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MUMBAI: Keeping the IPL cricket fever alive, Big Music has recorded a track titled "Kricket Se Aap ko Kya Mila"? The song is a light hearted take on the mass hysteria triggered by cricket and the manner in which it continues to be a major money-spinner and news maker. The Bollywood version of the track uses the sound-alike voices of popular actors from Bollywood and cricket like Nana Patekar, Irrfan Khan and Navjyot Singh Sidhu, to name a few. The song, composed by Abhishek Arora and sung by Sunil Grover, takes the IPL hysteria a step forward.
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MUMBAI: Singer composer duo, Meet Brothers, who recently launched their own music company, have pulled out stakes from Radio Chaska 95 FM after a financial fallout with the GM and director of the station, Tarun Goyal.
read moreMUMBAI: Radio Mirchi Bangalore has partnered with Sunfeast to support 'Sunfeast world 10K', which is the world's richest 10K race, states the release. The race is scheduled for 18 May, starting from the Kanteerva stadium.
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MUMBAI: Big FM has roped in Ramita Chaudhuri as its new station head-Kolkata. Her span of work would encompass overall functioning of the station, adding value to the its profitability and also widen the listnership base.
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MUMBAI: Big Music, that has acquired the content of erstwhile music label Plus Music, plans to relaunch select titles under the Big banner. The first in the series, Kaifiyat¦.a state of mind, a compilation of Urdu poetry by the late Kaifi Azmi was released on 9 May.
read moreMUMBAI: B4U Music was launched on the BBC and ITV backed free-to-air satellite service Freesat, in UK.
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MUMBAI: Radio Misty 94.3 FM, which stakes claim to be the first FM station of North Bengal and Sikkim, has launched its online portal www.radiomisty.co.in.
read moreNEW DELHI: Former member of the Beatles group Sir Paul McCartney will give away his latest album with editions of the Mail on Sunday. The Beatle alum's album, "Memory Almost Full," will be free with the May 18th edition of the newspaper. The album was released on Starbucks' Hear Music label last year.Last year, the Mail on Sunday gave away Prince's "Planet Earth" album for free, and more recently UB40 gave a 10 track sampler away as one of the paper's supplements, according to a report by Gigwise.com quoted by the World Association of Newspapers.
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MUMBAI: The use of MP3 players on mobile handsets has increased has increased by 78 per cent and the use of radio by a massive 140 per cent in 2007, according to a report by TNS Global Technology.
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MUMBAI: Bhangra singer Malkit Singh has became the first Punjabi singer to be honoured by Queen Elizabeth II at the Buckingham Palace, UK with the award of the Member of the British Empire (MBE).
read moreMUMBAI: RCS India has expanded its radio monitoring services to include two new markets of Nagpur and Kanpur. RCS has recently started its services to include all commercial radio stations of the two cities, taking it to a total of 12 markets and 65 FM stations being monitored by RCS across India. Nagpur is the second media market in Maharashtra to be monitored, after Mumbai. Radio Mirchi, MY FM and SFM are on air and are being monitored in these cities by RCS.
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MUMBAI: 93.5 Red FM, India’s leading private radio and entertainment network, is proud to announcread more
MUMBAI: IPRS, Indian Performing Rights Society, hosted a one of its kind landmark event aimed at read more
MUMBAI: Xiaomi India, a global technology brand renowned for its innovation, today announced a stread more
MUMBAI: UK-based audio software company DataMind Audio is launching its flagship plugin, The Combread more
MUMBAI: Ultra Media & Entertainment Group today announced the launch of a ground breaking bouread more
MUMBAI: This is the first time that Shruti have created a multilingual track which includes the lyrics in three different languages Shruti Haasan who...read more
MUMBAI: Armaan Malik, hailed as the Prince of Pop, is aiming to bridge the gap between two different music sensibilities once again with his latest...read more
MUMBAI: Pop star Dhvani Bhanushali is all set to headline this year’s prestigious Mysore Dussehra, sharing the spotlight with musical legends like A....read more
