Music Business News: China

Chou is as the center of a paywall strategy for Tencent Music Entertainment

MBW hears that Ole Obermann will be getting a big gig at social video service

CD Baby partners with TME to deliver its catalog of streaming-eligible tracks to QQ Music, KuGou Kuwo

TuneCore will makes artists’ recordings available to the platform's listener base in the country

'Liquid State is committed to making R3HAB not only one of the biggest artists in China, but also across the whole Asia continent.'

Will $430bn-valued Tencent want a piece of Sony, Warner, BMG or Kobalt?

in a separate deal, Alibaba has also acquired NetEase's import e-commerce platform Kaola for approximately $2 billion

Major league deal will take on Tencent Music Entertainment, owner of QQ Music, Kuwo and KuGou