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Free MP3′s – in China
Google has launched a free MP3 website in China. It will be an ad-supported website. All 4 of the major record labels are on board and the site is now live. Right now, 350,000 songs are available and Google anticipates there being 1.1 million that will be available very soon. The major reason behind this [...]
Chinese Top 10
The list of the top 10 most listened to songs in China for 2008 was recently released. You can check it out here. I think the most intriguing thing is that almost all of the songs are either related to the Olympics or to the Sichuan earthquake. Compare that to the top 10 songs in [...]
No Chinese Oasis
The British rock band, Oasis, has had their Chinese performance license revoked. Oasis was set to play two upcoming shows in Beijing and Shanghai. But the Chinese government has put a stop to that and has demanded that anyone who purchased a ticket receive full reimbursement. Apparently a band member of Oasis attended a free [...]
Oasis in China
The British rock band Oasis has quite the international music tour in process for 2009. Oasis will be touring extensively in Western Europe for the first few months of the year. Towards the end of March / beginning of April, Oasis will head to the Far East for shows in Japan, South Korea, and China. [...]
China Mobile
Last Friday, I blogged about the fact that 1 billion digital tracks had been purchased online in the USA for 2008. China has already caught up to that, and just on mobile phones. China Mobile, China’s biggest mobile phone carrier, just released numbers for Jan – Nov of 2008 and there have been an astonishing [...]
Universal China
Rock Records, the leading independent music label in China and Asia as a whole, has just entered into an agreement with Universal Music for sales & distribution in mainland China. Rock Records is based out of Taiwan and has a number of successful Mandarin-language artists. This is not the first deal between Rock & Universal. [...]
Chinese Authoritarianism
This is not a big shocker, but the Chinese Government is not too thrilled about the recent Guns ‘n’ Roses album titled Chinese Democracy. The communist government has harshly attacked both the title and content of the album through the state-run newspaper, the Global Times. Talk of a vast conspiracy were echoed in the newspaper [...]
Chinese Music Industry
I recently read an article about the lack of diversity in China’s Music Industry. It makes sense as China is a culture that has long valued conformity, through Confucianism and the Cultural Revolution. The article describes how record executives in China basically look at the numbers as to what is being listened to and downloaded, [...]
The Great Firewall of China
The venerable Chinese government blocked iTunes access this week. Blocked as in all of iTunes. Apparently, some Olympic athletes had downloaded a pro-Tibet album containing songs by Moby, Alanis Morissette, and Sting as a way to protest the Chinese government’s heavy hand towards Tibet. So they just shut down the site for the 1.3 billion [...]
Chinese Music Search
Google China is about to take on the highly controversial Baidu service. Baidu allows the user to search the internet for songs that you want to hear. The problem is that Baidu mostly searches illegally hosted MP3′s which makes people that make money from the music industry extremely angry. So Google is teaming up with [...]
