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MUMBAI: The best Music Director Award was bagged by A R Rahman for Delhi 6 at the Star Screen Awards held over the weekend in Mumbai. Delhi 6 was a clear winner for its wonderful line up of compositions, and Dev D, that had another winning background score composed by Amit Trivedi, walked away with the Best Background Score award. Kavitha Seth won the best Female Play back Singer for Iktara from Wake Up Sid, and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan won the best Male Playback Singer for Aaj Din Chaddeya from Love Aaj Kal.
read moreMUMBAI: The music world has been stunned by the new developments in the Oink case and the fact that the owner pocketed ?188,000 from his controversial website oink.cd. According to fresh reports, founder Alan Ellis is said to have made ?188,000 from the website he set up in 2004. The site did not host music, but members allegedly indexed files for people to download. Oink had close to 200,000 users.
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MUMBAI: Artistaloud.com, an initiative by Hungama might just be an answer to the woes of independent musicians seeking platform to release their music. In the present scenario, where music labels are busy chasing Bollywood music and are reluctant to launch a non-film album, this digital platform is definitely a breather. Having ventured in the digital music space with an online store and collaboration with bsnl last year, www.artistaloud.com was a natural extension.
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MUMBAI: In a first of sorts, music labels Times Music and Saregama have partenered to bring out a compilation album called 'The History of Indian Film Music'. The 10 audio CD pack is a collector's edition which showcases the best in Indian Film Music. It is a decade wise journey of Indian Cinema and is a melodic assortment of Bollywood Classics. Starting from the music of the 1930s, the album contains music till the first decade of new millenium.
read moreMUMBAI: Pandora, the popular online music service in the US, has announced a deal with electronics manufacturer Pioneer Corp that will allow consumers to bring Pandora's personalized audio content to their automobiles.
read moreMUMBAI: Fast growing portal Desi Hits.com has found an investor in Jimmy Iovine, the distributor of the Oscar winning soundtrack of Danny Boyle's film Slumdog Millionaire. The partnership is aimed at fueling the 'desi-international' collaborations Interscope Geffen A&M Records Chairman Jimmy Iovine says, "We all share an enormous excitement at Interscope Geffen A&M working with Desi Hits to develop our artists globally by bringing south asian influences to the west in a real cultural exchange."
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MUMBAI: After the theatrical release of MJ's This is It, Sony Pictures has planned a global release of the film on the DVD format on 26 January. Pegged as Sony's biggest ever DVD launch, the label has allocated Rs. eight million towards a media campaign to promote Michael Jackson's documentary. This is expected to be the biggest home video release in India with over 10 million units of DVD, VCD, memory cards and Blu-ray discs over various SKUs to be shipped out in the initial launch.
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MUMBAI: Music Broadcast Private Limited (MBPL) owned radio venture Radio City has ventured into the internet radio space with a live online radio christened �Fun ka antenna'. Although many FM radio stations in India have their presence on the web, Radio City could well stake claim to becoming the first Indian radio station to stream live music over the web
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MUMBAI: From among the few non-film albums that released last year, it was only Pakistan born singer Shafqat Amanat Ali's first debut solo album Tabeer that hooked listeners. The former Fuzon singer is now back with his second album with Music Today titled 'Kyun Dooriyan' and is due for release in February 2010. Speaking about his new album from Pakistan, Shafqat Amanat Ali says, "Tabeer was more traditional and upbeat in its approach, but my new album will have a lot more emphasis on the lyrics."
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MUMBAI: After T-Series created history with the online music launch of their biggest offering, �3 idiots' last year, Sony Music released the music of My name is Khan on iTunes worldwide on 4 Jan 2010. The music was released keeping in mind the global appeal of the music of films from producer Karan Johar's stable This online launch was three days prior to the release of music in stores today.
read moreMUMBAI: 300 employees of Worldspace India have, in a letter to prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh sent on Tuesday, urged for immediate government intervention to ensure that the the radio service continues in India; and that the exit of the radio service be allowed only after following the due process applicable to any other media or telecom service in India.
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MUMBAI: Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) India has announced the appointment of Dr Bikrread more
MUMBAI: The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) announced today that it has filed a legal aread more
MUMBAI: The world is a stage! Literally.read more
MUMBAI: Anara Publishing continues to make waves in the Indian music scene, building on their iniread more
MUMBAI: Google is gearing up to introduce a Gemini Artificial Intelligence (AI) extension for Youread more
