Saregama, one of India’s largest music labels, has announced a global music licensing deal with YouTube for YouTube Shorts, a short format video experience on YouTube.
This partnership will allow users to create Shorts on YouTube using Saregama’s humongous catalog of songs.
Saregama is India’s oldest music label with a rich catalog of over 1.40 lakh songs across many different genres including new and old film/ non-film songs, devotional music, ghazals and Indipop in more than 25 languages like Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Telugu, Bhojpuri, Gujrati amongst others.
However, YouTube Shorts creators will be able to use music from one of the most extensive music libraries of India, which includes classics from legends like Lata Mangeshkar, Kishore Kumar, Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle, Gulzar, Jagjit Singh, R.D Burman, Kalyanji Anandji, Geeta Dutt, Laxmikant Pyarelal at the same time latest hits from Badshah, Neeti Mohan, Papon, Adnan Sami and many other contemporary artistes.