"Even at this age of pop and Hindi music, there is no dearth of Tagore's buyers and for every 100 cassettes/CDs sold in a day, at least 20 are of Tagore's," claims the manager of a renowned music store in Kolkata.
A few of years back when volume sales of music cassettes across India had declined by about 4.5 per cent, sales of Bangla music cassettes, had registered a 16 per cent rise!
The study, spearheaded by a major audio company, had revealed that out of the Bangla albums, Rabindrasangeet (Tagore songs) was the key sales booster. "Against a rise of 26 per cent in CD sales, Bengali CD sales had risen by 64 per cent that time. And, out of every 100 units sold 29 were songs composed and scored by that grand old man -- Tagore," said an official of the audio company.
"If we assume that the Indian music industry is worth Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) annually, at least 15 per cent of the revenue is earned through sales of Tagore's music," he said.
After all, it is Tagore who had penned 'Music fills the infinite between two souls.'
Image: Visitors stand in queue prior to their visit to the Rabindranath Tagore Museum, house of the Indian poet at Jorasanko, Kolkata.
Photograph: Deshakalyan Chowdhury/AFP/Getty Images
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