MUMBAI: Consumption of music has undergone a drastic change with digital platforms garnering revenues for the physical sale hit music industry. Apart from the music industry, the telecom companies, content aggregators and service providers are exploiting the opportunity to monetise
To gain impetus from the digital platforms, availability of cohesive data is of key importance believes the content aggregators. Also the music industry must tap other media platforms like DTH, idtv instead of just capitalizing on the conventional platforms like mobile and internet
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MUMBAI: Michael Jackson's Moonwalker has been released by Big Home Video. Priced at Rs 599, the DVD holds a collage of short stories apart from the movie.
The DVD also features live concert footage and his performances at the Grammy Awards. Also included is a wild adventure film written by Michael Jackson himself that gives audiences a glimpse into his creative mind.
Moonwalker, released by Michael Jackson in 1988, is named after the popular dance technique known as the 'Moonwalk' that was one of Michael Jackson's trademark moves.
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MUMBAI: T-Series has acquired the music rights of the Vipul Shah directed film London Dreams.
After Action Replay, this is the second film directed by Shah. The film stars Salman Khan, Ajay Devgan, Asin and Om Puri.
Says T-Series head honcho Bhushan Kumar, "As a company we want big films, producers and banners to sign on with us. This year, thanks to all the corporate deals, our marketing strategies and relations and also with the digital marketing strength, every producer and banner is looking to have a contract with us."
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MUMBAI: The session- �It's all about music' revolved around the old Bollywood versus film music issue as also regional music markets hooting for independent music.
Sony Music managing director Shridhar Subramanium observed that regional music will find national identity in the coming times and there will be industry consolidations with music labels merging with larger footprints in the country.
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MUMBAI: India comes a close second after Korea in terms of paying for music downloads, according to the just released Music Matters Synovate Survey 2009.
19 per cent of Indian youth claim to have paid to download music, just behind Korea's 20 per cent of paying public, ranking ahead of China where only 12 per cent claim to pay for music downloads. Interestingly, only 21 per cent of Indian youth claim to have opted for illegal downloads in the last one month as against 55 per cent Chinese youth who claim to have preferred unpaid downloads.
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MUMBAI: The Nokia Music Store was officially launched in India, during the day long Nokia Music Connects conference at the Taj Lands End in Mumbai on Wednesday.
The Music Store has launched with a library of three million songs across 20 genres and in a variety of Indian languages. The service will be available on key devices during 2009 and will be extended to other Nokia devices by 2010.
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MUMBAI: Innovation and out of the box thinking are the buzzwords that will help propel the Indian music industry to pinnacles of success. This was the essence of the range of panel discussions that marked the landmark day long conference Nokia Music Connects held in Mumbai on Wednesday.
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MUMBAI: Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM announced its association with the forthcoming movie �Radio' featuring singer-actor Himesh Reshammiya in Mumbai today. As part of the alliance, Prashant Panday, CEO, Radio Mirchi and Himesh Reshammiya unveiled an exclusive collection of songs from the movie for Mirchi's listeners.
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MUMBAI: Amidst the hectic celebration, Radio Mirchi came out with an innovative concept this Ganesh Chaturthi , by asking the people of Bangalore to desist from immersing the lord Ganesha in the lakes of Bangalore, instead to immerse it in Buckets provided by Radio Mirchi. Requesting the population of Bangalore to keep the lakes clean & pristine, on Radio Mirchi were celebrities like Puneeth Rajkumar, Sharmila Mandre, Radhika Pundit etc... Also endorsing the same was Sri Somyajji who assu...
MUMBAI: Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM, Chennai hottest radio station kick started this festive season by organizing an innovative creative competition that involved the RJs and selected listeners decorating Ganesha's at the Mirchi studios.
The preliminary induction started a week back where each RJ started recruiting their team of 5 people on-air. And during the course of the week all 6 teams with their team captains got together and decided on their unique theme to decorate the Vinayaka.
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