YinYueTai (), is one of the major music video sharing sites in China. YinYueTai is the counterpart of Billboard and Gaon Charts in China and it hosts the annual
V Chart Awards.
Summary
The website started when the founder could not easily find the music video which he was looking for, or when he found it on some site that had too many ads. Currently YinYueTai has no ads, and unlike
YouTube
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where you can find multiple copies of the same music video, YinYueTai only keeps one copy of each music video on site for easy search.
Copyright
YinYueTai has copyright agreements with
Sony Music
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,
Universal Music
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,
Warner Music
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,
Rock Records
The Rock Records Co., Ltd. () commonly known as Rock Records (), is a record label based in Taipei, Taiwan. Founded in the 1980s as the Rock Music Publishing (滾石有聲出版社; ) by Tuan Chung-tan and Tuan Chung-i, It is the largest record ...
,
B'in Music,
AVEX
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S.M. Entertainment
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JYP Entertainment
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, and others home and abroad, including
MBC,
KBS and other overseas television networks.
YinYueTai V-Chart
Starting in July 2011, the site began to have a monthly music video chart in five different categories based on the artist's region (Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Europe and United States, Korea, and Japan), and in November the site began to have a weekly chart.
V Chart Awards
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1st V Chart Awards (2013)
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2nd V Chart Awards (2014)
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3rd V Chart Awards (2015)
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4th V Chart Awards (2016)
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5th V Chart Awards (2017)
References
External links
YinYueTai (音悦Tai)
{{Chinese record charts
Chinese music websites
Video hosting
Internet properties established in 2009
2009 establishments in China