DELHI :
2 Computers, 5 CD Writers, 1110
pirated VCDs and MP3 CDs were seized from 2 shops
in Navi Karim, Pharganj on 2nd February.
(Value app. Rs. 1.5 lakhs)
1628 pirated VCDs and MP3 CDs were
seized from a premises in Police Quarters, New
Delhi on 6th February. (Value app. Rs. 1.6
lakhs)
1179 pirated VCDs and MP3 CDs were
seized from a unit at Kotla, Delhi on 13th
February. (Value app. 1.2 lakhs)
1364 pirated VCDs and MP3 CDs were
seized from a shop in Palika Bazaar on 14th
February. (Value app. 1.3 lakhs)
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PUNJAB:
Phagwara : 3295 MP3
CDs and pirated VCDs were seized from a shop in
Chaddha Market, Phagwara on 17th February.
(Value app. 3.2 lakhs).
Amritsar :
1674 pirated CDs were seized from a shop in Dharam
Singh Market, Amritsar City on 20th
February. (Value app. 1.6 lakhs).
2235 pirated VCDs and MP3 CDs were
seized from 2 shops in Baba Deep Singh Market,
Amritsar on 23rd February. (Value app. 2.2
lakhs)
Chandigarh :
1 DVD Writer, 1 Computer, 859 MP3 CDs and pirated
VCDs were seized from 2 shops in Chandigarh,
Punjab on 22nd February. (Value app. 1
lakh). .
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U.P.
Meerut : 9186
MP3 CDs and pirated VCDs and 8000 inlay cards were
seized from a shop in Meerut on 2nd
February. (Value app. 9.2 lakhs).
26 CD Writers, 4160 pirated CDs and
43000 inlay cards were seized from a unit in
Nauchandi, Meerut on 27th February. (Value
app. 4.5 lakhs)
Muzaffarnagar :
8001 pirated CDs and 23300 inlay cards were seized
from 2 shops in Muzaffarnagar on 8th
February. (Value app. 8.2 lakh)
Sitapur :
1784 MP3 CDs and pirated VCDs were seized from a
shop in Sitapur on 9th February. (Value app.
1.7 lakhs)
Gonda : 259
MP3 CDs and 2584 pirated CDs were seized from a
shop in Nawabganj, Dist. Gonda on 15th
February. (Value app. 2.8 lakhs).
Lucknow :
5910 pirated CDs were seized from a roadway bus at
Rapti Nagar Depot, Lucknow on 25th February.
(Value app. 5.9 lakhs).
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RAJASTHAN :
6 raids were conducted by the
Rajasthan police in Jaipur, Hanumangarh, Dist.
Ganganagar and Jodhpur in February. 1
Computer, 24 CD Writers, 3000 blank CDs, 443
pirated cassettes, 1414 MP3 CDs, 4334 pirated
VCDs, 2528 pirated DVDs and 104652 inlay cards
were seized. 6 persons were arrested.
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BIHAR
:
Hajipur :
1078 MP3 CDs and pirated CDs were seized from a
shop in Kamla Complex, Hajipur on 1st
February. (Value app. 1 lakh)
Patna : 1
Computer, 8 CD Writers, 770 pirated CDs and 10000
inlay cards were recovered from a unit in Mohalla
Mahendru, Patna City on 20th February.
(Value app. 1 lakhs)
Begusarai :
49944 MP3 CDs and pirated VCDs and 150000 inlay
cards were seized from 2 shops and 2 godowns in
Begusarai, Bihar on 18th February.
(Value app. 50 lakhs)
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MAHARASHTRA (Mumbai):
Mumbai :
900 MP3 CDs and 1650 pirated VCDs/DVDs were
seized from a godown in Andheri (W), Mumbai on
24th February. (Value app. 2.5 lakhs)
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GUJARATH:
Ahmedabad : 4580
pirated CDs were seized from vendors at Relief
Road, Kalupur, Ahmedabad on 6th February.
(Value app. 4.5 lakhs).
M.P.:
Bhopal
1395 MP3 CDs and 21016 pirated
VCDs/DVDs were seized from a shop in Sudama Nagar,
Bhopal on 10th February. (Value app. 22.4
lakhs).
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WEST BENGAL :
Kolkata
1261 MP3 CDs and pirated CDs were
seized from a vendor in Kolkata on 12th
February. (Value app. 1.2 lakhs).
1018 MP3 CDs and 1551 pirated CDs
were seized from 2 shops and 2 vendors in Rash
Behari Crossing, Kolkata on 22nd February.
