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No Party For Cao Dong scopping three awards for Best Musical Group, Best New Artist and Song Of The Year with debut album The Servile.

Taiwanese Band’s Big Win at Golden Melody Awards

The largest Chinese Music Awards – the Golden Melody Awards – celebrates its 28th edition last weekend with No Party For Cao Dong scooping three awards for Best Musical Group, Best New Artist and Song Of The Year with debut album The Servile. No Party For Cao Dong, formed in 2012 to vent the frustrations of economic opportunities amongst Taiwan’s bagged three awards at GMA 2017, the island’s largest music industry event. Their self-distributed debut EP in 2015 was sold out in just one day and received three awards at…

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Sam Rui, Season2 album release, R&B

Singaporean R&B Artiste Sam Rui Launches Debut Album

Sam Rui is releasing her debut album titled Season 2 in a collaboration with producer GROSSE. The R&B artiste first album depicts her intense moments dealing with ‘heartbreak, confusion, disappointment, and loneliness’. In the hope of breaking into the mainstream genre in Singapore, this young lady exerts a fiery spirit with an intense red background citing tattoo in her album…

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AIA Music Run 2017 Singapore

Music Run by AIA a Healthy Campaign

The new thing on the block isn’t the incorporation of music and sports but how an event can be transformed into a personal experience via these two mega industries. In the vast “I” world, where we are fast becoming the most documented generations as compared to our predecessors, we all understand a need in documenting our most impressive personal moments…

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Bad Rap is now distributed by FilmRise

FilmRise Release Film Documentary ‘Bad Rap’

Released on VOD last month in conjunction with Cultural Heritage Month, the film features powerful live performance footage with poignant interviews. It paints a real and poignant struggle of the lives of artists who are passionately involved in their artistry inspired around the hip hop movement founded in the 70s by African-American and Latino youth in the South Bronx. Attractive…

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Swee Lee opens specialty drum store in Singapore

Swee Lee Opens Specialty Drum Store in Singapore

With over 15 stores in the region, the Singapore company harked back to its roots as a supplier to British military bands in the 1940s. Moving forward, Swee Lee has come a long way and will be stocking a range of the best-known brands, including the Japanese drum makers Pearl and Tama, 130-year-old US company Ludwig, and other favourites such…

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2017 speaker ATM Music Matters
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The Coca Cola Company to Speak at Music Matters 2017

MNA’s editor has picked some of the hottest speakers attending Music Matters and predicts some of the topics coming to Singapore this September. Music Matters have a lot to cover at its conference this September. As always it has invited some of the most celebrated speakers from all walks of life in the corporate world to debate and discuss some…

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WebTVAsia signs global strategic partnership with Alibaba's Tudou

WebTVAsia Signs Partnership With Alibaba’s Tudou

WebTVAsia, a Malaysia-owned digital media entertainment company, announced today a global strategic partnership with China’s top short video platform Tudou – a wholly owned subsidiary of Alibaba Digital Media and Entertainment Group. WebTVAsia has over 1,000 of the most popular Asian creator channels, which are watched over 1.5 billion times by over 40 million Asian millennials on YouTube. Today, they…

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Music China Shanghai 2017
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Music China Expo Expands Its 16th Edition

With over 90% of booth space already booked, Music China, a prominent music trade event, is set to take place from 11 – 14 October 2017 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. China’s 13th Five-Year Plan (2016 – 2020) has positioned the cultural industry as one of the key pillars of the national economy and highlighted the importance of…

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Midem to host Chinese contingent
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China’s Music Executives to Speak at Midem 2017

Topics pressurizing China music industry to date include copyrights, its media strategy and how its giant music providers are playing a part in promoting #antipiracy #music subscription – all part of a working successful model in China and its surrounding region. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSBN2JiVyAo ‘The Roadmap to China’ panel taking place at the Worldwide Village will be discussing opportunities for international right-owners…

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Viral Fest Asia's second edition was held in Bali, 2016 saw over 8,000 fans
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Rise of Asia Forum to host Tudou, Alibaba Digital Media & Business Group

Rise of Asia Forum is returning as part of Viral Fest Asia’s programme that will be discussing some of the most vital challenges and issues faced in Asia’s content and e-commerce market. The forum sees a by-invite only list of top executives attendees before the start of Viral Fest Asia’s two-day concert that will be seeing top viral artists such…

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