In 2017, Tencent announced that it would bring PUBG to China back when it was still the world’s best-selling game. While the conglomerate has altered PUBG’s content to meet China’s strict rules on violence and gore, it has yet to receive a license that would allow it to monetize the game. In October 2017, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds players have grew to…
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It’s probably obvious by now that China has become the new focus by some of the world’s largest music labels and publishers. When the industry was just discussing the potential…
Technology, on one hand has obviously boost marketer’s technique and allow content to thrive and be distributed at a scale quite unimaginable even just a decade ago; and on the…
While most of you may already be using a music platform somehow or rather (via an app on your smartphone or on your PC or Apple computer), there are still some uncertainty to what may be more readily accessible in Asia. While Google Play and Amazon Music may not be available to some markets in Asia, there’s definitely more than…
The new year is here, which can only mean one thing: new gadgets! Cut through the music landfill with our guide to the newest gadgets that define your musical choices…
We picked five acts from the impressive lineup of indie, folk, pop and electronic names that we think were Wonderfruit’s best so far and why. Izzy Bizu [caption id=”attachment_1872″ align=”alignnone”…
This year, IT’S THE SHIP made its first maiden voyage to the island of Phuket, Thailand crossing international waters from Singapore and return with over 4,000 shipmates in attendance. We’ve…
The launch of Spotify’s “Hub” in 2015 has garnered more than 6.6 billion K-pop streams with over 14.4 billion of listening minutes. When we thought that we’ve just had enough…
There’s a shift in discussions over the last 12 months within the executive groups in the music business. Where discussions used to be about the rise of the K-pop wave…
Attended by industry professionals, the talk focus on how music streaming is changing ways how artists and songs break, and how people discover and listen to music. Here are just…
If you have been to any festivals in the last 12 months, you might notice that there’s been a constant, a rather unobtrusive gadget that comes with every single festival…
Strong growth in the global recorded music market increased by 5.9 percent totalling a revenue of US$15.7 billion in 2016, the highest rate since IFPI began tracking the market in…
Joox has been firing up its marketing efforts throughout 2016. According to new data on App Annie, it is now seeing results when it became the most downloaded music streaming app in Hong Kong, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Last year, for the first time, the…
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