{"id":72059,"date":"2025-05-31T16:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T07:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2025\/may\/31\/arijit-singh-first-indian-musician-headline-uk-stadium"},"modified":"2025-05-31T16:00:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T07:00:36","slug":"once-in-a-generation-artist-arijit-singh-to-be-first-indian-musician-to-headline-uk-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72059","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Once-in-a-generation artist\u2019 Arijit Singh to be first Indian musician to headline UK stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bengali singer who has more Spotify followers than Taylor Swift to bring \u2018sheer power\u2019 to same London stage as Beyonc\u00e9<\/p>\n<p>Sitting ahead of US pop megastars Olivia Rodrigo, Doechii and Gracie Abrams in the list of most-listened-to artists on Spotify around the world each month \u2013 and just one place behind Harry Styles \u2013 is a man that most British listeners have probably never heard of: the Bengali artist Arijit Singh.<\/p>\n<p>He has never had a song in the UK Top 100 singles or albums charts, yet thanks to a passionate fan base in the Indian diaspora, he is to become the first Indian musician to play a UK stadium concert.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2025\/may\/31\/arijit-singh-first-indian-musician-headline-uk-stadium\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengali singer who has more Spotify followers than Taylor Swift to bring \u2018sheer power\u2019 to same London stage as Beyonc\u00e9Sitting ahead of US pop megastars Olivia Rodrigo, Doechii and Gracie Abrams in the list of most-listened-to artists on Spotify around &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[505,1635,71,69,62,425,1032,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bollywood","category-classical-music","category-culture","category-film","category-india","category-music","category-pop-and-rock","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72060,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72059\/revisions\/72060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}