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Below is a list of the top 50 most-viewed Chinese music videos. Only official music videos, lyrics music videos, and live performance videos are eligible. If multiple versions of the same song qualify, only the version with higher view count is included. Views are rounded to the nearest million.
This is a list of the songs that topped the Global Chinese Pop Chart in 2018.. The Global Chinese Pop Chart (全球华语歌曲排行榜) is a weekly Chinese language pop music chart compiled by 7 Chinese language radio stations across Asia: Beijing Music Radio, Shanghai Eastern Broadcasting (), Radio Guangdong, Radio Television Hong Kong, Taipei Pop Radio, Singapore's Y.E.S. 93.3FM and ...
Alice (Avril Lavigne song) Alive (Bee Gees song) Alive (Dami Im song) Alive (Jennifer Lopez song) All at Once (Whitney Houston song) All Cried Out (Alison Moyet song) All I Ask; All I Ask of You; All I Have to Give; All I Know; All I Need (Jack Wagner song) All I Need to Know (Emma Bunton song) All I See Is Your Face; All I Want (For Christmas)
In the late 20th century, the song was used as the basis for several pop songs, in both China and the United States. The first 18 notes of the 1998 song "When You Believe," as recorded by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey, are based on "Dance of the Yao People," although the Chinese composers of the original work were not credited. [citation needed]
The Nakhi of Lijiang play a type of song and dance suite called baisha xiyue, which was supposedly brought by Kublai Khan in 1253. Nakhi Dongjing is a type of music related to southern Chinese forms, and is popular today. The Dai ethnic musical styles are similar to those of South Asia, Myanmar, and Thailand.
The Mandarin popular songs of the Shanghai era are considered by scholars to be the first kind of modern popular music developed in China, [10] and the prototype of later Chinese pop song. [11] Li Jinhui is generally regarded as the "Father of Chinese Popular Music" who established the genre in the 1920s. [12]
Guoyue (國 樂; literally "national music"; also minyue (民乐), huayue (華樂) or zhongyue (中樂)), refers to the music composed for Chinese musical instruments, [1] which is an extension of the Chinese traditional music.
Western-influenced music first came to China in the 1920s, specifically through Shanghai. [7] Artists like Zhou Xuan (周璇) acted in films and recorded popular songs.. When the People's Republic of China was established by the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, one of the first actions taken by the government was to denounce pop music (specifically Western pop) as decadent music. [7]