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This is the list of the top 50 most-viewed Chinese music videos on the American video-sharing website YouTube. "A Little Happiness" by Hebe Tien is first Chinese music video to reach 100 million views on August 20, 2016 [ 1 ] while "Goodbye Princess" by Tia Lee is the fastest Chinese music video to reach 100 million views in 20 days. [ 2 ]
'Rice Sprout Song') is a form of Chinese folk dance developed from a dance known in the Song dynasty as Village Music (村田樂). [1] It is very popular in northern China and is one of the most representative form of folk arts. It is popular in both the countryside and cities in northern China. It is especially popular among older people.
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 ...
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 first jazz clubs in Shanghai initially served as dance halls for the Western elite. Beginning in the 1920s, Shidaiqu entered into the mainstream of popular music. The Chinese pop song "Drizzle" was composed by Li Jinhui around 1927 and sung by his daughter Li Minghui.
Li Jinhui, known as the father of Chinese pop. C-pop is an abbreviation for Chinese popular music (traditional Chinese: 漢語 流行 音樂; simplified Chinese: 汉语 流行 音乐; pinyin: hànyǔ liúxíng yīnyuè; Jyutping: hon3jyu5 lau4hang4 jam1ngok6), a loosely defined musical genre by artists originating from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (the Greater China region).
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]
Li Jinhui is generally regarded as the "Father of Chinese Popular Music" who established the genre in the 1920s. [12] Buck Clayton, the American jazz musician, also worked alongside Li. Li established the Bright Moon Song and Dance Troupe, and amongst their singing stars were Wang Renmei and Li Lili. There was a close relationship between music ...