Welcome to our sixth annual Music Ally International Focus report – where we bring all of Music Ally’s Country Profiles published in the last 12 months into one place.
Tag: China
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Music business ended 2025 with 921.6m paid streaming subscribers
By the end of this year, it’s quite possible that there will be more than one billion music subscribers globally.
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Warner Music China gets into virtual artists with Dream Maker
We’ve covered various announcements by major labels about new imprints and partnerships in China focused on traditional artists. However, Warner Music China’s latest deal has a twist. It’s a strategic […]
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TikTok enlists Lang Lang for its new classical-music campaign
TikTok is kicking off its latest campaign focusing on classical music, and it has a familiar star on board: Chinese pianist Lang Lang. He previously worked with TikTok by creating a […]
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Tencent Music’s revenues grew 7.3% year-on-year in Q1 2026
Chinese music-streaming giant Tencent Music has reported $1.15bn of revenues for the first quarter of 2026. That’s up 7.3% year-on-year, although its actual music business grew faster. That part of the company – […]
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Report: ByteDance’s Soda Music has 140m active users in China
Back in April 2022, we reported on the launch of ‘Qishui Yinyue’ (Soda Music) in China. It was a music-streaming service from TikTok’s parent company ByteDance. “Can even ByteDance take a […]
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Tech firm FiEE says it will spend $3m to expand into AI music
The debate about whether AI-generated music is unfairly sluicing royalties away from human artists and songwriters is in full swing. But where there’s money, there’ll be more companies looking to […]
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Country Profile – China 2026
The Chinese music market is still something of a mystery for many people in the international industry, but one thing is clear: it’s important.
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Tencent Music ended 2025 with 127.4m people paying for music
Chinese music-streaming giant Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) has published its financial results for the final quarter of 2025.
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Anthropic hits out at ‘distillation’ efforts by Chinese rivals
AI giant Anthropic is cross. It’s unhappy that some other AI companies – specifically several rivals from China – have been using its data without permission to train their own models. […]
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Reports: Chinese authorities approve deal to sell TikTok US
Yesterday was the latest notional deadline for TikTok’s US business to be sold or banned in the US. The signs are cautiously positive that a deal has been done – and importantly, […]
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UMG update: Downtown deal to be approved? Plus Def Jam China
This won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s been keeping track of developments in UMG’s regulatory fight to buy Downtown Music Holdings, but the deal is reportedly set to […]
