Distribute your catalog
to Tencent Music.

Tencent Music does not accept catalog directly from individual artists or labels. Delivery runs through an approved distribution partner over a certified DDEX feed. On ToneGrid you upload a release once, select Tencent Music in your store list, and the platform builds a DDEX ERN package, normalizes the metadata for the Chinese market, and delivers it over a certified SFTP channel to QQ Music, Kugou and Kuwo. Once your team approves the release, dispatch takes around two business days, plus Tencent's own content review.

A single Tencent Music delivery reaches QQ Music (QQ音乐), Kugou Music (酷狗音乐) and Kuwo Music (酷我音乐) in mainland China, and feeds WeSing (全民K歌) for user-generated covers. JOOX, Tencent's service for Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, is a separate store selection in the same release workflow.

Tencent Music Entertainment Group ended 2025 with 127.4 million paying music subscribers, up from 121 million a year earlier, and reported more than half a billion monthly active users across its online music services. Its premium Super VIP tier passed 20 million subscribers. That makes TME the largest music subscription business in the world by paying-user count.

Yes, if you want the release to be discoverable. Chinese listeners search in Simplified Chinese, and the TME apps index the local-script fields. ToneGrid carries parallel title, artist and album fields so you can supply Simplified Chinese alongside the Latin-script original, plus a pinyin transliteration where it helps search. Releases delivered with Latin-only metadata will still ingest, but they are far harder to find.

There are two separate reviews. The first is yours: every release sits in your own QC queue until someone on your team approves it, and the platform never approves on your behalf. Once you approve, dispatch to Tencent takes about two business days. Tencent then runs its own content and rights review before the release goes live, which commonly adds a few more days and can take longer for lyrics-heavy repertoire, cover versions, or releases whose rights grant needs checking. Every state change is reported back per store, so you see Submitted, Accepted and Live for Tencent Music specifically rather than a single generic delivery status.

You do. Every release stops in your own QC queue before it can be delivered, and only your team can approve it. The platform supplies the evidence, not the verdict: audio fingerprinting results, AI label-copy findings, artwork and lyric flags, DDEX validation errors and a territory-versus-rights cross-check, each severity-tiered with a full audit trail of who decided what and when. Nothing is auto-approved and nothing is delivered to Tencent Music on your behalf. ISRCs are issued at the moment your team approves, not at submission, so an unapproved release never consumes an identifier.

Yes. Territory is set per release and per store. You can grant China only, exclude China from an otherwise worldwide release, or run a China-inclusive worldwide grant, and the rights layer records who controls the recording and the composition in that territory. Splits and payees are stored against the same rights record, so the China revenue line reconciles against the same ownership data as everything else.

Tencent Music revenue lands in the same royalty engine as every other store. Statements are produced monthly, broken down by store, territory, track and payee, with splits applied automatically down through sub-labels and featured artists. Payouts run on a monthly cycle, 10 to 15 days after the earning month closes, in USD, with wire, PayPal, Payoneer and regional rails available.

Yes. ToneGrid is white-label infrastructure. Your artists and sub-labels sign in to your platform, on your domain, with your logo and your terms. The Chinese-market delivery, the metadata normalization, the QC and the reporting all run underneath without your clients ever seeing an underlying platform name. Your artist portal also runs in Simplified Chinese, so a Chinese-language roster never has to work in English.

Chinese platforms apply a stricter editorial review than most Western stores. The most common causes of rejection are unclear rights on cover versions and samples, lyrics that fall outside local content rules, artwork carrying third-party logos, URLs or social handles, keyword-stuffed or inconsistent metadata, and undisclosed AI-generated material. ToneGrid screens all of this before dispatch: audio fingerprinting against a catalog of over 100 million tracks, an AI label-copy review, artwork moderation and DDEX schema validation, so problems surface in your queue rather than as a rejection from the store.