Chinese Music Blog

Jacky Xue Zhiqian’s 2 Part MV Series for 3rd Album Released

Jacky Xue Zhiqian has made great strides since first appearing on Wo Xin Wo Xiu, or My Show, China's first largely successful televised singing competition...

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CMB Weekly Top 10 (Week 47, 2008)

Welcome to the first edition of CMB Weekly Top 10, a music chart compiled by us on the top 10 chinese music albums of the week. And I have to admit, the creation of this chart is inspired by Soompi’s very own weekly ranking (thanks, Shuo!) The chart is calculated based on four sources: G-Music Billboard, [...]

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SuperVC comes back in December

In today’s China, if you say the words “London style”, everyone will bring up Chinese indie rock band Super VC (果味VC) . Whether due to their music or their style, they have gradually entered into everyone’s hearts, especially those of the younger generation.

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Yoga Lin: Mystery

Yoga Lin (also known as James Lin) is the winner of One Million Star’s season 1, a popular reality TV singing competition in Taiwan. He started out as a lead singer of a rockband during high school, mentored by Yang Pei-An (a renowned rock singer). One Million Star is the first singing competition he joined. [...]

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CMB November 08 Website Updates

I’ve done a few major and minor updates over the weekend on CMB. I thought I would go through it in case the regulars found themselves in an unfamiliar territory. ;) Major Update #1: Discussion Unified I should have done this long time ago. Before that, there are two (or more) discussion places going on in CMB. [...]

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MC HotDog: Mr. Almost

MC HotDog released his second full-length album - Mr.Almost (Cha Bu Duo Xian Shen), since his first and award-winning album 2 years. The new album follows the usual HotDog style of modern rapping) and this time, the Taiwan rap icon shows us more of the inner part of himself. And yes, this album is [...]

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AOK’s First Album and MV

From 2003 to 2008, AOK band’s five friends stayed together in pursuit of a common dream. Their first single “GO GO GO” expresses today’s youth’s persistence for their dreams with a youthful rock style. AOK wrote this song to express the spirit of the band for the past few years as well as to use [...]

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Shin: Planet Music (Ji Yue Xing Qiu)

An album released in the midst of Jay Chou and Lin Jun Jie, “Planet Music 集乐星球” stands out the most. The album finds a new style of Shin, after he left his name-sake band to pursue a solo career. We come to know Shin to be a hard-hitting rocker shown in his first solo album [...]

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Catch Stefanie Sun (Yanzi) in Love Amplified Concert, Singapore

Stefanie Sun will be one of the big names that will be performing in the Love Amplified Concert on 29th November 2008. The Love Amplified (LOVE amp)Concert, is the first ever World Aids Day (WAD) concert held in Singapore. Organised by the Health Promotion Board (HPB), the concert brings together some of the hottest music [...]

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Jay Chou wins 3 consecutives World Music Award

Jay Chou wins the ‘Best Selling Artist in China’ at the 2008 World Music Awards yesterday with his 8th album “On The Run” (Wo Hen Mang). With this win (along with winning in 2004, 2006 and 2007), Jay Chou broke the previous record held by Jackie Cheung (2 consecutives win in 1995 and 1996). The World [...]

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