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KKCompany Announces the Spin-off and Establishment of "KKCompany Technologies Group" New Group to Focus on Software Technology with Steve Wang Serving as Chairman and CEO KKCompany announced today that it would spin off its "software technology" businesses, to form the KKCompany Technologies Group. Steve Wang will serve as Group Chairman and CEO to lead the strategic layout, operations and business development of the newly formed group. KKCompany co-founder and CEO Chris Lin said, “Over the last 20 years, the company has gradually developed from a single music streaming product to a diversified business, ranging from ‘software technology’ to the ‘influencer economy’. Through this split, I am very confident in the leadership of KKCompany Technologies Group by Steve and his professional management team and I believe that under his leadership, the group will create the next peak of the business. I will also maintain the spirit of the founding of KKBOX and continue to work for creators through KKCulture Group.” KKCompany Technologies Group is a leading software service provider with a focus on Asia and global market expansion. Its three flagship brands include KKBOX, KKStream, and Going Cloud. With core technologies spanning music streaming, multimedia technologies, and cloud services, KKCompany Technologies offers a wide portfolio of products and services that continue to empower customers to create compelling commercial value. The Group also offers software services and solutions to tens of millions of customers, with corporate clients across Asia covering various industries such as telecommunications, entertainment and multimedia, media, education, and fitness centers, and envisages the launch of an IPO in Taiwan this year. "We have always believed that technology can inspire people and help resolve the pressing issues of various industries. From our base in Taiwan, we are working with our customers and partners to accelerate our business expansion in the Asian market and cultivate multinational talents, the most important core operation strategy in the next three years. " said Steve Wang, Chairman and CEO of KKCompany Technologies Group. KKCompany shall be renamed KKCulture Group, and focus on the "Influencer Economy" as its core with Chris Lin as CEO unaltered. KKCulture is a content innovation company that is dedicated to empowering creators and shaping culture through access to opportunities, resources, and technology. It consists of three main divisions: KKFARM, KKLIVE, and KKTV, is committed to helping music artists and brands share their music with audiences on streaming platforms globally.

OVER 12 BILLION PLAYS ANALYSED AND MOST SEARCHED KEYWORDS ON KKBOX REVEALED! TIKTOK PROVIDES AN EDGE FOR SONGS TO GAIN POPULARITY Asia’s leading digital music subscription services provider KKBOX has launched its brand new “Top Yearly Singles Charts” after analysing 12 billion songs played over the course of 2018. These charts will feature alongside KKBOX’s existing charts and titles that contribute to the annual KKBOX Music Awards such as the daily and weekly charts, “Artist of The Year”, “Best Newcomer” and “Best Singer-Songwriter”. Through these charts, KKBOX users can observe the current trends in the pop music industry at one glance. Over the years, the KKBOX Music Awards has been ever-expanding. Beginning as a star-studded award ceremony, the annual event has introduced a series of exciting programmes such as the KKBOX Music Awards Pre-Party, which kickstarts the festivities of the event, and the KKBOX Future Star Stage, which showcases the brightest young talents new to the industry. This week, KKBOX has also launched a new application dedicated to the KKBOX Music Awards where users can view the most popular songs of the year. KKBOX has also announced the most searched keywords of 2018, which includes “JJ Lin”, “Jay Chou”, “Mayday”, “Dignified (体面)”, “Just Go (说散就散)”, “TWICE”, “BTS”, “We Were Once In Love (毕竟深爱过)”, “The Light Runner (追光者)” and “Perfect” among the top 10 most searched keywords. C-pop Top Yearly Singles Chart reveals that TikTok has large influence on popular songs KKBOX’s Yearly Singles Charts have just been revealed, with the most popular artistes continuing to rank among the charts. Taiwanese singer A-Mei was nominated for the “Best Female Singer” award at this year’s Golden Melody Awards with her album The Story Thief. Six of the songs in this album feature in Singapore’s Yearly Singles Chart, including hit song ‘Full Name (连名带姓)’, composed by Jay Chou. Other popular songs among fans in 2018 include Jay Chou’s ‘Waiting For You (等你下课)’, JJ Lin’s ‘Little Big Us (伟大的渺小)’ and ’53 Dawns (黑夜问白天)’, Jam Hsiao’s ‘A Love Song For You (让我为你唱情歌)’ and Crowd Lu’s ‘You Complete Me (几分之几)’. 