Here is the report and login
or
Here are the report and login
or
Here is the report and the login?
Which one is correct and sounds better?
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Which one is correct and sounds better?
Correctness and sounding better aren't necessarily the same thing.
Technically when you are referring to more than one thing, you should use the plural:
Here are the things you wanted [i.e. the report and the login]
But there are a couple of common exceptions:
When things are closely related, they are often treated as a single object
Here is your fish and chips.
How distant that relationship has to be before 'are' is mandated is a matter of taste I think.
There's a strong tendency to use the singular form when the first object in a list begins with a vowel, even though it might be grammatically incorrect.
Where's Amy and Rory?
In this case correct grammar is being trumped by smoothness of speech. I cannot say 'Where are Amy and Rory?' quickly. It sounds ugly and lumpy, in fact it makes a pretty good tongue-twister.