MUMBAI: Delving into the spirit of Valentine's Day 94.3 MY FM is offering a whole week of �all time love for all'. The Valentine Week is being celebrated with a 17 station common broadcast of the popular �Love Dil Se!' show by RJ Chahat. Each day of Valentine Week is dedicated to a decade of Love songs bringing alive the timeless love. Between the 9th and 13th, MY FM is playing love songs from the 70's, the 80's the 90's, songs till 2008 and the brand new releases of the year.
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MUMBAI: The Nokia Music Store in Austria http://music.nokia.at and in Switzerland http://music.nokia.ch are now live. With five million tracks from major artists, independent labels, and up-and-coming local acts, the Nokia Music Store lets people enjoy music directly on their Nokia device or personal computer.
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MUMBAI: BIG 92.7 FM's Mumbai had a guest RJ for the day and it was none other than Abhishek Bachchan! Dressed in jeans and a T Shirt with his sunglasses and his new haircut, he looked dashing and along with breakfast jock RJ Archana Jani made sure listeners had a blast on the station. He began the show with a signature �Good Morning Mumbai' which was inspired by the famous Robbie Williams' trademark morning wish in the film �Good Morning Vietnam'. AB Baby watched the film when he wa...
MUMBAI: Music label Tips is planning to digitise its entire music library in the next one year.
The company, that made a comeback of sorts in 2008 with the music of its home productions Race and Kismet Konnection, plans to digitise over 40,000 tracks in its repertoire. However, Tips managing director Kumar Taurani insists that the label will not go the Yashraj way and retail its music online. "I would rather create a wholesale store of all of Tips' music, and enable content aggregators and operators to access it, acquire it and then redistribute it," he says.
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MUMBAI: Madonna was the music industry's biggest moneymaker last year, pulling in $242.2 million on the success of her Sticky & Sweet... tour, according to annual rankings released by Billboard Magazine.
Rock band Bon Jovi ranked second with $157.2 million and Bruce Springsteen was third after making $156.3 million, according to Billboard, the music magazine owned by Nielsen Co. The rankings are based on sales from touring, albums, digital tracks and ring tones.
Touring is t...
MUMBAI: Sony Music Entertainment has become the first of the four largest recording companies to renew a music licensing deal with YouTube, according to reports.
The deal ensures that Sony artists, who include Bruce Springsteen and Beyonce, will remain on YouTube, according to the blog All Things Digital, which broke the news on Thursday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The initial deals with the labels enabled YouTube to showcase music videos and also allowed site visitors to include the label's songs in their clips.
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MUMBAI: Star Voice of India Chhote Ustaad finalist Prakriti Giri is debuting in a new avatar as a radio jockey on the Sikkim FM station Nine FM.
Prakriti Giri, one of the top three finalists of Star Voice of India, Chote Ustad..., will launch the new show introducing young talents of north Bengal and Sikkim, on 15 February. The show, described as highly inter-active wherein 'Prakriti will entertain her fans and listeners with interesting aspects of her own journey as a singer and her...
MUMBAI: Google is exiting the radio business. The companys says it will be ending the Google Audio Ads program as of 31 May this year, and plans to sell the Google Radio Automation software business. Google announced earlier that it will stop selling newspaper ads.
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MUMBAI: Bollywood music channel 9XM has partnered with Mentos to organise a Valentine's Day contest that is centred around its popular animated character Bheegi Billi.
The contest – �Mentos Bheegi Billi Date Hunt' – will urge 9XM fans to come up with wacky and cool ideas to help Bheegi Billi win a date. The best entry will get a chance to win a holiday package for a couple to visit the Taj Mahal in Agra.
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