Digitalization and its impact on the Chinese music industry From 2014 to 2017 the Chinese music industry has shown vast growth. In fact the year 2017 saw its growth rate rise to a staggering 8.1 % a t…
Five reasons why you should get into the Chinese music market
Suitable reasons to get into the Chinese music market From being a nascent market China’s music industry has made a strong foothold in the music industry. So much so that there are stories around that…
Streaming unleashes China’s extraordinary potential
China counts around 1.36 billion people, making it the largest country in the world population wise. All it takes is for only a tiny portion of this population to pay for streaming services for it to …
The Chinese Tencent is becoming a colossal in global streaming
Not only did Tencent Music do a 10% equity swap deal with Spotify in December 2017, it recently led the investment round for the India-based streaming service Gaana for a whopping $115 million. This m…
Tencent, the Chinese colossal and Spotify
It appears the Chinese colossal Tencent and Spotify are seriously bent on investing in each other’s businesses, as quoted in a recent Wall Street Journal report. The deal includes one major bonus for …
China’s Exploding Streaming Music Market
“It is an important and dynamic time for music in China”, as mentioned by Tencent Music Entertainment CEO Cussion Pang, at the 2017 Music Matters conference. “Technology advances are enabl…
Get into the Chinese music market
China remains a music market of enormous potential, with an online user base of more then 730 million people and a growing number of licensed digital services. Beatrising can distribute your music in …
Tencent Holdings, China’s largest company, towers over all with a whopping $250bn in market cap valuation
Not only is it the world’s third-largest music subscription business, it might actually spoil Spotify and Apple Music’s plans for global expansion. Tencent invested big time last year to acquire…
Sony Music inks new exclusive China deal with Tencent for digital catalogue
Sony Music Entertainment has renewed its partnership with Tencent Music for the exclusive digital distribution of the major’s master recordings across mainland China. According to the IFPI, China gene…