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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.
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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, New Delhi, Bangalore and Pune in his tour which began on 25 February 2011 in Mumbai
read moreMUMBAI: 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.
read more* iApps have delivered Queensland broadcast company Prime Radio the means to go mobile and global 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.
read more*To streamline entire domestic, international music catalogue for WAP, CRBT end users 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.
read moreMUMBAI: 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.
read more*Eminem is also the third person in history to achieve 1bn views on his official YouTube channel
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*Singers Shaan, Sukhwinder Singh, Aadesh Shrivastava and others spotted MUMBAI: BIG Digital and Filmy Box Music launched the music of 24 Hours Gupchup on 23rd February, 2011. The movie is based on music piracy and highlights the plight of the music industry.
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MUMBAI: Dr. Palash Sen, front man of Indian super group Euphoria will address TEDxMICA..., the first international conference, to be conducted by a B- School in India on 26th of February, 2011, and Palash will take the Dias at 4:30 PM. The session will last for an hour. The conference has been organized by Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad, the premier communications institute in the country.
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*RJ Malishka grills Mumbai's most powerful on Kursi Par Sawaal MUMBAI: RED FM's breakfast show Morning No.1 played host to special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam on its new segment Kursi Par Sawaal, which gives Mumbaikars a platform to question government and civic authorities about issues that affect their lives this week.
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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
