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Jul 04 2012

Mandarin Radio History

NewMandarinLogoTag175Mandarin Radio was launched on Live365 in 2002, at the time it was the only radio station dedicated to presenting Mandarin Pop music for English readers.

All the song and artist information was translated to English and displayed with the stream. At one time it was the most popular Asian music station on iTunes Radio and Live365 and the most popular international radio station on Live365.

It’s sister station, Pop Goes Asia, was launched in 2001 playing a mix of songs in Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, Thai and even some Vietnamese and Malay.

In 2012 we discontinued our program on Live365 due to increasing royalty costs and reporting requirements.

Our mission to share Mandarin (and other Asian music) moved to Twitter where we periodically shared songs with our followers.

In early January 2016, we were informed that Live365 had discontinued service and most of the stations were moving to Radionomy. Upon investigation we decided to relaunch Mandarin Radio.

As of 1/1/2016 we are still tweaking and hope to officially launch soon.

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Comments

  1. Colorado Listener says

    July 5, 2012 at 11:47 AM

    Please do! We appreciate your service =)

  2. Jodeci Jordan says

    October 19, 2012 at 1:00 PM

    Please email me when you come back on air

  3. Shuo Li says

    September 25, 2013 at 1:43 PM

    Why was it discontinued?! I loved it so much!!! Do you have plans to re-launch it soon? Looking forward to hearing from you.

  4. Kong wenbin says

    June 21, 2014 at 6:16 PM

    Seriously miss the radio station. 🙁

    • admin says

      February 10, 2016 at 5:12 PM

      Well, it has been a while but Mandarin Radio is back. Better than ever. More songs. Newer songs. More indie artists. Double the audio quality. Better website.
      Give us a try again. https://www.mandarinradio.com

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Mandarin Radio was started in 2002 to introduce the English speaking world to the best in Chinese music. Over a billion people speak Mandarin worldwide. Native speakers alone are 14.1% of the world's population (compared to 5.52% for English). Consequently, there is a huge Chinese-language music industry covering all musical styles. Mandarin Radio is dedicated to making it easy to hear some of the best music in the world.

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