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MUMBAI: Rolling Loud India announces its India debut. For the very first time, the World’s Largest Hip-Hop Festival is bringing its globally renowned festival experience to India, celebrating the vibrant and authentic spirit of hip-hop in the country.
read moreMUMBAI: India will debut at the international karaoke event– �McDowell's No. 1 Soda Karaoke World Championships in association with VH1', to be held from 8th-10th September in Ireland. KWC is conducted annually every September, drawing participation globally to battle for the world championship title. The member countries conduct local and national karaoke competitions and send winners to participate in the Championship.
read moreMUMBAI: Reliance TimeOut has announced Battle of Band contest in its annual music event �Rock Fest 2011' commencing on saturday 16 July in Bangalore. Twelve bands will perform live for the title of �Rock crown', wherein six sets of bands will perform on 16 and 23 July respectively. Listeners can vote for their favourite band from 24-30 July on Facebook page. The winning band will perform at the finale of Rock Fest 2011 on Sunday, 31 July.
read moreMUMBAI: R&B star Rihanna has surpassed Lady Gaga with over 40.5m fans to become the most popular female star on Facebook. Famecount.com reveals that with the growing fan base by around 100,000 per day, the R&B diva might pull ahead of the current facebook leader Eminem (43m fans).
read moreMUMBAI: Spotify, popular legal music streaming service in Europe, has entered US with the support of major record labels. Spotify's mobile device and tablet, in partnership with Motorola will launch various marketing campaigns to offer its customers early access to Spotify's on-demand music streaming service.
read moreMUMBAI: The DRM Consortium will have strong presence at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC), to be held in Amsterdam from 8th -13th September.
read moreMUMBAI: With the roll out of Phase III announced, My FM has restructured its senior level management team. Abhilash Dave has been promoted as cluster business head – Punjab. He was previously the station head of Chandigarh. Rajnish Thapiyal will take over as cluster head- Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh from his earlier postion as cluster head in Rajasthan. Satyen Purandare has been promoted as the national activations head in Delhi, who was hitherto the cluster head in Madhya Pradesh.
read moreNEW DELHI: Veteran singer Asha Bhosle has crooned an English song with Bappi Lahiri for a Hollywood movie �Will to Live' The title track of the film is sung by famous International singer M C Hammer, and Sunidhi Chauhan, Kumar Shanu, Sherron Prabhakar, Reema Lahiri and Mamta Sharma are other singers of the movie. Lahiri has blended western and Indian music for the film based on a true story of a courageous father who travels to the jungles of Himalyas in the quest of a rare herb that may cure his son`s cancer.
read moreMUMBAI: EMI has signed an agreement with MXP4 to integrate its vast catalogue into Bopler Games social music gaming app for facebook. For the first time any major music company has licensed its catalogue for sale within social games on facebook on this scale, and the deal demonstrates how the music industry can benefit from the growth of social gaming revenues which are projected to hit $5 billion by 2015.
read moreMUMBAI: Canadian AM radio stations have decreased from 177 in 2006 to 141 in 2010 but the revenues remained stable, whereas the FM stations reported higher revenues and profits on the strength of improved local and national advertising sales, according to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) report. CRTC released statistical and financial information on the 654 commercial radio stations operating in Canada for the broadcast year ending 31 August, 2010.
read moreNEW DELHI: Employees of Prasar Bharati held a protest meeting to protest the decision of the Board to what they term outsourcing of the direct-to-home platform DD Direct Plus, outside broadcast of cricket on Doordarshan and All India Radio, and procurement and projects under the strategy for New Year. The National Federation of Akashvani and Doordarshan Employees (NFADE) chairman Anilkumar S told indiantelevision.com that if employees remained silent, both All India Radio and Doordarshan would be sold out to private agencies.
read moreMUMBAI: BBC World Service audiences have fallen 14 million in the past year, largely as a result of service closures and platform changes due to cuts to central Government grants. The overall audience estimate for the year is 166 million, down from 180 million last year. The World Service, currently funded by the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office, had its budget cut in the Government's Spending Review and in January announced that five language services would close along with significant platform changes to other services.
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MUMBAI: Since 1945, the name Sennheiser has stood for pioneering audio technology and passionateread more
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MUMBAI: Zee Music Company, one of India’s top music labels, has crossed a historic milestone—surpread more
MUMBAI: Sony Music Middle East today announced a new strategic partnership with Saudi-based enteread more
MUMBAI: Tencent Music Entertainment Group announced on Tuesday that it will acquire Chinese longread more
MUMBAI: Oreo has partnered with global pop icon Selena Gomez to launch a brand-new twist on its iconic cookie. The Limited Edition Selena Gomez Oreo...read more
MUMBAI: Tulsi Kumar’s Bheegne De is a tender and evocative track, gently unfurls a world of quiet intimacy. This soulful melody, both written and...read more
MUMBAI: Rolling Loud India announces its India debut. For the very first time, the World’s Largest Hip-Hop Festival is bringing its globally...read more
MUMBAI: Indian playback singer Stebin Ben was honoured with the ‘Rising Star’ Award at the Excellence in UK-India Cultural Awards held at the House...read more
MUMBAI: Multi-Grammy Award-winning music icon and one of pop music’s most influential singer/songwriters of our current times, Enrique Iglesias is...read more
