I heard they love Taylor Swift over there big time.
Taylor, Ariana, and—bizarrely—Mariah.
I might’ve mistaken Japan for China previously, but yeah, Taylor Swift, Bob Dylan, and Kenny G are all popular there, or so I’ve heard.
They listen to the same stuff the rest of the world does.
American rap is actually quite popular there, and a lot of trends are also dictated by American influencers like Travis Scott, for example.
There are plenty of Chinese people outside their firewall, VPNs are informally tolerated among broader society.
I heard they love Taylor Swift over there big time.
Love Story was their first access to Romeo and Juliet
It's a little different of course
A lot of K-Pop, pop artists like Taylor Swift, Halsey, Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande. They also have a huge rock and singer-songwriter (in mandarin) fan base.
Source: I worked in China for a year through a teaching fellowship called Princeton In Asia
the guy presenting this sounds exactly like Ali G
KUN (Cai Xukun) is one of the biggest artists over there. He's like a rnb/rap artist (everyone is now) who came up from the idol scene. None of his music is available here because Chinese artists get billions of views without going west so they don't care about rep here