Music Business News: China
News Deal covers the world excluding Japan and Korea News China-based streaming service said to be interviewing potential banks over the next month with plans to float in the US News TMG merged with Baidu Music in 2015 to form a join label/platform operation News Merlin inks non-exclusive deals with Alibaba, Tencent and NetEase Cloud Music News Adrian Cheesley leaves major having first joined EMI in 1990 News Chinese media giant adds to portfolio by backing Times Internet's platform News Liquid State was launched in Hong Kong this week Analysis Blog What the 10% equity 'swap' between Spotify and Tencent Music really means