Zanna Records Music Reaches Gym Floors in China and as Catalog Passes 55 Library Placements
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Zanna Records titles are now licensable through Le Fit, one of China’s largest 24-hour gym operators, and Gaoding Design, the country’s leading online design platform — part of a rapid expansion into the world’s fifth-largest music market.
SEDONA, Ariz. — September 4, 2026 — Zanna Records announced today that its catalog has expanded to 55 library placements across 21 tracks, with a growing concentration in China.
Titles are now live with Le Fit, a major Chinese fitness chain, and Gaoding Design, one of the country’s largest creative content platforms — alongside earlier acceptances including ibaotu and Air China’s in-flight entertainment system.
The label’s first submission of 14 tracks in late August produced 34 placements. Seven additional tracks submitted since have produced 21 more, a rate that has held steady or improved.
All placements are non-exclusive, and Zanna Records retains full ownership of both master and publishing on every title.
THE GYM FLOOR
Le Fit (乐刻) is a Hangzhou-based fitness company operating hundreds of 24-hour, app-access gyms across Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, along with a program of in-person fitness classes. Zanna Records titles are now available for use across that environment.
For the label, this is familiar territory in unfamiliar geography. Fifteen Zanna Records titles are already in worldwide retail rotation through Mood Media, which operates across 150 countries and more than 500,000 commercial locations. Background and in-venue music is one of the largest and least visible sectors of the industry — every gym, shop, hotel and restaurant on earth is playing something, and all of it is licensed. Le Fit extends that business into a market almost no independent Western label reaches.
CHINA’S DESIGN ECONOMY
Gaoding Design (稿定设计), operated by Gaoding (Xiamen) Technology, is China’s leading online visual design platform — the domestic equivalent of Canva. It serves small and medium enterprises, e-commerce operators, self-media creators and individual entrepreneurs, with hundreds of thousands of commercial-use templates and a material library certified by China’s National Copyright Center.
Crucially, its licensed audio shelf is small relative to the size of its user base. That makes discovery meaningfully more likely than on open marketplaces holding tens of millions of assets — a distinction the label is watching closely as it decides what to submit next.
THE WIDER NETWORK
Zanna Records titles are additionally live across a range of Chinese and Asian platforms, including ibaotu and its Southeast Asia edition, Ying Yin Tong Hua, Jeou Tai, Dian Yin, Heely Media, Taewah and Alibaba Cloud, as well as Air China’s in-flight entertainment system.
Titles placed to date span rock, EDM, classical, folk and instrumental work, and include:
— “Memories” and “You Never Said I Love You (Strings)” — the label’s most-placed titles
— “Cuba Libre Rising” — featuring Rudy Sarzo, Robert Sarzo, Jizzy Pearl, Ruben Martinez, Robin Diaz and Claudette Lyons, produced by Danny Saber
— “Live with No Regrets (Analog Rebellion)” — featuring Kevin Martin of Candlebox
— “You Are My Destiny — Danny Saber Remix” featuring Joseph Wooten
— “Just Let It Go” — Gianluca Zanna and Claudette Lyons
— Instrumental titles including “Every Time,” “Amore (Oboe)” and “Here They Come”
WHAT THE DATA IS SAYING
The label is candid that the results have not matched expectations — in a useful way. The titles performing best are not the rock singles or the collaborations with well-known players, but the quietest material in the catalog. “Memories” and “You Never Said I Love You (Strings)” — both slow, melodic and string-led — lead with five placements each.
Zanna Records is adjusting accordingly, with additional soft instrumental and string-led material in preparation for submission.
“I spent years chasing rock radio, and the songs that opened China are the ones I wrote quietly. Somebody is lifting weights in Shanghai right now, or building a poster in Xiamen, and my music might be underneath it. I will never meet them. That is the strangest and best part of this job.”
— Gianluca Zanna, Founder and CEO, Zanna Records
ABOUT ZANNA RECORDS
Zanna Records is an independent record label founded by Italian-born artist, songwriter and producer Gianluca Zanna, operating from Sedona, Arizona. Formed in December 2022 with no major-label backing, the label produces and releases original music across EDM, rock, classical and operatic styles, and is home to the duo Luca and Claudette. Its catalog exceeds 200 original compositions, airs on 500 radio stations across 99 countries and six continents, and includes fifteen titles in worldwide retail rotation through Mood Media. Recordings have charted at #1 on the North American College & Community Radio Chart and #3 on Amazon Dance & Electronic, with coverage in Rolling Stone, Forbes, Billboard Italia, Music Connection and Entrepreneur UK.
Learn more at www.zannarecords.com.
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