MUMBAI: Saregama launches Asha Bhosle's new album 'Bollywood Queen of the 70's'. This is a tribute to the melody queen as she completes 75 years of glorious age.
The album is a compilation of the Asha Bhosle's famous hindi tracks from the 70's. The pack would contain two CD's designed especially for the pioneers fan. The album consist the singers 'dum maro dum', 'chura liya hai' and 23 different popular songs in different moods.The album is not only made to appeal the older generation, but also to the youths.
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Dream Out Loud is an idea that started out a long time ago in the minds of two musicians who hoped of somehow connecting with as many people as possible through their music. Dream out loud filltered Chandresh and Suraj's scribbling through Indie rockers' sense of humour and a musician's love of language and notes.Dream Out Loud comprises Suraj Jagan on the vocals, Chandresh Kudwa on the Guitars and Bass and Darshan who's featured on this album as a guest Drummer. It took them almo...
MUMBAI: Sirius Satellite Radio has launched an exclusive channel, Radio Mom, to mark the 100th anniversary of Mother's Day. The channel will broadcast for one week beginning 3 May and will run through Mother's Day, Sunday, 11 May.
Radio Mom on channel 119 will be devoted to personal messages, greetings, dedications from listeners about their mothers and mother figures. The messages of callers will be collected through a special "Radio-Mom" call in number.
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MUMBAI: According to UK radio industry monitor Rajar, the British digital radio industry has seen a growth in trends for the number of people listening to digital radio. Claims made this year showed that the format was receiving insufficient publicity.
The quarterly figures revealed almost one third of the UK population listens to digital radio each week, Radio listening has risen upto one per cent to 45.4 million per week, in adults the number of people who own a DAB radio tuner has gone up to 27.3 per cent.
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MUMBAI: In an initiative to bring radio out of the studio walls and make it more interactive, Red FM plans to launches a new show called Red FM Khopcha with RJs Neeil and Nyssha.
The show will be broadcast live from the actual studio to be set up at the new stores of Lifestyle and Homecentre at the Oberoi in Goregaon.
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MUMBAI: T-Series, which has been on a music acquisition spree, has struck deals for seven more films's rights.
After a series of releases early this year, the music label has acquired music rights of seven films, promos of some of which have already hit the airwaves, while others are in the pipeline. The list includes five feature films - Hastey Hastey, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, Mere Baap Pehle Aap, De Taali, Mehbooba and two animation films, Dashavtar and Ghatothkach.
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MUMBAI: Idea Cellular in association with Arts and Artistes has created a music video Jai Hind. The video is a tribute to the new India.
The video aims to highlight the diversity of the country in terms of language, culture, race musical styles and bring all these elements together to promote a national identity anthem for the youth to embrace and be part of the nation building exercise.The initiative has got the backing of Prasar Bharati, the I&B Ministry and the Indian Music Academy.
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BANGALORE: Motorola has launched the Motoyuva W270, a cell phone that offers an inbuilt MP3 player and easy-to-use music capabilities with dedicated MP3 and FM keys.
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NEW DELHI: With plummeting record sales, Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL) feels they are charging under reasonable limits for the music content to the radio industry.
Says PPL CEO Vipul Pradhan, "Almost all the content that the radio plays is music and we are charging only Rs 660 per needle hour, which I feel isn't excessive by any means. The price was set by the government and I, myself, am complaining about the rates fixed. If I were to set a rate for my content, it would be no less than Rs 2,400 per needle hour."
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