{"id":99758,"date":"2024-05-14T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=99758"},"modified":"2024-05-14T16:26:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T15:26:01","slug":"tencent-music-group-post-astonishing-q1-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/tencent-music-group-post-astonishing-q1-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Tencent Music Group post astonishing Q1 results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 style=\"user-select: auto;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff; user-select: auto;\">China&#8217;s leading music and entertainment company have revealed an incredible start to the year in revenue and subscriber growth.<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, China&#8217;s leading music service operator Tencent Music posted <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/tencent-music-q4-2023-results\/\">a whopping 38.8% year-over-year (YoY) growth for 2023<\/a>. Their start to 2024 shows growth not just continuing but getting better! Tencent Music Entertainment have reported 39.2% YoY growth for Q1 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tencent Music Entertainment are responsible for many of China&#8217;s most popular music apps, including Kugou Music, QQ Music, Kuwo Music, and WeSing. Their services cover music streaming, karaoke services, live streaming, and online concert services. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-routenote-blog wp-block-embed-routenote-blog\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"D1KqQf46kC\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/tencent-music-q4-2023-results\/\">Music streaming continues to explode in China &#8211; Tencent Music Q4 and full-year 2023 results<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Music streaming continues to explode in China &#8211; Tencent Music Q4 and full-year 2023 results&#8221; &#8212; RouteNote Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/tencent-music-q4-2023-results\/embed\/#?secret=D1KqQf46kC\" data-secret=\"D1KqQf46kC\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Across their music services, subscriptions made $501 million leading to nearly 40% growth YoY. 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By broadening content and introducing more tailored platform offerings that resonate deeply with users, we continue to strengthen our vibrancy and competitiveness in this dynamic industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-routenote-blog wp-block-embed-routenote-blog\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"CwOINJYpb4\"><a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/what-is-tencent-music\/\">What is Tencent Music and how to upload your music to QQ Music, Kugou Music, Kuwo Music and WeSing free<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;What is Tencent Music and how to upload your music to QQ Music, Kugou Music, Kuwo Music and WeSing free&#8221; &#8212; RouteNote Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/what-is-tencent-music\/embed\/#?secret=CwOINJYpb4\" data-secret=\"CwOINJYpb4\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, Tencent are making their business more profitable through other means. They managed to decrease operating expenses by 7.6% on a year before. Their operating expenses made up 16.8% of their total revenues last year, dropping from 17.5% in the same period the year before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tencent CEO, Ross Liang said: &#8220;Drawing on our extensive industry experience and capitalising on the Chinese New Year seasonality, our effective marketing campaigns led to higher-than-expected first-quarter music subscriber growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The global music streaming landscape is looking good as we move further into 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/get-music-on-deezer\/\">Deezer<\/a> showed 15% growth in total revenue for Q1 whilst <a href=\"https:\/\/routenote.com\/spotify#:~:text=You%20can%20distribute%20unlimited%20music,listeners%20all%20around%20the%20world.\">Spotify<\/a> surpassed them with 20% YoY growth. However, both pale in comparison to Tencent&#8217;s staggering results. 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