Chinese Music List-Top 5 Chinese Music APPs

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Here is the latest top list of hottest music apps in China.

1. Kugou Music(酷狗音乐)

Founded in 2004, Kugou Music is the largest online music service in China, boasting over 450 million monthly active users. In a recent Quest Mobile report, it has over 228 million monthly active users in March 2017.
　　　　　　　　　

Meanwhile, it merged 5SING, which was a platform that Chinese original producer uploaded their original music masterpieces before.

2. QQ Music (QQ音乐)

It is the most complete music platform protecting the music copyright of musicians.

Launched in 2004, QQ Music is a music streaming app owned by Tencent company, and it claims to have 400 million-monthly active users. However, according to Quest Mobile's report, QQ Music has over 211 million monthly active users in March 2017.

Although QQ Music shares some of the same features as Kugou, such as radio, KTV, and live streaming which can be rewarded with virtual gift-giving, it caters to a more urban crowd. QQ Music also offers articles and enables users to watch music videos, concerts, and interviews with famous musicians, including international stars such as Linkin Park.

The app owes its success to Tencent’s huge presence in the Chinese market, including WeChat. This has enabled the service to strike deals with major record labels and allow its users to buy concert tickets through its payment service.

3. KuWo Music(酷我音乐)

Founded in 2005, KuWo is another app with a heavy focus on KTV streaming; the app even hosts KTV tournaments with cash rewards. Besides KTV streaming, it also serves as a video streaming platform and broadcasts video content, usually on the more trashy side, such as Chinese ever so popular talent shows and comedian acts. KuWo also reserves a part of its app for rising DJs of China.

According to QuestMobile's report, Kuwo is the third largest music streaming service in China and has over 100 million monthly active users.

NetEase Cloud Music(网易云音乐)

Launched in 2013 by Chinese Internet portal NetEase, the differentiates NetEase Music from other apps is its stronger focus on indie artists, enabling it to compete with internet giants like Tencent and Alibaba which have big entertainment ecosystems. Besides short videos, the app has social features that enable users to interact with performers which have profiles on the service. It also has a music streaming option for joggers called Run FM (跑步FM) that selects music with a BPM rate that matches the listener’s running tempo. Aside from music, users can listen to podcasts and watch videos.

According to QuestMobile's report, NetEase Cloud Music has over 60 million monthly active users in March this year.

The most famous of this platform is its comment area, which left many impressive comments by its users.

5. Xiami Music(虾米音乐)

Xiami Music was founded in 2007 and acquired by Alibaba in 2013.

In QuestMobile's report, it has about 14.4 million monthly active users in March 2017, making it the fifth largest online music platform in China.

Xiami started off as a P2P platform in 2007 but had to abandon the model due to poor copyright regulation. In recent years the service has decided to add more niche content by featuring emerging musicians with original music. It has also launched The Undiscovered Nationwide Spotlight music program, a nation-wide talent search where users can vote for more than 6000 artists.

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