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This issue of Billboard's Asia Pacific Quarterly contains a series of reports on emerging artists from throughout the region. Artist: Dadawa Current Album: 'The Ballad Of Lhasa' Label: Warner This […]

Satellite music television got its start in Asia five years ago with the launch of STAR TV. Minutes after launching into the night sky in the spring of 1991, AsiaSat […]

LONDON - The rewritten 'Candle In The Wind,' performed by Elton John as a moving tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales, at her funeral here Sept. 6, stands poised to […]

At MIDEM 1996, U.S. trade representatives were steeling themselves to lock horns over thorny intellectual property issues. In 1997, the winds have shifted. The quest for the right local partner, […]

As the recording industry sees it, Japan has never really been part of 'Asia.' Although it is the world's second-largest record market, the island nation has always been viewed as […]

'I certainly do not envisage our industry unleashing on China a flood of only Western music, which is not our intention. Rather, our companies seek primarily to meet the vast […]

Hong Kong -- As the market for Asian rock'n' roll heats up in many of the region's evolving markets, few bands here embody the independent, do-it-yourself spirit of a good […]

Ask anybody who's tried, and they will tell you -- eventually. More than a decade since China first 'opened up' to foreign music, licensing Western pop product into the world's […]

Hong Kong -- everybody's thought about it. No one likes to talk about it much. But the question dogging major Asian record companies is universal: How long Hong Kong? Consensus […]

Growth is slow as both parties ask, 'What's in it for me?' HONG KONG - It's a chicken-and-egg thing. As more Asians buy more music than ever before, Asia's regional […]

HONG KONG - It's a magical night. Floating like a sprite on a soap bubble, Cass Pang emerges through a center-stage trapdoor, Peter Pan-like on a pair of fine, ceiling-bound […]

HONG KONG - The war against CD piracy in China is far from over, say many software industry insiders. Although U.S. sanctions against China were averted June 17 after a […]

Many Labels Had Exposure To Fullee; Other Distributors May Follow Hong Kong--The crowded distribution market here is still picking up pieces from the earthquake of the collapse of Fullee Records. […]

WARNER MUSIC INTERNATIONAL announced July 21 the appointment of Samuel Chou as managing director of Warner Music Taiwan, effective immediately. Chou was managing director of EEI Records, a joint-venture company […]

A desire to counter the waning popularity of ballad-driven Cantopop has led Sony Music Hong Kong to challenge local convention with baby act Yi Yan Man Chun, which translates as […]

WALT DISNEY RECORDS has inked a distribution pact for its animated film soundtracks and children's music catalog with Sony Music Asia for Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia. Sony will organize […]

CHANNEL V, the Asian music arm of News Corp.'s Star Television network, is said to he about to name former MGM Gold Asia Networks GM Steve Smith to succeed current […]

UNIVERSAL MUSIC TAIWAN has signed veteran Mandarin singing star Tracy Huang to a five-album deal. Huang has 49 albums to her credit, each of which her new company estimates have […]

Panelists speaking at the conclave's opening session, 'The 900-Pound Gorilla,' warned that Asia's record companies will have to work hard to reinvent the way they do business if they are […]

HONG KONG-Tower Records has announced an August launch for its first outlet in the Philippines, making it the first international chain to open in the country. The chain's presence in […]

ASIAN MUSIC BROADCASTER Channel V has inked a syndication deal with U.S. cable operator the International Channel (TIC). Channel V, part of Rupert Murdoch's Star TV group, will provide one […]

Major Labels Reacting Negatively To The Proposal HONG KONG--With fierce competition and declining margins dogging Korean record distributors, an industry body is advocating a regimen of price maintenance. As a […]

New Laws In HK; Crackdown In China HONG KONG-Tough, new anti-piracy legislation was due to be placed April 3 before Hong Kong's provisional government and take effect within two months. […]

Local IFPI Arm Debates Suspension HONG KON--Taiwan's national sales charts continue to be plagued by controversy, 18 months after their launch by the labels group there. Local industry efforts to […]

This story was prepared by Steve McClure in Tokyo and Geoff Burpee in Hong Kong. The Japanese music industry-the world's second-biggest-has been for the most part unaffected by the economic […]

The Music-Loving City-State Leans Toward Chinese And International Repertoire, And There's Not Much Room For Local Talent SINGAPORE - Visitors to this fair city may well notice that music is [...]

