The Philippine Online Chronicles

China has banned certain songs from Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, the Backstreet Boys, and other artists from downloading sites after finding them to be threats to China's “national cultural security.”

The downloading sites have until September 15 to remove the songs or impose “self-corrections,” or face unspecified punishment.

The 100 songs listed by China's Ministry of Culture were said to be “not in accordance with the Interim Provisions on Administration of Internet Culture and other regulations.”

Chinese authorities added that these songs “disrupt the online music market order and endanger national cultural security.”

Included in the list are six of Lady Gaga's songs such as Judas, Katy Perry's Last Friday Night, Beyonce Knowles' Girls Run the World, and even the more than a decade old Backstreet Boys' hit I Want it That Way.

Songs which were also on the list are sang by Hong Kong, Taiwanese, and Chinese artists like A-Mei and Yu Wenle.

Michael Jackson's Hold My Hand, a Chinese cover version of Celine Dion's My Heart will Go on, and few songs of Avril Lavigne were earlier named threats to Chinese culture.