The Bridge by Sammy Chand

June 5 - June 7, 2026 — "The Top 20 Countdown" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 548 ON TODAY'S SHOW It's Friday on The Bridge — the Top 20 Countdown that closes out the week. And the chart has reset. Darshan Raval's Only Mine takes No1 — Hindi reclaiming the top spot after two consecutive weeks of non-Hindi No1s (Marathi the week before, Tamil the week before that). Last wee...

June 4, 2026 — "Sammy Chand Interviews Real Sikh" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 547 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy Chand sits down with Real Sikh — the battle rapper walking into the harshest arena society has built for the artist, wearing a turban and his identity on his sleeve. The interview anchors a hip-hop-heavy hour built around the wider Indian and Punjabi rap ecosystem Rea...

June 3, 2026 — "Sammy Chand Interviews Sudesh Bhosle" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 546 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy Chand sits down with the legendary Sudesh Bhosle — the playback voice behind Amitabh Bachchan for decades, a master mimic who replicated 21 vocals across 28 different artists, and (as Sammy discovered in the interview) a painter before he was ever a singer. The in...

June 2, 2026 — "Across The Lanes" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 545 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy Chand opens Tuesday with a wide-pull hour spanning the top of the chart and the new music driving it forward. The countdown's No1 — Sanju Rathod's Bangles — lands early, alongside Dhee's history-making Vari Vari, Diljit's Morni, and Saivi Fareed's Naa Pushde. Arijit Singh's Laiyaan,...

June 1, 2026 — "Sammy Chand Interviews Rashmeet Kaur" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 544 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy Chand sits down with Rashmeet Kaur — the free-spirit, multi-form artist whose Faqeeran (Live) sat at No4 on last week's countdown. The interview leads a Rashmeet-heavy hour with four of her tracks across the show: Faqeeran (Live), Umraan, Chor with Indo Warehouse,...

May 29, 2026 — "The Top 20 Countdown" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 543 ON TODAY'S SHOW It's Friday on The Bridge — the Top 20 Countdown that closes out the week. And the chart just made history again. Sanju Rathod's Bangles takes No1 — the first Marathi-language song ever to top this show's countdown. It comes two weeks after Dhee's Vari Vari became the first Tamil No1,...

May 28, 2026 — "Sammy Chand Interviews Sahib Samra" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 542 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy Chand sits down with Sahib Samra — the rising artist behind 1 Day, which climbed all the way to No5 on last week's countdown. The conversation comes as Sammy makes the case that the kind of patient, point-of-view-driven approach Sahib brings is exactly what a quiete...

May 27, 2026 — "Sammy Chand Interviews Rajiv Satyal" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 541 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy Chand sits down with comedian Rajiv Satyal for a conversation that goes beyond the stage. After his father passed, Rajiv stepped into caring for his mother — and this weekend he's channeling that experience into something larger, hosting a panel on caregiving at th...

May 26, 2026 — "Sammy Chand Interviews Gayathri Krishnan" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 540 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy Chand sits down with Gayathri Krishnan — the Los Angeles singer-songwriter and producer who came up in Carnatic music and pours it straight into modern R&B. Six million streams on a debut EP she released independently, with a live show that folds Bharatana...

May 25, 2026 — "Sammy Chand Interviews Ali Zafar" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 539 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy Chand sits down with Ali Zafar — one of Pakistan's biggest musical exports, and an artist who's spent a career refusing to be just one thing: singer, actor, composer, painter. The conversation comes as Ali heads out on tour starting May 30th. The hour is built around...

May 22, 2026 "The Top 20 Countdown" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 538 ON TODAY'S SHOW It's Friday on The Bridge — the Top 20 Countdown that closes out Dhurandhar Week. And the chart just made history. Dhee's Vari Vari takes No1 — the first Tamil-language song ever to top this show's countdown. Sanju Rathod's Marathi cut Bangles climbs to No2, and Darshan Raval's Only Mine...

May 21, 2026 "The Sound — Top 15 of the Duology" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 537 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy Chand's Thursday show closes Dhurandhar Week with the deepest possible listen — a full hour built almost entirely on the music of Shashwat Sachdev, the composer who built the franchise's sound from the ground up. Eleven of today's twelve tracks are Shashwat productions...