HONG KONG--When Asia eventually regains its economic composure, the regional chiefs of the six multinational record companies will be able to write one hell of a 'survival guide.' For the […]

Pub. Expects Slow, Steady Growth HONG KONG-BMG Music Publishing Asia is taking a lung-term view of the profits to be made from its pioneering push into China. The company's opening […]

Economic Turmoil Lowers Profit HONG KONG - Growth may not spring eternal in Asia, but, as Nietzsche said, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. A late-year 'vox pop' poll […]

This story was prepared by Wolfgang Spahr in Hamburg, Geoff Burpee in Hong Kong, and Dominic Pride in London. Her love of flowers earned Jasmin Wagner the epithet of Blumchen, […]

Switch From Hong Kong Is Aimed At Cutting Costs HONG KONG - Relocating MIDEM Asia to the Indonesian vacation center of Bali from the business powerhouse that is Hong Kong […]

2nd Awards Show Features Local, International Artists DELHI, India - Channel V's championing of India's burgeoning Hindi pop paid off at the broadcaster's awards Oct. 18 here. Such top Indian […]

HONG KONG - The government in Singapore wants to keep Janet Jackson on the other side of the rope. The American singer's new Virgin Records album, 'The Velvet Rope,' has […]

New Laws Facilitate Seizures In Burgeoning Pirate Market HONG KONG - Authorities have carried out Hong Kong's first-ever raid on CD manufacturers suspected of producing pirated product. The arrest of […]

HONG KONG - Multinational music publishers operating in Asia are formulating plans to audit their sister record companies in a number of key markets. The goal is to quantify mechanical […]

HONG KONG - The realities of life here in the wake of the handover to Chinese rule are becoming more apparent - and what is obvious so far is that […]

HONG KONG - As expected, Hong Kong's legislators approved a new copyright law just days before the British territory reverted to Chinese rule. Effective July 1, it tightens the restrictions […]

HONG KONG - The declaration earlier this month by Fox Agency International (FAI), a subsidiary of the Harry Fox Agency, that it would sign the 3-year-old Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) […]

Independent U.S. music wholesalers are having a tougher time selling product to Japan and other countries in the Far East. One reason is the Japanese yen's decline against the dollar […]

HONG KONG - When President Clinton proposes a renewal of China's most favored nation (MFN) status to Congress in the coming months, intellectual property in the country may be one […]

HONG KONG - Two types of history will be made in Hong Kong in July. The textbooks will record that a population will be handed over to communist rule for […]

HONG KONG - It's been four years since the teenage Chang Huei Mei left the pastoral surroundings of her ancestral village of San Di in eastern Taiwan for the bright […]

HONG KONG - 'So sorry, who sues whom?' asks the befuddled legislator. In one sentence, it seems, the speaker encapsulates the confusion, acrimony, and exasperation that is characterizing Hong Kong's […]

HONG KONG - As a means of establishing and testing ties within China's sprawling, underdeveloped recording industry, the 'representative' or 'liaison' office is becoming an increasingly valuable tool for international […]

HONG KONG - The international record industry will begin to tackle a new and potentially huge piracy threat when its leaders meet later this month. At the top of the […]

HONG KONG - A New York-based Chinese composer and conductor is becoming a Marco Polo in reverse to orchestrate the musical spectacular marking Hong Kong's hand-over to the Beijing government. […]

TAIPEI, Taiwan - Asian music video service Channel V demonstrated growing clout Feb. 1, when the 1996 edition of its annual Chinese Top 20 Awards attracted the presence of leading [...]

HONG KONG - The Taiwanese record industry's new sales charts do not appear to be living up to their promise, and senior label executives say the methodology must be upgraded […]

This story was written by Geoff Burpee in Hong Kong and Steve McClure in Tokyo. HONG KONG - Premier Japanese musician, songwriter, and producer Tetsuya Komuro's various recording projects have […]

This story was prepared by Geoff Burpee in Hong Kong, Mark Dezzani in Italy, Christie Eliezer in Australia, John Ferguson in the U.K., Howell Llewellyn in Spain, Steve McClure in […]