Why are old singers not given much work in B-Town

This is something which always puzzled me! Why do singers like Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Kumar Sanu, Abhijeet, Poornima, Vinod Rathod, Roop Kumar Rathod etc. get less or no work at all?! They keep taking other odd voices in songs nowadays giving excuse of encouraging new talent but those voices are nowhere as striking as old singers! Udit's voice still sounds so fresh and has the same zing as it used to have in past. Why doesn't he get work?

Even a few popular singers in 1999-2002 have disappeared now like Babul Supriyo and sister duo of Preeti-Pinky (who sang Piya Piya song featuring Rani-Preity). It's been a while since we heard a Kunal Ganjawala song too (to think he'd become a rage after songs in Murder).

Lot of other popular voices like Anaida, Sunita Rao, Anuradha Paudwal and her daughter, Alisha Chinai disappeared. Alisha just had Kajra re in 2005.

Asha Bhosle and Lata Mangeshkar seem to be the only ones who've continued to get work after a certain age. Lot of voices from 80s, 90s and mid-2000s have gone now.

What's the reason for not giving work to singers after a while?

Some price factor, some their egos... like abhijeet got jealous of atif...

Good topic..i think Sonu once said singers and even music composers dont get their worth and thus they seek new singers who they can pay less.

@Radhe

Unfortunate! Many voices were far better than naive voices picked from talent hunts in today's age. Yeah Sonu Nigam works far less now than he used to in 90s or mid 2000s.

Shaan's sister Sagarika was also a good singer but it's surprising she was never heard again after 2 popular songs from her 90s albums.

I actually prefer right singers singing a song rather than having someone like Shreya Ghoshal try to do justice to an item song (Chikni Chameli).

Shaan was flavour of the season for some years even he seems to be singing less than he used to, in past.

If actors' tantrums can be tolerated for decades then what's wrong with putting up a bit with singers? Abhijit had ego issues. I never heard much about Udit giving anyone a hard time with his attitude.

I felt that too.

These music directors are busy promoting demselves as singers half of d time..😳...it started wid Himesh and now i see every other music director singing his songs...thanks to us...we have lost the taste in good nd quality music...its all about noisy songs...so it doesn't matter who's singing it...

I miss d 90's era...d bestest in terms of music...😔

Originally posted by: Skepblun

@Radhe

Unfortunate! Many voices were far better than naive voices picked from talent hunts in today's age. Yeah Sonu Nigam works far less now than he used to in 90s or mid 2000s.

Shaan's sister Sagarika was also a good singer but it's surprising she was never heard again after 2 popular songs from her 90s albums.

I actually prefer right singers singing a song rather than having someone like Shreya Ghoshal try to do justice to an item song (Chikni Chameli).

Shaan was flavour of the season for some years even he seems to be singing less than he used to, in past.

If actors' tantrums can be tolerated for decades then what's wrong with putting up a bit with singers? Abhijit had ego issues. I never heard much about Udit giving anyone a hard time with his attitude.

Originally posted by: Mrsimisam

These music directors are busy promoting demselves as singers half of d time..😳...it started wid Himesh and now i see every other music director singing his songs...thanks to us...we have lost the taste in good nd quality music...its all about noisy songs...so it doesn't matter who's singing it...

I miss d 90's era...d bestest in terms of music...😔

Originally posted by: -Radhe-

Actually, after working for so long & giving such benchmark songs, they feel that new music directors are not worth giving chance.

New music directors like sachi-jagir, Ajay-atul or even Sajid-Wajid for instance, may be they feel they ain't doing justice to music.

I love how Wajid sing himself as he do a fab job in it, jalwa, dhadang dang, he was superb in them...

At the end, These Oldies have to mix with new generation's demand as when they were at peek of their career, it was also a new generation only.