Wednesday, April 06, 2005
Pop music in India
So pop music's frontier is India.
Jax
Few western acts perform in India: pop is still a minor cultural concern here. The best-known stars - Norah Jones is currently the biggest - sell only around 70,000 albums, although bootlegging means many more are listening. These audience numbers, however, are dwarfed by those of the omnipresent Bollywood. A guy from Sean's label - EMI India - sums up pop's position here when he says: "The Rolling Stones played here last year. I was amazed they pulled 20,000. I mean, who's heard of the Rolling Stones?" (Link)
Jax
Few western acts perform in India: pop is still a minor cultural concern here. The best-known stars - Norah Jones is currently the biggest - sell only around 70,000 albums, although bootlegging means many more are listening. These audience numbers, however, are dwarfed by those of the omnipresent Bollywood. A guy from Sean's label - EMI India - sums up pop's position here when he says: "The Rolling Stones played here last year. I was amazed they pulled 20,000. I mean, who's heard of the Rolling Stones?" (Link)
