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Top 10 Chinese pop music songs to know now

I picked for you 10 of the best songs and artists according to QQ 2016 top charts of Chinese pop songs.  What do I mean by the best? Well, the trendiest, most popular songs among Chinese people, but also the most surprising, such as 苏运莹. The music videos are ranked by number of Youtube views from the highest to the lowest. Enjoy!

#1 苏运莹 – 2-0+1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlvoJyk0W8E

苏运莹 participated in 中国好歌曲第二季 : the Chinese version of “The voice” TV show with this song she wrote on her own. It is all about being brave and keeping on fighting, what a great motto!

#2 李榮浩 Ronghao Li – 野生動物 Wild Animals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHAsE6hB4iM

If you like this song so much you want to sing it here are the lyrics!

#3 TFBOYS – 不完美小孩 高清完整音源 歌词字幕 Imperfect Kid

https://youtu.be/53Ohu8fkRoQ

This band is formed by 3 boys very famous among Chinese people. Since their debut, they have made many appearances in music awards and various TV shows

It’s better if you sing with the lyrics, so go for it and don’t be afraid of striking a false note!

#4 鹿晗 (Lu Han) – Excited 封印

鹿晗 Lu Han, 25 years old, is the former member of the well-know K-pop band EXO. He is now one of the most influential Chinese artist in China.

The lyrics can be useful.

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#5 Sunshine -甜蜜具现式

Sunshine is a Chinese girls band! They are really becoming famous in China but are barely known in foreign countries. We’re giving the best Chinese training ever with these lyrics.

#6 李宇春 (Li Yushun) – 野蛮生长

李宇春 (Li Yushun) is also known as Chris Lee. In addition to being a popular singer, she’s also an actress and won the MTV Europe Music Award for Best Worldwide Act, which is a meowsome prize to gain international fame!

You’ll find the lyrics in the video! That’s some kind of magic 😉

#7 许嵩 (Xu song)- 燕归巢

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84jhmSWcUPs

Also, know as Vae in English, 许嵩 Xu song became famous by posting videos of him singing on the internet, some of his songs such as “The Funeral of Rose” started to be quickly popular among Chinese young people.

There are no lyrics yet available online that we found, maybe you can try to write them down?

#8 郑钧(Zhen jun) – 你必须幸福

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbNZDjKa4Mg

Zhen jun became some kind of popular in the US thanks to the Chinese version he made of Coldplay’s song“Yellow”. After that, he joined the members of the jury of Happy Boys Voice (快乐男声) TV show, aka Superboy.

The lyrics for Zhen jun’s song are available on Mojim.

#9 魏語諾 – 躲不开

She decided to create a pop-rock band with few friends and became famous thanks to the song “花房姑娘”.

The best way to learn a language is by speaking, right? Try your best.

#10 俞灏明 (Yu Haoming) – 愚先生

participation in Happy Boys Voice (快乐男声) TV show, a singing contest aka Superboy. Now he appears a lot on TV shows such as Tian Tian Xiang Shang and Meteor Showe.

Try to read the Chinese pictograms in the lyrics.

Bonus song because I love Ronghao Li 李榮浩 so much:

李榮浩 Ronghao Li – 有理想 An Ideal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsIAsd2cekI

Which one is your favorite? Tell us if you know other 2016 pop songs you’d want to see make our top 10!
If you want to find more Chinese pop songs, use these Chinese music sites to start exploring!
And to listen to this 2016 playlist all over again, check our youtube playlist.

Two more bonus 2016 Chinese pop songs:

A reader sent us a message with two more great 2016 Chinese pop songs to listen to! The first one “五月天 Mayday – 派對動物 Party Animal” is #1 in the KKBOX chart and the second “林俊傑 JJ Lin – 只要有你的地方 By Your Side”  is #2 in the chart. Of course, we had to add them for your hearing pleasure!

五月天 Mayday – 派對動物 Party Animal

This famous Taiwanese rock band led by Ashin, the lead singer was created in 1995 and they’re still rocking today!
Check out the lyrics of Mayday’s Party Animal song here (thank you, Albert, for sending them to us)!

林俊傑 JJ Lin – 只要有你的地方 By Your Side

JJ Lin is a Singaporean singer based in Taiwan. He can sing in Mandarin, Cantonese and even Hokkien (a Chinese dialect spoken in Taiwan). This is so amazing! Wanna sing this song too? Check out the lyrics of JJ Lin’s song.

Do you know any other top 2016 Chinese pop songs we should add? Let us know!

Source: focustaiwan, playbuzz, jingdaily

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You’ve got Deezer, Spotify, Rdio and more when you want to listen to Western music online. What about Chinese songs ? Where do you go to hear the Chinese top hits and discover new Chinese artists? Good news, there are a zillion of music sites in China. Even better news, these sites still let you listen to music for free. Most don’t even require you to sign up to listen, unless you want to save your new-found fave artists, of course. In short, it’s really easy to start improving your Chinese by listening to Chinese music!

