TikTok Owner ByteDance Launches Resso App in India, Taking on Spotify

MUMBAI – Indian-American rapper and singer-songwriter Raja Kumari has signed to Mass Appeal India, the label announced Monday (March 9). Kumari, aka Svetha Rao, is one of India's biggest hip-hop acts and among the few female English-speaking artists to have made a mark in the genre here.The California native follows rapper and frequent collaborator Divine to Mass Appeal India, a partnership between Nas-owned U.S.-based entertainment company Mass Appeal and Universal Music India.

Warner Music Group is continuing its global expansion with the launch of a new affiliate in India. Warner Music India will be headed up by music executive Jay

Warner Music India officially launched today, as the company announced its newest affiliate with former Sony Music India executive Jay Mehta as managing director. His purview will also cover the other markets in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Mass Appeal India has announced the signing of Grammy-nominated Indian-American rapper-singer-songwriter-dancer Raja Kumari, the first female rapper to sign with the label.

MUMBAI — India's increasingly crowded and competitive audio streaming market has a new contender. On Wednesday (March 4), ByteDance launched Resso, a freemium service aimed at Gen Z that is being marketed as the "world's first social music streaming app." The new service employs distinguishing features like "vibes, comme

In the early 2000s, during the heyday of the cable TV business, Rishi Malhotra was a young vice president at HBO, charged with figuring out how to sell on-demand programming. Over several years, he turned HBO On Demand into a $100 million business.

The hustle and bustle of India’s daily traffic chaos can be heard outside.

MUMBAI — The most Shazamed track of 2019 in India wasn’t a Bollywood or Punjabi pop hit, but an electro-pop song by a little-known teenager from Romania.“Sugar and Brownies” by Dharia was also one of the top 10 most streamed English-language tunes on local audio streaming service JioSaavn during the past year.

After years of saying he was done, actor Hank Azaria definitively confirmed to the New York Times that he will no longer voice Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the character on The Simpsons he has voiced since the show started in 1989. In recent years, Apu has become a subject of controversy, with the 2017 documentary The Problem with Apu making the case that the convenience store-owning, stereotypically accented immigrant character is a racist depiction of Indian people created by white people.

The Simpsons voice actor Hank Azaria attended “seminars about racism and social consciousness” amid the controversy surrounding his portrayal of Indian shop clerk Apu Nahasapeemapetilon.