MUMBAI: Songstress Adele and Jessie J have topped the nomination list of 2012 Brit Awards with three nods each. The two British pop-stars will compete for the coveted titles of British Female Solo Artist and British Single. Adele has also been chosen for British Album of the Year and will compete against Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, PJ Harvey and Florence. While, Jessie will battle it out with Ed, Anna Calvi, The Vaccines and Critics' Choice winner Emeli Sande for British Breakthrough Act category.
read moreMUMBAI: ChannelAdvisor, a global e-commerce platform provider that enables retailers to sell more across online channels, today announced that Musicroom, the international music publishing company, has signed a deal to use ChannelAdvisor's Managed Marketplaces solution.
read moreMUMBAI: Universal Republic Records and The Recording Academy's GRAMMY Recordings have partnered to release the 2012 GRAMMY Nominees album and give a lucky music and GRAMMY fan an opportunity to attend the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards in 2013. The album, which will be available January 24, 2012, features 22 critically acclaimed smash hits from a myriad of chart-topping artists from various genres.
read moreMUMBAI: The Echo Nest, a music intelligence platform powering smarter apps across the web and devices, teamed up with Twitter to help developers include Tweets from thousands of the most popular recording artists directly within their apps.
read moreMUMBAI: Chennai's first ever Global Music Festival is set to begin this Friday. The festival will feature 24 acts spread over three days. It will feature genres that range from electronica to pop, Indian classical fusion to R&B, jazz to Tamil Folk and Sufi and of course, good ol' rock �n' roll.
read moreMUMBAI: Music edutainment company, Stagename, is thrilled to announce today the launch of Rock Rivals, a mobile social game designed to teach anyone how to create great music. The experience is more social and more rewarding then previous attempts to motivate music learning and composition. The game appeals to novice music makers who want to dive-in and learn the fundamentals, while more savvy music makers can put their skills to the test and even develop skills needed to thrive in the music business.
read moreMUMBAI: BlackBerry parent company RIM (Research in Motion) has announced its new operating system 7.1 OS featuring FM radio for Curve model 9360 and 9380. The new operating system was launched at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The existing Curve 9360 and 9380 users can also update their operating system to 7.1OS. The new software activates FM chip, and includes new app allowing users to tune in to local FM stations.
read moreMUMBAI: Inspan Infotech, an IT distribution company has launched a mini portable speaker Genius SP-i175. The speaker supports notebook, cell phone, iPad, iPod, iPhone, MP3/MP4 player and CD player sporting 3.5mm audio input. SP-i175 features 3.5mm to 2.5mm converter for a music device with a 2.5mm input. The speaker uses 40mm speaker driver for middle frequency sound balance and solid bass with a frequency response of 170 Hz~20K and 92dB signal-to-noise ratio.
read moreMUMBAI: Recognizing an outstanding talent in the show-biz world, 18th Lions Gold Awards has honoured Singer Sonu Nigam and his four-year-old son Neevan for their contribution in the music industry. Sonu Nigam won the favourite evergreen singer award while his son was declared as the favourite child singer for his version of �Kolaveri Di'. Elated Sonu Nigam said, It's a great feeling. It's Nevaan's first award."
read moreMUMBAI: Indian Ocean, Pentagram, Menwhopause along with a host of hot young bands like Undying Inc and Sky Rabbit are among the major nominees for Jack Daniel's rock awards 2011. The seventh edition of the annual awards in association with Rolling Stones will be held on 23 February at Mehboob Studio in Mumbai. A total of 15 awards, based on original music created in the year 2011 (1 October 2010 to 30 September 2011) will be presented at the ceremony.
read moreMUMBAI: The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards has roped in Japanese music superstar Yoshiki to compose theme song for the first time. The announcement was made by Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) president Dr Aida Takia-O'Reilly and Dick Clark productions EVP, Television Barry Adelman.
read moreMUMBAI: EMI Music and Stingray Digital (operators of VOD and Cable Properties Concert TV, The KARAOKE Channel, and Galaxie) have signed a global content agreement that will give latter access to EMI Music's content library. The shared content will appear across the range of Stingray's products like Digital Cable, IPTV, mobile, web, TV and VOD.
read moreMUMBAI: Singer Shankar Mahadevan entertained music fans with his his foot tapping songs at the ongoing Nashik Festival.
read moreMUMBAI: Rana Barua has put in his papers at Red FM 93.5 Network after serving the company for two years. He was currently the COO at Red FM 93.5 Network. When contacted, Barua remained unreachable for comment and industry sources have confirmed the news. Prior to joining Red FM, Barua was with Radio City for five years as EVP and national head – programming.
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