News Saregama, India’s oldest label, completes $45M acquisition of Pocket Aces Saregama says acquiring Pocket Aces is its avenue into expanding into short-form content
News Sony Music inks partnership with India’s Maddock Films to produce soundtracks, pop singles The move comes amid remarkable growth in India's music market, and in the popularity of Indian music worldwide
Interviews ‘The industry has tremendous confidence in the talent that exists in this new era of South Asian music.’ MBW's Trailblazers series meets Abhi Kanakadandila, CEO of Los Angeles-based record label D36, which focuses on music from South Asia and its diaspora
Interviews ‘India’s streaming market is on the cusp of a digital boom with unprecedented opportunity.’ MBW’s World Leaders series meets Kumar Taurani, Chairman and Managing Director of India's Tips Industries
Analysis News Global consumption of music from India soared 2,000% in 5 years on Spotify Spotify has been operating in India for five years
News Warner expands distribution deal with India’s Tips Industries, amid ongoing South Asian music boom Warner's new deal with Tips will include the Indian film production and music company's entire repertoire
News AI developers must get authorization to use copyrighted materials, India’s government declares The Indian Music Industry (IMI) has applauded the declaration by the country's Minister of State for Commerce and Industry
Analysis News From Spotify’s ‘superfan clubs’ to Apple Music’s spatial audio royalty boost… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…
News India’s Tips Industries generated $7.78m in calendar Q4, up 27% YoY Tips’ rising numbers come amid surging growth in the Indian music market
News TikTok parent to shut down music streaming service Resso in India "Unfortunately, owing to local market conditions, we can no longer continue to serve users of Resso in India."
News India’s music publishing business held back by lack of copyright compliance, legal uncertainty (report) Music publishing revenues grew 2.5-fold in India in the past three years, but future growth will depend on addressing the country's copyright issues, EY says.
News Hari Nair appointed Chief Executive Officer of Tips Industries Tips Industries appoints Sony and ByteDance veteran as CEO
Interviews Denis Ladegaillerie on AI, streaming royalty models, Believe’s game plan… and more The Believe founder and CEO joins MBW's Tim Ingham on the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast
Analysis News India’s Tips Industries generated $6.4m in calendar Q2, up 54% YoY – the company’s best-ever quarterly results Another major highlight from the company's quarter was its YouTube subscriber growth and view count
News Primary Wave makes strategic investment in India’s Times Music in deal worth $100m Partnership will see Primary Wave and Times Music invest in catalog opportunities in the Indian market