Beijing Music Radio (), is a radio station broadcasting at 97.4 FM in

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Music played

Beijing Yinyue Guangbo plays various types of music including: *

Classical Music Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions. It is sometimes distinguished as Western classical music, as the term "classical music" also ...

Mandopop Mandopop or Mandapop refers to Standard Chinese, Mandarin popular music. The genre has its origin in the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; with later influences coming from Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Ta ...

and

Cantopop Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") or HK-pop (short for "Hong Kong pop music") is a genre of pop music written in standard Chinese and sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production ...

* English various formats including English Top 40,

Hot AC Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet s ...

, and

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...

. They also have news on every hour that is from

Beijing Xinwen Guangbo Beijing News Radio (Chinese: 北京新闻广播) is a radio station in Beijing, China. The radio station broadcasts on AM 828 kHz, FM 90.4 MHz and 94.5 MHz. The station is part of the Radio Beijing Corporation. Local Beijing new ...

radio station.

Special programs

Mid Autumn and Spring Festival programming

On occasion, Beijing Yinyue Guangbo will broadcast live concerts around the

Mid Autumn Festival The Mid-Autumn Festival (Chinese: / ), also known as the Moon Festival or Mooncake Festival, is a traditional festival celebrated in Chinese culture. Similar holidays are celebrated in Japan (), Korea (), Vietnam (), and other countries in Eas ...

and Spring Festival. The live concerts would pre-empt programs that are broadcast during the week at any other time.

Interviews with famous artists

On the weekends especially during the evenings, this station frequently broadcasts pre-recorded or live interviews with artists.

"Top 40" Countdown

The "top 40" countdown, the Chinese title uses the English phrase, is a countdown of current Mandarin pop songs. This program occurs Saturday and Sunday nights (Beijing Time) and plays the most popular 40 songs in China for that week. This program does not include any English or Cantonese top 40 songs even though the station does occasionally play them during other times of the day. Every week, Beijing Music Radio broadcasts "The Week's New" chart, based on people's voting.

References

External links

Beijing Yinyue Guangbo (Beijing Music Radio) Official Website
Mandarin-language radio stations Radio stations in China Mass media in Beijing {{PRChina-radio-station-stub