NME launches in Asia

Iconic UK music brand NME has launched in Asia, with the aim of delivering a fresh approach to the South East Asian music scene - here's their choice of the best Southeast Asian albums of 2020 so far. Singapore-based website NME.com/Asia will initially focus on Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines and has plans to rapidly expand in the region. NME entered the Australian market at the end of last year. It also recently restarted physical publishing with a monthly magazine in Australia, its only current regular print edition. In 2019, the NME and Uncut magazine were sold to Singaporean music company BandLab Technologies.