Music Business News: Asia
News Baidu, General Atlantic, Boyu Capital and others plough money into Tencent Music rival News Saavn's entire catalog will reportedly be made available on JioSaavn Analysis 'AI is merely forcing us to reckon even more explicitly with the tension between originality and value, collaboration and consumption.' Analysis Streaming revenues shoot up 26% in the first nine months of 2018 News T-Series currently has 67.6m subscribers; PewDiePie has just over 68m News Deal takes Sony's ownership of publishing copyrights above 4m News Dataclef is "the most authoritative global music services platform ever built" according to Socan News The independent label agency opened its Tokyo office in October 2016