Tencent Music

What Universal, Cooking Vinyl and Kobalt's new deals really mean in China

Deal allows for Kobalt and TME to "join hands in content", as well as hosting live events

"Exclusive licensing and distribution deal" adds to Cooking Vinyl's long and interesting history of industry moves in China

Independent artist program 'Tencent Musician' was launched three years ago

TME generated $514m from paying online music subscribers in the year

Why the company's Cayman Islands setup should be closely scrutinized by music's biggest players

MBW monitors how 'Black Monday' has hammered music stocks around the world

Investigation was put on hold in January

Nue Agency founder Jesse Kirshbaum on the biggest music biz deal of the year

Company is adding over 3m active users every month

Revenues hit $785m in Q4 with a net loss of $127m

Exec is a leading figure at China's biggest streaming music company

Analysts at JPMorgan and HSBC both set a target value of $16/share on January 18

Tencent Music started trading on the NYSE with an initial share price of $13

TME filed for its US IPO on October 2