Comments on: Network Songs : Life Inside China’s Pop Echo-Chamber

By: Outdustry — Will Page (PRS for Music) : Interview

Outdustry — Will Page (PRS for Music) : Interview — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:23:04 +0000

[...] Here in China we see also see an incredibly head-heavy distribution curve, with pop hits dominating the musical landscape. I tend to explain this by suggesting that, in China, music is used as a way of fitting in and not [...]

By: Outdustry — Now That’s What I Call Chinese Pop Music

Outdustry — Now That’s What I Call Chinese Pop Music — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:39:21 +0000

[...] That’s enough theorizing. Anyone who has spent any length of time in China, regardless of whether or not they listen to the radio or watch TV, will recognise at least one, and probably more, of the following songs. These are what the Chinese monster hits sound like, with Mouse Loves Rice being the biggest by some distance (a real phenomenon, the story of which neatly sums up the music environment in China, but that’s for another time): [...]

By: Jeff O

Jeff O — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:16:49 +0000

Baidu gets 100 million search enquiries a day? Thats incredible. Nice article

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:49:15 +0000

Fascinating. Thanks for this article Ed.