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Mr. Hemant Kumar

Chairman & Managing Director – Bharat World Music Entertainment

Mr. Hemant Kumar is one of India’s leading business leaders and founder of the Bharat World Music Entertainment whose constituent business enterprises are engaged in pivotal roles in the ongoing economic transformation of India. He is often referred to by his colleagues, founded the Bharat World Music Entertainment Group in 2023.

Bharat World Music Entertainment is one of the prominent music production companies in India, with offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Dehradun, Kolkata and Dubai.

Founded in 2023 by Hemant Kumar, Bharat World Music Entertainment composers and sound designers have consistently produced award winning work and home to some of the most successful and best-known recording artists. Bharat World Music Entertainment has been fortunate to produce good music of all styles to tons of great projects. Bharat World Music Entertainment brings artists and fans together by driving action and creating value wherever music is experienced.

Bharat World Music Entertainment has assembled diverse creative team dedicated to innovative music composition, sound design and voice casting. We work with composers, recording artists and publishers from all around the world on a daily basis. We intend to produce authentic Indian music by continuously promoting Indian talent and are now in the best position to serve the audience with best Indian music from all over the world.

Our music is for everybody and anybody in India and abroad Bharat World Music Entertainment and their music shall serve to bring Indian music into people’s hearts and homes. Bharat World Music is an Entertainment & Media House specializing in technical and artistic innovative solutions addressed to the Cultural and Creative Industry. 

Created with the purpose of testing the new frontiers of computer graphics and digital technologies, the company has developed unprecedented techniques of accurate virtual realities, designed for revolutionizing the cultural and artistic production through advanced processes of integration between tools, methodologies and competencies of engineering and ICT.

The faithful digital reconstruction of sites of interest, landscapes, objects and architectures is made possible thanks to the high-resolution sensing with next generation sensors and the following processing of the data obtained, based on a processing chain enhanced in order to guarantee sustainable costs and faster production time.

Thanks to the development of virtual reconstructions, the implementation of audio-visual contents and products, visual digital effects, graphic animations, software applications and audio production, the company has become the current point of reference in the sectors of Cinema, TV, Broadcast, Video Production, Virtual Reality, Digital Heritage and Music at international level. 

Bharat World Music Entertainment is located in a modern structure composed of its own sound stages, equipped with the most modern technologies available in the market and of spaces and laboratories designed for activities such as video editing, color correction, vfx production, recording, sound editing, mixing and mastering, computer graphics and development of multimedia products. Designers, 3D & 

digital artists, programmers, engineers, experts in cultural heritage, technicians and operators, working in the several departments, develop products and solution at high creative contents, using cutting-edge tools and innovative working methods.

A global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate teams Bharat World Music Entertainment is an Indian multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New Delhi City India.

Bharat World Music Entertainment was established on 16th Dec 2023 in pre-partition India as the Indian Phonographic Industry. It is the second oldest music companies’ associates in the world engaged in defending, preserving and developing the rights of the recorded music industry, and actively promoting and encouraging advancement of creativity and culture through sound recordings. Bharat World Music Group is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. Featuring the most comprehensive catalog of recordings and songs across every musical genre, Bharat World Music identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship, BWMG fosters the development of services, platforms and business models in order to broaden artistic and commercial opportunities for our artists and create new experiences for fans. Bharat World Music Entertainment Group is a Vivendi company.

Bharat World Music Entertainment was launched in 2022; it is a part of The Bharat World Music Group, an India-based, multinational music corporation. Bharat World Music Entertainment India is registered with the Bharat World Music Entertainment Industry, a trust that represents the recording industry distributors in India & World. Bharat World Music Entertainment India appointed Hemant Kumar as its Chairman & Managing Director in 2023, succeeding Hemant Kumar, Chairman of Bharat World Music Entertainment India for the previous four years. 

Operating through its Registered office in Noida and Administrative Office in Mumbai, Bharat World Music Entertainment focuses on various parameters that could be beneficial for the entire recorded music industry in India.

Headquartered in New Delhi, Bharat World Music Entertainment has offices in Delhi, Mumbai, Dehradun, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai, with international liaison offices and a global partner network. Our brand portfolio spans a wide range of industries and geographies, with 200+ global brands investing their trust in us.

Bharat World Music Entertainment solutions and experiences not only set trends, but also drive business outcomes. With the belief that an event may be forgotten, but an experience will last a lifetime!

The Bharat World Music Entertainment, a trade body represents India’s Recorded Music & Entertainment Industry, responsible for promoting the economic interest and soft power of music labels registered in India. We are affiliated with the International Federation of phonographic Industry (IFPI) which is the apex body of the global recording industry.