(Value app. 2.5 lakhs).
1 Computer/CD Writer, 2106 pirated
CDs and 1413 inlay cards were seized from a shop
in Kolkata on 24th February. (Value app. 3.5
lakhs). 2 Computers, 4 CD
Writers, 1456 MP3 CDs, 3847 pirated CDs and 2221
inlay cards were seized from 2 shops in Kamardanga
Road, Kolkata on 27th February. (Value app.
5.4 lakhs)
Howrah:
725 MP3 CDs and 971 pirated
VCDs/DVDs were seized from a vendor near Howran
Bus Stand on 16th February. 956 MP3 CDs, 3995 pirated VCDs/DVDs and
2500 inlay cards were seized from a vendor at Uma
Charan Bhattacharya Lane, Howrah on 28th February
24 Parganas
(N):
487 MP3 CDs and 5405 pirated
VCDs/DVDs and 1535 inlay cards were seized from a
shop in Mini Market, Naihati on 8th February.
Dist.
Burdwan
:
1593 MP3 CDs, 3369
pirated VCDs and 1900 inlay cards were seized in
Asansol on 21st February.
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NORTH
EAST
Dist.
Barpeta :
1093 MP3 CDs, 220 pirated cassettes,
5575 pirated VCDs/DVDs and 4153 inlay cards were
seized from a shop in Kadamtola, Dist. Barpeta on
21st February.
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KERALA:
42 raids were conducted by the
Kerala Police in Trivandrum City/Rural, Kollam,
Pathanamthitta, Kottayam, Ernakulam City/Rural,
Thrissur, Kozhikode City/Rural, Waynad, Kannur,
and Kasargod during the month. 2 Computers,
1 CD Writer, 16925 pirated CDs, 46744 MP3 CDs,
21197 pirated VCDs and 138 pirated DVDs were
seized. 42 persons were arrested.
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KARNATAKA:
Bangalore
: 180 MP3 CDs and 3560 pirated CDs
were seized from 4 vendors on Airport Road,
Bangalore on 20th February. (Value app. Rs.
3.7 lakhs)
808 MP3 CDs and 2042 pirated CDs
were seized from a vendor at R.T. Nagara Main
Road, Bangalore on 24th February. (Value
app. Rs. 2.8 lakhs)
1595 pirated CDs were seized from 4
vendors in Ulsoor, Bangalore on 25th
February. (Value app. Rs. 1.5 lakhs)
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Andhra:
West
Godawari:
Dist. West Godawari, A.P.: 3
Computers/CD Writers, 780 MP3 CDs and pirated VCDs
were seized from 6 shops in Tadapalli Gudam Town,
West Godawari Dist. on 9th February. (Value
app. Rs. 1 lakh)
Vijaywada:
93 MP3 CDs and 4354 pirated CDs were seized from 4
shops in Dist. Vijaywada on 22nd January.
(Value app. Rs. 4.4 lakhs)
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TAMIL
NADU:
Tamil Nadu police carried out 53
raids in Chennai, Cuddalore, Vellore, Salem,
Madurai, Coimbatore, Dindigul, Trichy and
Tirunevelly. 17 CD Writers, 6697 MP3 CDs,
3795 pirated VCDs and 6805 pirated DVDs were
recovered. 53 persons were arrested.
Here's the lowdown :-
Chennai:
2575 MP3 CDs and pirated CDs were
seized from 4 shops in Broadway, Thiruvottiyur,
Chennai on 1st February. (Value app. Rs. 2.5
lakhs)
610 MP3 CDs and 540 pirated VCDs
were seized from a shop in Anna Nagar, Chennai on
2nd February. (Value app. Rs. 1.1 lakhs)
365 MP3 CDs and 1775 pirated CDs
were seized from a shop in Burma Bazaar, Chennai
on 6th February. (Value app Rs. 2.1
lakhs)
550 MP3 CDs and 2315 pirated CDs
were seized from 2 shops in Burma Bazaar,
Chennai on 11th February. (Value app. Rs.
2.8 lakhs)
300 MP3 CDs and 2675 pirated CDs
were seized from 3 vendors in Old Washermanpet,
Chennai on 15th February. (Value app. Rs. 3
lakhs)
1083 MP3 CDs and pirated VCDs were
seized from a shop in Anna Salai on 15th
February. (Value app. Rs. 1 lakh) 1131 MP3 CDs and pirated CDs were
seized from 2 shops in Salagaramam and K.K. Nagar
area of Chennai on 17th February. (Value
app. Rs. 1.1 lakhs)
Villupuram
Dist. Villupuram, T.N.: 8 CD
Writers, 598 MP3 CDs and 926 pirated VCDs were
seized from 2 shops in Thirukovillor, Dist.
