Times Music is an Indian music

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company, owned by

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, Headquartered in

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, India. Times Music started operations in 1998 and has a catalogue of more than 60,000 tracks in all languages and genres. Times Music is also the Indian sub-publisher for global music publishing firms Warner/Chappell Music,

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, Wixen Music, CTM Publishing and Cloud 9 Music Publishing. Times Music was one of the early pioneers of remixes in India and was an early leader in the devotional and spiritual music genre. The label has also published regional, folk,

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and traditional albums in languages such as Telugu, Punjabi,

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, Gujarati, Assamese and

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and has a strong regional presence.

History

Times Music was established in 1991 under the leadership of Arun Arora, who was then the President and Executive Director of

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and Times Global Broadcasting Co. Ltd. In 2000, the

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was ruled by

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and International Music. The intent of the label was to create albums tailored to appeal to the discerning audience, which resulted in Times Music the concepts of spiritual, world and

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music in India. In 2009 Times Music become the first music company in

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to introduce Brainwave Sound Technology album called Bhakti Band. This was a fusion devotional/spiritual album. The album was composed by Vaibhav Saxena.

Albums

This is the incomplete list

Junglee Music

In 2007, Times Music launched its independent film music label, Junglee Music, to capitalise on the popularity of commercial film music. Junglee Music started with ''Welcome'' and followed it up with titles like ''

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'', '' Horn 'Ok' Pleassss'', '' Dasvidaniya'', ''

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'', '' Dhanak'', '' Begum Jaan'' and '' Romeo Akbar Walter'' as well as other language film titles. Later Junglee Music also published music for ''

Raja Natwarlal ''Raja Natwarlal'' is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language crime film, crime thriller film directed by Kunal Deshmukh and produced by Siddharth Roy Kapur under UTV Motion Pictures. The film features Emraan Hashmi in the title role, alongside Humaima Mal ...

'' and '' Haider''.

Hindi films

Telugu films

Tamil films

Kannada films

Bengali films

Assamese films

Punjabi music

Pakistani films

Electronic dance music

Times Music started importing and licensing

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releases in India in 2006. The label signed license deals with EDM labels such as

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, Hommegga & Toco Asia. Times Music also released albums by artists such as

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, ATB, Above & Beyond and Skazi.

Independent music

Times Music has been associated with independent (indie) music since the late 1990s and early 2000s. It was one of the first publishers of indie music in India, even before the term was coined by the music industry. Times Music has worked with iconic bands such as

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, MIDIval Punditz, Mrigya, Viva and Band of Boys. Other prominent artists are

Zubeen Garg Zubeen Garg (born Zubeen Borthakur ; 18 November 1972) is an Indian singer–songwriter, composer, lyricist, music director, music producer, actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter, poet and philanthropist. He primarily works for and ...

Karsh Kale Karsh Kale (pronounced ''Kursh Kah-lay'', ''कर्ष काळे'' in Marathi; born 1 November 1974) is an Indian-American musician born in England. Known primarily for his experimental tabla playing within electronic music contexts, Kale ...

, Susheela Raman, Angaraag Mahanta and Kumar Bhabesh.

Times Living

Times Living was earlier known as Times Wellness, a division of Times Music, which was established in 2006. Times Living features products that include yoga, spirituality, diet and nutrition and modern forms of physical fitness. The record label has also released DVDs and albums by spiritual groups like

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Brahma Kumaris The Brahma Kumaris ( ("Daughters of Brahma")) is a spiritual movement that originated in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan during the 1930s.Isha Foundation.

Genre-based mobile apps

Times Music was the first record label to launch music apps for mobiles that were specific for particular genres. The label has apps that support Android and

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devices. Times Music has a collection of music apps varying from devotional, classical to

. Recently,

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and Mickey Mehta came out with a

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and the DVD ''Super Hot Sunny Mornings'' for women of all age groups.

Awards and achievements

*Best New Age Album Trophy at 57th

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to Ricky Kej for ''Winds of Samsara'' *Best background score trophy at the

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2015 to

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for '' Haider'' *Best background score trophy to

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at GIMA 2015 for ''Haider'' *Best rock album trophy at GIMA 2015 to Mihir Joshi Band for ''Mumbai Blues'' *National Award 2015 for best music director to Vishal Bhardwaj for ''Haider'' *National Award 2015 for best singer to

Sukhwinder Singh Sukhwinder Singh (born 18 July 1971) is an Indian playback singer who primarily sings Bollywood songs. He sang " Jai Ho" in the film '' Slumdog Millionaire'', for which he won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Televisi ...

for Haider *Times Music albums won three slots on

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' "Best of 2014" list: **Best Album: ''Haider'' **Best IndiPop Album:

's ''Tandanu'' **Devotional Spiritual Superlikes *''Ananthaal'' selected as Apple's "Best Indian Pop Album" of 2015 *Ananthaal won the Best Video award for the song "

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" at the Radio City Freedom Awards 2016 *

won the Jury's Choice award for Best Fusion Artiste at the 2016 Radio City Freedom Awards

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Times Music Indian record labels Hindi cinema World music record labels Folk record labels 1998 establishments in Maharashtra Record labels established in 1998