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  • Sahas Malhotra named as CEO of JioSaavn

    Sahas Malhotra named as CEO of JioSaavn

    Mumbai: JioSaavn has appointed entertainment industry veteran Sahas Malhotra as its new CEO. With his appointment, the music company aims to continue providing enhanced holistic audio experience to consumers, it said.

    “In this role, Malhotra will be based out of the company’s headquarters in Mumbai and lead its endeavors in a constantly evolving and exciting Indian market,” said the statement.

    Before joining JioSaavn, he was associated with Amazon Music as a director. He brings on board an experience of twenty four years in the entertainment industry, in building teams, film marketing, music P&L management, licensing, media planning, music publishing and product management.

    Over the years, Malhotra has also worked with renowned industry players like Sony Music India and Tips Industries. At Tips Industries, Sahas was leading the business at Tips Music and marketing for Tips Film production, in addition to leading extensive marketing verticals for the business.

    As the director of digital and new business at Sony Music India for  over 12 years, he successfully led his team to achieve revenue targets in the fast-changing entertainment industry. In addition, Malhotra also led Sony Music India’s digital P&L and mentored teams across media planning, media buying, promotions, marketing alliances and new business development departments.

    His impressive track record also includes extensive understanding of mobile value-added services, online music, online video marketing, syndication, media planning & buying, music publishing, TV, print & radio marketing, social media marketing, online advertising and film marketing.

  • Amazon Prime brings Venus Music’s 1990s, 2000s tracks to life

    Amazon Prime brings Venus Music’s 1990s, 2000s tracks to life

    MUMBAI: Amazon Prime Music announced that it is reviving Venus Music’s catalogue of thousands of tracks to its Indian and international selection. Amazon Prime Music will now offer the popular tracks that ruled the Indian music industry in the 90s and 2000s, all ad-free.

    Amazon Music India Director Sahas Malhotra said, “Amazon Prime Music continues to strengthen its catalogue across the decades of 90s and 00s as well as its selection in Hindi, Marathi, Bhojpuri and Punjabi languages to ensure we offer the best selection to our customers. With the addition of Venus Music, Prime members will have access to super hits from Dil Se, Baazigar, Yes Boss and several other Bollywood hits curated across hundreds of playlists and stations.”

    “We are very excited to announce our collaboration with Amazon Prime Music and offer our rich catalogue of classics with the upcoming new releases to the Prime customer. We are looking forward for this association with Amazon Prime Music to be highly successful and we continue in our endeavor to entertain the music lovers across the country,” said Venus Music Digital Head Girish Jain.

    With over thousands of tracks in Hindi, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Bengali, Marathi and other regional languages across genres, Venus Music is home to many iconic hits by artists like AR Rahman, Jagjit Singh, Nadeem Shravan, Anu Malik, Bappi Lahiri, Pritam, Sajid-Wajid, Himesh Reshammiya among many other top music composers. Music listeners will now enjoy tracks along with a selection of ghazals and devotional music, curated into playlists and stations by Amazon Music experts.

    Amazon Prime already offers unlimited free one-day and two-day delivery over 11 million products online to over 100 cities, 30 minutes early access for members on top deals and more benefits for an unparalleled shopping experience and instant access to latest movies and TV shows.

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  • Amazon Prime Music ties up with Saregama

    Amazon Prime Music ties up with Saregama

    MUMBAI: Amazon announced its partnership with Saregama to stream the label’s catalog of 117,000 tracks on Amazon Prime Music when the ad-free music streaming service launches in India.Saregama has one of the largest and the most coveted Indian music selections across multiple Indian languages. It offers a quintessential collection of classics with a catalogue dating back to the era of first talkie film – Raja Harishchandra. Prime members will soon be able to easily discover and listen to melodies on Amazon Prime Music from movies like Guide, Don, Kati Patang, Waqt, CID; contributions from legends like Lata Mangeshkar, Mohammad Rafi, Jagjit Singh, Ghulam Ali, M. S. Subbulakshmi, Asha Bhosle, R.D Burman, Kishore Kumar, and more artists; and have fun with songs like “Ek Chatur Naar” or fall in love with “Ajeeb Dastan hai ye”.

    Amazon Music India director Sahas Malhotra commented, “We are excited to partner with Saregama to add classics over the decades in several Indian languages to boost our always expanding Indian and International catalogue. At launch, Amazon Prime Music listeners will enjoy hundreds of especially hand-curated playlists across their favorite eras, genres, and artists”.

    Saregama India. MD Vikram Mehra said, “Music streaming has fast emerged as one of the foremost ways of consuming music in India. We are excited to partner with Amazon Prime Music, in bringing our extensive and rich catalogue of songs from our label – Saregama, to their platform, ensuring that we reach out to the fast-growing base of Prime members. We believe this digital experience would only enhance the level of popularity of our songs across a wide demographic of people in India.” 

    Saregama, with a catalogue size of more than 117,000 Tracks across 15000 albums, has one of the most comprehensive collections of evergreen songs, ghazals, regional classics, Hindustani, Carnatic and devotional music in India. It has an impressive repertoire across Hindi and regional languages such as Bengali, Tamil, Telugu and many more. 

  • Amazon prime music inks a deal with zee music company

    Amazon prime music inks a deal with zee music company

    MUMBAI: Amazon today announced a content deal with Zee Music Company that will add over 450 film soundtracks in Hindi & regional languages alongside 250 Independent artist content thus adding to the wide catalogue of millions of Indian and International songs on Amazon Prime Music. Soon to be launched as a Prime benefit at no additional cost, the Amazon Prime Music will be home to several well-known, latest movie soundtracks like Padman, Half Girlfriend,  Baar Baar Dekho, Udta Punjab, Sairat, Raees, Dangal and will also host upcoming releases like Student of the Year 2, Aiyaary, Drive, Gold, Dhadak, Pari, Parmanu, Manikarnika & more for Prime members to listen to, ad free.

    Amazon Music, Director, Sahas Malhotra, India commented, “We are thrilled to partner with Zee Music to strengthen Amazon Prime Music’s catalog for our customers. At launch, Amazon Prime Music customers can enjoy listening to all the hits and forthcoming releases from Zee Music’s catalog ad-free, at no additional cost for our Prime members. Amazon Prime Music in addition to offering unlimited, on demand access to millions of Indian and international songs across varied genres and languages will also offer customers hundreds of especially hand-curated playlists and stations to enjoy their favorite music”.

    “Music streaming has become a large & popular way of listening to music in India and we are excited about bringing a wide selection of songs from our label on Amazon Prime Music that will reach out to an already existing, and fast-growing base of Prime members in India. We believe the digital experience would take our music to the next level of the popularity in India”, Zee Music Company – Business Head – Anurag Bedi said.

    Zee Music Company is one of India’s most exciting music labels and has established a strong foothold in the Indian Music Industry. Their Hindi catalog boasts of hits from Half Girlfriend, Baar Baar Dekho, Udta Punjab, Raees, Rustom, Dangal, Secret Superstar and many more.  Zee Music Company has also been steadily increasing its footprint in building its regional repertoire. It currently has tracks across various regional languages including Marathi, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Punjabi, Bengali and many more.

    Amazon Prime already offers unlimited free One-day and Two-day delivery over 11 million products online to over 100 cities, 30 minutes early access for members on top deals and more benefits for an unparalleled shopping experience and instant access to latest movies and TV shows. Customers who are not already Prime members can learn more about the program at www.amazon.in/prime