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2018 In Chinese Music
The following is an overview of 2018 in Chinese music. Charts * List of Billboard China V Chart number-one videos of 2018 * List of Global Chinese Pop Chart number-one songs of 2018 Music shows * Singer 2018 (January 12 – April 20) * Idol Producer (January 19 – April 6) *Produce 101 (April 21 – June 23) * Sing! China (season 3) (13 July – present) Awards *2018 ERC Chinese Top Ten Awards ( zh) *2018 Global Chinese Golden Chart Awards *2018 Global Chinese Music Awards *2018 Ku Music Asian Music Awards *2018 Migu Music Awards *2018 QQ Music Awards *2018 Top Chinese Music Awards *2018 Music Radio China Top Chart Awards Groups formed * Boy Story * NEX7 * Nine Percent * Rocket Girls 101 * AKB48 Team SH Releases First quarter January March Second quarter April May June Third quarter July August Fourth Quarter December See also * 2018 in China References {{Reflist Chinese Chinese can refer to: * Something related to China * Chinese people, peop ...
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2018
File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United States and the world; The Yellow vests protests break out in France; The Camp Fire (2018), that burned the town of Paradise, California, is seen from outer space; SpaceX CEO Elon Musk launches his Tesla Roadster (first generation) into outer space; Rescuers assemble to begin search-and-rescue operations during the Tham Luang cave rescue; North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un meets South Korean President Moon Jae-in at the Korean Demilitarized Zone, 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 400 200 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony rect 400 0 800 400 Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi rect 800 0 1200 400 March for Our Lives rect 0 400 600 800 April 2018 inter-Korean summit, 2018 inter-Korean summit rect 600 400 1200 800 Yellow vests protests rect 0 80 ...
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Boy Story
Boy Story (, , stylized as BOY STORY) is a Chinese boy band launched by JYP Entertainment and Tencent Music Entertainment Group (TME). The group is composed of six members: Hanyu, Zihao, Xinlong, Zeyu, Ming Rui, and Shuyang. On September 1, 2017 Boy Story released their first single "How Old R U". On September 21, 2018, Boy Story made an official debut with their first mini album ''Enough''. History Pre-debut project Under the JYP Entertainment vision "K-pop 3.0" or "Globalization by Localization", the label announced its plans to produce localized acts aiming at both the Chinese and Japanese markets in early 2018. Boy Story was the first group formed under this strategy, with the group's six members being selected by JYPE founder Park Jin-young as early as 2016 and have trained under the company ever since. Since September 2017, the "Real Project" pre-debut series was launched with four singles in order to make way for the group's official debut in September 2018. The fir ...
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2018 In China
The following lists events that happened during 2018 in China. Incumbents Paramount leader * General Secretary of the Communist Party – Xi Jinping Head of state * President – Xi Jinping ** Vice President – Li Yuanchao → Head of government * Premier – Li Keqiang ** Vice Premiers – Zhang Gaoli, Liu Yandong, Wang Yang, Ma Kai → National legislature * Congress chairman – Zhang Dejiang → Political advisory * Conference chairman – Yu Zhengsheng → Supervision commission * Chairman: Governors * Governor of Anhui Province – Li Guoying * Governor of Fujian Province – Tang Dengjie * Governor of Gansu Province – Tang Renjian * Governor of Guangdong Province – Ma Xingrui * Governor of Guizhou Province – Shen Yiqin * Governor of Hainan Province – Shen Xiaoming * Governor of Hebei Province – Xu Qin * Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Lu Hao (until March), Wang Wentao (starting May) * Govern ...
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Cai Xukun
Cai Xukun (born August 2, 1998), better known by the Mononymous person, mononym Kun (stylized as KUN), is a Chinese singer-songwriter, dancer and rapper. He debuted as a member of SWIN and its sub-unit SWIN-S on October 18, 2016, after participating in the first and second seasons of the Chinese reality show ''Super Idol''. After leaving the group and its company Yihai Entertainment, he participated in IQIYI, iQiyi's reality survival show Idol Producer, finishing first and debuting as the leader/center of temporary Chinese boy group Nine Percent, on April 6, 2018. He is a cast member of variety show Keep Running (TV series), Keep Running. Most of Kun's solo works are original, including "Wait Wait Wait" and his first EP "1". The EP was a commercial success with every song topping Chinese music charts. "Pull Up", the first track, broke 10 records and peaked at number 1 on four of QQ Music's charts as well as ranking first on Billboard China, Billboard China's V Chart for 8 consecu ...
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CKG48
SNH48 Group() or SNH48 sister groups, shortened to SNH48G, SNH Group, SNHG, refers to the sister groups of the Chinese idol girl group SNH48. Based on AKB48's "idols you can meet" concept, it currently consists of 5 sister groups in locations across mainland China. Sister groups not only release their own singles, but also perform on some of the SNH48 singles and events. They also send participants in the SNH48 annual events such as the SNH48 senbatsu election. History On April 20, 2016, STAR48 held a press conference in Beijing and announced the launch of a sister group landing plan covering all core cities across the country. Through the construction of multiple independently operated sister groups, SNH48's business model has entered a new ecologicalization in the development stage hence SNH48 Group was made, the first batch of SNH48 sister groups BEJ48 in Beijing and GNZ48 in Guangzhou were introduced for the first time. On June 6, 2016, AKB48 announced it had suspended it ...