2018 has also seen the rise of many young starlets and newcomers, including Eric Chou, Xiao Bing Chih and Da Zhuang, all of whom did well on this year’s charts. Among them, Eric Chou even managed to clinch the third place with his song ‘The Chaos After You (如果雨之后)’. Another noteworthy thing observed from the charts is that the Chinese application TikTok has had a huge influence on the songs that become popular in 2018. With the rise of music variety shows in China, coupled with the popularity of TikTok, many songs have been “discovered” and started trending after being covered on these platforms. The most notable among these songs is Kelly Yu’s ‘Dignified (体面)’, featured on the soundtrack of movie The Ex-Files 3: The Return of The Exes. Boosted by the popularity of the movie, ‘Dignified’ beat out numerous hit songs to be the top-ranked song in this year’s Top Yearly Singles Chart. Other songs to find fame on TikTok include JC’s ‘Just Go (说散就散)’ and viral hit ‘Learn To Meow (学猫叫)’. Pop Singles Yearly Accumulation Chart: Movie soundtracks and EDM prove to be most popular As for English songs, Ed Sheeran once again proves himself to be one of the best singer-songwriters. Five of his songs appear on the top singles chart, with ‘Perfect Duet’, performed with Beyonce, taking the third-placed spot on the chart. Singaporean fans can look forward to Ed Sheeran’s concert on 26 April! Recent years have seen the rise of electronic dance music (EDM) in the English music industry, and it is no surprise that many of these songs feature in the chart. Producers like Martin Garrix, David Guetta, Marshmello and Jonas Blue all have multiple songs that feature. Another category of songs that have done well are songs featured in movie soundtracks. Songs featured in last year’s popular movies The Greatest Showman and Fifty Shades of Grey have all done well, while the recent A Star Is Born sees many songs form its soundtrack entering the chart. The best performance comes from ex-Fifth Harmony member Camilla Cabello, who has enjoyed a successful solo career after leaving the group. Her single ‘Havana’ is well-loved by fans all over the world, and lands Cabello the top spot in the Pop Singles Yearly Accumulation Chart. J-Pop Chart gets dominated by Korean groups, BLACKPINK takes top spot in K-Pop chart An interesting phenomenon can be observed on the J-Pop Singles Yearly Accumulation Chart. As many Korean idol groups such as BTS, TWICE and BLACKPINK have recently released Japanese songs, Japanese singers have been crowded out of the top spots of the J-Pop chart. In fifth place we can finally see Japanese singer Kenshi Yonezu’s ‘Lemon’, while J-Pop legend Ayumi Hamasaki, who is rumoured to be retiring, has multiple songs featured on the chart. Several songs from Japanese drama OSTs have also proven to be popular this year. The K-Pop Chart is also an exciting one to watch, with two-year-old girl group BLACKPINK surprisingly occupying the top spot with their single ‘DDU-DU DDU-DU’, which was only released in June this year, pushing down global sensation BTS’s ‘Fake Love’, released a month earlier. BLACKPINK even managed to outshine their label “seniors” iKON, pushing their song ‘Love Scenario’ to second place. In past years, songs featured in Korean drama OSTs tended to do better and take up multiple spots in the top ten. However, due to a lack of significant K-dramas this year, OSTs have not done well, except for the soundtrack of A Korean Odyssey. Look back on your 2018 music experience with KKBOX! As 2018 comes to an end, KKBOX will be introducing a new “Your Shape of Music 2018” this December, which will summarise the listening records of each user over the past year. Users will be able to find out the first song they listened to on KKBOX in 2018, as well as the 30 songs they listened to the most this year. Other statistics, such as listening duration, number of songs listened to, and personal “Artist of The Year” and “Top Three Songs” will also be shared with the users, who will then be able to share their results with their family and friends to seek out those with similar music tastes. Visit https://kkbox.fm/t2xAV8 for more information. 14th KKBOX Music Awards to be held on 26 January, stand to win tickets from December onwards The 14th KKBOX Music Awards will be held at the Taipei Arena on 26 January 2019. Premium users of KKBOX will stand a chance to win tickets from mid-December. Users will face the challenge of guessing a song from the Top Yearly SinglesChart of each language, and will need to save the particular song in their playlist to receive an opportunity to participate in the draw for the prize. For more information, visit the KKBOX Music Awards official website. (https://kma.kkbox.com/awards/news?terr=sg)

