{"id":2463676,"date":"2026-06-17T12:13:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2463676"},"modified":"2026-06-17T12:13:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T12:13:49","slug":"wmgs-latest-moves-bengali-music-deal-and-apac-accelerator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wmgs-latest-moves-bengali-music-deal-and-apac-accelerator\/","title":{"rendered":"WMG\u2019s latest moves: Bengali-music deal and APAC accelerator"},"content":{"rendered":"<br><div id=\"post-271820\">\n\t<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is news of two expansions for Warner Music Group this morning, starting with a partnership in India with Kolkata-headquartered media group SVF Entertainment.\n\n\n\n<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is all about gaining a foothold in the Bengali music market,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/musically.com\/2026\/06\/17\/warner-music-india-expands-into-bengali-music-market-leader-with-svf-entertainment-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">as Music Ally South Asia explained in its full report overnight<\/a>.\n\n\n<aside>\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/aside>\n\n<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SVF has produced more than 180 films and 30 TV shows in Bengali since its launch in 1995, and it also owns a video-streaming platform Hoichoi and record label SVF Music \u2013\u00a0with a catalogue of more than 2,000 songs. Warner Music India\u2019s partnership with the company aims to help take more of that music \u201cto the global stage\u201d.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The second story today comes from Warner Music APAC, which is launching a global artist accelerator program called \u2018<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/listenupmusic.official\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Listen Up<\/a>\u2019. It aims to become a launchpad for promising artists from the region.\n\n\n\n<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the first chosen for the program is C-Pop artist Gareth. T who is signed to Warner Music Hong Kong, who at one point in May was one of WMG\u2019s top five globally-streamed artists.\n\n\n\n<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Listen Up\u2019 isn\u2019t just for Asian artists, mind. It also has international acts including Barry Can\u2019t Swim, Rachel Chinouriri, Cil and Daniel Seavey who\u2019ll be earmarked for \u201cAPAC market opportunities\u201d.\n\n\n\n<section id=\"block-35\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><nav class=\"jp-relatedposts-i2 wp-block-jetpack-related-posts\" data-layout=\"grid\" aria-label=\"Related Stories\"><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Related Stories<\/h3><\/nav><\/section><section id=\"block-32\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\"><aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<\/section><section id=\"block-25\" class=\"below-content widget widget_block\">\n\n<\/section><\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\n\t<!-- .entry-footer -->\n\n\t\n\t\t\t<!-- .author-bio -->\n\t\t\t\n<\/div><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source musically.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is news of two expansions for Warner Music Group this morning, starting with a partnership in India with Kolkata-headquartered media group SVF Entertainment. This is all about gaining a foothold in the Bengali music market,\u00a0as Music Ally South Asia explained in its full report overnight. SVF has produced more than 180 films and 30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2463677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[28008,22578,345771],"class_list":["post-2463676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-asia","tag-india","tag-warner-music-group"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WMGs-latest-moves-Bengali-music-deal-and-APAC-accelerator.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2463676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463678,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2463676\/revisions\/2463678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2463677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2463676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2463676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2463676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}