All India Radio to celebrate the romance of monsoons with musical concert
NEW DELHI: The monsoons set a romantic trend of their own. Capitalising on this, All India Radio’s (AIR) National Channel is celebrating the season with a musical concert ‘Main Hawa Hoon’ tomorrow, 7 August 2015.
RAJAR Q2 2015: Listening share of all BBC Radio is 53 per cent
MUMBAI: Figures released by RAJAR show that BBC radio stations, as a collective, managed to reach out to 35 million listeners, per week, as per the last quarter. All BBC radio stations cover 65 per cent of the population.
Facebook introduces Live on Facebook Mentions for live interactions by celebrities
NEW DELHI: Athletes, musicians, politicians and other influencers who use Facebook Mentions to share and connect with their fans and more than 900 million people, are connected to public figures on Facebook, can now go Live.
Jay Frank joins UMG; Gets DigSin and DigMark to partner with label
MUMBAI: Universal Music Group (UMG) has brought on board veteran music and media executive, Jay Frank to lead the company’s streaming marketing strategy.
Devraj Sanyal: Budget for kids is a little higher than for older artists
Talent hunt competition, ‘i genius Young Singing Stars’, which received an overwhelming response last year, will soon commence its second edition. Initiated by Universal Music, the talent hunt competition intends to create concrete music careers for its participants.
SoundExchange Breaks the $3 Billion Mark
MUMBAI: SoundExchange announced that it has paid more than $3 billion in digital royalties to recording artists and record labels since the organisation became a wholly independent non-profit in 2003.
BMG ACQUIRES RIGHTS IN PERENNIAL CLASSIC æWALKING ON SUNSHINEÆ
MUMBAI: BMG has acquired outright the publishing and master rights in one of the most successful UK songs of the past 30 years, ‘Walking On Sunshine’ by Katrina and The Waves.
Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI) commissions tabla maestro Zakir Hussain to create new piece for the orchestra
MUMBAI: The Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI) announces its first commission of an orchestral piece by the internationally-renowned tabla virtuoso, Zakir Hussain.
Provisional Winning Price rises to about Rs 869 crore, but still no bids in 13 cities
NEW DELHI: Even though the cumulative provisional winning price touched around Rs 869 crore against its aggregate reserve price of about Rs 395 Crore at the end of 32 rounds on the eighth day of bidding for FM Phase III, no bids have come for as many 13 cities.
Home Ministry extends Adnan SamiÆs stay in India indefinitely
MUMBAI: Adnan Sami has all the reasons to celebrate today as he has been allowed to stay in India for an indefinite period on Humanitarian grounds.