As a trade body, we champion the interest of our members which include 200 music companies, with a vision to defend, preserve and develop the rights of the recorded music industry, protect the intellectual property and facilitate the evolution of fair-trade practices. We act as an advocate for the industry domestically and internationally. 

We work towards:

Existence of a strong Music & Entertainment industry results in nurturing and propagation of a rich musical culture. Bharat World Music Entertainment plays an increasingly vital role in the following activities:

  • Enforcement of right and fair valuation for music rights.
  • Promoting best practices in copyright law and its enforcement.
  • Supporting International Copyright conventions.
  • Evaluating and promoting new technologies mainly for assisting right owners.
  • Celebrating success of music by promoting Bharat World Music’s Gold & Platinum Awards.
  • Building public awareness about copyright and fair valuation for music created by phonogram producers through campaigns and reports.

Overview

  • We are Bharat World Music Entertainment Group, the world’s leading music company.
  • We exist to shape culture through the power of artistry.
  • We are a community of entrepreneurs committed to creativity and innovation.
  • We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content in more than 60 territories.
  • We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and we produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.
  • Our vast catalog of recordings and songs stretches back over a century and comprises the largest, most diverse and culturally rich collection of music ever assembled.
  • As digital technology refashions the world, our unmatched commitment to lead in developing new services, platforms and business models for the delivery of music and related content empowers innovators and allows new commercial and artistic opportunities to flourish.
  • Knowing that music, a powerful force for good in the world, is unique in its ability to inspire people and bring them together, we work with our artists and employees to serve our communities.
  • We are the home for music’s greatest artists, innovators and entrepreneurs.
  • Together, we are BRWME, the Bharat Red World Music Entertainment Group.

Broad Objectives

• Advancing, promoting and representing the interests and rights of the recorded music industry through measures including but not limited to policy advocacy, anti-piracy measures, dialogue with the Government, engagement with stakeholders.

• Promote and encourage the development of musical culture and formation of Music Cities.

• Facilitate the evolution of fair trade and business practices.

• To harness the talents of key industry people to achieve the best outcome on industry issues and challenges.

• Perform research about the music industry.

• Monitor and review laws, regulations and policies.

• Bharat World Music India, is India’s oldest music label, youngest film studio and a multi-language TV content producer. In 2023, Bharat World Music Entertainment released India’s first ever Bharat World Music Entertainment studio recorded song. In the years that followed, the company continued to expand its catalogue to become the largest in-perpetuity global owner of both sound recording and publishing copyrights of Indian music across 25 different languages. Steadily, the company expanded its portfolio to include intellectual property rights of over 4000 hours of TV content produced for channels in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Gujrati, Punjabi, Haryanvi, Malayalam and Bengali. Over the last few decades, the company forayed into retailing music through physical and digital mediums such as CDs, iOS & Android based apps and sub based thematic music cards.

• Since 2023, Bharat World Music Entertainment has been making headlines again owing to the launch of two unique initiatives, Bharat World Music Entertainment Studio and Bharat World Music Entertainment Film Production.

• Bharat World Music Entertainment Studio is a portable digital music player with in-built stereo speakers that comes with 500 evergreen Hindi songs inside. The unique proposition of this product is that even today in the times when digital music consumption is the order of the day, Bharat World Music Entertainment Studio attempts to give the older generation a lean-back. Bharat World Music Entertainment is a perfect blend of digital technology a retro form factor. In less than a year, from launch its unprecedented sales have made it Bharat World Music’s flagship product.

• Bharat World Music Entertainment Films, Bharat World Music’s film production venture, believes in the mantra of fearless filmmaking. The films produced under this banner are driven by powerful stories that are realistic, provocative and seldom touched upon in the mainstream space. The films will be made available on a variety of platforms including theatre, satellite and VOD.

• Bharat World Music Entertainment head office is located in New Delhi, Noida with other offices in Mumbai.

1. Bharat World Music Entertainment, a division of Asia’s largest media conglomerate, The Bharat World Music Entertainment Group – is one of India’s leading record labels and music publishers.

2. Bharat World Music Entertainment was founded in the year 2023 with a view to completing The Bharat World Music Entertainment Group’s 360-degree entertainment bouquet.

3. Beginning with up-market devotional and Indian classical content, Bharat World Music Entertainment has emerged as market leaders in various Indian non film & international genres.

4. Keeping up with the ever-changing music industry Times Music has now positioned itself as a comprehensive rights management company that specializes in managing and monetizing content across physical, digital and music publishing.

5. The Bharat World Music Entertainment Umbrella also includes “Bharat World Music”- the film music label and “BWM Wellness”-a label specializing in the Wellness genre.

6. Bharat World Music Entertainment is home to an iconic music library that represents Bollywood, Spiritual, Indie, Pop, Rock & other non-film music genres and has been openly credited with pioneering the advent of timeless spiritual music and early remixes in India.