{"id":5686,"date":"2015-11-17T06:17:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T06:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/11\/17\/billboard-goes-china\/"},"modified":"2015-11-17T06:17:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T06:17:22","slug":"billboard-goes-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/11\/17\/billboard-goes-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Billboard Goes China!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.musicdish.com\/img\/article\/2015\/YinYueTai_Billboard.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"217\" height=\"144\" \/><br \/>Billboard, the leading global destination for news, charts, trends and innovations in music, announced plans to create and launch the first ever &#8220;User Generated&#8221; chart in China with YinYueTai (YYT), a leading Chinese music video service with more than 50 million registered users and real-time access to music video data. The socially driven Billboard\/YYT UG songs chart will rank the videos with the most engagement on YYT&#8217;s website. The chart is expected to launch in the first quarter of 2016.  <!--more-->  <br \/>In the agreement negotiated with the help of Hu Xiao, CEO, California Music &amp; Arts Consortium, and Joel Wertman, president, For Goodness Sake! Media, YYT&#8217;s China V-Chart will become available weekly within the International Charts section of Billboard.com. The YYT China V-Chart ranks the most-viewed videos of the week on the YYT platform. The V-Chart is the first-ever Chinese chart to be integrated into Billboard&#8217;s international section and will bring more opportunities for Chinese artists to be recognized on the world stage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are pleased to be working with YinYueTai on the creation of the UG songs chart and the worldwide launch of YYT&#8217;s V-Chart,&#8221; said John Amato, co-president, Billboard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;YYT has established themselves as the go-to platform for music videos, with their finger on the pulse of the trending music market,&#8221; continued Jonathan Serbin, head of Asia, Billboard. &#8220;YYT&#8217;s real-time data coupled with the power of the Billboard brand will provide valuable insight into music viewing habits and artist popularity in China.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>YYT&#8217;s V-Chart will launch this month on Billboard.com.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Billboard charts set the standard for authoritative, credible music rankings across the globe, and YYT is proud to join that standard,&#8221; said Zhang Dou, founder &amp; CEO, YinYueTai.<\/p>\n<p>Shi Ying, co-founder, YinYueTai, added, &#8220;We are thrilled to partner with Billboard to create the first co-branded chart in China. We believe this chart will provide a valuable tool to track the popularity of artists and songs across the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: YinYueTai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billboard, the leading global destination for news, charts, trends and innovations in music, announced plans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}