The Bridge by Sammy Chand

The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 647 ON TODAY'S SHOW Part two, and the business end of it. Amaal Mallik is back on the line from India for the back half of the hour, picking up Wednesday's AI thread — Hans Zimmer's synths, Kraftwerk behind their masks, credit the machine where you use it but call the session player when you can — and moving into what it is to be a composer i...

The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 646 ON TODAY'S SHOW The first two-day interview in the show's history begins. Amaal Mallik — the composer out of the Malik house, grandson of Sardar Malik, son of Daboo Malik, nephew of Anu Malik — calls in from India for part one of a conversation that runs the back forty minutes of the hour. Sammy sets up the human story before he arrives:...

The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 645 ON TODAY'S SHOW Nihaarika joins Sammy from Delhi, late on a Tuesday night her time, for the back half of the hour — the artist who was signed to Sony Music India early, had the platform before she knew who she was, and walked away when the contract ended to go independent, not against labels but for herself. A girl from UP, from a family...

October 19, 2026 — "Sammy talks to Yelhomie about hip hop from Manipur" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 644 ON TODAY'S SHOW A Monday built around one conversation. Yelhomie, the rapper from Imphal, Manipur, whose name means the indigenous people of his state, sits down with Sammy for the long back half of the hour — the choice between music and the regular job everyone else...

The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 643 Weekend Countdown — Airs Friday October 16 through Sunday October 18 ON TODAY'S SHOW It's the weekend on The Bridge — the Top 20 Countdown, Friday through Sunday, and Talwiinder takes the throne. Assay Passay climbs from No2 to No1, his first time at the top of the board, and he lands a second record in the top three the same week: Mangda...

The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 640 ON TODAY'S SHOW A world premiere and a first. Mahlan Wala 59, the Punjabi artist out of Auckland, is the first guest The Bridge has ever had from New Zealand, and he sits down with Sammy in the back half — Punjab to Auckland, kabaddi before music, the scene down under, the state of Indian hip hop — before premiering his brand-new single U...

October 14, 2026 — "Sammy is joined by Ruby Basi" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 639 ON TODAY'S SHOW Ruby Basi joins Sammy in the back half, and the two of them finally get to the Sidhu Moose Wala hologram concert they had been waiting on — the Toronto show, the parents walking out with Sidhu's little brother, the moment the hologram played with the microphone and hit the...

October 13, 2026 — "Sammy talks to Sunny Grewal about the Sidhu Hologram Tour" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 638 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sunny Grewal is back in the back half, and this time it's the Sidhu Hologram Tour — the first show landed in Toronto over the weekend, the building was packed and the parents were in the room, and Sammy and Sunny get into what the show was, wher...

October 12, 2026 — "Sammy Interviews Nayab Midha" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 637 ON TODAY'S SHOW Nayab Midha joins Sammy in the back half, fresh off a North American run of Rajkumari that sold out nearly every room it played — the show that started as a twenty-minute set for thirty or forty tickets before a poem went viral overnight, the seventeen handwritten pages and...

October 9-11, 2026 - Weekly Top 20 Countdown The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 637 Weekend Countdown — Airs Friday October 9 through Sunday October 11 ON TODAY'S SHOW It's the weekend on The Bridge — the Top 20 Countdown, Friday through Sunday, and Satinder Sartaaj takes the throne. Guzarish debuts straight at No1, the second time this year Sartaaj has walked onto the board a...

The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 636 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sabeen Faheem, The Hijabi Bounder, joins Sammy in the back half to talk about her show Who Does She Think She Is. Sammy opens the hour with Satinder Sartaaj's Guzarish and keeps it going with Priya Ragu's Finally, holding No1, and Diljit Dosanjh's Devil at No16. Hania Aamir's Pablo follows the Word On The Avenue at No2, Ba...

The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 635 ON TODAY'S SHOW Ruby Basi joins Sammy in the back half with a video out of Calgary — a woman who climbed out of her car to berate a man crossing the street and ended the clip in handcuffs — and a look at what's coming on her show this week. Sammy opens the hour with one of his favorite songs of all time, Arijit Singh's Gaaye Ja, and keeps...

October 6, 2026 — "Sammy talks to Harjap Bhangal about immigration in the UK" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 634 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy sits down with Harjap Bhangal, one of the foremost faces of immigration law in the UK, for a long conversation on what makes a British person British, the state of immigration on his side of the Atlantic, and what the diaspora is living thr...

October 5, 2026 — “Sammy talk to Sunny Grewal” The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 633 ON TODAY'S SHOW Priya Ragu's Finally opens the hour as the new No1, straight off the weekend count, and the top of the chart follows it in: Talwiinder's Assay Passay at No3, Hania Aamir's Pablo at No2, and Karan Aujla and Merci Beats' Ashke at No4 in its first week on the board. Sunny Grewal...

