Tag: saregama

Last week, Indian music company Saregama announced a deal to make its catalogue available for use on YouTube Shorts globally.

Indian films and music company Saregama is planning a major investment of "up to Rs 750 crore" (that's around $100m) in the latter part of its business.

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...

Each day this week, journalist Amit Gurbaxani focuses on some interesting stories in the Indian music business, with plenty of links for you to explore. India’s oldest record label Saregama is among the country’s few...

Saregama is one of the Indian media firms focusing on both music and films – and, indeed, music for/from films. Its latest financial results reveal that the business is holding up despite the Covid-19 pandemic’s...

Spotify is getting a bit more social, although its new ‘Group Sessions’ feature requires people to be in the same place. That means for now it’ll mainly be handy for families quarantining at home, but...

“I think we’re on course,” said Blaise Fernandes, the president and CEO of India’s official recorded music industry body the Indian Music Industry, when asked on a status update on the country’s plan to break into...

Indian music and film company Saregama published its latest quarterly results yesterday, revealing a 6% year-on-year increase in its consolidated music revenues, which account for 90% of the company’s overall turnover....

There’s a big market in India for recordings of ‘devotional music’ – songs that accompany religious services and rituals. An app called Sangam Music provides a big catalogue of devotional songs and instrumentals,...

Just as Gaana announced its 100-million-users milestone in India, so its latest rival was revealing a new dispute with a key label partner in that country. Spotify has promised to remove the catalogue of one of the key Indian...

Indian music and films company Saregama has published its latest quarterly financial results, including strong growth for its music division. In fact, music generated 92% of Saregama’s revenues in the final quarter of 2018...

Indian music and film company Saregama has been talking about the strong growth it’s seeing from audio music-streaming services, as well as from YouTube. By the end of 2017, the company’s music catalogue was generating...