An Interview with Juri Kobayashi of Musicinfo discussing what the markets are like in China and how artists can promote and distribute their music in these markets.Read More

Playlisting your music in NetEase in China can bring you a lot of visibility - just like in Spotify

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Musicinfo adds South Korea to their distribution services and now distributes to FLO, MelOn, Bugs!, Genie, and YG plus. Take a look into the distribution services of South Korea a country with over 58 million people and half listening to srRead More

Three Reasons to Focus on the Chinese Music Market as an Artist in 2021Read More

Musicinfo now offers distribution to South Korea and Africa and also sync licensing to China.Read More

If you have ever wondered if your music is in China and tried to search but found that it was too much trouble, this guide will help you navigate the streaming sites to find if your music is there.Read More

You do not need to do anything more. Your music will be automatically removed from Xiami Music App and will remain available on all of Musicinfo’s 50+ services.Read More

Alibaba's Music App Xiami has stopped offering memberships and album purchases. Downloading music and content will be ceased on February 5th.Read More

Kuaishou is China’s second biggest short-video app after TicTok. Kuaishou, founded in 2011 was originally created to make GIF pictures and quickly transformed into a short video community. Reporting over 200 million daily users in 2019 now boast 700 million users. Quickly growing attention outside of China it is also known as Kwai or SnackVideo in India.

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Tours and in-person live music events stopped by coronavirus this year have caused a lot of bigger artists such as Alicia Keys and Lady Gaga to cancel album release plans. This means that the power is now in the hands of smaller or independent artists who rely mostly on a digital fanbase of dedicated music streamers to gain a foothold now so that life post-coronavirus will be all the sweeter.Read More

What does China pay per stream and how to get your music to China. Distributing your music is about building and growing your fanbase to grow your audience of returning paying fans.Read More

Xiami Music (also known as “Mi Music”) is China’s fifth biggest music streaming platform owned by one of the top 3 Chinese entertainment corporations, Alibaba. Although not as big as NetEase Cloud Music or Tencent’s QQ Music, the service still boasts a hefty 14.4 million monthly active users and has a range of attractive features on offer from high-resolution audio to virtual party rooms.

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We have been living the “corona-life” for quite some time now and it seems that things are not going to get back to normal any time soon. The good news is that a vaccine is being developed and we are all hoping that next year the live gig sector will be fully operational again and musicians around the world can get back to performing in front of a live audience. Now is a great time to focus on building digital reach and fan base so you are in a better position when the world opens back up again.Read More

Netease Music is one China’s major contenders when it comes to music streaming platforms and its user base is only continuing to grow. In 2016, it had already claimed 16% of the entire domestic Chinese music streaming market and by the end of 2019, Netease Music managed to attract over 800 million users to their site (swelling from 400 million in 2017), making it one of the top 3 most popular streaming services along with Tencent's QQ Music and Alibaba's Xiami Music.Read More

The future of streaming music and consumerism is in China with interactive social virtual environments that drives users to engage three times more. Music streaming is focused on banking on fandom not consumerism, like it is in the West. A very social virtual environment makes it happen.Read More

Musicinfo is becoming known for its most extensive reach to consumers in China hosting over 50 services. One of the top royalty generating services is Meitu a video and image editing app with the feature to add music to the edits.Read More

Now indisputably China’s biggest audio sharing platform, Ximalaya FM has amassed around 500 million subscribers since its official launch in 2013. The platform encourages aspirational as well as established podcasters and media providers to upload their content and create radio station-style channels that users can follow. Ximalaya FM is among one of the many specialist streaming services in China that Musicinfo can distribute your music to.

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Tencent’s latest report shows steady growth in Tencent Music Entertainment group TME, with a substantial body of users converting into paying users is up 50% from last year.Read More

Musicinfo can distribute your music to an array of streaming platforms in China, now you can also promote your music videos on a site called Bilibili to reach new fans. Although the site originated as an Anime, Manga and video-game fandom platform, it grew rapidly over the years to include other entertainment categories such as music, movie and lifestyle-related content.

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Learn how to play your music to the Chinese market. China's market has opportunity not typically provided by your local digital music distributor or streaming services. No need to compete with the mainstream artists on the mainstream services from the usual go-to digital music distributors. Get your music the opportunity to get heard in China that no one else can provide.

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