3rd Mirchi Music Awards

The 3rd Mirchi Music Awards, presented by Radio Mirchi, honored the best of Hindi music from the year 2010. The ceremony was held on 27 January 2011 at the Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai, and was hosted by Shaan and Sonu Nigam. The program featured many performances, including those by Bappi Lahiri, Usha Uthup, DJ Lloyd, Akshay Kumar, Anushka Sharma, Rishi Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra. Several award categories were introduced for the first time, including Best Indipop Song, Best Item Number, Best Raag Inspired Song, Best song in Sufi Tradition, and Best Album of Golden Era. Dabangg won a leading eight awards including Album of the Year and Song of the Year for "Munni Badnaam".

The First Mirchi Music awards was held on 2009 and was hosted by Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM.

Winners and nominees
The winners were selected by the members of a jury, chaired by Javed Akhtar. The following are the names of nominees and winners.

(Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.)

Jury
The jury was chaired by Javed Akhtar. Other members were:


 * Aadesh Shrivastava - music composer and singer
 * Alka Yagnik - playback singer
 * Anu Malik - music director
 * Lalit Pandit - composer
 * Kailash Kher - singer
 * Kavita Krishnamurthy - playback singer
 * Louis Banks - composer, record producer and singer
 * Prasoon Joshi - lyricist and screenwriter
 * Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra - filmmaker and screenwriter
 * Ramesh Sippy - director and producer
 * Sadhana Sargam - playback singer
 * Shankar Mahadevan - composer and playback singer
 * Subhash Ghai - director, producer and screenwriter
 * Suresh Wadkar - playback singer