MUMBAI: Kapil Dev, who led the Indian Cricket team to their ultimate triumph by winning the World Cup, is the guest, honorary RJ, cricket expert and advisor for the ongoing matches of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 on Radio Mirchi. He will share his insightful match previews and hard-hitting post-match analyses with Mirchi listeners.
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MUMBAI: Chennai Live 104.8 FM is celebrating International Women’s Day by keeping an open house and letting its lady listeners take control of the radio station on Tuesday, 8th March, 2011. The station has dedicated this International Women’s Day to its listeners by handing over its microphones to the daring young divas of the city....
MUMBAI: Saregama India has launched The Rishi Gayatri album, a a recitation of Gayatri Mantra “in its purest form, guided, empowered and blessed by spiritual world master Yog Maartand Yogiraj Sidhanathji”. The label has partnered with Radio City for the launch, which happened last week....
MUMBAI: British Council has announced Aishwarya Natarajan as the winner of the Young Creative Entrepreneur Music Award 2011. Natarajan, who owns Indianuance, an artist management and concert-programming outfit dedicated to Indian classical music, is the first woman and first Indian classical music entrepreneur to win the award.
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MUMBAI: Reggae artist Apache Indian gave listeners of Radio City and PlanetRadiocity.com a preview of some of the songs from his forthcoming album, Music Is Freedom. The popular reggae-pop-rap-bhangra artiste, who completed a 27-cpountry tour last year, performed for PlanetRadiocity web radio listeners and listeners of Radio City's evening show, Taka Tak Mumbai.
Apache Indian is touring India with his band, The Reggae Revolution, for the first time, and is scheduled to cover Mumbai, Ne...
MUMBAI: Spice Digital has inked an exclusive arrangement with PPL for Voice-based Music Streaming Services. This is a long-term, exclusive agreement for India's top three private mobile operators.
Spice started Music streaming services four years ago, and today has made it the second largest VAS service for most operators. It will be recalled that Spice Digital recently launched yet another innovative service with Radio Mirchi, called Mirchi Mobile, to provide a unique music proposition for mobile users.
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MUMBAI: Sunshine Coast-based software developer iApps was contracted by the Prime Radio to deliver several iPhone and iPod Touch applications for the family of seven stations; an app servicing the five Zinc stations, a Mix 106 app and a HOT 91 app. The three free apps allow each station to stream live FM radio to iOS mobile devices. Provided there is access to WiFi or Bluetooth connectivity, listeners can enjoy their favourite station anywhere around the world....
MUMBAI: In a first-of-its-kind deal with an international brand, Chennai-based Techzone, a mobile Value Added Services company, has signed up an exclusive agreement with Universal Music and Sony Music for content in international and domestic music. The entire catalogue of music from the Universal and Sony stables will be streamlined by Techzone and will be packaged and delivered in an effective way to the end users through the WAP and CRBT platforms....
MUMBAI: Mercury Music Group/Def Jam, UK announced today that Rihanna's UK record sales have passed the 10 million mark. This milestone has been achieved six years after Mercury Music Group/Def Jam first launched her career in UK. The label has released each of her five albums, starting with 2005's Music of the Sun followed by four multi-platinum albums including the 6x Platinum 2007 release Good Girl Gone Bad.
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MUMBAI: Famecount.com, the social media statistics service, announced Eminem as the world’s most popular living person on Facebook. The US rapper claims the crown after reaching 29m Facebook fans or ‘likes’, overtaking Lady Gaga in a closely contested and long drawn out battle. Less than 1m fans have separated the two stars for more than two months. Only one person retains more Facebook popularity than Eminem - the late Michael Jackson, currently at over 29m fans, although at current rates of fan growth, even the King of Pop looks unlikely to retain his lead. ...
