IIFA AWARDS 2019 has been a grand celebration of Indian culture, tradition, and ethics wherein apart from the mainstream Indian film fraternity professionals being awarded, at one point most deserving…
‘Sunburn’ Asia’s biggest electronic music festival returns back to its homeland Goa from 27th -29th December 2019, yet again to give the audiences three sprawling days of house, EDM and pop on…
Believe, the leading technology and artist services company, announced today that it had acquired Entco, an Indian live music production company. The Paris-based company will now offer its roster of…
YouTube Music was recently launched in India by Google, and now they have introduced YouTube Charts! This will be showcasing and focusing on songs, videos and artists doing well in…
YouTube and Paid-For Plays have been a controversial topic all year thanks to Bloomberg, who pointed towards Badshah in July. The topic is subject to Badshah’s latest track ‘Paagal’ on July…
The 3rd Edition of India Music Summit by Music Concepts in collaboration with Raymond and MTV is all set to celebrate India’s diverse musical heritage thereby showcasing it like no other at The Fairmont Jaipur from October 4th to 6th 2019. Presented in…
The global Indian extravaganza IIFA comes home in its 20th edition celebrating 20 years of Indian cinema bringing back it’s global glitter to the tinsel town the city of dreams…
Recently we highlighted that RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) showed that 80% of the music industry’s revenue is clocked in from streaming. But that is not what we intend…
Audio OTT platforms contributed about 70% to the total revenue generated by the domestic recorded music industry in 2018. Revenue from streaming increased to $109 million in 2018 from a…
Stephane Lefevre Head of international Partnerships Reed Midem the world’s largest music trade show, in his maiden visit to India talks about exploring the vibrating Indian music market, exploring opportunities in bringing Indian…
Spotify, the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service, today announced that it has acquired SoundBetter, a leading global audio production and collaboration marketplace helping creators worldwide connect and hire…
Sachin-Jigar, the dynamic duo behind many blockbusters in Bollywood, definitely know how to get the crowd exhilarated as they are all set to mesmerize audiences with their latest independent single…
Recently in Mumbai, I got the chance to meet the Business Starwalt – Gautam Sarkar, Business Head/Country Manager South Asia at Ditto Music Ltd. With over 40 years of experience…
The U.S. music industry is the No.1 recorded music market in the world. Music consumption is directly proportional to convenience, thereby making it dependent on how we consume music. The RIAA…
Mumbai-based Music streaming platform JioSaavn has received INR 140.35 Cr from its parent company Reliance Industries Limited. This is the 4th time this year, the parent company has fueled money…
Released as part of JioSaavn’s Artist Originals (AO), the peppy pop number is available for streaming and download to music fans across the world Punjabi Pop artist GSD Singh is…
730 days and almost 60 shows later, Milkman finally turns 2. Since their inception in India, they have always believed in touring quality talent and building one of a kind…
Gatecrash is bringing the elusive Jazz Quintet from France – EouZGanG! GENRE: Jazz, Rhythm n Blues, Funk Partners in life and on stage, drummer-composer Yves Eouzan and saxophonist Severine Eouzan are the…
The multifaceted Ashish Manchanda wears many hats being an award-winning Entrepreneur, Music & Video Producer, Sound Engineer, Record Label Executive, an A & R and now a Mentor. Having worked with…
It is always inspiring to come across singer-songwriters who are not only good at their craft but also good entrepreneurs. Rinky Sharma is a fine example of that. Hailing from Hyderabad, she…
A&M Studio, a one of its kind neutral platform, created to promote budding talent in the field of music, giving equal opportunity to talented artists & musicians, led by Manpreet…
In its seventh year, festival ropes in heavyweights like live electronica acts, Maribou State and Brainfeeder signee Ross from Friends for BUDx South Stage One of dance music’s most charismatic…
A well-identified name inside the Indian Pop Music Industry, Anurag Dixit has established a position for himself on his own, over the years. To grasp the significance of what this…
Music has its own language and a great emotional appeal, you don’t need words to express it and ‘INFINITY’ is indeed such a compilation with 7 exotic instrumental tracks which…
Sabbas Joseph Co-Founder, Director, Wizcraft International on the occasion of the 20th edition of IIFA homecoming talk about IIFA 2019 the journey of the Indian Film fraternity’s biggest festival, key…
Universal Music India launched VYRL Originals, a platform dedicated to promoting and building the category and culture of non-film music in India. In India, where the Non- Film music has…
The gorgeous singer-songwriter and actor Zara Khan Agha talks about her latest original song ‘Khud Se Zyada’ composed by Tanishk Bagchi, her musical journey and her views on women empowerment in…
From a steady stream of Arijit Singh songs to a growing interest with podcasts, six months of Spotify streaming data shows India is a nation of audiophiles. In early March this year,…
Pandora, the American music streaming and internet radio platform recently published a new blog post stating its users can now share their favorite songs, albums, podcasts, playlists or Pandora stations…
As if setting an attendance record for a comic act in India wasn’t enough, Zee Live’s Supermoon is now set to rock India with one of the rising stars of the country, singer-songwriter…
Indian Music Industry (IMI), the zenith trade body representing the recorded music companies on a pan-India basis, along with Deloitte yesterday jointly launched “Economic impact of the recorded music industry…
ZEE5 gives a new avatar to Ganesh aarti ‘Shendur Lal Chadhayo’ along with Rahul Vaidya and two extremely skilled beatboxers – BeatRAW and D-Cypher for Ganesh Chaturthi. The song has been…
With many years of experience in the hospitality trade, marketing, entertainment and artist management industry, Nakul Vagale is the founder of I Love Music Academy, Successfully venturing into the business of entertainment,…
It was in 2006 when Tool released their 4th studio album ‘10,000 Days’. Since then, they had been quiet. With a big lawsuit hanging over their heads, they hardly played…
The popular band AR Divine launches its latest foot thumping melody ‘Ganaraya’ today on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi. The song sets the pulse right for every Mumbaikar dancing to its…
Spotify is bringing another interesting feature to the world of music streaming. According to a report by Music Business Worldwide, Spotify, just like Instagram, is working on a feature where you will be…
Apple Music, according to a report by Tech Crunch, has launched a new featured playlist that leverages data from its Shazam music recognition application. This playlist, titled Shazam Discovery, highlights 50…
Luke Kenny started his career in 1989 as a dancer. He worked with Arshad Warsi’s dance crew and worked as a choreographer till 1992. He then joined his first music…
In its drive to redefine itself in response to the disrupting consumer environment, Shemaroo launches ‘Bhakti Studio’ India’s first platform to nurture talent in the Devotional music space, which is…
Shortly after teasing the KatyCats with a behind-the-scenes clip of the upcoming music video for ‘Small Talk’, superstar Katy Perry took to social media to announce that she’ll be the…