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Valen Hsu - Valen Hsu Forever Friends Collection

Ginn Wei — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:06:24 +0000

As promised in the ‘protected’ post, Mavis Hee - Forever Friend Collection, here’s one very similar album, Valen Hsu Forever Friends Collection, by Valen Hsu [even the title of the album is identical!]. This compilation album was released before Xu Ru Yun’s last album, Latitude 66 Degrees, was released last December. As with Mavis Hee, Valen Hsu reached her peak in terms of popularity in the late 1990s where she was voted as the best female pop vocalist in Asia by a Japanese magazine. However, she took a break in 2004 before coming back with a new album in the form of Latitude 66 Degrees. Forever Friends Collection contains a total of 16 hits from her music career including the duet with Panda Xiong.

Valen Hsu / 許茹芸 - Valen Hsu Forever Friends Collection / 許茹芸永遠的朋友典藏系列

Date of Release: 23 February 2007
Language: Mandarin (more…)

With Lyric!: Zhou Hui - Hao Xiang Hao Hao Ai Ni

Ginn Wei — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:23:18 +0000

Zhou Hui is a Taiwanese singer who just like Julia Peng, another Taiwanese singer with at least a dozen of good songs, is still relatively under-rated compared to other [undeservedly] more popular singers. Zhou Hui may not have the look of her younger and much prettier ‘juniors’ such as Rainie Yang Cheng Lin or the sexy image of Jolin Tsai but she certainly has the sweet voice and ability to sing good, touching ballads. In fact, I’m certain most of Chinese music fans have heard of at least a few of her songs but have no idea on ‘their singers’. Fret not, this is the [most probably] only reason this blog exists: to give exposure to good, deserving Chinese songs and artistes to the worldwide audience. (more…)

Wilber Pan - Will’s Future [New+Best Collection]

Ginn Wei — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:33:31 +0000

Very tired now. Ramblings later.

Wilber Pan / 潘瑋柏 - Will’s Future [New+Best Collection] / Will’s 未來式 [新歌+精選]

Date of Release: 18 July 2008
Language: Mandarin (more…)

Li Bing Bing - Myself

Ginn Wei — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:15:15 +0000

Very tired at the moment. Ramblings later.

Li Bing Bing / 李冰冰 - Myself / 自.己

Date of Release: 17 July 2008
Language: Mandarin (more…)

Cheer Chen - Loser’s Flight

Ginn Wei — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:30:33 +0000

Cheer Chen Chi Chen is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter who is one of the more successful independent artistes. She released her debut album, Demo 1, in September 1997 and subsequently released another 4 albums before winning the Best Music Album Producer and Best Music Video awards at the 17th Golden Melody Awards in 2006. Although her recent music are more rock-oriented, Cheer Chen who has a pure, youth-sounding voice was initially folk-oriented in her music using just acoustic guitar. She has just released her new single, Loser’s Flight or Shi Bai Zhe De Fei Xiang, following her last album in 2005. Her upcoming fifth album is scheduled for release in this December.

Cheer Chen / 陈绮贞 - Loser’s Flight / 失败者的飞翔

Date of Release: 13 July 2008
Language: Mandarin (more…)

Van Fan Yi Chen - Wu Le Bu Zuo [New + Best Selection]

Ginn Wei — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:22:49 +0000

Van Fan Yi Chen is a Taiwanese actor and singer who became popular after recording the Mandarin version of ‘I Believe’, a Korean song of the same title, in 2003. He also recorded the theme songs of various Taiwanese idol dramas including the hit, Listen With Your Heart. Piano, Love Story and Rang Wo Jing Yi Jing are his two other popular songs. Van Fan Yi Chen released his fourth and last album, Unspoken Gentleness or Bu Shuo Chu De Wen Rou, in 2006. However, he’s back with his very first compilation album, Wu Le Bu Zuo or Not Doing Without Being Happy, which contains a total of 30 songs. It includes 5 new songs and 25 best songs from his previous 4 albums. I think this is a good buy because most of us probably don’t have any of his old albums…

