Beijing Music Radio (), is an commercial radio station broadcasting at 97.4 FM in

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Music played

Beijing Yinyue Guangbo plays various types of music including: * Classical music *

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and

Cantopop Cantopop (a contraction of "Cantonese pop music") is a genre of pop music sung in Cantonese. Cantopop is also used to refer to the cultural context of its production and consumption. The genre began in the 1970s and became associated with Hon ...

* English various formats including English Top 40,

hot adult contemporary Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the 1980s to the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul ...

, and

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. They also have news on every hour that is from Beijing Xinwen Guangbo radio station.

Special programs

Mid Autumn and Spring Festival programming

On occasion, Beijing Yinyue Guangbo will broadcast live concerts around the

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and Spring Festival. The live concerts would pre-empt programs that are broadcast during the week at any other time.

Interviews with famous artists

On the weekends especially during the evenings, this station frequently broadcasts pre-recorded or live interviews with artists.

"Top 40" Countdown

The "top 40" countdown, the Chinese title uses the English phrase, is a countdown of current Mandarin pop songs. This program occurs Saturday and Sunday nights (Beijing Time) and plays the most popular 40 songs in China for that week. This program does not include any English or Cantonese top 40 songs even though the station does occasionally play them during other times of the day. Every week, Beijing Music Radio broadcasts "The Week's New" chart, based on people's voting.

References

External links

Beijing Yinyue Guangbo (Beijing Music Radio) Official Website
Mandarin-language radio stations Mass media in Beijing Radio stations in China {{PRChina-radio-station-stub