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MUMBAI: After hosting a grand opening party for all its VIP guests and speakers at Shiro's yesterday, "Nokia Music Connects - the Indian music forum 2011 in association with Artistaloud.com" welcomed the entire Indian and international music industry with open arms on 16 November at �The ITC Grand Central', Parel, Mumbai. The most exceptional, resourceful and exhilarating music extravaganza is getting bigger and better year by year.
read moreMUMBAI: Nokia Music Connects 2011 hosted a special welcome opening party for all its VIP guests and speakers on Tuesday 15 November at Shiro, Worli, Mumbai. The event was graced by high-powered personalities including industry professionals, music label honcos, event managers, artiste managers, corporate heads as well as top-notch creative professionals from the music industry, from both India and abroad.
read moreMUMBAI: India's leading radio station, 94.3 MY FM celebrated the birthday of its humor character �MY Chingum Boy' on the occasion of Children's Day. Chingum Boy is the funniest kid around as he gives MY FM listeners a reason to smile and laugh time & again in a true Jiyo Dil Se style, hence the radio network honored him by celebrating his birthday on the occasion of Children's Day.
read moreMUMBAI: CD Baby, the largest distributor of music by independent artists in the world, has now paid over $200 million directly to musicians. At the current rate of well over $40 million in commissions paid to unsigned artists each year, the company expects to cross the quarter billion dollar threshold in 2012.
read moreNEW DELHI: To commemorate 150th birth anniversary of the Nobel laureate poet Rabindra Nath Tagore, renowned filmmakers Buddhadeb Das Gupta and Rituparno Ghosh have planned to make films and television series. While Dasgupta is producing 13 short films on 13 poems of Tagore, Ghosh will make a documentary titled �Home and the Word'. The films have been approved by the screening committee under the chairmanship of veteran writer-director Shyam Benegal, along with financial assistance from the Government.
read moreMUMBAI: Universal Music Publishing Group has announced the promotion of David Kokakis and Monti Olson. Kokakis has been appointed as SVP-head of business & legal affairs/business development and Olson as EVP-head of pop & rock music, creative. Both of them will report directly to UMPG president North America Evan Lamberg and will be based in the company's world-wide headquarters in Santa Monica, California. Robert Allen SVP/head of business and legal Affairs and Tom Sturges EVP/head of Creative will be leaving the company to pursue other opportunities.
read moreMUMBAI: With a 280% increase in mobile global shipments in 2011, android smartphones have attained a global market share of 32% from 13% in 2010, according to the �Android Device Base Database by Vendor' report. The report points out that with the entry of Indian and Chinese vendors into the market, the race to lower android smartphone prices is gaining momentum, which in consequence has lead to the early emergence of mid-tier android devices.
read moreMUMBAI: BBC World Service broadcasts will receive a grant of ?90m from UK Government, less than a year after the body revealed cuts to jobs and services. Last year, foreign office moved the responsibility of funding the service to BBC, following which the corporation unveiled plans to close five of its 32 world language services and axe up to 650 jobs over three years.
read moreMUMBAI: The DRM consortium organized a meeting in New Delhi recently, bringing together various stakeholders to discuss issues dealing with the roll-out of DRM Digital radio technology in India.
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MUMBAI: Delhi will be engulfed with the power pitched mesmerizing voice of Daler Mehndi as the Bhangra sensation performs at Talkatora Stadium on 15th of November. The concert, presented by Saifi Films and Punjabi Kesari, starts at 6.00 pm and promises to be a highlight on the 2011 social calendar. The �Powerhouse of Performance', Mehndi's high voltage performances are believed to create an atmosphere that is highly electric. His earlier concerts and live performances had crowds swooning to his music and dancing away to glory.
read moreMUMBAI: Bangalore-based spiritual, multi-lingual, satellite television channel Sri Sankara TV is gearing up to launch a new talent hunt show in search of the best bhajan group in south India. The show - Bhajan Samraat - will premiere on 1 December and will be aired every Thursday-Friday at 7 pm."Bhajan Samraat is a big initiative and we take pride in introducing the concept of reality into the devotional space. We aim to give opportunities to the prodigies to showcase their talent," the channel said.
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MUMBAI: Universal Music Group (UMG) delivered impressive first-quarter earnings that surpassed exread more
MUMBAI: Universal Music Group and TikTok have announced a new licensing agreement, marking the enread more
MUMBAI: Vianet Media, founded by Mr.read more
MUMBAI: Google initiated testing of the 'hum to search' feature in late 2023 on its YouTube Musicread more
MUMBAI: The worlds of art and technology have always had an intricate relationship, but in recenread more
MUMBAI: Pacha Ibiza and Solomun reveal the highly anticipated Solomun+1 lineup featuring renowned artists such as Âme, Jamie XX, Denis Sulta, HAAi,...read more
MUMBAI: Logan Lynn has just released “I Feel Alone When I’m With You”, the latest single off his brand new studio album SOFTCORE out June 7 via Kill...read more
MUMBAI: Pop band Faridkot, consisting of members IP Singh and Rajarshi Sanyal, recently sat down for an exclusive interview to discuss their latest...read more
MUMBAI: Garnering immense love for his newly launched debut global radio show, ‘Only Just Begun’, singer-songwriter Armaan Malik has audiences...read more
MUMBAI: 'Bewitched: The Goddess Edition', the new release from GRAMMY-winning Icelandic-Chinese artist, composer, producer and multi-...read more
