Tencent Music Entertainment Group is a company that develops music streaming services for the Chinese market. Tencent Music’s apps include QQ Music, Kugou, Kuwo, and WeSing; which have more than 800 million active users and 120 million paying subscribers. As of July 2016, Tencent Music’s three services held an estimated 56% market share of music streaming services in China.
In the first quarter of 2021, Tencent Music announced it had 60.9 million paying users, up 42.6% compared to the 42.7 million paying users in the first quarter of 2020. In addition, the total number of music streaming users was announced to be 615 million, a drop of 6.4% compared to the first quarter of 2020 (657 million).
The company also revealed that both its US and Hong Kong stocks will be fully fungible which means that stocks bought or sold in one market can be converted or sold in another.
Tencent Music announced that it will buy back Class A ordinary shares of up to $1 billion. The music streaming company further confirmed this could start as soon as March 29th and run for up to 12 months.
