ISLAMABAD: Pakistani singer Ali Sethi’s hit number ‘Pasoori’ has topped Google’s hum-to-search category in 2022, leaving behind BTS’s ‘Butter,’ Aditya A’s ‘Chand Baliyan,’ ‘Heat Waves’ by Glass Animals and ‘Enemy’ by Imagine Dragons.
Google on Wednesday released its ‘Year in Search 2022,’ providing a snapshot of key interests and trends in the past eleven months, based on its search activity. The hum-to-search feature allows users to hum, whistle, or sing the melody of a song by using the microphone icon on Google Search. Google then identifies potential matches for the song.
Conceptualized as a fusion of pop and folk music, Pasoori is about letting go of worries. The Punjabi-language song was released on February 6 this year as part of Coke Studio Pakistan’s Season 14.
“The most Googled music worldwide this year is Pakistani singer Ali Sethi’s viral hit Pasoori,” read an Instagram post shared by Sethi on Wednesday.
Sung for Coke Studio together with Shae Gill, Pasoori has also ranked second among Google’s most-searched songs in 2022 and has amassed 457 million views on YouTube.
Earlier it also became the first Pakistani song to rank third on Spotify’s Global Viral 50 list.
The most searched song on Google for this year is the Indonesian number ‘Tak Ingin Usai’ by Keisya Levronka.
