Last year, I helped sync an Arabic track called ‘Fa9la’ by Bahraini rapper Flipperachi into a Bollywood film called Dhurandhar.
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‘AI-native’ Indian ticketing platform thumpN aims to put ‘discovery first’
Indian “AI-native” and “discovery-first” ticketing platform thumpN has launched. The platform’s key feature is an AI agent named Shadow.
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Spotify India enters into “first-of-its-kind telco partnership” with Vi
Vi—which was created from the merger of the telecom companies Vodafone India and the Aditya Birla Group conglomerate’s Idea Cellular—has entered into a partnership with Spotify. Through the tie-up, Vi […]
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Indian performance rights organisation PPL reinstated as a copyright society
In 2021, the government of India’s decision to register Recorded Music Performance Limited (RMPL), and not Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL), as the country’s sole copyright society with respect to sound […]
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Report highlights big-tech platforms’ role in spreading Indian ‘hate music’
US-based non-profit The Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) has published a report titled ‘Profiting from Hate Music: The Role of YouTube, Meta, Spotify and Apple Music in […]
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Madverse raises investment round led by Kobalt’s Willard Ahdritz
Delhi-headquartered music distribution, publishing and marketing company Madverse Music Group has closed its first institutional funding round, led by Ahdritz Capital, the investment vehicle of entrepreneur and the founder-chairman of […]
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Amazon Music is getting pricier in India — but will also be available for free
Eight years after it launched in India, Amazon Music is changing the way it does business in the country. The audio-streaming service, which was only available to subscribers of Amazon’s […]
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Saregama MD Vikram Mehra discusses ‘Dhurandhar’, AI, and more on earnings call
Indian legacy Saregama—which managing director Vikram Mehra said was “the second largest” record company “in the country after T-Series” with “a 25% to 30% market share on a pan-India basis […]
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Spotify says it’s India’s “market leader in audio-streaming”, at Investor Day event
More than seven years after Spotify began operating in India, the country got some significant talk time during one of its presentations. At its Investor Day event in New York […]
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Universal Music India renews distro deal with music services company first.wav
Universal Music India, which first signed an exclusive worldwide distribution deal with Indian music services company first.wav in 2023, has renewed its agreement with the Mumbai-based entity. The major will […]
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Steven Wilson releases mini-documentary about his 2025 India tour
Steven Wilson—despite his divisive politics—is one of the most popular prog-rock musicians in India, and he captures some of that fandom in a new mini-documentary about his visit to the […]
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Times Music acquires long-running Punjabi music label Catrack Entertainment
The Times Group-owned Times Music has acquired the catalogue of Mohali-based Punjabi music label Catrack Entertainment, its third buyout of an Indian regional-language music company after receiving a strategic investment […]
