Music Business

Documentary on Punjabi singer Honey Singh's life to be released soon

The film will follow Honey Singh's meteoric rise in mainstream Bollywood music and his fall as the landscape eventually changed due to market dynamics

Coke Studio returns to India with 50 artistes across country, 10 new tracks

The new season will feature an amalgamation of over 50 artists from across the country and its hinterlands coming together to create over 10 memorable tracks celebrating the roots of India

Music streaming platform Spotify's website, app restored after brief outage

Music streaming platform Spotify on Friday said that it has fixed the issue that affected its website and application

Minnow on world stage, but Indian media business is growing big: Report

US, China remain biggest pie-holders globally, says PwC report

No more freebies! Influencers, music bands, doctors liable to 10% TDS

Ensure value of goods doesn't exceed Rs 20,000 to avoid TDS

Coldplay will stop recording new music in 2025, says Chris Martin

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has said that the band will stop recording new music in 2025. The 44-year-old musician made the revelation during an appearance on BBC Radio 2's special broadcast. "Our last proper record will come out in 2025, and after that I think we will only tour," Martin said. "And maybe we'll do some collaborative things but the Coldplay catalogue, as it were, finishes then," he added. Martin leads the band which also includes Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion. Coldplay released their ninth album, 'Music of the Spheres', in October this year. The band is set to embark on a global tour next year. At the time of the album's release, Martin had said that the band might stop after releasing three more albums. "This is not a joke, this is true. I think after 12 that will be the end of our catalogue, but I think we will always want to play live together," Martin told Absolute Radio. "So, I think in the way that the (Rolling) Stones do, it will be so

Pandemic has broken film music's hold over biz: Universal's Devraj Sanyal

Till the pandemic struck in March 2020, film music was over 70 per cent of the market. The restrictions around Covid meant that not many new films or music were released

Music platforms remain immune to Covid-19 as investments intensify

Shamrock Capital, a private equity firm, has acquired the Taylor Swift master recordings from Carlyle Group and manager Scooter Braun for $300 million

The Music Industry's Lost Summer: No Bieber, No Swift and Mass Layoffs

While sports leagues and restaurants try to figure out when they can reopen to the public, there's growing recognition among music industry executives that concerts won't be coming back anytime soon.

What bites music business in India? Time and revenue mismatch, says study

Streaming now brings in 70 per cent of the Rs 1,068 crore the industry made in early 2019

The music business is more unfair than ever

Streaming apps revived the industry, but record labels collect the profits