{"id":1026001,"date":"2026-08-04T08:14:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026001"},"modified":"2026-08-04T08:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T02:48:29","slug":"excel-entertainment-launches-music-label-backed-by-universal-music-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/04\/excel-entertainment-launches-music-label-backed-by-universal-music-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Excel Entertainment launches music label backed by Universal Music Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Excel Entertainment has launched Excel Music, a dedicated music label, expanding its presence in the music business months after Universal Music Group (UMG) acquired a strategic stake in the production house. <\/p>\n<p>The label, announced on Monday, is backed by UMG as a strategic shareholder, with the global music company also serving as its marketing and distribution partner. <\/p>\n<p>Excel Music&#8217;s first release will be the soundtrack album of Mirzapur: The Movie, which is slated for a theatrical release on September 4. The album&#8217;s lead single, featuring Haryanvi singer Dhanda in his Bollywood debut, is scheduled to be released this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Excel Entertainment has launched Excel Music, a dedicated music label, expanding its presence in the music business months after Universal Music Group (UMG) acquired a strategic stake in the production house. The label, announced on Monday, is backed by UMG as a strategic shareholder, with the global music company also serving as its marketing and distribution partner. Excel Music&#8217;s first release will be the soundtrack album of Mirzapur: The Movie, which is slated for a theatrical release on September 4. The album&#8217;s lead single, featuring Haryanvi singer Dhanda in his Bollywood debut, is scheduled to be released this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026022,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026001\/revisions\/1026022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}