India's best-selling album sold 5.5 crore copies, how an 'accidental singer' beat Diljit Dosanjh, AR Rahman, Sonu Nigam

Indian music saw a boom in sales, both with film music and the newly started Indipop in the 1990s. With a proliferation of record labels, albums routinely began to cross a million units in sales, and occasionally, one album even crossed 10 million, a mark earlier considered unattainable.

But the boom lasted all of 15 years, when streaming platforms killed physical sales and changed the parameters of musical success. But that time period was enough for an 'accidental singer' to set a sales record that is unlikely to ever be broken. He sold 55 million copies of a cult album that remains India's best-selling for close to two decades.

The music videos were also huge hits, with Deepika Padukone making her screen debut in the video for the song Naam Hai Tera. The success of the album led to a film with the same title. The film Aap Kaa Surroor marked Himesh's acting debut alongside Hansika Motwani and Malika Sherawat. A sequel, Teraa Surroor, was released in 2016.