Tag: india

Think Music is a label from southern India whose catalogue spans both film, non-film and independent music, with a particular strength in the Tamil Cinema industry.

India has been a fascinating market for short-video apps since TikTok was banned there in the summer of 2020. That sparked a surge of launches of local rivals, with Moj, Josh and Chingari among those to have grown rapidly. In...

Indian royalty collection society the Indian Performing Rights Society (IPRS) banked Rs172.6 crore (around $23.2m) in the financial year ended March 2020. This was good enough to place India at number 32 in the global...

Report suggests that there have been "differences of vision with executives brought in by parent company Jio"

UMG-owned distributor Ingrooves is another music company with its eye on global expansion. Today's news is its entry into India.

The brand started by commissioning a track from musician Yashraj Mukhate and asked MX TakaTak users to show off their best dance moves to it on the app.

Nirvana Digital helps music and other rightsholders make money from YouTube, Spotify and other digital services, while also running its own network of YouTube channels.

Plus estimates that short-form video will soon be the second biggest 'platform' by time spent in India, behind only Facebook and Google properties.

Warner Music India has announced the launch of a “language-agnostic” label called Maati, which will “aim to provide a national platform for Indian folk music, its purest forms and its artists”.

The fifth edition of annual Indian conference All About Music that took place during the last week of September was, unsurprisingly, its second virtual instalment. It was also its biggest with over 240 speakers delivering...

This year, Universal has been expanding its remit with sub-labels focusing on particular regional music: VYRL Haryanvi, VYRL Bhojpuri and now VYRL Punjabi.

As one of the biggest streaming services in India, Gaana is a useful bellwether for the market as a whole. New figures show that in its last financial year, which ended in March 2021, the company’s operating revenue...