Music Business News: India

Guy Moot on the globalization of music and the ‘new songwriter economy’

Warner Chappell Music's Co-Chair and Chief Executive Officer delivered a keynote speech at this week’s All About Music conference in India.

Sony Music catalog pulled from Resso, TikTok’s sister subscription platform

Sources suggest Sony Music rejected commercial terms offered by platform

Gaana scraps free tier after failing to raise new investment

Gaana moves to paid subscription model

India is home to the largest number of YouTube viewers in the world. But the platform’s music chart isn’t without flaws.

Amit Gurbaxani investigates why a lyric video with more than 400m views hasn’t charted on YouTube's charts for India

Half of APAC listeners use social media for music discovery, a win for TikTok and its music-streaming foray

APAC music discovery stats revealed in new report from US market monitor Luminate

India-based telco Airtel poised to buy loss-making Spotify challenger Gaana

Discussions between the parties have reportedly been going on for a few months

This company’s young artist has billions of YouTube views. It’s certain India is going to become one of the world’s biggest music markets.

Hitz Music founder and Indian music industry veteran, Vinod Bhanushali talks us through his views of the market

India-based music NFT platform FanTiger, founded by ex-Gaana CEO Prashan Agarwal, raises $5.5m

Seed round was led by Multicoin Capital