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China's Ministry of Culture has blacklisted 120 songs that it believes "trumpeted obscenity, violence, crime or harmed social morality", and ordered website administrators to take them off their sites, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

With titles like Beijing Hooligans, Don't Want to Go to School and Suicide Diary, the banned songs had "severely problematic content" and violated cultural management regulations, the Xinhua news agency reported.

Included in the list of blacklisted songs was Taiwanese singer Chang Csun-yuk's song Fart, which includes the line "There are some people in the world who like farting while doing nothing," and I Love Taiwanese Girls, in which he sings that he will take them to a gynecologist if they get pregnant and urges them to take off their clothes, the South China Morning Post reported.

The culture ministry said no work unit or individual was allowed to stream these songs, and anyone doing so would face unspecified "severe punishment".