One of the most well known music sites is surely QQ Music.

Top Chinese music #1: On QQ, Y is for 音乐

QQ Music is brought to you by Tencent, the Chinese web giant that made instant messaging and social sharing uber-popular in China through its QQ messaging service (their latest report stated they had over 700 million active users…).

Using QQ 音乐 to listen to Chinese music

Like most QQ services (QQ IM, QQ Mail….), which are known for their user-friendly qualities, QQ Music – QQ 音乐 in Chinese – is pretty straight forward and easy to use. Let’s go explore QQ 音乐 together and you’ll be listening to Chinese music in no time!

QQ Music offers a wealth of music, ranging from International hits to more confidential artists.

QQ Music’s home page lets you start listening to Chinese songs in seconds

To listen specifically to Chinese music, you have several options.

On the homepage, you can browse and pick any artist that you want to listen to. To check if he or she is Chinese and/or singing in Mandarin Chinese, simply click on the song to view its page or on the artist’s profile and see what is listed under 语言 (Yǔyán, language). If it says 国语 Guóyǔ or 华语 Huáyǔ, which both mean Chinese, you are good to go.

K-pop is great but for the purpose of this article, we’re only looking for Chinese pop!

You can also scroll down to other sections in the page, which you’ll be able to filter by language (华语, Huáyǔ, Chinese is what you’re looking for).

A few words to know to explore the homepage:

音乐: Yīnyuè = music

语言: Yǔyán = language

首页: Shǒuyè = Homepage

华语: Huáyǔ = Chinese language

国语: Guóyǔ = Chinese language (Mandarin)

Top Chinese music #2: Enjoy the Music Library

Another good option is to go to QQ’s Music Library, which highlights the most popular artists, albums and songs . Whether you’re viewing the library by artists (歌手, gēshǒu), albums(专辑 Zhuānjí) or top charts (排行榜 Páiháng bǎng), you can very easily find the Chinese-language artists and songs. Using the filters that are always on the left in the library section, select 华语, for Chinese.

The 排行榜 (Páiháng bǎng) section is a great way to see who’s trending in China right now.

For some reason, in the album part, 国语 (Mandarin) is used instead of 华语 but it’ll get you the same results.

 A few terms to help you browse the 乐库

乐库: Lè kù  = Music library

排行榜: Páiháng bǎng  = Top charts

歌手: gēshǒu = singer

专辑: Zhuānjí = album

Do you like Chinese guys, Chinese girls or both?

We’re talking about singers, of course. On QQ, you can not only select only Chinese language music, you can also choose what gender singer you want: Male, Female or Duets, take your pick!

Your options:

男歌手: Nán gēshǒu = male singer

女歌手: Nǚ gēshǒu = female singer

组合: Zǔhé = groups; duets

Get your fill of personal info!

For those of you with an extreme fan/stalker side, you’ll be glad to know singer profiles on QQMusic are full of essential information, such as how much does my favorite singer weigh? Does he or she like cosplay? Definitely, information you couldn’t live without!

We kid, we kid but reading their bios and fave occupations are also a cool way to practice your Chinese! So go ahead, be as stalker-ish as you want.

Sing along in Chinese

QQ Music is also a very useful tool to learn Chinese thanks to its lyric feature. Because you can easily view each song’s lyrics, pretty soon you’ll be singing in along in Chinese and learning Chinese without even realizing it!

To access the lyrics, simply click on a song you like. If lyrics are available, they’ll appear below the song’s information, under the category “歌词” (Gēcí lyrics):

You can also read the lyrics directly in the player, which is on the left hand side of the screen Just click on 词 (Cí – Words) to see them, like so:

The QQ Radio section has a similar read-along feature.

Top Chinese music #3: Exploring other options: Douban and Xiami

If QQ isn’t quite your fit, try exploring Douban Music and Xiami. Both also let you listen to streaming music for free and filter by location and language.

On Douban, you can even choose to listen to Chinese music from mainland China (内地 Nèidì – and 大陆 dàlù), 台湾 (táiwān Taiwan), 香港 (xiānggǎng, Hong Kong) or in 粤语 (yuèyǔ cantonese). On Xiami, you also have the option to download songs. The fee they charge per song is pretty low, too!

03/12 UPDATE: Here are a few more sites to try out! 

– Baidu (China’s Google, if not bigger) has its own music site : Iit may not be as user-friendly and visually pleasing as QQ MUsic but you’ll be sure to find what’s really trending in China right now on this site. Sure it may be on our Top Chinese music.

Now all you have left to do is explore and figure out who your favorite Chinese singers are!

Know of a good Chinese music resources we left out? Who are your favorite Chinese singers? Let us know!

Happy listening!

The Nincha Team

P.S: As a bonus, here’s one of our cheesy but favorite songs! It’s called Superman, by NESE. The chorus is super easy : 我是Superman, 你是Loser!

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