Villupuram on 27th February. (Value app. Rs.
1.6 lakhs).
Madurai
Madurai, T.N. : 17 CD Writers, 1110
MP3 CDs and 3050 pirated VCDs/DVDs were seized
from a unit in Madurai on 6th February.
(Value app. 4.2 lakhs)
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SUMMARY OF WARNER SEIZURES
REGION
RAIDS
SEIZURES
T.N.
20
5006
W.B.
3
87
Titles seized were of Deep Blue
Sea, The Matrix, Ghost Ship, Dirty Harry, Last Samurai,
Casablanca, House of Wax, The Exorcist, Miss
Congeniality, Batman Forever, Ben Hur, The Specialist,
Mickey Blue Eyes, Chill Factor, Enter the Dragon,
Disclosure, The Fugitive, Police Academy III, Maltese
Falcon, The Color Purple, Citizen Kane, The Client, City
of Angels, Mad Max, Little Women, Wood Stock, Torque,
The Incredible, Training Day, Spot, The Eraser, Troy,
Red Planet, The Time Machine, Batman & Robin, The
Towering Inferno, Murder by Number, Collateral Damage,
Dog Day Afternoon, Summer of 42, Ice Station Zebra,
Rumble in the Bronx, Singing in the Rain, Message in a
Bottle, Three Kings, City of Angels, Valentine, Cats
& Dogs, You’ve Got Mail, U.S. Marshals – 5, Dennis
the Menace, Sword Fish, Oceans Eleven, Tequila Sunrise,
Great Race, Wait Until Dark, Forever Young, Jurassic
Park, Anaconda, etc.
Source: IMI DATA
World Music
News
EMI Group CEO Eric Nicoli
has become executive chairman following the exit of
group chairman Alain Levy and vice
chairman David Munns.
Jean-François Cecillon takes the
newly-created role of chairman and CEO of EMI
Music International, and Ian Hanson is named
COO EMI Music. In the USA, Nicoli has merged EMI's
Capitol and Virgin
labels into the Capitol Music Group,
with Jason Flom promoted to chairman
and CEO, while former Capitol president/CEO
Andrew Slater exits. EMI says the
formation of the new combined US group is part of the
group's plans to deliver £110m ($217m) in annual savings
across its business.
The EC has begun reviewing
the Sony/BMG merger and expects to
complete its stage one investigation very soon. The move
came after indie label body Impala complained to the EC
about the ongoing damage in the marketplace and
excessive delay in re-assessing Sony BMG.
The
BPI is to repeat its successful
British Music Week promotion in Germany
in 2007, also expanding from its Berlin base to Hamburg
and Cologne, from April 20-28th. Each of the four major
labels in both territories and the most influential
independent labels have pledged to showcase acts during
the promotion. Partners pledging support include
Radio Eins, Intro
Magazine, Saturn (Germany's
largest music retailer), FKP Scorpio,
Trinity Concerts, Eins
Live, Peter Reiger Concerts,
the British Council and the
British Embassy.
The indie
record sector has launched Merlin, a
sister organisation to WIN (World
Independent Network), as a one-stop licensing shop for
Web 2.0 and emerging media. CEO is Charles
Caldas, former CEO, Shock Entertainment
Group (Australia's largest indie
distributor).
AIM Independent
Sessions has been set up to showcase the UK's
most exciting independently-brewed music independent
music. The inaugural event takes place on Monday 19th
February in association with eMusic at
the Cobden Club in west London, featuring Amp
Fiddler, Iain Archer (ex
Snow Patrol), Findlay
Brown and French singer-songwriter
Klima.
The PRS
Foundation for New Music will award up to
£1.25m in 2007 to support new British music. Since March
2000 it has supported over 2500 new music initiatives
with a total of £9.5 million. There are 18 opportunities
this year to apply for grants at: http://www.prsfoundation.co.uk/.
BMG
Music Publishing and India's leading music
publisher Deep Emotions have entered
into a joint venture agreement that will give
much-needed support to songwriters in India. Through the
deal, BMG and Deep Emotions will jointly sign local
lyricists and composers to music publishing agreements
and provide them with creative, financial, promotional,
administrative and legal support.
