Amazon Prime India inks deal with ZEE Music Company
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’ and more for Prime members to listen to, ad free.
Sahas Malhotra, Director Amazon Music, 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 and 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”, said Anurag Bedi – Business Head – Zee Music Company.
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.
