MUMBAI: The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) is pleased to announce international superstar Shania Twain as the 2011 inductee to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. In addition to a string of chart-topping albums, Twain has garnered numerous awards and accolades over her extraordinary career — including 12 JUNO Awards — and will add yet another achievement when she is honoured during the live CTV broadcast of The 2011 JUNO Awards, on Sunday, March 27. This wi...
MUMBAI: MusicRevolution.com, an innovative online marketplace for production music, today announced that its production music library now exceeds 10,000 tracks of royalty-free music. “With over 10,000 tracks of high-quality royalty-free production music online, our community of professional musicians has helped us to reach the critical mass necessary to ensure that we can meet almost any music buyer’s needs....
MUMBAI: Turner has sold its entire 51 per cent stake in Imagine Showbiz to joint venture partner Cinestar Advertising Pvt Ltd (CAPL) as part of a chain of transactions that will conclude with Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd (RBNL) taking complete ownership of the Bollywood music channel.
CAPL now has 100 per cent ownership of Imagine Showbiz and will be selling it to RBNL.
"We have completed the transaction with Turner and own 100 per cent of Imagine Showbiz. We are in the process of selling our entire stake to RBNL," says Cinestar Advertising promoter Abhimanyu Singh.
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NEW DELHI: Sony Music has entered into a strategic alliance with Promo Sapiens to book and market its talent including Indian Idol -5 (Except Sreeram) and India's Got Talent.
Promo Sapiens will work as booking agents while Sony music continues to develop and manage their careers.
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MUMBAI: Radio Misty 94.3 FM, the first and Number one fm station of North Bengal joined hands with Bangla Gaan Utsav committee to organize path-breaking festival of Bengali songs. The four-day festival had Popular Bengali bands Chandrabindu and Saptak performing live at this utsav.Noted Writer Samaresh Majumder unveiled the statue of Rabindranath Tagore during the four-day festival to commemorate the poet's 150 birth anniversary. West Bengal Urban Development Minister Asok Bhattachary...
MUMBAI: Beginning 16 January, aspiring singer-songwriters will be able to showcase original songs and compete for the title of Best Original Song at www.BestOriginalSong.com. Weekly live internet shows will give viewers the chance to listen and vote. The world premier show will be on 16th Jan at 8 pm EST (India time 6.30 am on Jan 17) and all shows will be available to vote for one full week after the shows. Viewers from all over the world will vote for their favorite song/artist....
MUMBAI: our favorite four best friends from Minnesota are hitting it big with their first DVD, Big Time Rush: Season One, Volume One Kendall, James, Carlos and Logan trade in their hockey sticks and parkas for a chance at music superstardom in Los Angeles, but the road to success isn't easy! Can they handle being thrown into the glamorous Hollywood scene and are they dedicated enough to make their dream a reality? This brand-new two-disc set includes the first eleven episodes of the series plus a bonus episode with special features and guest appearances by Nicole Scherzinger, Chris M...
MUMBAI: Radio Audience Measurement (RAM) data for Week 52 (19-25 Dec /10) across all people 12+ at all places of listening reveals that it was yet another week of negligible shifts in market shares.
Gains and losses in the 4 metros (at =/> 0.2% of own share) were:
Gains (%):
(1) Mumbai: BIG FM - 0.4; Red FM - 0.3; AIR FM 1 Rainbow – 0.3; Radio One - 0.2; Oye! – 0.2
2) Delhi: AIR FM Vividh Bharati – 0.5; Hit FM – 0.4; Fever FM – 0.2
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MUMBAI: Music labels are getting more aggressive to co-opt FM Radio networks to play out non-film music, and Saregama India has been busy with various networks, seeking out the biggest to launch such albums. In end-2010 we saw it tie up with the network with the largest physical presence, BIG FM, to launch its Asha Bhosle-Shujaat Khan album across all HSMs. And today, Hidayat Hussain, the son of the legendary Ustad Vilayat Khan, is out with his second album, Sawariya, and Saregama has tied up...
NEW DELHI: Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said Monday that the Central Board for Film Certification had been given the mandate of judging the item songs or other scenes in films.
On a question about a directive of the Allahabad High Court on item songs in films, Soni said the Ministry had conveyed this in its reply to the Court notice.
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