Fire Records (Pakistan) was a Pakistani

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owned by

AAG TV AAG TV ( ) was a youth entertainment channel in Pakistan, owned by Independent Media Corporation. Launched in 2006 by Geo Television Network, it was associated with Fire Records, a record label in Pakistan. Certain notable artists within the Pa ...

. It managed many artists between 2006 and 2013. According to Pakistan's ''The News on Sunday'', the label held a virtual

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over major music releases in Pakistan in the mid-to-late 2000s.Who Killed the Music?
The News International (''The News on Sunday'') (newspaper), Published 11 January 2015, Retrieved 7 June 2020 The record label has been a subject of controversy since its inception and after it ceased operations as being responsible for the decline of the Pakistani music industry. As we all know, music trends change nationally and worldwide with time. Music production and music distribution to the general public change with the times also and so they did in Pakistan. As of 2011, according to

The Express Tribune ''The Express Tribune'' is a daily English-language newspaper based in Pakistan. It is the flagship publication of the '' Daily Express'' media group. It is Pakistan's only internationally affiliated newspaper in a partnership with the ''Interna ...

newspaper, there seems to be a 'stalemate' in Pakistan's music economy and business which also affected the above recording label Fire Records (Pakistan). Another Pakistani newspaper

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newspaper delivers even worse news in 2017. Its article goes into the recent pop music's over-commercialization and subsequent control of music artists by the recording label companies such as Fire Records (Pakistan). Later how then the public trends changed from now old cassette tapes to CDs to digital streaming of music on the public internet now.

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