For a while in the early-to-mid noughties, many mainstream pop artists were using bhangra-infused sounds in their pop songs, probably inspired by the huge worldwide success of Punjabi MC's "Mundian To Bach Ke" and the remix featuring Jay-Z. Most notably, Britney Spears used bhangra on several songs from her 2003 album, In The Zone, including 'Toxic', 'The Hook Up', '(I Got That) Boom Boom', 'Outrageous', and the Rischi Rich remix of 'Me Against the Music'.
Many people don't realize that 'Toxic' actually takes it's hook from a Bollywood sample. The sample comes from the song 'Tere Mere Beech Mein’ and was originally composed by Lata Mangeshkar and S. P. Balasubramaniam from the 1981 film "Ek Duuje Ke Liye".
The huge worldwide success of 'Toxic' in the mainstream pop landscape created a domino effect, and thus many other artists from a wide range of genres began using bhangra and Indian influences.
will.i.am has spoken of hearing "Toxic" for the first time and feeling deep jealousy that he didn't write the song himself, and that it inspired him to create a song with the same energy. The result was The Black Eyed Peas' song 'Don't Phunk With My Heart". This also coincided with the time that the popularity of singer/rapper M.I.A. was rapidy rising around the world, and "Jimmy" was one of her first real foray's into the bhangra field, although she had previously experimented with the genre on her debut album two years previous.
Electronica also began sampling bhangra music, which is something that has since become very common. However, in 2014 it is a more watered down version. Chase and Status were one of the first to do this, with their 2008 song 'Eastern Jam'. This samples the soundtrack of 2002 Bollywood film "Devdas". Bhangra also received popularity within the European and Australian market due to the large success of Holly Valance's song "Kiss Kiss", a cover of the song "Şımarık" by Turkish pop-singer Tarkan.
In recent years, it seems that the use of bhangra music in mainstream pop has died down. Would you like to see it make a comeback into the music of our biggest pop artists?
Bhangra is a genre of Punjabi music. It has a distinct sound that's used in its songs just like Reggaeton music does. Here are examples and you can hear it:
All the songs in the OP are pop songs with samples from songs from Hindi/Bollywood movies apart from "Kiss Kiss, " which doesn't even sound South Asian. It sounds Middle Eastern. It's a remake of a Turkish song.
I think you mean "Should Asian-influenced pop songs make a comeback?" Selena Gomez and Naughty Boy had hits last year using Asian themes. It pops up once in a while. I think it was popular in the early 2000s because Scott Storch productions were popular then like Beyonce's "Baby Boy" and "Naughty Girl."