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Tencent Music Entertainment Group acquisitions, on the record

The businesses Tencent Music Entertainment Group bought and sold, as its annual reports describe them, with the cash it reported paying for acquisitions each year and every deal filing since 2016.

Deals its annual reports describe

BusinessDealWhenValue
Shenzhen Lanren Online Technology Co., Ltd.
Word for word“In January 2021, we entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% equity interest of Shenzhen Lanren, which operates Lazy Audio , a well-established audio platform in China, for a total consideration of RMB2.7 billion, primarily payable in cash, plus certain post-acquisition awards to Shenzhen Lanren’s management team.” 20-F for 2023
acquisition—RMB2.7 billion
CMC
Word for word“In July 2016, Tencent acquired control of CMC through a series of transactions, pursuant to which Tencent injected substantially all of its online music business in the PRC (which primarily included QQ Music and WeSing ) into CMC in consideration of certain number of shares issued by CMC.” 20-F for 2023
acquisitionJuly 2016—
Shenzhen Lanren
Word for word“In January 2021, we entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% equity interest of Shenzhen Lanren, which operates Lazy Audio , a well-established audio platform in China, for a total consideration of RMB2.7 billion, primarily payable in cash, plus certain post-acquisition awards to Shenzhen Lanren’s management team.” 20-F for 2024
acquisition—RMB2.7 billion
Ocean Culture and Ocean Technology
Word for word“As a result of the merger of CMC’s operations and Tencent’s former music businesses in 2016, Ocean Culture and Ocean Technology also became our PRC consolidated entities.” 20-F for 2024
acquisition——
Ximalaya Inc.
Word for word“For instance, on June 10, 2025, we announced a proposed acquisition of Ximalaya Inc. (“Ximalaya”), pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “Merger Agreement”) dated June 10, 2025 by and among Ximalaya, certain other parties named in the agreement and us.” 20-F for 2025
agreed acquisitionJune 10, 2025—

Read from Tencent Music Entertainment Group’s annual reports (20-F for 2025, 20-F for 2024, 20-F for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-04-17. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.