Music Business News: Asia

Amazon Music goes standalone in India with $1 Unlimited tier for Prime members – as they lose ad-free listening

Amazon Music Unlimited offers ad-free, on-demand access to more than 100 million songs, along with podcasts.

Sunita Kaur named President, Asia, for Universal Music Publishing Group

Kaur will oversee the company’s operations across the continent

‘After K-pop, Chinese pop music will come to the world next.’

UMG Greater China Chairman and CEO Timothy Xu on the company’s ‘Glocal’ strategy, and why he believes Chinese pop will be the next genre to go global...

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Melvin Koh named General Manager, Ticketing Asia at TEG’s Ticketek

Koh brings more than 18 years of experience across sports, entertainment, venue management, commercial strategy and ticketing.

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HYBE’s Weverse appoints Zooil Yang as President as superfan platform enters ‘next phase of growth’

Yang most recently served as CEO of AXZ, the Kakao-spun-off company that operates South Korea's Daum portal.

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The Black Label, the studio behind the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, just raised $80M with investment from Tencent Music

Bloomberg reports that the deal values The Black Label at 1 trillion won (approximately $660M)

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Kakao’s Melon, Tencent Music, and Line Music to launch unified K-pop chart that pools streaming data from South Korea, China, and Japan

Melon will upload congratulatory video messages from artists including NCT Taeyong, Le Sserafim, ALPHA DRIVE ONE, and AND2BLE ahead of the launch.

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Ticketmaster expands into the Philippines through SM Prime partnership

SM Ticketmaster will partner with third-party venues, promoters and other ticketed experiences across concerts, sports and live events.