The Chinese Ministry of Culture plans to create a centralized list of banned karaoke songs that the government views as subversive, inciting hatred or harming national unity. The ministry put forward ...

Music streaming services like Apple Music and Spotify are great — you pay a monthly fee and get access to virtually unlimited music — until songs suddenly disappear. According to the Hong Kong Free ...

China is readying a blacklist for karaoke songs in order to ban tracks featuring “illegal” content, its Ministry of Culture and Tourism said. Such content includes anything that harms national unity, ...

BEIJING — Song is the name, and song is his game. While some musicians take months to compose, record, release, and promote a track, Song Mengjun and his team can get it all done in a matter of hours.

China doesn't want patrons at tens of thousands of karaoke venues across the country to belt out subversive lyrics — and they are cracking down to make sure that it stops. The country's Ministry of ...

The 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre is coming up this June, but you won’t hear anything about it on Apple Music. Chinese journalists recently discovered that Apple Music’s Chinese ...

On Chinese short-video platform Douyin, a group of South Korean artists have attracted 500,000 followers and over 6 million likes by offering Korean cover versions of popular Chinese songs. "Music ...

The U.S.-China trade war has set off one unlikely success: a Chinese pop song about the economic clash. It expresses anti-American views — and it's a huge hit on China's social media. The song, called ...

For many young Chinese, last month’s annual Spring Festival Gala variety show was the first time they heard one of 2020’s most popular songs. But if neither “The Shepherd in Keketuohai,” nor its ...