Who owns Kugou Music?
Kugou Music is owned by Tencent Music (China, NYSE: TME).[1]
Evidence: Tencent Music Entertainment Group Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-17, SEC EDGAR, 17 April 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Tencent Music Entertainment Group verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇨🇳 China, Shenzhen
- Origin
- 🇨🇳 China
- Founded
- 2004
- Category
- Internet & digital › Streaming & media › Streaming audio
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: TME HKEX: 1698
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Kugou Music
Kugou Music was launched in 2004 and is operated by Guangzhou Kugou Computer Technology, incorporated in February 2006. Within Tencent Music it offers a broad set of entertainment features with a mass-market focus and strong penetration in China beyond the largest cities, drawing on the same unified content library as QQ Music and Kuwo Music.
What Tencent Music's annual report says about Kugou Music
Sentences about Kugou Music from Tencent Music's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Moreover, in collaboration with Tencent Yuanbao , we introduced an all-in-one AI agent within QQ Music and Kugou Music that supports a wide range of intelligent functions, including enabling AI-powered song search, analyzing users' saved music libraries, generating personalized playlists, recommending songs and providing music-related knowledge assistance.
How often Tencent Music names Kugou Music in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Kugou Music
- Current owner Tencent Music [1] verified
Where Kugou Music sits in Tencent Music
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Tencent Music
Tencent Music controls 9 brands on Brandtree, 6 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
- Kugou Live (2012)
- Kuwo Live (2013)
- Kuwo Music (2005)
- QQ Music (2005)
- WeSing (2014)
Other brands in streaming audio, and who owns them
The 20 brands in streaming audio on Brandtree belong to 13 owners. The largest is Storytel, with 3; Tencent Music has 3.
About the owner: Tencent Music
Tencent Music is a publicly listed company headquartered in Shenzhen, China, founded in 2012. Brandtree records 9 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: TME and HKEX: 1698.
Tencent Music Entertainment is the largest online music entertainment platform in China by monthly active users, and counted 127.4 million paying users of its music services in the fourth quarter of 2025. It was assembled in 2016, when Tencent injected its own music business into China Music Corporation, the owner of Kugou and Kuwo, and renamed the combined company; it listed on the New York Stock Exchange in December 2018 and added a Hong Kong listing in September 2022. Tencent held 93.6 per cent of its voting power at 31 March 2026, which makes it a controlled company under New York Stock Exchange rules.
Tencent Music: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇨🇳 Kugou Music and other Chinese brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 319 brands that began in China. 39 of them (12%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Kugou Music is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Kugou Music?
The parent company of Kugou Music is Tencent Music, a publicly listed company headquartered in China.
Is Kugou Music Chinese?
Yes. Kugou Music originated in China in 2004 and its owner, Tencent Music, is also headquartered in China.
Is Kugou Music still owned by Tencent Music?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Kugou Music is still owned by Tencent Music. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Tencent Music Entertainment Group Annual Report on Form 20-F filed 2026-04-17 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 20-F, published 17 April 2026; retrieved 26 September 2026.
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