popular Bollywood Song at IFTA 2026.

The Saiyaara title track won with 732 of 3,123 verified votes, 23.4%. The runner-up, Barbaad (Saiyaara), got 21.2%. The gap was just 69 votes.

Barbaad got 663 votes to the title track’s 732. The Dhurandhar title track was third with 13.6%.

the Saiyaara title track, winner of Most Popular Bollywood Song at IFTA 2026

Who decided it

Every IFTA vote is OTP-verified, one per WhatsApp number per category, and every voter’s age and gender is recorded at sign-up. So this is not a survey sample. It is the full count of who voted.

Women cast 2,501 of the 3,123 votes (80%). The Saiyaara title track won 23.7% of women’s votes and 22.2% of men’s.
Voters under 25 cast 77% of all votes. The biggest single group was voters aged 18–24 (1,708 votes).
Women aged 35–44 were the Saiyaara title track’s strongest group: 25.6% of their 121 votes went to the Saiyaara title track.
63% of the Saiyaara title track’s votes came from women under 25 (463 of 732).

Teenagers were the one group that preferred Barbaad: it led among voters aged 12–17 with 24.0%.

Same winner, different second choices

The Saiyaara title track won with women (23.7%) and with men (22.2%). Below the winner, women put Barbaad second (22.6%) and men put the Dhurandhar title track second (17.7%).

The Tere Ishk Mein title track: 2.6% of women’s votes, 5.6% of men’s, about twice as popular with men.
Preet Re: 8.8% of women’s votes, 5.6% of men’s, 1.6 times as popular with women.
Barbaad: 22.6% of women’s votes, 15.4% of men’s, 1.5 times as popular with women.

Across IFTA 2026

Saiyaara’s music did well across IFTA 2026. Shreya Ghoshal won Most Popular Female Playback Singer for the film’s female reprise, with 65.5%, the biggest winning share of all 30 categories.

In the voters’ own words

Voters could add a reason with their vote. A few of them:

“I am emotionally connected this song so I voting this song 😊”
“I just lovee thiss song 🤌🏻🥹🤌🏻”
“Loving song”

This is not a ratings chart or a critics’ list. It measures which audience turned up to vote, and how hard.

See the full results

IFTA 2026 voting has closed and the results are in. No jury, no award fixing: every winner was decided by India’s votes. See the full Most Popular Bollywood Song result, or all results: Bollywood · OTT · Television

All vote figures from the IFTA 2026 Most Popular Bollywood Song results on PolBol (3,123 verified votes, results final). Group figures are as published there; combined totals are added up from the published counts. Nominee images: IFTA 2026.