qq music

qq music (QQ 音乐) is one of the most used music platforms in China. It’s a Chinese app (platform) but it didn’t mean that only provides Mandarin Chinese songs for you. You can also find tons of other languages’ songs. And the qq music offers you App, PC, and webpage version. Let’s explore qq music now!

QQ music(QQ 音乐) was launched in 2005, owned by Tencent Music Entertainment Group. According to the Q3 2020 Tencent financial report, qq music has reached over 800 million monthly active users, and over 51 million premium users.

Our platform comprises online music, online audio, online karaoke, music-centric live streaming and online concert services. We have built our platform not just as a music streaming service provider, but a broad community for music fans to discover, listen, sing, watch, perform and socialize around music. On our platform, social interactions such as sharing, liking, commenting, following and virtual gifting, are deeply integrated in our products and highly complementary to the core music experience we offer to our users, further enhancing their engagement and retention. As a result, our platform is an all-in-one music and audio entertainment destination that allows users to seamlessly engage with music in a highly social setting.
Quote from Tencent Music Entertainment Group

Is qq music free to use?

Yes, qq music is free to use, it is a freemium music streaming services. it has tons of free music (qq music already paid for the copyright) for users to listen to and download. But some songs are only available for premium users.

QQ music is mainly for Chinese users, which means there are more Chinese songs than other languages songs. For Chinese language learners, listening to Chinese music is a good way to start learning Chinese.

Features:

Millions of songs.

You can find Chinese songs, English songs, Korean songs, Japanese songs, and other languages songs there.

DTS sound(originally Digital Theater Systems).
Podcast and Broadcast (播客/电台).

The Podcast and Broadcast cover a wide range of topics. Like talk shows, drama, interviews, education, relationship, culture, history, literature, children, etc.

It’s more like Tencent combines music, video, novel, and so on whole things together in one platform.

Audiobooks(有声书).

There are most popular book categories audiobooks. Like, Chinese fiction, Western fiction, poetry, novel, literature, etc. However, the audio is streaming in Chinese. If you can understand Chinese then it’s useless to you.

But, if you’re a Chinese language learner, then you shouldn’t miss this great chance to improve your listening skill. No matter what level you got. Because all the audiobooks have captions!

It’s an AI caption powered by Tencent. Besides, there are many options for you to control audiobook playing, like speed control, audio quality, sleep timer, etc.

Singing Livestream (直播).

For user who likes to watch Livestream then qq music is an alternative place you should explore. However, the Livestream is relevant to singing mainly.

Short videos (视频)

The short video is also relevant to singing or singer. It’s just a short clip of video like the Tiktok video streaming. The videos are uploaded by users.

Social media function (扑通).

“扑通” is a community for sharing and communicating with people who have the same interests, like Twitter. You can post videos, images, text, and comments. Besides, you can join the group for sharing songs or simply talking about the same topic.

For that reason, it has a strong social function of making friends.

Free to listen to and download the songs (Not all songs for free).

qq music offers many songs free to listen to and download. For me, I only listen to music for taking relax without any specific singer.

I don’t need to pay for songs at all. The free songs are far more than enough for me.

Not expensive for premium (Only＄2.5 monthly).
High-quality songs.

It offers HQ (High-quality) and SQ (Super-quality) songs to listen to and download. And the format of downloaded songs has mp3, APE, FLAC, qmc0.

qmc0 format is a unique format of Tencent qq music for copyright protection.

Music board (音乐榜单).

You can find Billboard, UK CHARTS, MelOn, KKBox, YouTube, Oricon music, etc. However, qq music might be not available in your country due to local law and copyright. Choose wisely before you use qq music.

Easy to Upload your songs or albums.
Share playlists.

You can create, save and share your playlists. If users like the songs on your playlists, people will subscribe to your playlist and your account.

Songs recommendation.

According to your listening history, qq music will update song recommendations every day for you.

Lyrics (translated)

Almost all songs have Lyrics and are translated into Chinese. You can choose to hide the translated lyrics anytime.

Furthermore, you can display the lyrics on the front screen ( PC ) or lock screen ( phone/ Pad ).

Now let’s talk about the powerful functions that most people barely know.

Music player.

Is qq music a music player? Yes, qq music is not only a music streaming platform but also a music player. With that said, you can use qq music as a music player for mp3, wav, wma, m4a, mid format, etc.

Bitrate converter.

This free bitrate converter supports mp3, wav, FLAC,AAC, APE file conversion from 32 to 320 bitrate.

Ringtone maker.
Cloud storage.(10 GB)

The qq music cloud storage is based on Wei Yun(微云). And it offers you 10GB cloud online disk for free. You can save files to there.

Recognize songs by singing or playing.

This is a technical function to help you find “what is this song”. Imagine that you are just hearing a song with a good rhythm when you at somewhere.

You want to know what’s this song. You don’t need to ask someone for that, or try to memorize the lyrics or rhythm and then search it on the internet.

All you need to do is use qq music to recognize this song. Even singing the rhythm to recognize the song’s name.

Actually, WeChat has the same feature that’s shaking the phone to recognize songs.

QQ music price for premium

The price of “绿钻豪华版luxurious package”: 15 CNY monthly. (about ＄2.5)
The price of “付费音乐包Basic payment package”: 8 CNY per monthly. (about ＄1.25)

How do I pay for qq music

From the image above, you will see you can pay for qqmusic via WeChat Pay, QQ wallet, QQ coin, and Chinese bank account. So if you don’t have any one of those, then you may not able to pay for premium account.

Create qq music account

You don’t need to sign up qq music account if you already have qq account. Because they share the same account. So if don’t have qq account then you should sign up qq account firstly. And then you can log in to the qq music with qq account.

Or you can log in qq music with WeChat account. If you don’t have WeChat account then you might need this about how to sign up WeChat account.

How to download qq music songs

You can download songs by clicking on the “down arrow” and then you need to choose the quality of the song. For users who don’t have a premium account, only available to download HQ and SQ music files.