KKBOX Singapore announces its collaboration with Audio-Techinica and Bandwagon today. Sharing the same passion to constantly innovate and provide quality to users,  KKBOX, Audio-Technica and Bandwagon launched their first collaboration with Music  Supper series.  Hosted by up-and-coming local talents StellaVee, the live-streamed series was broadcasted across social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter and featured a music chart countdown, as well as fun games and performances. The show looked to highlight the ever-growing local music scene in Singapore,  featuring homegrown local talents such as Boon HuiLu, Hubert and Joanna Dong as guests. Louise Lin, the Integrated Marketing Director of KKBOX, shared:  “As the leading streaming music service in Asia, KKBOX understands music fans’ insights and how to maximize the influence of artists and their music. We are excited to showcase the  musical talent working with Audio Technica and Bandwagon, to develop our music fan  community through Music Supper show!“ Teng Shaokai, Audio-Technica S.E.A. Sales  & Marketing Manager, Export Business Unit, stated: “Audio-Technica’s philosophy has always been to support local talents. As a company, we believe in heightening our connection to the world through sound, with music being one of the key connections that bring people together. With the synergy between our visions, we are excited to begin  our partnership with KKBOX through KKBOX’s Music Supper show and look forward to  building up our local music scene further through this platform.”  

Evolution in Music Listening BehaviorKKBOX Revealed Four Major Trends Identified by Big Data Analytics 1. The most-searched keywords on KKBOX in the first half of 2017 are revealed and music relates closely to social buzz and current affairs2. Music streaming and online gigs go mainstream3. Mainstream music is diversifying and EDM is music hottest trend 4. Playlist have surpassed album listenership With 13 years of success in digital music streaming business, over 10 million members across the region and more than 50 billion clicks, Asia’s leading music streaming brand KKBOX, published its big data analytics from the Digital Music Survey, a collaborative project between KKBOX Research Center and AC Nielsen.   Top search keywords received by KKBOX Singapore in the first half of 2017 are Big Bang、BTS、beauty and the beast、closer、Coldplay、Eric 周興哲、Ed Sheeran、Faded、Hebe田馥甄、Shape of You、TWICE、五月天、林俊傑、告白氣球、妮妮、周杰倫、张学友、梦想的声音、演員、薛之謙 (by order of stroke-counts, not in any order of ranking). Asian superstars May Day, Jay Chou and JJ Lin maintained their dominance as the top searched keywords, while new songs, such as “Actor”（演员） by Joker Xue （薛之谦）and “Shape of You” by Ed Sheeran, rapidly rose to the top of the popularity chart. One of the greatest bands of all time, Coldplay has recently put on two blockbuster shows in Singapore National Stadium with an impressive crowd of 100 000 audiences. In the same month, the play count of Coldplay’s songs on KKBOX increased 62%, and their all-time hits such “Yellow,” “Scientist,” and “Viva La Vida” has also doubled in play count. Meantime Internet celebrities have taken the Internet by storm, thanks to their online popularity and spontaneous viral effect. Singapore’s very own songwriter-singer, Hubert Ng, has recently worked with an Internet celebrity couple from Taiwan, Nico & Kim to release a single called “Nini”. The song surged to the top of the KKBOX New Song Chart immediately after the release.   