2012–2014: Beginnings Randhawa started his music journey in December 2012 with a song named "Same Girl" with
Arjun who was the first person to take Randhawa in his own video. However, the song was not so successful for both artists. At the beginning of 2013, Randhawa released his first single named "Chhad Gayi" on
YouTube with the label of Speed Records. His elder brother, Ramneek helped him financially to release this song. Later in 2013, he launched his first album
Page One and released three songs from the album. "Dardan Nu", "I Like You" and "Southall" were the respective songs. Randhawa launched many songs but none of them became much popular to take Guru to heights. 2014 was also not special for him. He released the remaining songs from the
Page One album but did not get success. The songs were "Khali Bottlan", "My Jugni", "Maa", "Na Na Na Na Na", "Pyaar Wale Test", "Modern Thumka", and "Billo On Fire".
2015–2016: Popular in cultures Bohemia, who was a well-wisher of Randhawa, requested
T-Series to launch the young artist on their channel. Then they collaborated on the song "Patola". This song gathered more than 368 Million views across
YouTube. "Patola" also got the award for best Punjabi Duo. Further, he sang with
Ikka Singh in the songs "Outfit" and "Khat". In 2016, Randhawa gave four blockbuster songs. He released "Yaar Mod Do" with
Millind Gaba again on the label T-Series in January. The motive of the project was to show true friendship and it did and collected more than 252 million YouTube views. In April, Randhawa dropped the song "Tu Meri Rani" on his own YouTube channel. This song also featured the rapper, Haji Springer. One of his most popular songs, "Suit" was released in 2016. It was Randhawa's second collaboration with
Arjun. It currently holds 478 million views on YouTube. In September, he collaborated with Rajat Nagpal and released a song named Fashion on T-Series. The song holds more than 254 million views on YouTube currently.
2017–present In 2017, Randhawa released an emotional track named "Taare" in January. The track performed average on
YouTube and the song's music video was trolled for allegedly plagiarising
Zayn Malik's song "It's You". Randhawa made his
Bollywood singing debut in the Indian movie
Hindi Medium. His track "Suit" was recreated in the film as "Suit Suit". He sang in the
2017 Indian Premier League opening ceremony. Later in 2017, his two tracks appeared in Bollywood movies. His old track "Tu Meri Rani" was recreated in the Hindi film
Tumhari Sulu and an original track named "Lagdi Hai Thaai" was also released in the movie
Simran in collaboration with
Jonita Gandhi. His two most-viewed songs, "High Rated Gabru" and "
Lahore", have over 1.1 billion and 1 billionviews on
T-Series' official YouTube channel respectively. In 2018 "Lahore" won Track of the Year at the
Brit Asia TV Music Awards, where Randhawa also won Best Male Act. His first international collaboration was "
Slowly Slowly" featuring
Pitbull, released on 19 April 2019. The song's music video received 38million views on YouTube within 24 hours, becoming one of the world's all-time most-viewed music videos in 24 hours. In 2019, Randhawa produced the Punjabi language film
Tara Mira starring
Ranjit Bawa and Nazia Hussan, directed by Rajiev Dhingra. In 2020, Guru made his second international collaboration "Surma Surma" with British artist
Jay Sean. In the year 2020, Guru's old track "Lahore" was presented as "Lagdi Lahore Di" in the movie 'Street Dancer 3D' in collaboration with Sachin–Jigar and Tulsi Kumar. During the Corona pandemic, he released a soothing track named 'Satnam Waheguru' with Vee. He was also featured in a music video for the track "Mueve La Cintura" by Pitbull with Tito El' Bambino, which is included in Pitbull's album
Libertad 548. This was his second collaboration with Pitbull. Guru Randhawa's popularity rose immensely after his Bollywood debut in the film
Hindi Medium and the release of the pop ballad "Lahore" in 2018. He was featured in a cover story by
Rolling Stone India, which stated, "If you've missed him on the charts, you've heard him on the radio". In 2021, he released "Mehendi Wale Haath", followed by "Doob Gaye", which became very popular, crossing 50 million views, 3 days after its release. In December, his song "Dance Meri Rani" became an instant hit and has garnered over 240 million views on YouTube as of May 2023. In 2022, he released "Punjabiyan Di Dhee", "Tera Saath Ho" and few other songs. The song "Designer" with
Yo Yo Honey Singh, garnered more than 21 million views on
YouTube within the first 24 hours and was a hit. == Media ==