Taylor Swift wins IFPI 2025 global artist award for record sixth time with The Life of a Showgirl successTaylor Swift has been named the best-selling global artist of 2025 by the IFPI. This marks her sixth time receiving this prestigious award....
18 Feb, 2026, 11.15 PM IST
K-Pop boy group Seventeen to become UNESCO ambassadorsSeventeen, the 13-strong South Korean band founded in 2015, were second only to Taylor Swift for global revenue last year, according to the...
11 Jun, 2024, 11.46 PM IST
Taylor Swift announces new song 'The Albatross'. Check release dateTaylor Swift's new track "The Albatross" is coming soon as the Grammy Awards winner is gearing up to release "Tortured Poets Department".
23 Feb, 2024, 10.14 PM IST
Taylor Swift visits Australian zoo before Eras Tour concertTaylor Swift is in Australia for her Eras Tour performances. The singer was seen a day out at Sydney Zoo.
22 Feb, 2024, 02.28 AM IST
'Gangnam Style' impact: South Korea's biggest cultural export endures a decade after it broke the internetIts madcap music video with the now-trademark horse-riding dance was released on July 15, 2012.
12 Jul, 2022, 09.14 AM IST
Music fans spend more time listening to tunes, turned to their favourite artists for comfort during pandemic, says studyShort-form videos, livestreaming and in-game experiences were also popular.
21 Oct, 2021, 04.17 PM IST
Twitter says in touch with Rahul Gandhi after temporarily locking his accountTwitter temporarily locked the Congress leader’s handle Saturday evening for posting a photograph of his meeting with the family of a nine-...
08 Aug, 2021, 09.29 PM IST
India single largest source of government information requests: TwitterIndia is the third largest market in terms of users for Twitter with 18.8 million users in India, after the US and Japan, as of April, acco...
14 Jul, 2021, 08.46 PM IST
PharmEasy’s $300M booster shotIn today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch: Ant Group may face India curbs after IPOs of Zomato and Paytm, Twitter’s troubles in India continue, Co...
28 Jun, 2021, 07.28 AM IST
IFPI says Twitter not licensed to play music shared by IT Minister Ravi Shankar PrasadThe Federation of Phonographic Industry, on whose complaint Twitter briefly locked the account of Union IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad las...
28 Jun, 2021, 06.36 AM IST
View: Why combating music piracy in India is a losing battleLiberal democracies like Australia, Britain and the US have, on an average, around 4% of GDP contribution from the media and entertainment ...
04 Jun, 2020, 04.21 AM IST
Spotify logs in over 1 million users in India within week of launchUsers in India get access to more than 40 million songs and 3 billion playlists across Indian and international music on Spotify.
05 Mar, 2019, 02.48 PM IST
World Music Day: How technology has changed the rhythm of musicWhat’s really orchestrating the industry back into a positive growth figure is due to a symphony comprising performers outside the conventi...
21 Jun, 2018, 06.44 PM IST
Songs.pk returns, music industry expresses concernAfter the site was blocked by the Calcutta High Court in 2012, it came back under various iterations until recently, when IFPI reported tha...
18 Dec, 2017, 12.51 AM IST
- Global music companies in fresh China piracy suit
Three of the world’s most influential music labels launched fresh legal action against China’s top internet search engine Baidu for piratin...
06 Feb, 2008, 12.00 AM IST
- Music industry eyes digital future
After years of fighting the Wild West of freely downloaded music, the mainstream music industry welcomed a former desperado to their annual...
30 Jan, 2008, 01.59 AM IST
- CDs down but not yet out, say music pundits
CDs may well be seen as 'yesterday's' technology by young digitally-savvy music lovers, but there's life left in the shiny discs for some y...
28 Jan, 2008, 05.19 AM IST