The global music industry has undergone some pretty dramatic changes in recent years and Asia was no exception. The rapid rise of EDM (Electronic Dance Music) has created a brand new pop language within the young community. During the past year, the play count of EDM genre has grown by 1.5 times. In terms of the most frequently played songs by language in Singapore, the Chinese songs takes up more than 50%, followed by Western music which holds 24%. Korean music has also steadily grown as one of the most favored language and it occupies 10% of the total music consumption. Also, the volume of music listening is associated directly with social events and concerts as the play count of certain songs tend to increase before KTV visit as well as concert & post-concert period.  1.     The most-searched keywords on KKBOX in the first half of 2017 are revealed and music relates closely to social buzz and current affairs   The most-searched keywords on KKBOX in the first half of 2017 show indicated that songs are made popular by music programs has higher tendency of being searched by music lovers and fans, hence, casting a limelight to the original singer. For instance, after Hebe Tien performed her rendition of Joker Xue’s “Actor” at a Chinese music program, searches of the keyword “actor” on KKBOX  has skyrocketed, and brought the original singer to the center of attention, with 7 songs by Joker Xue has successfully charted in Top 50 songs. In 2017, the song “Actor” has peaked “KKBOX Daily Chart” for 103 consecutive days, as well as spending 34 weeks on the Top 10 of “KKBOX Weekly Chart”.  Internet sensations has extended well beyond its existing boundaries, and has contributed to the revolution of music scene. Internet celebrity Nico & Kim, who garnered 2 million LIKEs on their fan page, has successfully peaked “KKBOX Weekly Chart” for 6 consecutive weeks with the single “Nini”, which is written by Kim herself and composed by local uprising musician, Hubert Ng. 2.     Music streaming and online gigs go mainstream According to the 2016 Online, Digital Music Market Survey by AC Nielsen, it has proven that music consumption by Singapore consumers are shifting towards online streaming platforms. Although illegal and free music platforms are still dominating the market as a whole, the listenership has been pretty static. At the same time, the rate of downloads, physical CD purchases and radio listenership are declining. The only music source that has been progressing steadily is the monthly music subscription service, which has grown by 10% compared to the survey completed in 2015.   In a detailed survey conducted recently, KKBOX has indicated that most members were attracted to the convenience of music streaming, where 37% members were enticed by the offline listening feature, 35% of them enjoy cross-devices listening pleasure, which include usage of smartphone, PC & tablet. 25% members are pleased by the diversity of music genre and extensive music database while another 23% are fascinated with the personalized recommendations feature. On the other hand, 44% of the respondents have previously enjoyed concert online, with age group of 25 – 34 years old, contributing to 47%.  This result suggests that online streaming technology provides convenience in music consumption and creates a unique listening experience. Mobile devices are widely consumed in Singapore and all respondents of this survey own at least one smart phone.  3.     Mainstream music is diversifying and EDM is music hottest trend K-Pop has taken the world by storm and this phenomenon is reflected in KKBOX too, whereby the play count of Korean music genre has surpassed 10% of total music consumption. The rise of Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is pretty significant where the play count has multiplied 1.5 times from 2.9% to 4.69% in 2016.  4.     Playlist have surpassed album listenership Playlists have surpassed albums as a format for music listening for the first time ever. Playlists are organized by theme, scenarios and music styles that make it convenient and easier to consume, satisfy users' music playing needs as well as offering more opportunities for music discovery. Data derived from the recent survey shows that 54% of KKBOX users are “playlist driven”, for example new songs that are created under “Mandarin New Singles” received over a million play count on a weekly basis. Among the various theme, the most popular ones are “love,” “relaxation,” “sports,” “rejuvenation,” “family” and “party.”   *The Digital Music Survey conducted by AC Nielsen interviewed users of KKBOX in Singapore who are between 15 and 45 years old and have listened to music online in the past month. The period of survey started on January 5, 2017 and ended on January 17, 2017.  A total of 503 persons have been interviewed with a sampling error of 4.37%.