Van Fan Yi Chen / 范逸臣 - Wu Le Bu Zuo [New + Best Selection] / 无乐不作 [新歌抢鲜版]

Date of Release: 15 July 2008
Language: Mandarin (more…)

Evonne Hsu Hui Xin - eVonne

Ginn Wei — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:54:46 +0000

Evonne Hsu, an American-born Taiwanese pop singer, who last released her album, Mystery, in 2006, is back with a new album [EP], eVonne. Although this album contains only 3 songs of which all are new, eVonne comes with a total of 15 [yes, 15!] music videos [MV] including those for the new songs. The MVs are those from her debut album, To Be Happy or Kuai Le Wei Zhu, to her very last and sixth album. In fact, these MVs are worth even more than her 3 new songs because like Jolin Tsai, she also has a reputation of a dancing diva. Unfortunately, she had a permanent damage to her back some time ago which threaten to end her music career prematurely. Anyway, one of the new songs, Piano Of Memories or Ji Yi Gang Qin, is composed by Sky Wu, a respected veteran in the Chinese music scene [and everything he touches turn into piano including the title of this song].

Evonne Hsu Hui Xin / 許慧欣 - eVonne / 欣的記憶

Date of Release: 11 July 2008
Language: Mandarin (more…)

Hins Cheung - Urban Emotions

Ginn Wei — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:08:50 +0000

After releasing his last album [not including the compilation album, Hins Cheung - My First Collection] almost a year ago, Hins Cheung is back with an all-new album, Urban Emotions. This talented artiste from China had just held a series of concerts at the Hong Kong Coliseum in April. Urban Emotions, which is a Cantonese album, contains 14 tracks with 2 of them in Mandarin. The first one is a duet with Rihanna, Hate That I Love You, which is also available in Cantonese version, but of course, Rihanna sings in English! Both versions are easily the best ones in this album. The other one is the Mandarin version of his previous hit, Ardently Love.

Hins Cheung / 張敬軒 - Urban Emotions

Date of Release: 11 July 2008
Language: Cantonese, Mandarin (more…)

Fan Wei Qi - Faces Of FanFan

Ginn Wei — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:51:55 +0000

Fan Wei Qi has released her latest album, Faces Of FanFan, which is a 3-discs compilation album. Although she debuted back in 2000 with the album, FanFan’s World, this will be her very first ‘greatest hits’ album and for this very reason alone, this album is worth our hard-earned money. Faces Of FanFan contains a massive collection of 32 songs including 2 songs which are not included in any of her previous albums. One of them is A Smile’s Start, a song dedicated to the Sichuan Earthquake [seems like every Chinese artiste has something for this incident]. The other one is her new song, A Heart’s Distance. The rest of the album are hits back from her debut album to her last album, Philosopher.

Fan Wei Qi / 范瑋琪 - Faces Of FanFan [New + Best Selection] / [新歌＋精選]

Date of Release: July 2008
Language: Mandarin (more…)

Rynn Lin Yu Zhong - Gan Wu Shi Jie

Ginn Wei — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:15:59 +0000

Rynn Lin Yu Zhong is a Malaysian artiste who won the Best Newcomer award in the Golden Melody Awards 2005 for his debut album. The first single, Kao An, was simply marvelous. This helped Lin Yu Zhong in his popularity and getting roles in TV drama series. He released his second album, In The Rain or Lin Yu Zhong, last year before holding his first ever solo concert earlier this year to a great success. Working World or Gan Wu Shi Jie is his third full-length album and it contains a total of 13 tracks including a duet with Lin Jun Jie. Rynn Lin Yu Zhong’s ’seniors’ are A-Do and Lin Jun Jie while Kym Jin Sha is his ‘junior’. Thus, they will collaborate among themselves frequently. Hopefully, this much-awaited album will not disappoint his fans…

Rynn Lin Yu Zhong / 林宇中 - Gan Wu Shi Jie / 幹物世界

Date of Release: 10 July 2008
Language: Mandarin (more…)