MUMBAI: Lady Gaga was accredited with a gold plaque by Universal Music India, Saarc MD Devraj Sanyal, and VP-marketing Sunil D'Sa, at Gaga's promotional tour in Singapore.
In India Gaga's �Born This Way' has hit gold status within six weeks of its release on physical format. Digital numbers will further add as it has already recorded sales of over 1.5 million albums and 5.5 million singles worldwide.
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MUMBAI: The Dublin-based Solaris Mobile Ltd has tied up with leading Italian media publishing group Class Editori, to launch digital radio services for listeners across Italy.
The initial phase of the radio services will commence in October 2011 with deployment of hybrid satellite and terrestrial network in Milan. Solaris Mobile is partnering major Italian network operators for provision of the terrestrial transmission network.
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MUMBAI: After the success of webcert season 1, Hungama Digital has tied up with Nokia for its second season, to bring music concerts on handsets with Nokia SmartNights app.
Launch of the Nokia Smartnights WebCert will feature Shankar Mahadevan in a first ever digital live concert. The application will be available on the Nokia's Smart phones through an application on the OVI Store before the concert goes live on 19 July at 5pm. Nokia will be the title sponsor for the first six WebCerts with various artists.
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MUMBAI: To deal with the growing number of digital service, Universal Music Publishing Group has tied up with Crunch Digital for its PDX Service which manages data for selected cloud and internet streaming music services.
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MUMBAI: Music major Saregama India has released Karaoke series of golden chartbuster hits and immortal melodies on CDs.
The Karaoke series consists of legendary singers like Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Mohd. Rafi, Mukesh and a host of other maestros with their immortal melodies One can hum and sing along to the tunes including Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke, Yeh Dil Na Hota Bechara, Ek Ladki Bheegi Bhagi Si, Mere Dil Main Aaj Kya Hain among others.
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MUMBAI: BBC director of audio and music Tim Davie announced the launch of the BBC Audio Research Partnership at an industry event at MediaCityUK.
BBC Research and Development will use the initiative to work in closer collaboration with leading universities in the field of audio research and innovation. Its primary academic partners will be University of Surrey for audio-visual research and University of Salford for research into acoustics.
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MUMBAI: �Con Brio 2011 - Western Music Festival & Piano Competition' begins today at Experimental Theatre, NCPA. The festival presented by NCPA and Furtados is dedicated to the late John Gomes for his 50 years of contribution in the development of music.
Directed by Parvesh Java this year the fest will be anchored by four pianists: Marialena Fernandes, Mark Troop, Paul Stewart and Ranko Markovic along with soprano Patricia Rozario. Con Brio 2011 will also celebrate the birth bicentenary of Franz Liszt and death centenary of Gustav Mahler.
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MUMBAI: The war between two best item songs of 2010, Munni Badnaam (Dabangg) and Sheila Ki Jawaani (Tees Maar Khan) still continues, as they carry on to reign musical charts with rankings in the top five countdowns. Both the numbers have been topping the charts of Ormax Media’s weekly music countdown chart ‘Heartbeats’ since the time it started in September 2010. Amounting to almost 36 weeks, Sheila Ki Jawani (Tees Maar Khan) has occupied the number one slot for 17 weeks and Munni Badnaam (Dabangg) for 11 weeks....
MUMBAI: Clear Channel Radio has announced the �iHeartRadio Music Festival', a two-day music event hosted by Ryan Seacrest, on 23 -24 September at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The music festival will celebrate the official launch of the new iHeartRadio and also mark the biggest live concert event in radio history.
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MUMBAI: Microsoft has announced the launch of music streaming service �Xbox Music' which will offer instant access to more than 11 million songs. Based on Zune Marketplace, the service will enable users with voice commands to search for songs.
CEO Steve Ballmer revealed in a Conference, that Xbox Music will be available through the Xbox Live community and is expected to be in market by October. Users with Kinect for Xbox 360 will also be able to perform voice searches for the songs.
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