Market marches to new beat

A few years ago there was no online music industry and piracy was rampant. But all that has changed. QQ Music - a music service run by Tencent - now has 400 million active users a month. Chen Nan reports.

The Chinese music market, once seen as chaotic, is now viewed as having enormous untapped potential, thanks to the country's online user base of 650million people and a growing number of licensed digital services.

During the recent Music Matters 2016 event, which was held from Sept 12 to 15 in Singapore, the Chinese music market was in focus at the QQ Music China Forum: The World Turns to China.