Music Business News: China

Tencent Music Entertainment’s Chief Strategy Officer Tony Yip to exit at the end of August

Exec led TME's two public listings on the New York Stock Exchange and on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange

NetEase Cloud Music inks strategic deal with China’s RYCE Entertainment – including a 30-day exclusive window for new releases

RYCE Entertainment's roster includes stars like Jackson Wang

Superstar Chinese singer-songwriter Tia Ray inks global publishing deal with Universal Music Publishing Group

Tia Ray is the first and only Chinese singer to be listed on IFPI’s Top 10 Global Singles Chart

TikTok’s parent has launched an AI music making app. What might this mean for the video platform’s music licensing talks?

How might the launch of Ripple, an AI-powered music making app, play into the short-form video platform's future licensing negotiations

Universal is spending $50 million to boost its market share in Thailand. Expect more M&A activity in Asia to follow.

The majority-acquisition of RS Group in Thailand may indicate that more M&A swoops are on the way from Universal

Microsoft is developing an AI rap generator, DeepRapper – trained on a large set of songs ‘crawled’ from the web

DeepRapper is one of a number of projects being developed in China by Microsoft's Muzic AI team

As Latin Music explodes worldwide, Chinese superstar G.E.M plans release of Spanish-language album in partnership with Warner Music Asia

Singer claimed to be the first Mandopop artist to release a full-length Spanish language album

Ex-ByteDance exec claims China’s government accessed TikTok data of users in Hong Kong (report)

Claims were reported by The Wall Street Journal on Monday, June 5