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[9] [10] The song was said to harmoniously merge R&B with a rich commercial appeal, conveying the message of unwavering love in the face of opposition. [11] The song peaked at number two digitally on the Hong Kong Songs chart, [12] and its music video ranked ninth among the Top Ten YouTube videos of the year. [13]
On January 8, 2012 for TVB’s televised 2011 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation, the cast of Hong Kong’s celebrity artists appeared on stage one after another, opening the show with a performance of Jacky Cheung’s hit song “Double Trouble”, while the host Wu Yongwei, elegantly danced along. [20]
In the 1970s, Cantonese pop songs were starting to gain traction. Different from other Cantonese songs, "Below the Lion Rock" was not meant to be satirizing the society that time. During the 2003 SARS outbreak , the song was often broadcast by the media in Hong Kong, and became regarded as an unofficial anthem of Hong Kong .
The Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Awards, which is one of the major music awards in Hong Kong since 1979, can reflect the great reliance on Japanese melodies in Cantopop. During the 1980s, 139 out of 477 songs from weekly gold songs chart were cover versions, and 52% of the cover versions were covers of Japanese ...
The song is an anthem of Cantonese rock music and one of Beyond's signature songs. [9] It has been adopted for several events in Cantonese-speaking regions, such as the Artistes 512 Fund Raising Campaign for the 2008 Sichuan earthquake , and most prominently as the unofficial anthem of the 2014 Hong Kong protests .
The Music of Hong Kong is an eclectic mixture of traditional and popular genres. Cantopop is one of the more prominent genres of music produced in Hong Kong. The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and the Hong Kong Sinfonietta regularly perform western classical music in the city. There is also a long tradition of Cantonese opera within Hong Kong.
The discography of Twins, a Hong Kong Cantopop duo that formed in 2001, consists of fifteen studio albums, three extended plays (EP), five compilation albums, and four live albums. 2001 [ edit ]
The Hong Kong Songs is a record chart that ranks the best-performing songs in Hong Kong since February 2022. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by MRC Data based collectively on each single's weekly digital streaming and download sales.