Whois & Analysis for saregama.com

HMV Retail Ltd., formerly HMV Group plc, is an entertainment retailing company (registered in England) operating in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong.

It was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE Fledgling Index.

The first HMV-branded store was opened by the Gramophone Company on Oxford Street in 1921, and the HMV name was also used for television and radio sets manufactured from the 1930s onwards.

The retail side of the business began to expand in the 1960s, and in 1998 was divested from EMI, the successor to the Gramophone Company, to form what would become HMV Group.

A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a home computer, MP3 player or smartphone.

This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment.

According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9% of all music sales in the US in 2012.

As of January 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made $1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year.

Hindi (Devanagari: , IAST: Hindī), or Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: मानक हिन्दी, IAST: Mānak Hindī) is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language.

Along with the English language, Hindi written in the Devanagari script, is the official language of the Government of India.

It is also one of the 22 scheduled languages of the Republic of India.

Saregama India Ltd. is an Indian music label and content producer for Indian television.

Its music catalogue consists of more than 117,000 songs in 14 languages, built over a period of more than 100 years.

It has daily and weekly TV shows currently on air with television networks in India.

Hindustani classical music is the Hindustani or North Indian style of Indian classical music.

The style is sometimes called North Indian classical music or Shāstriya Sangīt.

It is a tradition that has been evolving since the 12th century CE, in North India.

It is one of the two sub-genres of classical music practiced in India, the other being Carnatic music, the classical tradition of South India.