Music Nepal


Music Nepal is a Nepalese Record label company. The company was founded in 1982 by Santosh Sharma. Initially, the company was focused in production of folk songs from different parts of the country in cassettes medium. Gradually, the company started recording various genres of music. Currently, it distributes music in digital platforms including iTunes, Spotify, Sony Music and YouTube. As of 2020, Music Nepal's YouTube channel is the most viewed entertainment channel from Nepal. The company also started its service though mobile apps in 2016 A.D..
In 2005 it founded a music school and research centre named Nepal Music Center in Kathmandu. The company has also published the list of its recordings.

Significance

Music Nepal was the first recording company to formally pay royalties to the artists which helped to shape the music industry of Nepal. The royalty helped to change lifestyles of artists. The trend was then followed by other private recording industry. Music Nepal also helped to form copyright laws of Nepal. The company was also the first to produce Dohari geet in CD in.

Major artists

  • Black Pink
  • Narayan Gopal
  • Gopal Yonzon
  • Udit Narayan
  • Bishnu Majhi
  • Hira Devi Waiba, first female artist of Music Nepal.
  • Sur Sudha
  • Shringara Group
  • Mingma Sherpa
  • Nabin Bhattarai
  • Prem Raja Mahat, sang first folk song recorded by Music Nepal, along with Bam Bahadur Karki.
  • Raju Lama
  • Deep Shrestha
  • Karna Das
  • Jhalak Man Gandarbha
  • Dinesh Subba
  • 1974 AD
  • Bhuwan Khatiwada
  • Babina Bhattarai

    Music Nepal Awards

Music Nepal recognizes artists every year and provides cash award. A list of notable artist who received the awards are listed below:
  • Khem Raj Gurung, singer, 2056 BS
  • Ratna Samsher Thapa, songwriter, 2076 BS
  • Kiran Kharel, songwriter, 2076 BS
  • Deepak Jangum, musician, 2076 BS
  • Sambhujit Baskota, musician, 2076 BS

    Controversies

Music Nepal was dragged on controversy over payment of royalty to the artists.
In 2018 Nephop artist VTEN recreated an old folk song simsime pani which even became most viewed Nepali Song in a week but later was deleted as Music Nepal Claimed the license