MUMBAI: According to newly released figures from the official UK Charts Company - the group which tracks U.K. chart positions, the digital album sales climbed by 69.3 percent in comparison to the first quarter of 2007. The company also confirmed that sales of digital single tracks climbed 42.3 percent, every year.
The news is encouraging for the music industry since it means that digital music buyers are beginning to see album purchases as viable as using services such as iTunes.
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MUMBAI: RJ Shruthi along with co- host RJ Harsha, will be hosting the breakfast show, Big Coffee from 16 May. It will be a daily from Monday to Saturday filling in the 7 am to 11 am slot.
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MUMBAI: RCS India has extended its services to Radio One which launched in Pune recently.
Radio City had joined the long established Radio Mirchi on the airwaves in this Maharashtra boomtown with over five million people, one month ago.
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MUMBAI: Blue Frog, night club is now ready to take over the urban Indian music scenario in Mumbai with its three new businesses enterprises. It comprises Blue Frog Productions, Blue frog Sound Labs and Blue Frog Records. The three new music spheres being launched will be independent of each other, however will leverage from each other.
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MUMBAI: Adam Gilchirst has always allowed his bat and his gloves to do the talking but today was different, in the company of the man with the silken touch Hyderabads very own VVVS Laxman, Gilchrist took to the mike as a Radio Jockey on BIG 92.7 FM. They need just a little bit of prodding from RJ Chetan and post that they were on their own interacting with the cricket crazy listeners of BIG 92.7 FM.
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MUMBAI: Red FM gave its listeners a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience one of the most awaited and exciting matches of the DLF IPL season. Over the past week Red FM has been giving listeners the chance to win tickets to watch the Mumbai Indians play on Friday the 16th of May.
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MUMBAI: Junglee Music, Times' Music's sub brand, has sold the digital music rights of 'Singh is Kinng' to UTV New Media for an estimated Rs 40 million.
The deal is considered to be the costliest in the digital music rights category so far in India. Junglee Music intends to "redraw all boundaries of music distribution in India."
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MUMBAI: 'Prince of Bhangra' Sukhbir, who has been lying low for a while, returns to the music circuit with a new album called "Tere Naal Naal" to be launched by music label T-Series.
The album due to release next month, marks the comeback of the singer after a six year hiatus.
The Dubai based singer says, "I was busy working on my father's Kirtan album called Nirgun Raakh Liya. It's been a childhood dream. So last year we finally released it and I even got my good friend Akshay ...
MUMBAI: Big FM Mumbai plans to pump up the humour quotient in the programming mix by launching a series of shows to tickle listeners' funny bone. 'Son Sonny', 'Bombay Bawa' and 'Lyricist Lahiri' will be the three new shows to go on air soon. The station has however not declared the launch dates of the shows.
'Bombay Bawa', a funny old man who loves the city, its people and is in tune with the latest vibe will remind listeners of the good old Parsi of Mumbai.
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MUMBAI: The Indian Performing Rights Society (IPRS) has filed a copyright infringement case in Calcuta High Court against Shah Rukh Khan's Indian Premier League (IPL) team Kolkata Knight Riders.
IPRS alleged that the team had played 14 popular Hindi film songs like Dard-e-Disco and Mauja hi Mauja without its permission.
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