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MUMBAI: The world’s premier music publication, Billboard Magazine, has released its 2024 International Power Players list, honouring executives who are at the forefront of driving the global music business.
read moreMUMBAI: Microblogging site Twitter saw the industry crossing swords on Tuesday, as filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt expressed his reservations over the royalty issue, rekindling the ever fresh dispute between Bollywood lyricists, singers and music directors versus film producers over the 50-50 sharing of profits on creative work as proposed in the amendment to the Copyright Bill 2010 lying before Parliament
read moreMUMBAI: Putting more terabytes in the hands of consumers worldwide, Seagate has announced the launch of what it says is the world's first 3 Terabyte (TB) external desktop drive. The 3TB FreeAgent GoFlex Desk external hard drive helps to meet the explosive worldwide demand for digital content storage. With 3TB of capacity, people can store up to 120 HD movies, 1,500 video games, thousands of photos or countless hours of digital music.
read moreBANGALORE: The Alliance Fran?§aise in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Thiruvananthapuram, the Goethe-Institutes in Bangalore and Chennai and the Goethe Centres in Hyderabad and Thiruvananthapuram, in association with the Bangalore School of Music, will bring to Indian audiences an exceptional musical encounter between three talented jazz musicians from Bangalore, Berlin, and Paris for a series of workshops and concerts in South India during the concert tour titled JazzConnect 2010.
read moreBANGALORE: Star's Tamil offering Vijay TV announced the launch of the third edition of Super Singer titled Airtel Super Singer Season 3. The reality show will be aired Monday to Thursday during the 9 pm primetime slot starting 12 July. The ground level auditions took place at Chennai where a Vijay TV release claims that thousands of interested and aspiring young singers took part. Those interested could also send their voice recorded on a CD / cassette or could attend the ground audition that is set to take place in the coming weeks at Tiruchy and Coimbatore.
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MUMBAI: Owned by the Beatles, the four decades old 'Apple Records' announced on Tuesday 7 July that some of the label's catalog will soon be available for download. In partnership with EMI Music, Apple Records will be releasing 15 remastered albums that will be available for download on October 26.
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MUMBAI: After a couple of audio launches last month, music giant T-Series has now acquired the audio rights of Aamir Khan's home production 'Peepli Live', the music of which is scored by Indie-rock band Indian Ocean.
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MUMBAI: After introducing music format shows, Radio One is now doling out money to ensure stickiness with listeners. The station has introduced the Maximum Music, Maximum Money Contest in Delhi and Mumbai. The four-week long property, will have contests every hour across the two stations of Delhi and Mumbai. To win cash prizes listeners will have to tune in every hour and SMS the songs that are being played between two signature bells (ghanti). The first listener, to name all the songs played between the two bells, stands to win a cash prize up to Rs 200,000..
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MUMBAI: Targeting the Tier II and Tier III cities in the country, electric goods manufacturer Panasonic has kick started a campaign titled 'Sound Of India'. The 'Sound for India' caravan and exhibition will invite local talent for on the spot sound creation and recording using a synthesizer. The 70 city tour will culminate its hunt on 10 September and the most interesting sounds, as judged by the jury will be rewarded. The contest campaign, kick started by singer Shibani Kashyap, intends to create a bank of distinctive sounds each of the regions it travels to
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MUMBAI: Music composer Amit Trivedi who earlier scored for off-beat films like Dev D, Aamir and (most recently) Udaan also scored his first mainstream Bollywood film 'Aisha'. The music of this Sonam Kapoor - Abhay Deol starrer was released on the web recently. Amit Trivedi rose to fame with Dev D's Emotional Atyachaar which became an overnight youth anthem after its release. However, Trivedi is a little anxious about the feedback for his first mainstream score. "I am sure the core fans will be a bit disappointed, but I hope they enjoy," he said.
read moreMUMBAI: After months of protests by the listeners and presenters, BBC bosses have finally decided against axing BBC radio station 6 Music. BBC Trust rejected the proposal to slam down the radio station as "a convincing case" had not been made for the shut-down. 6 Music along with the Asian Network were the two stations earmarked for closure as reported in March this year. However revival of Asian Network appeared doomed as the Trust declared a "case for closure" for it.
read moreMUMBAI: Sri Adhikari Brothers Ltd (SAB) today officially launched its music and comedy channel Mastiii. The channel will play Bollywood music, mixed with comedy acts by comedians like Raju Srivastava, Sunil Pal, Suresh Menon, Shailesh Lodha, and Kiki Sharda. The 24-hour free-to-air channel will have 75 per cent music and the remaining 25 per cent will be comedy content.
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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: 2x-Grammy-nominated artist and producer Steve Aoki announces the forthcoming release of his 9th studio album, set to drop June 28. Aoki...read more
MUMBAI: The world’s premier music publication, Billboard Magazine, has released its 2024 International Power Players list, honouring executives who...read more