KKBOXUnleashes The Brand New “Music Recognition” Feature MusicSearching Can Be Done Within Seconds   Asia's leading music streaming service, KKBOXpartners with ACRCloud to launch a brand new “music recognition” feature, wheremusic searching in KKBOX app can be easily done by singing or humming to aparticular song. This new feature allows users to search and download musicfrom KKBOX extensive music library just by singing a song, humming a tune orputting a smartphone close to the source of music. When users hear a good songbut uncertain about the title, they can just turn on “music recognition”feature on KKBOX app and place it close to the source of music. Alternatively,users can also sing or hum parts of the song and let the “music recognition”feature work its way out. More details.   Multi-talented heartthrob Bii has personally attempted this featureby singing his own hit “Love More” as well as “Falling”, a song from his favoritesinger, Tanya Chua and the “music recognition” feature successfully identifiedthe title of the song just within a few seconds.  Bii, who recently completed his solo concert“Bii With You LIVE In Singapore 2017” organized by KKBOX, is now gearing up on preparationof new album, which is set to release this summer as well as his first everconcert in the prestigious Taipei Arena this December.   KKBOX and ACRCloud come together to introduce this digitalfingerprinting technology where searching of music can be easily done in KKBOXapp by giving a little clue like singing a song, humming a tune, or putting asmartphone close to the source of music. “We are very excited to partner withKKBOX to offer music and humming recognition feature to larger audiences inAsia, this feature brings a whole new experience for users to consume music.” -Tony Li, Co-Founder of ACRCloud.   In addition to partnering with ACRCloud, KKBOX has also optimizedthe post-function of “Music Recognition“ feature, where users can convenientlyreview the artist or album once the intended song is being identified.Moreover, users can directly share the search result through social media aswell as save or collect the song for offline listening pleasure. “KKBOXcontinues enhancing user experience to fulfill user’s needs in various context.With music and humming recognition feature, you can identify a song morequickly and intuitively, and then you can collect or share the song easily.”Sophia Lin, Vice President of KKBOX Product Develop Center.    About KKBOX KKBOX,Asia's leading music streaming service, was established in 2004 by a group ofTaiwanese software programmers with a shared passion for technology and music.With the support from more than 500 international major and local independentmusic labels, KKBOX features 30 million legal tracks, including the mostcomprehensive Asia-Pop music library, and is currently available in Taiwan,Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand with over 10 million usersand 2 million paid users. KKBOX is committed to creating a truly immersiveonline music experience to users, and to empower artists and their musicthrough technological innovation. With its advanced product technology,strategic vision and strong local partnerships, KKBOX is aggressively expandinginto international markets. For more information, please visit http://www.kkbox.com/about/en.   AboutACRCloud ACRCloud (https://www.acrcloud.com/) is a Beijing basedcomprehensive automatic content recognition provider that has indexed over 40million tracks in its music fingerprinting database.  For 2015 and 2016, it was ranked #1 in audiofingerprinting technology, which was recognized by the prestigious MusicInformation Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX). ACRCloud offers musicrecognition solution to Xiaomi and Musixmatch etc.

