Music Business News: China

Spotify has added 10 million paying subscribers this year. So has Tencent Music.

TME has half the paying subscriber base of Spotify, but has kept pace with Spotify's growth

Justice Department responds to TikTok’s lawsuit against US divest-or-ban law, calls platform a national security risk

The DoJ has responded to TikTok's lawsuit against the new US law, arguing the platform is a national security risk

Timbaland’s music marketplace Beatclub expands to China via partnership with NetEase Cloud Music

NetEase Cloud Music also operates a beat trading platform called Beatsoul

Tat Tong appointed Vice President of A&R and Creative, Asia Pacific at Warner Chappell Music

Exec held various roles at Sony Music Entertainment before joining WCM

This AI tech lets users sing in 10 languages and 15 Chinese dialects. Westlife have used it to release a song in Mandarin via Tencent Music

“Everyone can become a professional singer with AI.”

TikTok’s parent company has filed a US patent application for a device that plays music

Filing suggests that ByteDance may have considered the market power of an iPod-like device

Believe vows ‘continued expansion’ in Greater China, appointing Charles Liu as GM and Rebecca Dong as MD, Operations in key market

Based in Beijing, Charles Liu is responsible for defining and leading Believe’s revenue growth strategies in Greater China

From TikTok’s music investment team to Sony’s reported Queen catalog acquisition… it’s MBW’s Weekly Round-Up

The five biggest stories to hit our headlines over the past seven days…