EMI
Music Publishing has announced the launch of a
new Producer Management division, headed by Anna
Carpenter as General Manager, reporting to MD
Guy Moot. She moves from Native
Management.
Bug Music
has signed a co-publishing and admin deal with Hollywood
actor/musician Jamie Foxx, who is
currently co-starring in
Dreamgirls.
Popkomm is
inviting applications from bands wanting to showcase to
forward digital files of their music to www.popkomm.com/festival, from February
15th. Sonicbids is handling the online
processing of all applications. Popkomm takes place in
Berlin from September
19-21st.
CISAC (International
Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers) has
announced a Copyright Summit to be held in Brussels
(Belgium) on May 30 and 31 at the Sheraton Hotel &
Tower. Speakers willinclude Charles
Aznavour; film director Michael
Apted; UK artist/writer Billy
Bragg; US producer/writer Glen
Ballard; EMI Music
Publishing president Roger
Faxon; EMI Music's Jean-François
Cécillon, and Tim Renner of
Motor FM (Germany). http://www.cisac.org/.
Atlantic
Records (UK) has teamed up with Saatchi
& Saatchi to develop entertainment and
branded content properties. The partnership will create
innovative music-related properties that will deliver
new multi-platform communication outlets for brands and
artists.
Townhouse Studios, in
co-operation with the Sanctuary Group,
has reopened under the stewardship of producer
Al Stone, who has updated all the
control rooms and the studio's flagship mastering
operation.
Mardi Caught has
joined Sony's Columbia label group in
London as general manager, joining from MTV
Networks UK & Ireland where she was VP,
Talent and Music. She reports to MD Mike
Smith.
Songwriter Cathy
Dennis was named as Woman Of The Year at the
annual ceremony at London's InterContinental Hotel last
December, held in aid of Nordoff Robbins Music
Therapy. Other winners were Mean
Fiddler communications manager Tania
Harrison (Accolade Award), studio manager
Ros Earls (Outstanding Achievement) and
T4's youth and music commissioning
editor Cath Lovesey (Special
Achievement).
Tina Turner is
recording a comeback album for Capitol,
and has been working on tracks with Guy
Chambers. Release is expected later this year,
with tour dates also likely to be
announced.
Celine Dion's Las
Vegas concert series 'A New Day' will close on December
15 after a five-year run. Nearly 2.5 million
people have seen the show at the Colosseum, a $95
million custom-built theatre. The singer is currently
working on a new album for Sony
BMG.
Alison Moyet has
signed to John Williams' label
W14 Music (Universal),
with a new album expected next summer. The album will
coincide with the 25th anniversary of Moyet's career,
which began as one half of Yazoo.
Williams A&R'd her last two albums at
Sanctuary.
Digital distributor
The Orchard will exclusively market
Sanctuary's recorded music and music
video catalogue for the world outside the UK and North
America, with initial offerings from the
Trojan catalogue, The Cooper
Temple Clause, Idlewild,
The Fall, Dolores
O'Riordan, and Motorhead,
amongst many others. The Orchard has also entered into a
licensing agreement with Pandora Media,
making its full label catalogue available for inclusion
in the Music Genome Project, streaming
audio to listeners of Pandora's discovery radio service
in the UK.
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The
Dark are reforming and also working with the
London Philharmonic Orchestra for a
tour starting in the autumn of 2008. The concerts across
Europe and the US will see the LPO playing the Energy
Suite installation music with giant screens carrying
projections of power station images. On April 30
Virgin/EMI release a double-pack CD and
DVD of the digitally remastered 1981 album OMD Live
at the Drury Lane Theatre.
Former
Warner/Chappell and
MPL VP Alan Tepper is
now CEO of newly-formed Anthem Music & Media
Group, with offices in New York and Los
Angeles, the latter headed by CEO Steve
Smith. The company already has 4,000 songs,
having purchased the Bicycle Music Co.,
whose co-president Jon Rosner becomes
Creative VP at Anthem. He also brings the representation
of Neil Diamond's
Diamondsongs to the new company, while
the Anthem catalogue also includes works by
Foghat, Ice Cube and
Dave Frishberg among
others.
Brad Cotter has signed
as main artist for Adobe Road Records,
a new Nashville-based label headed by
songwriter/producer Gary
Cotton.
