Tag: asia

Earlier this year we wrote about music-analytics firm Chartmetrics’ theory of ‘trigger cities’ capable of propelling tracks to become global hits. Now the company has published a second in its series of blog posts focusing...

Jason Joven from Chartmetric (he’s the company’s very grandly titled “music data storyteller”) has published a fascinating blog on Medium looking at what are termed “trigger cities” (a concept coined by Chaz...

Napster remains a consumer-brand streaming service, but the company’s energies are focusing ever-more keenly on its B2B business, and ‘powered by Napster’ services launched by brands and other partners. Now Napster’s...

China, India, Japan and South Korea tend to hog the digital-music attention in Asia, but there are plenty of interesting things going on in south east Asia too: especially around mobile operators.

Warner Music Group has a new boss in China, with Andy Ma promoted to CEO of Warner Music China and EVP of commercial business development, Greater China for the major label. He steps up from his previous post as chief...

The Financial Times has a good piece on video-streaming service Netflix’s ambitions in India where it’s starting to invest more money in original shows and films. It quotes CEO Reed Hastings speaking at a Delhi conference,...

In the west, secondary-ticketing platforms are increasingly controversial in terms of their role within the music industry. In China, though, one of the most popular sites has just raised a significant funding round.  Moretickets’...

Spotify’s direct public offering is still fresh in the memory, but another much anticipated music-streaming public offering – this time an IPO rather than a DPO – may be imminent. Local media reports suggest that...

There are changes afoot in the way streaming revenues in South Korea are divided up between the streaming platforms and rightsholders (and thus musicians). From next year, rightsholders will get a 65% share of the streaming...

Recorded music revenue in South Korea grew around 20% in 2016, according to local executives, with little signs of the country’s recent digital-led boom running out of road. South Korea experienced double-digit growth...

Artists like Paul McCartney and Psy have both launched successful sticker packs for messaging app Line and now Major Lazer is joining in. The digital stickers were released last week but, different to previous packs, these...

This is the month of Asian expansion for Warner Music Group (WMG). Yesterday, we reported on the expansion of its publishing arm Warner/Chappell’s partnership with India’s Times Music to cover Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan...