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Shreya Ghoshal’s 65.5% Was the Biggest Win of IFTA 2026

By Saloni Sharma

Updated on November 3, 2026
IST 10:24 am

No winner in any of the 30 IFTA 2026 categories took a bigger share of the vote. She led with every group of voters.

The biggest winning share of IFTA 2026

Twelve singers were on the ballot for Most Popular Female Playback Singer at IFTA 2026. One of them took more votes than all the others combined.

Shreya Ghoshal (Saiyaara) won with 2,057 of 3,139 verified votes, 65.5%. The runner-up, Jasmine Sandlas (Dhurandhar), got 12.5%. The winner’s share was 5.2 times the runner-up’s.

Shreya Ghoshal won for the female reprise of the Saiyaara title track. Her share, 65.5%, is the highest of any winner across all 30 IFTA 2026 categories. Saiyaara’s three singers in this category together took 74.5% of the vote.

Shreya Ghoshal, winner of Most Popular Female Playback Singer 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 2,455 of the 3,139 votes (78%). Shreya Ghoshal won 67.9% of women’s votes and 56.8% of men’s.
Voters under 25 cast 75% of all votes. The biggest single group was voters aged 18–24 (1,660 votes).
Women aged 12–17 were Shreya Ghoshal’s strongest group: 72.6% of their 610 votes went to Shreya Ghoshal.
66% of Shreya Ghoshal’s votes came from women under 25 (1,350 of 2,057).

Shreya Ghoshal led in every age group with at least 30 voters.

Same winner, different second choices

Shreya Ghoshal won with women (67.9%) and with men (56.8%). Both put Jasmine Sandlas second (11.7% of women, 15.7% of men).

Simar Kaur: 1.7% of women’s votes, 6.3% of men’s, 3.8 times as popular with men.
Nikhita Gandhi: 1.2% of women’s votes, 3.4% of men’s, 2.8 times as popular with men.
Shilpa Rao: 4.7% of women’s votes, 2.2% of men’s, about twice as popular with women.
Parampara Tandon: 5.3% of women’s votes, 3.0% of men’s, 1.8 times as popular with women.

Across IFTA 2026

Saiyaara won five Bollywood categories at IFTA 2026, including Most Popular Bollywood Song for its title track.

In the voters’ own words

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

“She is my favorite singer. 🩷”
“Best female singer ever”
“Sweet voice”

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 Female Playback Singer result, or all results: Bollywood · OTT · Television

All vote figures from the IFTA 2026 Most Popular Female Playback Singer results on PolBol (3,139 verified votes, results final). Group figures are as published there; combined totals are added up from the published counts. Nominee images: IFTA 2026.