Overtone: October 5–11, 2026
HYBE picked Delhi for the first Weverse Con outside Korea. Arijit Singh booked the same city, the same day. India's 2027 live calendar is already crowded.
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Overtone: September 28–October 4, 2026
Spotify made RAP91 Live a Premium-only show. After a rewards scheme and a 72-hour window, India's free tier is being converted one perk at a time.
Overtone: September 21–27, 2026
Chartmetric says India is minting 'superstar' artists faster than any country. The catch: they reach 24 foreign markets, and almost all of them are diaspora.
Overtone: September 14–20, 2026
UMG sued DistroKid over an 'AI-slop pipeline' the week IFPI signed 25 companies to KYC rules. No Indian label signed, and Indian indies run on DistroKid.
Overtone: September 7–13, 2026
Diljit Dosanjh headlined Wembley Stadium and booked Narendra Modi Stadium from the stage. Punjabi touring now runs at 90,000-seat scale.
Overtone: August 31–September 6, 2026
Spotify's first India Loud & Clear: 335 billion streams, royalties up 29% — and 40% of what Indian artists earn now comes from outside India.
Overtone: August 24–30, 2026
UMG's paid-only window went live with Harrdy Sandhu's 'Stuck On You' — the same week Luminate's first India report put numbers on the free tier it targets.
Overtone: August 17–23, 2026
Banjaare hit No. 1, Spotify India's top five went entirely non-film, and Believe and Universal bought regional-language infrastructure the same week.
Overtone: August 10–16, 2026
Hindi cinema's biggest houses are building music labels while the AI industry buys licences. Infrastructure week — in Mumbai and in the model weights.
Overtone: August 3–9, 2026
A week after Tips credited deep catalogue, Saregama posted profit up 42% and live events up 214%. India's oldest label is selling a different future.
Overtone: July 27–August 2, 2026
Universal will paywall its new releases in India for 72 hours. The same week, EY and IMI found 62% of Indians have never paid for music.
Overtone: July 20–26, 2026
Hanumankind marched, Bloodywood turned up and Delhi's DJs booked a fundraiser in 48 hours. The week Indian music stopped calling itself apolitical.
Overtone: July 13–19, 2026
A composer put a number on his royalties for the biggest Indian song of 2025 — ₹8 lakh — and the maths behind Hindi film music went public.
Overtone: July 6–12, 2026
Warner Music India expands its artist-services arm into management, live and brand deals — a major's answer to what the charts keep asking: what's a label for?
Overtone: June 15–21, 2026
India reinstates PPL as a copyright society, ending five years of licensing limbo — the same week Japan grants performers a public-performance right.
Overtone: June 8–14, 2026
Diljit's Wembley on-sale overwhelms ticketing as Indian live music's ceiling lifts — while an unsigned Haryanvi track owns India's charts every day of the week.
Overtone: April 20–26, 2026
Warner Chappell lands direct in India, Tips Music posts 93% profit growth, Diljit reopens BC Place. The week capital caught up to the audience.
Overtone: April 13–19, 2026
Calvin Harris completes India's biggest EDM tour ever while Scorpions cancel theirs. The weekend that stress-tested live music infrastructure.
Overtone: April 6–12, 2026
Ye banned from the UK, Wireless Festival cancelled — and India's May 23 Delhi show is next in the crosshairs.
Overtone: March 30–April 5, 2026
Dhurandhar 2 becomes the first Hindi film to cross ₹1,000 crore net domestic, resetting music rights math.
Overtone: March 23–29, 2026
HYBE launches auditions across 10 Indian cities, Def Leppard debuts in India, and Keinemusik draws 30K to Mumbai.
Overtone: March 9–15, 2026
NH7 Weekender returns with an all-Indian lineup, and Spotify's Loud & Clear data shows why that bet makes sense.
Overtone: March 3–9, 2026
Karan Aujla's record-breaking tour hits a wall in Mumbai, forcing a do-over that tests India's concert infrastructure.
The State of Music in India: 2025–2026
A comprehensive report on India's music industry — genres, streaming, AI, live music, indie artists, and the scene through March 2026.