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Hong Kong singer Jacky Cheung is the best-selling artist in Taiwan, with three albums sold over one million copies, while Taiwanese singer A-Mei is the best-selling female artist in Taiwan. Taiwan's album sales peaked in the 1990s, but it was adversely affected by the copyright infringement and Internet downloads since the 21st century. [1] [2]
Her 1989 album Talk to You, Listen to You (跟你說聽你說) was the first to achieve one million sales in Taiwan. [5] During the late 1980s and 1990s, Chen was known as the "voice of urban women" through her music. [4] [6] [3] [7] She was multilingual, recording tracks in Mandarin, English, Taiwanese, and Cantonese, and Japanese.
The record became an immediate success, selling over 1.21 million copies in Taiwan, becoming the fourth best-selling album of all time in the country, and shipping an additional 4 million copies throughout Asia. [17] [18] The album's meteoric success broke a glass ceiling for Taiwanese aborigines in show business. [19]
Lo Ta-yu (Chinese: 羅大佑; pinyin: Luó Dàyòu; born 20 July 1954), also known as Luo Dayou and Law Tai-yau, is a Taiwanese singer and songwriter.During the 1980s, Lo became one of the most influential Mandopop singer-songwriters with his melodic lyrics and love songs, and his witty social and political commentary that he infused in his more political songs, often to the point that some of ...
Natsuko Lariyod is a musician of mixed Hakka and Amis ancestry. She has a brother who is two years older than her. She attended Taoyuan Municipal Wu-Ling Senior High School in Taoyuan, Taiwan, and later studied at the National Taipei University's Department of Art and Design, where she wrote her thesis on Taiwanese indigenous culture.
Wu Chin-Tai (also known as Judy Wu) is a Taiwanese record producer whose works mainly focus on sounds of the nature, instrumental, and ethnic music. She currently holds the position of Director of Music Production at Wind Music Co. Prior to studying recording technology at Brigham Young University in Utah, she was a tourism major at a college in her native Taiwan.
Connie Chung, journalist and anchor; second woman ever to anchor a national news program; Patty Hou, former news and fashion anchor, current entertainment anchor in Taiwan; Laura Ling, journalist (mother was Taiwanese; sister of Lisa Ling) Lisa Ling, journalist (mother was Taiwanese; sister of Laura Ling) Henry Liu, aka Chiang Nan, writer and ...
Sony Music announced on 16 December 2013, that Chen would be releasing her second studio album, Kimbonomics. [10] The album was released on 25 December 2013 and contained 10 tracks. [ 11 ] It placed 4th on the weekly music charts of KKBOX in Taiwan on 25 January 2014.