# Amir Khusrau — Chhaap Tilak Sab Chheeni

Amir Khusrau’s Chhaap Tilak Sab Chheeni (1300) is No. 1 in our Qawwali ranking. The full verdict, and where to hear it.

- **Released:** 1300
- **On one list:** Qawwali
- **Updated:** 2026-08-30
- **Artist:** [Amir Khusrau](https://waxonia.com/artist/amir-khusrau/)
- **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/amir-khusrau--chhaap-tilak-sab-chheeni/

## What we say

### No. 1 in [Qawwali](https://waxonia.com/genre/qawwali/)

Written by the man usually credited with inventing the form, welding Persian, Arabic, Turkic and Indian singing into one thing. Seven hundred years later every qawwal party still has it in the set.

## Analysis

8 sections, the first drop of 6 at 0:11, 4% of the way in.

- **Tempo:** 103.4 BPM — holds throughout
- **Key:** F# minor
- **Dynamic range:** 1.3 dB — compressed hard — very little between the quiet and the loud
- **Length:** 4:28

- `0:00` A · **intro**, sung — opens the record below its own average energy — playing: vocals, other
- `0:13` B · **peak** (bar 6), sung — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: vocals
- `0:39` C · **peak** (bar 17), sung — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: vocals
- `1:05` D · **peak** (bar 29), sung — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: vocals, other
- `1:17` C · **steady** (bar 34), sung — holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling — playing: vocals
- `1:58` B · **steady** (bar 51), sung — holding a level — the groove, neither rising nor falling — playing: vocals, other
- `2:59` B · **peak** (bar 77), sung — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: vocals, other
- `3:40` C · **outro** (bar 95), sung — the closing fall — playing: vocals

**Drops** at 0:11 (bar 5), 0:45 (bar 20), 1:37 (bar 42), 2:29 (bar 65), 3:38 (bar 94), 4:10 (bar 108). A drop is a moment, not a stretch.

**What is playing.** Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names.

- **drums:** the drum kit, separated from the mix
- **bass:** the bass part, separated from the mix
- **vocals:** the voice, separated from the mix
- **other:** everything else — synths, guitars, keys, strings

Measured from the YouTube master on 2026-08-29. Section labels describe how the energy
moves, not musical form. Anything we were not confident enough to state is omitted
rather than hedged.

## Listen

[Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Amir%20Khusrau%20Chhaap%20Tilak%20Sab%20Chheeni) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=0amMUGlH32M)

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