May 20, 2026 "The Revenge & The Cut" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 536 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy Chand's Wednesday show is day three of Dhurandhar Week — and today the focus widens out. With Saturday's Raw and Undekha extended cut now in front of the audience, Sammy reflects on what the cut added and what the franchise has proven about the role of music in Hindi cinema. T...

May 19, 2026 "Decoding Part 1" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 535 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy Chand's Tuesday show is day two of Dhurandhar Week — and today the focus shifts to the music itself. The hour opens with Aari Aari, a Shashwat Sachdev production stacking Bombay Rocker, Reble, Jasmine Sandlas, and Khan Saab — the kind of cross-generational, multi-language collaboration...

May 18, 2026 — "The Setup — Why Dhurandhar Matters" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 534 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy Chand's Monday show opens Dhurandhar Week — four days inside the third-highest-grossing South Asian Cinema franchise of all time. The hour plants the week's central thesis in song. Sammy opens with Diljit's Morni — №1 on last week's chart — then drops the receipts:...

May 15–18, 2026 "Top 20 Countdown — Weekend Edition" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 534 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy Chand's weekend Top 20 Countdown carries forward from a week that argued the album is back, the chart is missing, and the collaborations are the proof. Today's countdown shows what the diaspora is actually moving — and the chart story this week is a story of climbe...

May 14, 2026 — “The Great Negotiation of the Collaboration” The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 533 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy Chand's Friday show is a special collaborations edition — an hour of East-West collaborations between Indian and non-Indian artists, with each record carrying its own story. The hour opens with Diljit Dosanjh, David Guetta, and Sia on Ranjha, then threads th...

May 13, 2026 — “The State of the South Asian Hip Hop Space” The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 531 ON TODAY’S SHOW Sammy Chand’s Wednesday show centers on a state-of-the-union conversation about South Asian hip-hop — and who really built the global movement. The thesis: Mumbai and Delhi’s scenes have mass, but the Punjabi machine kept the pipeline hot, and now the breakouts —...

May 12, 2026 — "Ground Zero: Kanwar Gill" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 530 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy Chand's Tuesday show centers on a long-form conversation with Kanwar Gill. Sammy makes the case that the canonical history of Punjabi hip-hop is wrong — it skips a step, and that step lives in California, and his name is Kanwar Gill. The hour is a full Kanwar retrospective: h...

May 11, 2026 — "The Chart We Don't Have" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 529 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy Chand's Monday show opens the week by naming the problem the South Asian music industry hasn't wanted to talk about — we don't have a chart. No transparent, weekly, trusted ranking of what's actually moving. And now Billboard is on its way to India, which could be the moment t...

May 8, 2026 "The Top 20 Countdown" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 528 ON TODAY'S SHOW It's Friday on The Bridge — the Top 20 Countdown from the week of American Desi. Big chart movement: Diljit's Morni — the song he just performed on Jimmy Fallon — finally takes No1, knocking last week's No1 Shubh's Bounce all the way down to No7. Wazir Patar's Rabab climbs to No2. The big...

May 7, 2026 "American Desi Week — The Star & The Storyteller"  The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 527  ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy Chand's weeklong tribute to the 25th anniversary of American Desi comes to a culminating end as Sammy interviews Deep Katdare, the star of the film, and Piyush Dinker Pandya, the director and writer. Sammy talks to Deep about his role as the lead and...

May 6, 2026 "American Desi Week — The Funny Dudes" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 526 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy Chand's Wednesday episode carries on the weeklong tribute to American Desi. Today the focus is on the funny dudes of the film — the ones who went on to become some of the funniest dudes in the scene. Sammy interviews Kal Penn, the remarkable actor, author, and public...

May 5, 2026 "American Desi Week — The Bad Guys" The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 525  ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy Chand's Tuesday show is the second day of his weeklong ode to the 25th anniversary of American Desi — and today the Bad Guys take The Bridge. Sammy is joined by Anil Kumar, who played Rakesh Patel, the ringleader of the film's antagonist trio; Sunil Malhotra, who playe...

May 4, 2026 “American Desi Week - The Ladies!” The Bridge is available on the iHeart Radio app Episode 524 ON TODAY'S SHOW Sammy Chand’s week on the show is a weeklong ode to the 25th anniversary of the film American Desi. Sammy starts the week off by talking to the two leading ladies of the film Purva Bedi and Sunita Param. Sammy talks to Sunita about her journey in the arts and gets her perspect...