Race Gurram is the feature film soundtrack of the 2014 family drama film of the same name starring Allu Arjun, Shaam, Shruti Haasan and Saloni Aswani. Directed by Surender Reddy, the film's music and background score was composed by S. Thaman marking his first collaboration with Allu Arjun and second collaboration with Surender Reddy. The official soundtrack album consists of 6 songs composed by S. Thaman and Chandrabose, Rehaman, Viswa and Varikuppala Yadagiri Goud penning the lyrics. Being recorded in 2013, the soundtrack album was released in a simple and formal promotional event on 16 March 2014 at Park Hyatt hotel in Hyderabad on Lahari Music label. The audio received predominant positive response from all corners and many celebrities praised Thaman for his work. The soundtrack also debuted as one among the top ten albums in iTunes along with Maan Karate and Kochadaiiyaan. Within days of release, the Album topped the iTunes and all the lists in FM stations. The soundtrack also had a record number of sales and digital downloads. Thus it emerged as one of the biggest successful soundtracks of the year. Development S. Thaman composed the Music and Background Score for this film which marks his first collaboration with Allu Arjun and second collaboration with Surender Reddy. In August 2013, the songs were praised by Allu Arjun which he termed as "original" in contrary to the criticism that Thaman always copies the Tunes from his old films. In November 2013, Thaman tweeted that all the songs are composed and the Audio can be launched at any time. In January 2014, it was reported that famous playback singer Usha Uthup sang a song in this film marking a sort of comeback to Telugu cinema. In mid February 2014, Thaman revealed that he scored a Dubstep song for the film which was titled Down Down Down Duppa. Days later, it was revealed that Shruti Haasan crooned for that song. On 27 February 2014 Thaman revealed the Track list of the film via Twitter. According to the official track list, there were six songs in which Chandrabose, Rehman, Viswa penned each while Varikuppala Yadagiri, well known for his work in the Telugu films Erra Sainyam, Bachelors and Veera Telangana, made a sort of comeback penning the remaining three songs including the Title track of the film. The film also marked the Debut of Siddharth Mahadevan as a playback singer and