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Guest column: Is the world sleeping on the India sync opportunity?

Music Ally — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:45:21 +0000

Last year, I helped sync an Arabic track called ‘Fa9la’ by Bahraini rapper Flipperachi into a Bollywood film called Dhurandhar.

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Indian music educators community Out of the Box to hold Soundboard symposium

Amit Gurbaxani — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:00:32 +0000

There’s been a gradual increase in the number of music conferences in India over the last few years, including Soundboard.

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Madverse launches third edition of Empower Fund for Indian independent artists

Amit Gurbaxani — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:30:12 +0000

For Indian independent artists in the early stages of their career, access to funding “remains one of the biggest challenges”.

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Amplify Music Incubator for artists launches south India-focused edition

Amit Gurbaxani — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:40:13 +0000

The Amplify Music Incubator (AMI) has launched AMI South, for talents from the south Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

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AnArtizen offers ‘Unfair Advantage’ to aspiring music professionals

Amit Gurbaxani — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:40:18 +0000

AnArtizen, an organisation that produces and provides resources to help creative professionals build careers, has launched Unfair Advantage.

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Warner Music India expands its artist services division

Amit Gurbaxani — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:25:16 +0000

Warner Music India has expanded its artist services and expanded rights division, which is known as ASER in the country.

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Artistik License’s Coffee for Contracts offers pro bono legal support for musicians

Amit Gurbaxani — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:15:40 +0000

The 'Coffee for Contracts' initiative involves offering pro bono legal support to creative professionals every July.

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AI, music-tech, future business models — what to expect at All About Music X

Amit Gurbaxani — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:50:11 +0000

The milestone tenth edition of the Mumbai-based All About Music conference—widely regarded as the largest of its kind in India—will be held from 25 to 27 August.

‘AI-native’ Indian ticketing platform thumpN aims to put ‘discovery first’

Amit Gurbaxani — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:25:06 +0000

Indian “AI-native” and “discovery-first” ticketing platform thumpN has launched. The platform’s key feature is an AI agent named Shadow, which people can use to find live events “through natural conversation rather than traditional search”.

Anuv Jain lands Coke Studio Bharat’s first chart-topper

Amit Gurbaxani — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:15:28 +0000

It’s been a good week for Indian singer-songwriter Anuv Jain and his fans on Spotify. On Sunday, 28 June, he staged ‘Coming Home to Anuv Jain’, a special event organised […]

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Indian music platform Madverse unveils v2.0

Amit Gurbaxani — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:55:31 +0000

Less than a month after announcing that it had closed its first institutional funding round—led by Kobalt founder and chairman Willard Ahdritz’s Ahdritz Capital—Indian music distribution, publishing and marketing company […]

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Sony Music Publishing, IPRS songwriting camp focuses on new Punjabi, Haryanvi talent

Amit Gurbaxani — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:10:39 +0000

When up-and-coming independent artists participate in songwriting camps, there’s often a chance that the resultant compositions won’t eventually be released. In the case of—take a deep breath—‘The Indie Circle Songwriting […]

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AI-powered platform Eros Music Worlds is turning film characters into virtual singers

Amit Gurbaxani — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:15:34 +0000

In May, we at Music Ally South Asia were taken aback when we saw a job listing on Instagram for an ‘AI music creator’. Among the requirements for the job—which […]

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Spotify India enters into “first-of-its-kind telco partnership” with Vi

Amit Gurbaxani — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:15:52 +0000

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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Sonu Nigam’s I Believe Your Music will bring other artists under his label

Amit Gurbaxani — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:45:23 +0000

On his birthday—which falls on 30 July—in 2020, Sonu Nigam launched his own label I Believe Music. This year, the veteran Indian film playback and pop singer used another special […]

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