MUMBAI: Global digital music market revenue will reach 20 billion by 2015 at a CAGR of 22% from $7 billion in 2010, according to �The Digital Music Market Outlook report.'
The digital music market in India, China, and Mexico has showcased strong growth, whereas countries like US, Japan, UK, France, and Germany remain key digital markets, accounting a market value of 79.5% in 2010.
The report conducted by MarketResearch.com also states that the digital music subscriptions will grow at CAGR of 61% over the forecast period.
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MUMBAI: Bunkum!!! Indian music composers, lyricists, and singers were unanimous in their verdict against the stayed ruling given by the Bombay High Court in favour of Radio City against the payment of royalty to the IPRS for music it plays on its stations.
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MUMBAI: MTV has turned 30, growing from a strong music channel brand to a youth positioning with content that includes reality shows.
MTV launched its first broadcast with the words 'Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll' on 1 August 1981. John Lack unveiled Music Television alongside the footage of Apollo 11's launch, introducing a new way of consuming music and music videos.
The first video broadcasted was The Buggles' 'Video Killed the Radio Star' followed by Pat Benatar's 'You Better Run'.
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MUMBAI: Radio One promoters will infuse fresh capital into the company soon as they prepare to aggressively participate in bidding for new frequencies that the government is throwing open for the private sector.
Radio One, the joint venture between Next MediaWorks (earlier Mid-Day Multimedia) and BBC Worldwide, runs FM stations in seven cities (Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Ahmedabad and Pune).
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MUMBAI: BBC Hindi will bring together musicians from India and Pakistan on its special series �Friendship beyond Borders'. The series will be broadcasted via partnered FM station across India from 2-7 August.
Friendship beyond Borders features artistes such as Shafqat Amanat Ali, Arif Lohar, Ali Azmat, Rekha Bharadwaj, Salim-Sulaiman and Mohit Chauhan conversing on music, mutual understanding and peace.
Singer/Composer Salim Merchant said, Music has no language. It is a business of the heart. It has no nationality or religion....
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MUMBAI: 94.3 My FM has been felicitated with two awards �Radio Station of the Year' and �Best Marketing Campaign of the Year' at 2nd CMO Asia Awards ceremony held in Singapore.
My FM won Radio �Radio Station of the Year' award for the unique programming content offering like �The Ramayana, My Mayor My Sheher, Chota RJ, Shaam–e-Ghazal, 16 Always, My Icons', brand initiatives and their support to Anna Hazare movement and other such drives.
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MUMBAI: Finally it came in, even if it was way too late. The much-awaited phase-III policy approved by the government last month though cheered up the industry, but it has too little to offer for the metros. This may spell some bad news for FM stations as that is where lies the pot of gold.
According to government officials, only four FM licences will be available for metros. Out of the total, two will be in Mumbai, one each in Delhi and Chennai while there is no licence up for grabs in Kolkata. Currently Mumbai has seven, Delhi and Chennai have eight stations respectively.
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MUMBAI: On the occasion of its sixth anniversary, Red FM's multi-award winning breakfast show Morning No.1 (Mon-Fri 7-11am) hosted by RJ Malishka kick started with week long celebrations from Monday.
The celebrations commenced with Karan Johar, who turned the table on RJ Malishka as this time she was on the hot seat revealing her secrets for Mumbaikars. The station has planned numerous activity and will give listerners goddies such as home theatre systems, DVD players, spa vouchers,...
MUMBAI: To commemorate 31st death anniversary of legendary musical genius Mohammed Rafi, son Shahid Rafi will co-author with Sujata for the legend's biography titled �Mohammed Rafi: Voice of Nation'. The book will be released by Om Books International.
�Mohammed Rafi: Voice of Nation' biography mirrors Rafi's golden era of music and an account of his life.
Om Books International publisher Ajay Mago said, It is indeed an honour to publish Mohammed Rafi's biography. A...
MUMBAI: Madhya Pradesh Government will set up more than �100 tribal community' radio stations in tribal areas across the state. The tribal community radio project is being implemented by the department through a special wing known as �Vanya.'
The first nine community radio stations will be made functional in districts including Dindori, Balaghat, Khandwa, Betul, Dhar, Jhabua, Guna, Sheopur and Chhindwara. The infrastructure for some of the stations like Khandwa, Betul, Dhar and Sheopur has already been constructed, states PTI.
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