MUMBAI: After a long time Google has finally got into the online music business by launching a service. However if it is to make a mark in Indian then it will have to adapt to a market that offers diversity. There is a fragmentation of music content ownership here. There is a long tail of content owners. At the same time search, social and curated functions have to be combined for any online music service to succeed.
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MUMBAI: The Indian Performing Right Society (IPRS) and YouTube have announced a licensing agreement that will allow songwriters, music composers and music publishers to earn revenue from YouTube.
This is YouTube's first collection society deal in India. The Video-streaming site generates revenue only when advertisements are displayed against YouTube partner's videos.
In this case it would mean that Indian music publishers, composers and authors that are members of IPRS will derive their share of revenue from the society for their works accessed on YouTube.
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MUMBAI: A watchdog of the Indian Music Industry (IMI) has launched a campaign against hotels, discos and beach shacks that play music without getting the mandatory public performance licence in Goa. Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL), the licensing arm of the Indian Music Industry (IMI), announced the launching of its campaign 'Halla Bol', states PTI.
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MUMBAI: After 25 years, India's four legendary composers Anandji, Pyarelal, Shiv-Hari and Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy will come together at one platform for a musical extravaganza. �Music Heals' concert will be held on 10 December in Mumbai.
The concert will feature leading playback singers including Kavita Krishnamurthy, Alka Yagnik, Hariharan, Sudesh Bhosle, Javed Ali, Sapna Mukherjee and Sanjay Tandon performing on the evergreen songs with Orchestra of 100 musicians.
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MUMBAI: VH1 India will premiere 39th American Music Awards' live on 21 November at 6:30 am with a prime-time repeat at 9 pm.
The channel will showcase the performances of popular international artiste such as Nicki Minaj, David Guetta, Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Kelly Clarkson, Mary J. Blige, Christina Aguilera, Pitbull, Maroon 5, Lance Bass, comedian Michael Buckley, Estelle, Sarah Hyland, Mitchel Musso, LMFAO, Chris Brown and Marc Anthony.
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BANGALORE: Popular classical singer Kattassery Joseph Yesudas will complete 50 years in the Indian music industry. Jaathi Bhedam Matha Dwesham (Music: M B Sreenivasan) was the first song recorded on 14 Nov 1961 by Yesudas.
Asianet will air an interview of the maestro on Sunday, 20 November at 2pm, hosted by channels business-head John Brittas. On the show, Yesudas will share 50 years of his successful musical journey.
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MUMBAI: This year the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) will honour music director AR Rahman with a Lifetime Achievement award. Rahman will receive the award during the 8th DIFF to be held from 7-14 December.
Winner of two Academy Awards and two Grammy Awards, the 45 year old Rahman will be the first musician to receive a Lifetime Achievement award at the film festival.
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MUMBAI: Google has finally launched an online music service. It has launched an Android music store to compete with iTunes and Amazon.com.
However, the service is available for Android users in the US only as Google has not done deals with record labels to allow it to sell songs globally. The view in the industry is mixed. Some feel that Google has arrived too late while others feel that competition is always healthy. It will result in services improving.
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