![]() On the other hand, for someone who wants to keep up with absolutely all of the latest releases, it is essential to crawl out of the QQ hole, where many of the albums and songs featured on both NetEase and Xiami apps cannot be found. It makes sense that it is better tapped into what’s hot outside of China, too, because it is actually a joint project between Tencent and Spotify. For example, when I search for songs from Spotify’s “Internet People” playlist, a compilation of irreverent songs being shared on social media, QQ is far more likely to display the correct song in the first few results than its competitors. I don’t care whether or not I can find the latest EP from some underground garage band, but I do want to be able to find the songs that are hot and find them quickly. There is a clear reason for the divide between us, which is that my taste in music is hardly any less basic than UGGs and pumpkin spice lattes, whereas Will is always digital crate-digging for the obscurities of both Chinese and Western music.įor me then, searchability is key. Personally, I have always used QQ as my go-to, but the Beijinger's resident music writer, Will Griffith, told me that of the big three, he uses QQ the least. So, what exactly is the difference between these apps and which one best suits your listening habits? We investigate: Music selection and searchability The works of certain artists on the service are also only available through purchase, like Taylor Swift (Swift famously removed her music from Spotify altogether). Rather than offering to cut ads with a premium account, (the model that Spotify follows), these apps tend to restrict the number of songs a subscriber can listen to until they pay up, or provide additional perks like more downloads for offline listening and higher quality streaming. Anyone in a WeChat group for music sharing must have noticed that, somewhat annoyingly, people share songs from a range of different apps. While Spotify has thoroughly dominated the music library market in the West, here in China there is not one, but three major players in the online streaming game: QQ Music, NetEase Music, and Xiami.
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