Nominees for this year's
CMA Global Country Artist Award
include: Tom Astor (Germany),
Calaisa (Sweden), Rodrigo
Haddad (Brazil), Adam Harvey
(Australia), Corb Lund (Canada),
Melinda Schneider (Australia),
Rachael Warwick (UK) and
Michelle Wright (Canada). Candidates
are chosen from artists nominated by CMA's international
membership. The winner will receive the award at the
2007 CMA Music Festival held in Nashville from June
7-10th.
RIP: The Godfather of
Soul James Brown (73), from pneumonia
in Atlanta, Georgia... Former EMI producer and A&R
manager Walter 'Wally' Ridley (93)...
Pedal steel guitarist 'Sneaky' Pete
Kleinow of the Flying Burrito
Brothers (72)... UK producer Colin
Thurston... jazz musicians Michael
Brecker (56) and Alice
Coltrane (69)... 'Dallas' and 'Sex And The
City' composer Harvey Cohen (55)...
Mamas & Papas founder member
Denny Doherty (66).
Data Source: http://www.songlink.com/news.html
 Rahman's weaves Magic for the
Music Industry
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March
2007 Box-Office Top
5(Figures in Indian Rupees)
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RK |
Film |
Week |
Weekly Gross
|
Total Gross
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1 |
Nishabd
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1 |
2,71,81,332 |
2,71,81,332 |
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2 |
Honeymoon
Travels Pvt Ltd. |
2 |
1,96,70,684 |
6,11,05,892 |
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3 |
Nehlle
Pe Dehlla |
1 |
1,15,23,769 |
1,15,23,769 |
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4 |
Eklavya
- The Royal Guard |
3 |
40,27,627 |
10,23,27,872 |
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5 |
Guru
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8 |
21,26,981 |
29,85,74,205
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WORLD WIDE MUSIC CHARTS
Digital
music sales to dominate Indian markets in
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Popular music
is going to go digital with a vengeance as the
download music market grows and the music industry
finds "new levels" to adjust to the realities of
the current techno-century.
 "This year, India will be the second
largest market in the world to see digital (both
online and mobile) music sale outpace physical
sales," says Mandar Thakur, General Manager of the
country's online music company Soundbuzz India.
At present, South Korea is the world's largest
market for music. The global online and mobile
download music market is expected to be more than
$28 billion by 2010. Mobile music downloads in
India will constitute 60 percent of all digital
music sales in the world for the coming two years,
Thakur said.
The physical (CD, tapes etc) sale
of music has seen a dramatic downswing in India.
The market, which was Rs.10 billion in 2005, is
expected to slump to Rs.5 billion in 2009. By
2009, India's cellular revenue will touch $24
billion, analysts say, growing at 28.3 percent
compound annual growth rate with mobile ownership
set to cross 200 million this year. "India's
entire mobile music market - encompassing
monophonic and polyphonic ring tones, true tones,
ring back tones and full track mobile downloads -
will be worth $800 million by 2009," Thakur said.
"This is a 12 percent increase on mobile tune
sales in 2005, which was then worth $100 million,"
he added.
Soundbuzz is supported
in its forecast by analysis from Jupiter Research,
a global music market analyst.
"The music
industry has had its high-water mark. It's not
going to go back to where it was at the end of the
1990s," Jupiter analyst Mark Mulligan had said in
January.
"This is all about the music industry
finding its new level (and) realigning itself to
the realities of the 21st century," he said,
predicting that "CD sales are going to continue to
decline by about 5 percent a year indefinitely".
Soundbuzz provides
content and delivery platforms for Indiatimes,
Tata-VSNL, Bharati Broadband and Sify. The company
operates both, online and mobile music stores and
supplies content for mobile carriers and others
like Airtel, Hutchison, Tata, Plus Indiatimes,
8888 and MTV, operating online and wireless
platforms.
The company was set up
in 1999, by a group that included Sudhanshu
Sarronwala, its CEO at present. It is headquartered
in Singapore with offices in Mumbai, Australia and
Hong Kong.
Soundbuzz's own
analysis indicates that digital music in Asia is
driven by the mobile sector. More than one-third
of all digital music sales globally will be
generated out of Asia by 2009, Soundbuzz predicts.
Ringtones are the dominant digital format and
will continue through 2009. Mobile music growth
will, however, be fuelled by additional formats,
including ring-back tones, caller ID tones, and
full track audio and video downloads.
These forms of mobile
music will grow dramatically to achieve $3.9
billion in sales in Asia by 2009. Online sales
will remain relatively static in the coming three
years.
"Consumption of musical genres differ
slightly, depending on whether the music is
downloaded online or wirelessly," Thakur said.
