Times Music

Company type	Public
Industry	Music &entertainment
Founded	1991; 34 years ago (1991)
Headquarters	The Times of India Building,Mumbai,Maharashtra, India
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Mandar Thakur[1] (CEO)
Services	Music record label
Subsidiaries	Speed Records
YouTube information
Channel	Times Music
Years active	2010–present
Genres	Music videos Film trailers
Subscribers	12 million[2]
Total views	4 billion[2]
Creator Awards 100,000 subscribers Na 1,000,000 subscribers Na 10,000,000 subscribers 2023
Last updated: 28 August 2023
Website	timesmusic.com

Times Music is an Indian musicrecord labelcopyrightmusic publishing company, owned byThe Times Group, Headquartered inMumbai, India. Times Music started operations in 1998^[3] and has a catalogue of more than 60,000 tracks^[4] in all languages and genres. Times Music is also the Indian sub-publisher for global music publishing firmsWarner/Chappell Music,Peermusic, Wixen Music, CTM Publishing and Cloud 9 Music Publishing.^[4]

Times Music was one of the early pioneers of remixes^[5] in India and was an early leader in the devotional and spiritual music genre. The label has also published regional, folk,Hindi and traditional albums in languages such asTelugu,Punjabi,Bengali,Gujarati,Assamese andKannada and has a strong regional presence.

Times Music was established in 1991 under the leadership of Arun Arora, who was then the President and Executive Director ofThe Times of India and Times Global Broadcasting Co. Ltd. In 2000, theIndian music industry was ruled byBollywood 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 andremix music in India.

In 2009 Times Music become the first music company inIndia to introduceBrainwave Sound Technology album called Bhakti Band. This was a fusion devotional/spiritual album. The album was composed by Vaibhav Saxena.^[6][7]

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In 2007, Times Music launched its independent film music label, Junglee Music, to capitalise on the popularity of commercial film music. Junglee Music started withWelcome and followed it up with titles likeSingh Is Kinng,Horn 'Ok' Pleassss,Dasvidaniya,Pink,Dhanak,Begum Jaan andRomeo Akbar Walter as well as other language film titles. Later Junglee Music also published music forRaja Natwarlal andHaider.

Times Music started importing and licensingelectronic dance music releases in India in 2006. The label signed license deals with EDM labels such asBlack Hole Recordings,Anjunabeats, Hommegga & Toco Asia. Times Music also released albums by artists such asTiësto,Paul van Dyk, ATB,Above & Beyond andSkazi.

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.^[5] Times Music has worked with iconic bands such asIndian Ocean,MIDIval Punditz,Mrigya,^[9]Viva and Band of Boys. Other prominent artists areZubeen Garg,Karsh Kale,^[10]Susheela Raman,Angaraag Mahanta and Kumar Bhabesh.

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 likeArt of Living foundation,Brahma Kumaris andIsha Foundation.

Times Music was the first record label to launch music apps for mobiles^[11] that were specific for particular genres. The label has apps that supportAndroid andiOS devices.^[12][13] Times Music has a collection of music apps varying from devotional, classical toBollywood. Recently,Sunny Leone andMickey Mehta came out with afitness app and the DVDSuper Hot Sunny Mornings for women of all age groups.^[14]

• Best New Age Album Trophy at 57thGrammy Awards toRicky Kej forWinds of Samsara^[15]
• Best background score trophy at theMirchi Music Awards 2015 toVishal Bhardwaj forHaider^[16]
• Best background score trophy toVishal Bharadwaj at GIMA 2015 forHaider^[17]
• Best rock album trophy at GIMA 2015 toMihir Joshi Band forMumbai Blues
• National Award 2015 for best music director to Vishal Bhardwaj forHaider^[18]
• National Award 2015 for best singer toSukhwinder Singh forHaider^[18]
• Times Music albums won three slots oniTunes' "Best of 2014" list:^[19]
  • Best Album:Haider
  • Best IndiPop Album:Indian Ocean'sTandanu
  • Devotional Spiritual Superlikes
• Ananthaal selected as Apple's "Best Indian Pop Album" of 2015^[20]
• Ananthaal won the Best Video award for the song "Inayat" at the Radio City Freedom Awards 2016^[21]
• Indian Ocean won the Jury's Choice award for Best Fusion Artiste at the 2016 Radio City Freedom Awards

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