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Country Profile – Thailand 2022
Thailand is a fast-growing digital music market, where ad- supported streaming rules and a local DSP is disrupting the market.
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UMG has big plans for Thailand’s ‘T-Pop’ with Hype Train deal
After K-Pop’s global success in recent years, will other regional scenes in Asia follow suit? T-Pop is in the list of contenders.
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GMM Grammy launches Plern music streaming app in Thailand
GMM Grammy is a huge deal in Thailand: an entertainment conglomerate that is involved in music (as a rightsholder), film, television, radio and publishing. Now it’s in the music streaming game too.
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Thailand has 3.5m music streamers including 700k subscribers
Warner Music Thailand MD Karl Kongkham says there is no reason why streaming penetration in Thailand “can’t go as high as it is in markets such as Sweden and Korea, […]
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Country Profile – Thailand 2020
Thailand’s digital infrastructure has spearheaded growth in social media and internet usage that has had a positive effect on streaming revenues, with the market picking up in 2018 for the first time in five years
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TikTok moves into ticketing – in Thailand for now
TikTok is testing a new music-related feature in Thailand: selling tickets. The company is partnering with several local companies, including BEC Tero (which promotes concerts, owns a record label and […]
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Chartmetric explores the ‘trigger cities’ of south-east 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 […]
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Latest Heard Well album tops iTunes charts in south-east Asia
Compilations label Heard Well is topping the charts in south-east Asia with its latest release ‘Litunes’.
As with its other albums, this one is curated by an online influencer. Or rather, a pair of them: brother-and-sister duo Ranz Kyle and Nian Guerrero, who make dance videos on YouTube under the name Ranz and Niana.
‘Litunes’ is already topping the iTunes charts in the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia following its release last Friday, reports Tubefilter.
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Thailand music industry upbeat despite falling revenues
The music-streaming surge that has seen global industry revenues return to growth has yet to make an impact in Thailand, according to Music Ally’s latest country profile.
Revenues from subscription streaming rose slightly from $8.9m in 2013 to $9.3m in 2014, but revenues from mobile personalisation and downloads fell faster, which along with physical’s decline ensured the country’s overall music revenues nosedived by 21.7% in 2014.
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Country profile – Thailand 2016
This country profile is on Thailand where mobile is the biggest driver but slow mobile network speeds have been seen as a barrier to subscription services taking off properly. YouTube is, however, proving its worth as a way to break acts and the auctioning of 4G networks at the end of 2015 are seeing a lot […]
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Deezer opens shop in Asia
Deezer is launching in Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia, bringing its footprint to 91 markets.