Join all Beatles fans for 14 studio albums and 3 collections at 00:00 on February 29th Follow KKBOX on the Abbey Road, or wherever you are, for the legendary Beatles The all-time bestseller, first mega rock concert and first world-touring band – it’s the Beatles Innumerable artists covered Hey Jude, Yellow Submarine, Yesterday, Let It Be and other classics to pay tribute to the Beatles All the 17 albums from the years of the Beatles – the legendary British rock band – are coming to KKBOX at 00:00 on February 29th. In addition to bringing the immortal classics to every Beatles aficionados, the KKBOX debut is expected to ignite another Beatlemania as well. You may have listened to many Beatles masterpieces such as Hey Jude, Yellow Submarine, Yesterday, Let It Be, Across The Universe, I Want to Hold Your Hand and In My Life covered by other celebrated artists, but now you can find all the originals on KKBOX and enjoy wherever you are. Many great musicians around the world, such as Radiohead, Oasis and more, considered the Beatles their mentors. Mayday, a popular Taiwanese band that claims to have been influenced by the British group, also said, “there wouldn’t be Mayday without the Beatles”. In “The Beatles, Tomorrow” stage and behind-the-scene exhibition held in Taipei last year, Mr. Shihfang Ma, a music commentator dubbed “the walking Beatles encyclopedia”, and Matthew Tsai from Mayday joined to share their enthusiasm. “If there were no Beatles, rock music might not have been the way as we knew it,” said Mr. Ma. “They were forerunners of ‘bands of original creations,’ and they experimented different styles to expand and explore new possibilities of pop music, while making rock a new form of artistic expressions.” KKBOX members can now listen to a total of 17 Beatles albums released through the years – from Please Please Me, Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road to the last group album Let It Be, along with several collections. Originally a rock band, the Beatles was formed in Liverpool, England in 1960 by John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. According to RIAA, the “greatest, most influential band ever” was the best-selling band in American history, and it holds the record of the most top-chart albums and market-leading singles in England. In 2004, the Rolling Stone Magazine bestowed the “Greatest Artists in History” title to the Beatles, and Billboard Magazine listed the Beatles as top of the “100 Most Successful Artists in History”. In 2014, the Beatles was presented the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. • A complete list of the 17 studio albums and collections to appear on KKBOX: Year        Album 1963        Please Please Me, With the Beatles 1964        A Hard Day’s Night, Beatles for Sale 1965        Help!, Rubber Soul 1966        Revolver 1967        Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Magic Mystery Tour 1968        The Beatles 1969        Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road 1970        Let It Be 1973        The Beatles 1962-1966, The Beatles 1967-1970 1988        Past Master 2000        1  

The ceremony of launching new product stands for KKBOX and Hutchison Telecom's close cooperation and bring the best music experience to the market.Taiwan’s largest music subscription service, KKBOX, today announced the expansion of its unlimited music download service for PC, iPhone and Android-based phones in Hong Kong with Hutchison Telecom.Backed by big-name investors and local telecom giants, the investor roster of KKBOX includes US-based Adobe, Japan’s Orix Group, and local telecom giant Chung-Hwa Telecom.KKBOX initially launched in Taiwan during 2005 and quickly emerged as the most popular music service in Taiwan, acquired over 4.5 million registered users and 340,000 premium service subscribers. Given Taiwan’s 13 million Internet population and high digital piracy traffic, KKBOX was a phenomenal success.KKBOX offers its premium subscription at the price of NT$149 per month in Taiwan and HK$65 in Hong Kong, in which subscribers can stream music online and cache songs on their PC and Smartphone for offline access. Unlike the US and European music services which emphasizes on the Ad-Sponsored free streaming model, KKBOX only offers limited free streams per day to its non-paying members. In contrary, the service uses a rich collection of editorials, exclusive artist interview, entertainment news and community features to attract and keep free users attached to the service without paying excess copyright royalty.“KKBOX is unique in a way that it is not only a software that finds you music, it is also an entertainment newspaper, a pop-music magazine, and a community for music lovers. The essence of a successful subscription service is to let your members feel privileged, you will find that element throughout our service,” the company chairman Lambert Chien said.A very unique feature of KKBOX, which has not been seen in other music service is that for each song a user plays, the song lyric is displayed line-by-line in the “Karaoke” style. “Karaoke is a major leisure activity for Asians, especially for Chinese. People listen to new songs and often have sing-along needs so they can practice for an impressive performance in front of friends during a Karaoke gathering. We think this is absolutely a critical feature so we have it not only on PC, but also for our iPhone and Android version,” said Chien.Taiwan is known as the pop-music center for Chinese, producing over half of the most popular pop-music stars and hit songs. KKBOX will expand its footprint to other Asia-Pacific regions, including Singapore, Malaysia and China during 2010, according to the company.