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MUMBAI: London Calling, the annual gathering of businesses and senior executives from the music industry around the globe, will be held on 19 and 20 June 2008. Senior executives, artistes and allied industry representatives from over 40 countries, including USA, Japan, China, India and France are expected to participate.
read moreMUMBAI: According to a survey conducted by the University of Hertfordshire in the UK, people aged 14-24 finds that youngsters still love their music and are wiling to pay for it- but only on their own terms. What stands out in the result of the survey is that 80 percent of the users said they would pay for a "legal file-sharing service." Also the fact that legal download services does exist, that makes it easy to buy legitimate content right now.
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An ace tennis pro who's also an award winning radio jockey, RJ Prithvi lives each day as it comes. One look at him and you're sure that he's about to come up with a wisecrack. Yes, that's RJ Prithvi for you - live and fresh, as Namita Gupta catches up with him just outside Bangalore's Radio One studio, post his daily Breakfast Show.
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An ace tennis pro who's also an award winning radio jockey, RJ Prithvi lives each day as it comes. One look at him and you're sure that he's about to come up with a wisecrack. Yes, that's RJ Prithvi for you - live and fresh, as Namita Gupta catches up with him just outside Bangalore's Radio One studio, post his daily Breakfast Show.
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MUMBAI: BIG 92.7 FM, India's No. 1 FM Station, marked the first anniversary of their Rajkot Station on 15 June. BIG FM which boasts of setting up the largest radio network in the shortest possible time already has presence in 44 cities across India. It began with its launch in September 2006 and in a short span of time, has ensured presence across the length and breadth of the country.
read moreMUMBAI: A US federal district court has ruled that selling promo CDs on eBay does not infringe copyright. The court ruled against Universal Music Group which had sued Troy Augusto, who regularly sells promo CDs on eBay. Universal claimed that music labeled "promotional use only" are the company's property and can never be resold or even thrown away and filed a copyright infringement lawsuit.
read moreMUMBAI: Saregama India, which has launched The Underground Series, introducing 30 new talents across Kolkata, Mumbai and Delhi, has signed on some of the artistes for a three year contract. It is for the first time that a major label is executing such a project at a large scale to promote artistes at the grass root level. The artistes who will cut an album with them are Parwati Kumari, Hamza Faruqui, Gaurav Issar from Mumbai and Jack Rabbit from Kolkata.
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MUMBAI: Composer singer Shibani Kashyap will soon launch her fourth album under the Big Music label this September. Kashyap will get to retain a 40 per cent royalty share of the physical as well as the digital sales. The album has eight numbers, seven of which are composed and sung by Kashyap herself. The remaining one is a duet composed and song with disco king Bappi Lahiri. "The song composed by Bappida is a disco dance number and would create waves in the market."
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MUMBAI: Motorola has launched the MOTO ROKR E8 handset, aimed at music fanatics. The phone features the ModeShift technology as it turns from a music player back to a phone with the touch of one button. Users can use FastScroll navigation for rolling through songs and can store upto 3,000 songs on a 2GB memory slot. The phone maintains a perfectly flush as it holds 970mAh battery and also contains the microSD card slot.
read moreMUMBAI: Channel [V] won the ?‹?“Best Music Channel award while Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007 by Zee Telefilms Ltd pocketed the best music programme award at Indiantelevision.com's New Talent Awards that incorporated the Indian Telly Technical Trade, Channel and Programming (TTTCP) Awards, honouring the real stars behind television , on Saturday . The award s recognise the production teams, the marketing whiz kids, the ad sales teams and the programmers behind any creative idea or show.
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MUMBAI: Father's day is a very important day in Indian value system and to keep the tradition of "twamaiv Mata ch pita twamaiv" alive 94.3 MY FM has celebrated it in a big way across its 17 stations in 7 prominent states. The Fathers on 15 June have been not only pampered by MY FM through on air activities but also been treated to surprise lunch/dinner with their best friend.
read moreMUMBAI: In a rare deal, music label T-Series has acquired the music rights of UTV's 16 forthcoming films. The deal includes the physical and digital music publishing rights of the films, making it the biggest music deal Bollywood has seen till date.
read moreMUMBAI: Saregama India has announced a net profit of Rs 31.80 million for the quarter ended March 2008, a drop of 26.22 per cent from the same quarter last year, when the company posted a standalone net profit of Rs 43.10 million. Net sales for the quarter climbed 37.13 per cent to Rs 392.60 million, while total income for the quarter rose 32.08 per cent to Rs 424.10 million, compared with the same period last year.
read moreMUMBAI: To celebrate the occasion of Father's Day in true Mirchi style, Radio Mirchi 98.3 FM, India's hottest Radio station will identify fathers into various interesting categories like Bhullakad Papa, Dhai Kilo ka haath papa, Mummy se Poocho Papa and Hmm papa¦
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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: The world’s premier music publication, Billboard Magazine, has released its 2024 International Power Players list, honouring executives who...read 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: Tagore's birth anniversary, a festive occasion in Bengal, is celebrated nationwide with reverence. In Bengal, it's akin to a sacred day,...read more
