8th Mirchi Music Awards

The 8th Mirchi Music Awards, presented by the Radio Mirchi, honoured the best of Hindi music from the year 2015. The ceremony was held on 29 February 2016 at the Yash Raj Studios, Mumbai and was hosted by Sonu Nigam. There were many performances, including those by Mika Singh, Yo Yo Honey Singh, Amaal Mallik, Palak Muchhal and Badshah. Bajirao Mastani won a leading seven awards including Album of the Year. Song of the Year went to "Gerua" from Dilwale. The show was broadcast on 13 March 2016 on Zee TV.

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

(Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.)

Films with multiple wins and nominations
Won a Listeners' Choice award

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


 * Alka Yagnik - playback singer
 * Milind Srivastava - music director
 * Anu Malik - music director
 * Anuradha Paudwal - playback singer
 * Bappi Lahiri - composer, singer
 * Hariharan - singer
 * Ila Arun - actress and folk singer
 * Irshad Kamil - lyricist
 * Lalit Pandit - composer
 * Kavita Krishnamurthy - playback singer
 * Louis Banks - composer, record producer and singer
 * Madhur Bhandarkar - director, writer and producer
 * Pankaj Udhas - singer
 * Prasoon Joshi - lyricist and screenwriter
 * Pritam - music director and composer
 * Ramesh Sippy - director and producer
 * Roop Kumar Rathod - playback singer and music director
 * Sadhana Sargam - playback singer
 * Sulemaan - composer
 * Sameer - lyricist
 * Sapna Mukherjee - playback singer
 * Shaan - playback singer
 * Shailendra Singh - playback singer
 * Shankar Mahadevan - composer and playback singer
 * Subhash Ghai - director, producer and screenwriter
 * Sudhir Mishra - director and screenwriter
 * Suresh Wadkar - playback singer
 * Talat Aziz - singer
 * Udit Narayan - playback singer
 * Vijay Krishna Acharya - director and screenwriter