“Glory to Hong Kong” Takes Over iTunes Charts Amid Government Ban Request

On Monday (5th), the Department of Justice filed a court application for an injunction and a temporary injunction, requesting the prohibition of 4 illegal acts related to the anti-revision song “Glory to Hong Kong”, including dissemination and reprinting, etc. The case has been scheduled to be heard in the High Court at 2:30 pm next Monday (12th). Less than 3 days after the government filed a lawsuit with the court, “Yahoo News” found that “Glory to Hong Kong” has already occupied the top 10 of the “iTunes Music” hot songs chart in the early morning of the 8th, followed by Jiang Tao’s new song “Dummy” 11 in the next row.

Before the incident happened, “Dummy” originally ranked No. 1 on the hit song charts, but after it was reported that the government requested a ban, a large number of people rushed to the iTunes music store to download various versions of “May Glory”. ) at noon, each version of “May Glory” has occupied the top 8 of the hit song charts, and “Dummy” has dropped to No. 9; by early this morning, “May Glory” had already occupied the top ten.

Tong Jiahua, senior counsel and member of the Executive Council, said yesterday that it would be illegal for the server to be set up on an overseas film and television platform, and it would be illegal to continue to keep the song. , there is an opportunity to violate the law. Tang Jiahua also suggested that citizens who have kept related songs would be the safest to delete the songs in the future.