Mirchi Music Awards are presented annually by Radio Mirchi to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Hindi language film music industry of India. The awards, given in seventeen different categories, were instituted to award the best of 2008. In 2010, the Southern edition of the awards – Mirchi Music Awards South was launched, to award the best of 2009. through which artists from the four South Indian film industries—Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam—are being honoured. In 2012, the Bengali edition of the awards – Mirchi Music Awards Bangla was launched, to award the best of 2011. The 2019 Mirchi Music Awards is co-powered by Smule, the world's largest music social network, and will have the winner of the Smule Mirchi Cover Star perform on stage at the event. Ceremonies Jury The jury for both editions of the awards consists of several experts from the Bollywood music industry. Javed Akhtar, poet and lyricist, is the chairman of the jury. The other members are (listed alphabetically) music composers Aadesh Shrivastava, Pandit Sujit Ojha , Anu Malik, Lalit Pandit and Louis Banks, playback singers Alka Yagnik, Kailash Kher, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Sadhana Sargam, Shankar Mahadevan, Sukhwinder Singh, Suresh Wadkar & Udit Narayan lyricist Prasoon Joshi, and directors Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and Ramesh Sippy. Critics' Choice Awards Song of The Year Album of The Year Male Vocalist of The Year Female Vocalist of The Year Music Composer of The Year Lyricist of The Year Upcoming Male Vocalist of The Year Upcoming Female Vocalist of The Year Upcoming Music Composer of The Year Upcoming Lyricist of The Year Technical Awards Sound Engineer of the Year Song Mixing Programming and Arranging Film Background Score Listeners' Choice Awards Song of The Year Album of The Year Special awards Jury Award for Outstanding Contribution to Hindi Film Music Best item number song Lifetime Achievement Award / K. L. Saigal Sangeet Shehenshah Award The award was given to Indian playback singer Lata Mangeshkar in 2008. The award was renamed in 2009 as K. L. Saigal Sangeet Shehenshah Award, in honour of singer Kundan Lal Saigal. The award was given to Indian Playback singer K. J. Yesudas in 2010. References External links 1st Mirchi Music Awards 2nd Mirchi Music Awards 3rd Mirchi Music Awards 4th Mirchi Music Awards 5th Mirchi Music Awards 9th Mirchi Music Awards 10th Mirchi Music Awards Hindi cinema Awards established in 2009 Indian