Chinese Music Blog

8th Global Chinese Music Awards

October is such a month of chinese music awards. 4 days after the Singapore Hit Awards, music artists from all over the world gathered again, this time in Hong Kong, for the 8th Global Chinese Music Awards. The night winners belong to Tanya Chua and Gary Chaw, who won 6 awards respectively. The local favorites Eason [...]

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Singapore Hit Awards 2008

The annual music award organized by MediaCorp’s Y.E.S.93.3 FM and Channel U was held at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on 25th October 2008. The highlight of the event was Eason Chan and the newcomers. Eason took home four awards, Asia Media Award (Male), Outstanding Regional Artiste (Hong Kong), Album of the Year, and Best Performing Male [...]

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Jay Chou: Capricorn (Mo Jie Zhuo)

Despite the large number of Mandopop artists releasing albums at this time of the year, despite leaks and illegal downloads, and despite delays, Jay Chou’s new album has sold over a million copies. Why? People probably recall the young singer-songwriter who amazed us all with his fresh music, whether with his debut in [...]

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Claire Guo: The Next Dawn

Since Claire’s previous hot selling debut album - “I Don’t Want To Forget You” (Wo Bu Xiang Wang Ji Ni) last year, the phenomenal new comer is eager to show more this year. She released her latest album - “The Next Dawn” (Xia Yi Ge Tian Liang) on May 2008. A brief note about Claire (or, [...]

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Rainie Yang’s Declaration of Semi-Maturity

Rainie Yang Chen Lin changed her hair to ‘Venus’ style, dressed up like never before to reveal more of her flesh and show sexiness. She is trying hard to get rid of what she’s been known for - the Cuteness Pastor. The 24 year old screams “The Declaration of Semi-Maturity”, then transforms from a little [...]

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Jay Chou’s Capricorn Dominates Selling Chart

Taiwan Pop King Jay Chou’s “Capricorn” first week of album release dominated 60% of total album sold within the week, even S.H.E’s “FM S.H.E” only owns 10% of it. Besides Taiwan, Jay Chou also mentioned his album was sold in the number of ‘millions’ in Asia, which seemed almost impossible in today’s music industry. [reference: sina.com.cn]

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Mayday’s “Poetry of the Day After” Cover Exposed

After spending the year on their “Jump!” tour, Mayday is releasing their newest album since “Born to Love” will include Taiwanese song “出头天” (”Breakthrough Day”). Their most recently released song from the album is “你不是真正的快乐” (”You Are Not Truly Happy”). This song is considered “this year’s most expressive song.” The album is [...]

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S.H.E: FM S.H.E (Wo De Dian Tai)

For their latest album, S.H.E has taken on the role of radio personalities and even launched their own web radio station to coincide with the release of the album. When I heard that they were experimenting with a new sound and feel for their new album, I was a bit skeptical since I was hoping [...]

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Happy 3rd Birthday Chinese Music Blog

Isn’t the cake adorable? 7th October 2008 was exactly 3 years since we started this website. I still remembered myself doing my first review. Now, it has been 3 years.  Chinese Music Blog has grown herself into a big family. I would like to quote from this famous song: “And we only just begun”.

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