The Bridge Top 20 — Week 128, counted down October 2 to 4 RUNDOWN 0:00 Sammy 1:36 No20 Treat Me Special — Rawme Hooda, MC Square 4:40 Sammy 4:56 No19 Tere Jatt De — Watan Sahi, Jasmeen Akhtar 6:55 Sammy 7:16 No18 Like That — Yung Sammy, Fijiana 9:15 Sammy 9:16 No17 Yeh Duniya — Curtain Blue 11:32 Sammy 11:48 No16 Devil — Diljit Dosanjh 13:49 Sammy 14:20 No15 Ho Jayenge Ghum — Raghav and Arjun 17:3...

September 29, 2026 — "Sammy Chand interviews Shomin Mathur" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 630 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy sits down with Shomin Mathur, and Black Mustang Defense's Casino Always Wins follows the conversation out. The chart runs through the hour from both ends: Talwiinder's Assay Passay opens at No4 in its second week, Zeeshan Ali's Bandhe Zulfon Pe holds at No1,...

The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 629 ON TODAY'S SHOW The new No1 opens the hour — Zeeshan Ali's Bandhe Zulfon Pe, straight off the weekend count — and Talwiinder's Assay Passay follows it at No4 in its first week on the board. Priya Ragu's Finally sits at No2. Burrah stops by to say hello after Lakeerein, and Karan Aujla and Merci Beats land with Ashke. Sammy chats with Sunn...

September 25-27, 2026 - Weekly Top 20 Countdown The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 628 Weekend Countdown — Airs Friday September 25 through Sunday September 27 ON TODAY'S SHOW It's the weekend on The Bridge — the Top 20 Countdown, Friday through Sunday, and Zeeshan Ali takes the throne. Bandhe Zulfon Pe, with Dr ANK, climbs to No1 after weeks of steady rotation, the reward for...

September 24, 2026 — “Sammy is joined by Sabeen Faheem” The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 627 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sixteen tracks and a conversation — Sammy talks to Sabeen Faheem about her show Who Does She Think She Is. Outstation's Kuch Toh Hai Yahan opens the hour and Rawme Hooda's Treat Me Special closes it at No1. The chart runs right through the show: Supreme Sidhu's Chall...

September 23, 2026 — "Sammy's Bucket of Music" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 626 ON TODAY'S SHOW Seventeen tracks and a sit-down — Sammy is joined by Ruby Basi in the back half of the hour. The chart runs deep through the show: Simran Chaudhary's Dil De Mohalle opens, and Yung Sammy and Fijiana's Like That, Supreme Sidhu's Chall Mere Naal, Jxggi's Knock Knock, Afsana Khan...

The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 625 ON TODAY'S SHOW Hanita Bhambri sits down with Sammy for nearly half an hour — the longest conversation on the show since August. Toxic, her record with Vishal Mishra, follows her out of the chair. The hour opens on the chart with Curtain Blue's Yeh Duniya, then runs Hania Aamir's Pablo and Priya Ragu's Finally back to back. Satinder Sarta...

September 21, 2026 — "Sammy Previews Hanita interview, and is joined by Sunny Grewal” The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 624 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sunny Grewal is back in the chair for twelve minutes, and the music around him reaches wide. Priya Ragu's Finally and Hania Aamir's Pablo open the hour, Satinder Sartaaj takes a four minute lane with Guzarish, and Papon and Irshad Kamil's...

September 18-20, 2026 - Weekly Top 20 Countdown The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 623 Weekend Countdown — Airs Friday September 18 through Sunday September 20 ON TODAY'S SHOW It's the weekend on The Bridge — the Top 20 Countdown, Friday through Sunday, and there's a new No1. Curtain Blue's Yeh Duniya climbs from No2 to the top, three weeks after it debuted at No4 — the ninth...

September 17, 2026 — "Sammy's Suitcase of Music" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 622 ON TODAY'S SHOW Eighteen tracks, and the chart runs end to end. Rawme Hooda's Treat Me Special opens the hour at No1 and Farak's Taare closes it in its tenth week on the board. In between, nearly the whole top twenty comes through: Simar's Billo, Zeeshan Ali's Bandhe Zulfon Pe, Avvy Ballaga...

September 16, 2026 — "Sammy's Bucket of Music" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 621 ON TODAY'S SHOW Seventeen tracks, wall to wall. Hania Amir's Pablo opens the hour and Satinder Sartaaj's Haazri closes it. Rawme Hooda returns with Total, a week after Treat Me Special took the top of the chart, and AP Dhillon and Boi-1da's Born Winner is back in rotation. The board runs deep...