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SHY48
SNH48 Group() or SNH48 sister groups, shortened to SNH48G, SNH Group, SNHG, refers to the sister groups of the Chinese idol girl group SNH48. Based on AKB48's "idols you can meet" concept, it currently consists of 5 sister groups in locations across mainland China. Sister groups not only release their own singles, but also perform on some of the SNH48 singles and events. They also send participants in the SNH48 annual events such as the SNH48 senbatsu election. History On April 20, 2016, STAR48 held a press conference in Beijing and announced the launch of a sister group landing plan covering all core cities across the country. Through the construction of multiple independently operated sister groups, SNH48's business model has entered a new ecologicalization in the development stage hence SNH48 Group was made, the first batch of SNH48 sister groups BEJ48 in Beijing and GNZ48 in Guangzhou were introduced for the first time. On June 6, 2016, AKB48 announced it had suspended it ...
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SNH48
SNH48 is a Chinese idol girl group based in Shanghai. Following AKB48's creator Yasushi Akimoto's concept of "idols you can meet", the group features dozens of female members around the age of 20, who perform regularly in the group's own theater and interact with fans predominantly via the official Pocket48/口袋48 App online and offline via theater and handshake events. There are over 200 female members across SNH48 and all its sister groups including BEJ48, GNZ48, SHY48, CKG48 and IDOLS Ft. The group is owned by Chinese companies NineStyle and Star48. Established in 2012, it has become independent from AKB48's groups in 2016. History 2012–2013: Creation and debut On April 21, 2012, AKS Co., Ltd. and Chinese company Ninestyle jointly announced the establishment of SNH48. A theater was built in Shanghai beginning in October. In January 2013, SNH48 debuted in the show "Give Me Power!", with 16 selected members on stage performing the Chinese version of "Heavy Rotation", ...
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Tencent
Tencent Holdings Ltd. () is a Chinese multinational technology and entertainment conglomerate and holding company headquartered in Shenzhen. It is one of the highest grossing multimedia companies in the world based on revenue. It is also the world’s largest company in the video game industry based on its investments, with Tencent Games being the subdivision of Tencent Interactive Entertainment Group (IEG) focused on publishing of games. Founded in 1998, its subsidiaries globally market various Internet-related services and products, including in entertainment, artificial intelligence, and other technology. Its twin-skyscraper headquarters, Tencent Seafront Towers (also known as Tencent Binhai Mansion) are based in the Nanshan District of Shenzhen. Tencent is the world's largest video game vendor, as well as one of the most financially valuable companies. It is among the largest social media, venture capital, and investment corporations. Its services include social netwo ...
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QQ Music
QQ Music () is one of the three Chinese freemium music streaming services owned by Tencent Music, a joint venture between Tencent and Spotify. As of 2018, the service is set to reach over 700 million users with an estimated 120 million subscribers. The service in 2016 merged with China Music Corporation, owners of the second and the third largest streaming services known as KuGou and KuWo respectively. With this merger, QQ Music is the dominating force in Mainland China music platforms, commending (in 2018) a market share of about 75%. Outside of streaming, the service leverages its brand to the public through the annual QQ Music Awards. Business service QQ Music operates under a freemium business model in which basic services are free whilst enhanced features are available on a subscription. However unlike similar subscription service Spotify, labels have the ability to restrict its content to be restricted to subscribing users (known as VIPs or green diamonds) or be purch ...
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Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many disparate styles. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. Although much of the music that appears on record charts is considered to be pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much pop music also borrows elements from other styles ...
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GNZ48
GNZ48 is a Chinese idol girl group established in Guangzhou, Guangdong in 2016. It is a sister group of SNH48, belonging to Guangzhou Star48 Culture Media Group Co., Ltd. GNZ48 currently has members ( regular members and trainees, , information reference from GNZ48 official website.) and is divided into Team G, Team NIII and Team Z. Like SNH48, they follow the AKB48's creator Yasushi Akimoto's concept of "idols you can meet". Overview GNZ48 is one of the first two sister groups of SNH48 (the other is BEJ48). On April 20, 2016, Star48 Media held a press conference in Beijing to announce the establishment of the SNH48 sister groups BEJ48 and GNZ48, and launched the first phase of the GNZ48 recruitment campaign. GNZ48 officially became a girl idol group. GNZ48 is a girl idol group that conducts performing arts activities in Guangzhou which built on the “idols you can meet” concept by regularly organizing “handshake” events where fans can meet group members. Its theater is ...
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AKB48 Team SH
AKB48 Team SH (also known as 冲吧少女组合/Chong Ba Shaonu Zuhe) is a Chinese idol group based in Shanghai, China and an official sister group of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48. It was established in 2018 after the dissolution of AKB48's relationship with the girl group SNH48 back in 2016. History On April 10, 2018, the application process was opened for the formation of Team SH, in which 38,066 girls registered by May. The applications were reviewed, and the second round consisted of interviews that were held in six cities. A third round was conducted in Shanghai, of which 62 girls were finalists and performed in singing and dancing. On July 25, it was announced that 34 members have been selected for the first generation of Team SH. Two of the members, Liu Nian and Mao WeiJia had previously participated in the idol competition show ''Produce 101''. Members On August 8, 2018 AKB48 Team SH posted the list of members on Weibo. Bolded names indicate captain. Offici ...
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