Music Business News: China

Sony Music Launches RCA Records Greater China

Kevin Foo appointed Managing Director

Is TikTok (or ByteDance) slowly morphing into a record company?

Evidence is building that such a description might one day fit...

Believe renews deals with NetEase Cloud Music and Tencent Music Entertainment

'We are thrilled to have renewed our deals with both TME and NetEase Cloud Music,' said Sylvain Delange, Believe's Managing Director, APAC

After TikTok and SoundCloud, Tencent Music is a distributor now too

TME has already distributed and promoted more than 150,000 songs to overseas platforms

NetEase Cloud Music sues rival Tencent Music over ‘unfair competition’ claims

NetEase announced the legal proceedings in a social media statement

ByteDance launches new music streaming service in China

App is called Qishui Yinyue, and its catalog currently features 10m music tracks

‘Free’ music streaming paid the record industry $4.6bn in 2021… and other key insights from the latest IFPI Global Music Report

MBW crunches the IFPI's latest numbers – and discovers some head-turning facts and figures

TuneCore strikes partnership with ByteDance-owned video platform Douyin

Douyin is a sister app of TikTok for the Chinese market