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MUMBAI: News Corp's social networking site MySpace is drawing up plans to create a new ad funded service that would allow consumer to listen to music for free on their PCs.
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MUMBAI: The music of One Two Three directed by Ashwini Dhir released at Mumbai's JW Marriot. Composed by fast rising talent Raghav Sachchar, the music has been released through Eros Music .
read moreMUMBAI: Sony BMG has finally secured the music rights of 'Jannat - In search of Heaven' after Vishesh Films, the producers of the film, settled their long-drawn legal dispute with T-Series. T-series withdrew its legal claims and both the parties have settled the issue amicably with the intervention of Pahlaj Nihalani, president of AMPTPP and Dispute Settlement Committee members. Sony BMG had always claimed that the music rights of Jannat belonged to them. However, it had to be put under the scanner after T-Series claimed similar rights.
read moreMUMBAI: A recent research by AccuStream iMedia found out that music radio online (live streaming channels and individual track plays) generated 4.85 billion total listening hours in 2007, which is 26.1% up over 2006. The total listening hours averaged 404.2 million hours per month in 2007 (excluding downloaded music) compared to 320.5 million hour in an average in 2006, which included leading music subscription services such as Napster, Yahoo Music and Rhapsody.
read moreMUMBAI: Vehrnon Ibrahim is joining Radio One as national programming head on 3 March. He comes in from Red FM where he was the national programming head. Radio One CEO Vineet Singh Hukmani said, "Vehrnon is the only natural programming head in the radio industry and is a perfect fit for our metro city focus." Ibrahim said, "It is going to be fun steering this station brand to the top position. What attracted me to Radio One was the seven metro city focussed game plan."
read moreMUMBAI: Sun TV through its subsidiary Kal Radio is launching FM stations under the brand name S FM in Thrissur and Mangalore on 20 and 21 February respectively. With the launch, the network will have 24 stations all across the country.
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MUMBAI: The Bingo Red FM Bajate Raho on-ground campaigning kicked off today in Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata.
read moreMUMBAI: Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Interactive Media, 19 Entertainment, FremantleMedia and Apple, have collaborated to bring performances from seventh season of American Idol on the iTunes store (www.itunes.com) exclusively.
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MUMBAI: It was music unlimited Sunday as rock band Parikramas five-month, four city Shark Tooth Live Storms tour culminated in a grand finale at Mumbais Sophia College.
read moreMUMBAI: Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox Interactive Media, 19 Entertainment, FremantleMedia and Apple, have collaborated to bring performances from seventh season of American Idol on the iTunes store (www.itunes.com) exclusively.
read moreMUMBAI: Spic Macay 08, the classical music fest, will be held from 28 February to 20 March across Mumbais schools and colleges. The fest will be inaugurated by Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasiya (flautist), Shubha Mudgal (vocalist), Dr N Rajam (violinist) and other accomplished figures.
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MUMBAI: Today, M3F Festival, Northread more
MUMBAI: Hoopr, a leader in the royalty-free music space, is proud to unveil its latest innovationread more
As part of its refresh, the radio network recently launched its flagship show Dhun Badal Ke Toh...read more
MUMBAI: In a world where men are often encouraged to hide their emotions, we tend to overlook theread more
MUMBAI: Today, the genre-defying brother duo Everyone You Know (EYK) release brand new album, ‘Ain’t Smiled in Ages’. Listen to the album [HERE]....read more
MUMBAI: Club FM took an innovative turn for Children’s Day with Club FM RJ, engaging young talents across our six stations. The initiative invited...read more
MUMBAI: Marking his label debut with Closemouthed earlier this year, German producer Lexer reaches new heights with latest original, Sweet Escape on...read more
MUMBAI: Amit Trivedi's Azaad Collab has been a breath of fresh air in the music world, and the release of Sajaniya has only strengthened its appeal....read more
MUMBAI: Today, NERIAH’s latest single, "Red Flag," is out across all streaming platforms. Listen here: https://symphony.to/neriah/red-flag After a...read more
