Tencent Music Leisure Group, China’s dominant on-line music and audio platform, reported robust third-quarter monetary outcomes, with on-line music service revenues climbing 27.2% year-over-year to RMB6.97 billion ($979 million) for the interval ended Sept. 30, based on unaudited figures launched Thursday.
The Chinese language music streaming big’s development was fueled by will increase throughout a number of income streams, together with music subscriptions, offline performances, promoting companies and artist merchandise. Music subscription revenues rose 17.2% to $632 million, primarily pushed by enlargement of the corporate’s SVIP membership program.
Month-to-month common income per paying person grew to $1.6 from $1.5 in the identical interval final 12 months, reflecting the success of TME’s premium tier choices. The corporate’s whole working revenue elevated 26.4% year-over-year to $381 million.
TME expanded its music catalog via partnerships with labels in South Korea and Japan, whereas collaborating with recreation builders to broaden its content material choices. The corporate partnered with Tencent Video games to co-produce the Honor of Kings Tenth-anniversary theme tune “Atlas of Tomorrow,” carried out by JJ Lin, which generated over 600 million social media mentions inside two weeks of launch.
The streaming service launched a brand new ad-supported membership tier that attracted free-tier listeners and elevated each day utilization time. Artist-driven content material, together with digital albums and collectible NFC playing cards corresponding to Eason Chan’s “Concern and Desires,” helped drive SVIP subscription development.
TME strengthened its place in reside music through the quarter, internet hosting 14 sold-out G-Dragon concert events throughout Sydney, Melbourne and Kuala Lumpur that drew over 150,000 attendees. The corporate launched the TMElive Worldwide Music Awards, that includes 22 artists and teams from China and different Asian nations, which attracted over 20,000 attendees throughout two days.
The corporate’s annual TMEA 2025 occasion gathered 35 artists and teams, drawing over 10,000 attendees. TME additionally supported live performance excursions for artists together with Fiona Sit, Tia Ray and Gai, with some performances scaling from arena-level to stadium-level venues.
