MUMBAI: Celebrating the influence of women in the English music space, 9X Media?s international music channel 9XO will present a special programming lineup for International Women?s Day.

Titled ?9XO Kickass Chicks?, this special programming initiative will feature women artists of English music from Madonna to Lady Gaga.

Starting 6 March performers across various genres will feature on 9XO Kickass Chicks playlist. The artists to be featured include Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, Adele, Spice Girls, Janet Jackson, Madonna, and Lady Gaga. Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra?s international album will be aired on ?9XO Kickass Chicks? programming band.

9XO head of programming Luke Kenny said, ?The music selection on 9XO Kickass Chicks celebrates the achievement of women made in the English music space. The playlist created is the declaration by strong, confident women who knows what they want. 9XO Kickass Chicks features various categories including, the Madass, Badass, Cuteass, Hotass, Smartass and even dumbass. So get ready to rock, jam and dance with the best of women artists across the world as 9XO celebrates the international women?s day from 6th to 8th March 2013.?
 
The International Women?s Day will also be celebrated across the digital platform through the channel?s official website www.9XO.in and across mobile platforms. Free downloads of the 9XO Kickass Chicks playlist in form of ringtones and full songs will be made accessible through 9XO?s Facebook page, Twitter handle and WAP and online stores.

MUMBAI: 9X Media?s international music channel 9XO has launched a music countdown show called 9XO Tweetdown.

Tweetdown is a music countdown show based on viewers? tweets, enabling the viewers to choose their favourite songs. The show airs every Sunday at 5 pm.

9XO Tweetdown uses Twitter to decide the Top 10 songs thus allowing for interaction and expression of viewers? choice. Every Monday 9XO will upload a list of 10 songs on the Channel?s website and the viewers need to tweet about their favourite song from the list and add the specially created hash tag ?#9xotweetdown? to their tweets. The song that gets the maximum number of tweets gets to the number 1 position on the top 10 countdown chart.

9XO head of programming Luke Kenny said, ?We have always valued our viewers? feedback while deciding the content on the Channel. Our viewers have been actively involved in planning the content for 9XO, right from the Channel?s construct stage till date, as the 9XO Board of Advisors. While ideating on a music countdown show we decided to use Twitter which is an extremely popular social media platform amongst the youth who also happen to be our core viewers. With 9XO Tweetdown we are giving complete freedom to our viewers to choose their favourite song and decide the order of the music playlist. This will definitely resonate well with our viewers.?

9XO will also showcase the latest tweets by users and the leading songs with artists? name on real time basis. Users will earn points as they tweet their favorite song. The tweets and scores can be viewed by users on 9XO?s website.

MUMBAI: 9X Media?s international music channel 9XO is airing a marathon music session called 9XO 12-O-thon.

The special program which kicked off on 20 December will go on till 1 January and will feature the top rated international artists and their music from the year 2012.

The 9XO 12-O-Thon music session will present songs from 12 categories including pop, dance, rock, Indian, collaboration, out there, quirky, debuts, legends, male, female and hip-hop, featuring international artists such as Rihanna, Bieber, Psy, Aerosmith, Goddess Gagged, Bob Dylan, Taylor Swift, Chris Brown and Swedish House Mafia. The channel will air a new category everyday with top 12 songs in each category.

XO 12-O-thon will culminate with a finale on 31 December with all categories played from 12 noon to 12 midnight bringing in the new year.

9XO programming head Luke Kenny said, ?2012 has been a great year for international music and we plan to celebrate the same with 9XO 12-O-thon. This first-of-its-kind marathon music session on Indian television will commemorate the best international artists and music of 2012. With 9XO 12-O-thon we will get our viewers to start their celebrations early and this will definitely resonate well with our viewers.?

A special webpage has been created on the 9XO website to promote the 9XO 12-O-thon property which offers genre wise video playlist. The featured playlist of the day has also been added to this webpage and to 9XO?s Facebook Page for the duration of the property?s airing.