The song’s producers, Dgxmusic, said on Instagram on Tuesday that the song may be removed from the catalog.
“Distribution companies from the UK, US and Canada have all ‘bowed’,” it said. “Glory to Hong Kong could disappear completely from streaming platforms very soon.”
A review by The Post found that versions of the song by Dgxmusic had disappeared from Spotify and Apple Music, but remained available on Taiwan-based music streaming service KKBox.
Scotland-based band EmuBands stopped distributing the song in May, telling The Washington Post at the time that the decision was based on the cost of hiring legal experts to assess the situation, rather than bowing to censorship.
The Post also reported in June that US distributor Distrokid had stopped making the song available, but did not tell Dgxmusic why.
YouTube, owned by California-based Google, complied with the injunction and blocked access to 32 clips listed in the court document. Some clips that met the exemption criteria – academic and journalistic purposes – remained available on the site.
The song was composed by protesters from the online forum LIHKG and released on YouTube at the height of the social unrest in 2019. It was widely recognized as the unofficial anthem of the protests.
The lyrics call on Hong Kong people to fight for freedom and include the slogan “Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our time.” The slogan was later classified as separatist by authorities in the city’s first national security trial in 2021.
