Music

Tata Indicom Launches Mobile Internet Radio Subscription Service - 2 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Mon 18 Jun 2007 08:43 PM PST

If you are a serious radio listener trying to escape the Bollywood bombardment of local radio stations, here’s your chance. Tata Indicom has launched a mobile Internet radio subscription service…

Sivaji Monotones Hit 50,000 Downloads On First Day - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 17 Jun 2007 09:04 PM PST

The success of Tamil film superstar Rajinikanth’s recent film Sivaji has meant paydirt for AVM Productions on the mobile and the Internet as well (apart from the on-ground mass hysteria),…

Rediff Expands Mobile Search To Include Caller Ringback Tones - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 14 Jun 2007 03:08 AM PST

Well, it’s about time this happened - caller ring-back tones (CRBT) account for a fairly large portion of music sold on the mobile and so Rediff has expanded its mobile…

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Tips Inks Mobile Content Deal With HandyGo - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 13 Jun 2007 06:00 AM PST

Looks like we missed this one earlier: Business of Cinema reports that Bollywood movie and music co Tips has inked a deal with mobile content developer Handygo; the latter shall…

Apple In Talks With Reliance Retail For Apple Store - 5 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 12 Jun 2007 09:30 PM PST

Macheads across India would probably get goose pimples at the thought of this: Reliance Retail is in negotiations with Apple for opening Apple stores in India, reports the Financial Express.…

Asia Mobile Music Roundup: Stats, Motorola-China, Soundbuzz-Hutchison3 - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Fri 01 Jun 2007 07:52 AM PST

-- An interesting writeup here on Digital Music in Asia here at Variety. As per Nigel Mukherjee of Pricewaterhouse Coopers, mobile music accounts for 30 percent of the APAC market…

IMI And Sydus Ink Deal For Streaming Music On Internet And Mobile - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 29 May 2007 11:54 PM PST

The Indian Music Industry (IMI), which has been spearheading the anti-piracy raids in India, has now tied up with Singapore based Sydus for streaming music online and on mobile, reports…

All India Radio To Digitize Services - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 28 May 2007 01:23 AM PST

All India Radio (AIR) is digitizing its services and did a pilot near Delhi University, reports Hindustan Times. Given the high cost of receivers, AIR isn’t going to do away…

Soundbuzz CEO Sees Rs. 25 As Price Point For Dual Delivery Service - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 22 May 2007 03:08 AM PST

Online and mobile music company Soundbuzz India Pvt. Ltd. will be launching its dual delivery service – a service allows digital music to be interchangeable across devices— in India in…

“We Could Spend A Lifetime Trying To Sell CDs In India” Says Sony BMG COO - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 15 May 2007 09:09 AM PST

Half of Sony BMGs Rs. 80 crore in sales in India in 2006 came from mobile mobile downloads, home videos and artist management. In an interview with BusinessWorld, Sony BMG…

T-Series Gets Interim Stay Order From Delhi High Court Against Santabanta.com - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 10 May 2007 01:48 PM PST

ContentSutra has learned that the Delhi High Court has granted Super Cassette Industries (T-Series) an interim stay order, restraining Indian humor website Santabanta.com from streaming audio and video content from…

Soundbuzz Plans DRM Free Music Store For India; Interview With Mandar Thakur - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 25 Apr 2007 12:14 AM PST

As the world moves towards a DRM free environment, we were wondering about how India would be affected. There was news of EMI and Soundbuzz planning to offer music DRM…

WorldSpace To Invest $150 Million In India Over Next Two Years - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 16 Apr 2007 11:42 PM PST

Satellite radio company Worldspace seems to be putting all its eggs in the Indian basket. Over the next two years, the company Worldspace plans to invest around $150 million in…

Pentagram, VH1 And Nokia’s User Generated Video - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 11 Apr 2007 09:47 AM PST

So here’s the final version of Indian rock band Pentagram’s video for Voice, for which Viacom Brand Solutions and Nokia had asked users to submit their own videos: Pentagram’s vocalist…

T-Series Sues Google For Copyright Violation - 10 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 27 Mar 2007 07:54 PM PST

Update (May 10): Wasn’t a lawsuit. Just a legal notice regarding the presence of copyrighted content. details here. Business Standard reports that T-Series has filed a lawsuit against Google in…

Audio-Video Streaming And Sharing Application For Mobile Launched By One97 And Airchord - 9 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 21 Mar 2007 08:48 PM PST

Well, we’d told you that there would be more GPRS based mobile clients being launched in India this year: One97 Communications and Airchord Televentures announced the launch of JuiceUp, a…

Hutch, Airtel Offer Mobile Radio - 5 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 25 Feb 2007 09:20 PM PST

Hutch is offering Mobile Radio via VAS to its subscribers, and I just don’t understand the pricing: As per Tech 2.0, it’s a dial-in service (123599) priced at Rs.3 per…

Eros Puts Bollywood Music On ITunes And Rhapsody; Interesting Week For Music Biz - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 13 Feb 2007 07:18 AM PST

Eros International plans to release songs from their Bollywood movie Eklavya on iTunes and Rhapsody tomorrow, after having already released music tracks from films like Omkara, I See You, Kudiyon…

ISB Tries Radio Via LAN; What’s Holding Back Internet Radio? - 8 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 12 Feb 2007 08:25 PM PST

Internet radio has been around in India for a while, but hasn’t really caught on, probably because of bandwidth issues and lack of marketing. It seems that the Indian School…

T-Series And Hungama Put Shah Rukh Khan’s KBC Song On Mobile - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 11 Feb 2007 08:13 PM PST

T-Series has signed up with Hungama Mobile to make the song Kar Le Kar Le Koi Dhamaal available on Mobile. The song was initially filmed to promote the third season…

EMI’s Rock DJ And Better Man Remixes Embedded On Sony Ericsson Handsets - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 11 Feb 2007 06:12 PM PST

Been seeing these ads on TV: EMI India has tied up with Sony Ericsson to make the remixed versions of the songs Rock DJ and Better Man, featuring Robbie Williams…

VH1 And Nokia To Tap User Generated Content For Pentagram Music Video - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 06 Feb 2007 07:48 PM PST

For bands, here’s a cost-effective way of making a music video: the video for the song Voice by Mumbai based band Pentagram will feature user submitted videos, reports Indiantelevision. MTV’s…

@3GSM India: CRBT Friendly Music; Dual Delivery; Searching And Impulse Purchases - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 28 Jan 2007 10:49 PM PST

The panel discussion on mobile music featured Sudhanshu Sarronwala, CEO of Soundbuzz and Shridhar Subramaniam, MD of Sony BMG. Subramaniam started off saying that the key thing for them is…

@3GSM India: Monetizing Music For Class Tier-Two Towns - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 28 Jan 2007 09:11 PM PST

The session on mobile music began with Pankaj Sethi, President VAS for Tata Teleservices giving a brief talk on mobile music that sells (as opposed to, I guess, music that…

Updated: Indian Digital Music Sales To Surpass Physical Format This Year: Study - 7 Comments
Posted By Sahad PV - Sun 21 Jan 2007 03:18 AM PST

The digital music business, dominated by mobile music, will surpass physical music in sales in India, says a study by digital music company Soundbuzz. The report further notes that India…