Mobile subscribers are heavy consumers of the
latest Bollywood hits, regional language music and
devotional music.
In contrast, online
consumption comprises Bollywood catalogue along
with the regional catalogue, devotional music and
international singles and videos.
Both digital
formats have deep content in terms of language and
musical genres. "Interestingly, a recent analysis
of our online sales showed that only 15 percent of
the downloads are of the latest hits," Thakur
said.
"The majority (about
85 percent) of the downloads are from our
catalogue, or what is known as the long tail of
content. This means, niche musical genres like
Carnatic classical, Hindustani classical, ghazals
etc are all available on Soundbuzz database and
sell frequently," he explained, adding, that in
India music sales vary every month as do music
charts.
There is also a good
deal of variation from region to region. Tamil
film sound tracks are the most popular genre in
Chennai. Like Napster, Soundbuzz complies with the
copyright requirements of major international
music labels to sell music downloads legally by
utilizing the digital rights management software
but, is also eager to sell without the RDM
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IMI joins hands with
NOKIA
Nokia Nseries has joined hands with Indian
Music Industry (IMI) to announce ‘Legends of India’,
which is a new music offering to be preloaded into the
Nokia Nseries music edition devices (Nokia N91, N73 and
N70).
‘Legends of India’ was unveiled in Mumbai by
singer Jagjit Singh along with representatives from IMI,
Universal Music Group, SaReGaMa India, Venus and Times
Music.
For the first time, Nokia Nseries will provide
100 DRM compliant songs of over 10 music luminaries
across genres ranging from popular film music,
devotional, ghazals to remixes to enhance consumers’
mobile music experience.
Nokia Nseries recently
unveiled three mobile multimedia devices as a part of
its Nokia Nseries music edition. These include the Nokia
N70 Music Edition, Nokia N73 Music Edition and Nokia N91
8GB.
Nokia India multimedia director Vineet
Taneja said, “The Legends of India offering will make
our newly launched Nokia Nseries music edition
proposition even stronger since it will enable us to
deliver a premium music experience to our consumers.
Music forms a core part of Nokia Nseries value
proposition and consumers can now listen to their
favorite artists ‘On-the-Go’ anytime, anywhere at the
click of a button.”
“Mobile devices have emerged as one of the
most preferred mediums for listening to music as is also
evident from the fact that over 280 million MP3 enabled
devices are expected to be sold by 2010. Nokia Nseries
will drive this trend and continue to introduce
initiatives to deliver a superior music experience. We
are confident that our new initiative will contribute
towards promoting the music ecosystem at large and help
the Indian Music Industry to regularize the distribution
of legal music content,” he added.
Inaugurating ‘Legends of India’, singer
Jagjit Singh, said, “I am glad to be a part of this
initiative undertaken by Nokia Nseries and the Indian
Music Industry and wish them the very best in their
endeavor towards supporting the music industry.”
Some of the tracks that will be available
as a part of this offering include songs by artists such
as Jagjit Singh, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhonsle, AR
Rahman, Manna Dey, Kishore Kumar, Ghulam Ali, Mohd Rafi,
Geeta Dutt, SD Burman, RD Burman, Sonu Nigam and Alka
Yagnik amongst others. The songs can be unlocked using a
code available on the scratch card that will be
pre-bundled with the Nokia Nseries music edition sales
boxes.
 IMI chairman Subroto Chatopadhyay said, “We
are pleased to partner with Nokia Nseries. Music piracy
is a growing menace in most markets including India and
has grown at an alarming rate of 56 per cent in 2005.
Our partnership with Nokia Nseries will go a long way in
creating a new revenue stream for the industry at large
as well as help curb illegal distribution of music
content.”
SaReGaMa India vice president
(A&R), publishing and new media Atul Churamani said,
“SaReGaMa India owns the largest catalogue of songs in
the country, spanning all genres and languages. This
partnership is a great opportunity to offer this music
on the mobile platform of Nokia Nseries.”
Universal
Music managing director Rajat Kakar added, “We are
committed to capitalize on the convergence of mobile
phones with the growing demand for music and
entertainment. Nokia Nseries and Legends of India is a
win-win initiative for everyone as it will bring the
popular legendary music audiences at large. This gives
the mobile music enthusiast yet another choice to enjoy
music from leading artists of our industry.”
Detailing its partnership, Tips managing
director Kumar Taurani said, “This is an excellent
opportunity to extend out vast repertoire of music to
Indian audiences at large.”
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