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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.
During the late 1960s and 1970s, Mandarin pop songs were getting more and more popular and became the mainstream of Hong Kong pop. [6] In the 1970s, Hong Kong audiences wanted popular music in their own dialect, Cantonese. Also, a Cantonese song Tai siu yan yun (啼笑姻緣) became the first theme song of a TV drama.
Her third studio album, Xposed (2012), peaked at number one on the Hong Kong album chart and was named the highest-selling Mandarin album of the year. [ 1 ] G.E.M. released her first compilation album The Best of 2008–2012 in 2013, which peaked at number one on the Sino Chart in China and number two in Hong Kong.
The discography of Hong Kong pop duo Twins, formed in 2001, consists of fifteen studio albums, six extended plays (EP), five compilation albums, and four live albums. By 2007, the duo had sold over 3.8 million copies of their albums.
Hong Kong English pop (Chinese: 英文歌) is a genre of music consisting of English-language songs that are made, performed and popularised in Hong Kong. It is known as simply English pop by Hong Kongers. The height of the English pop era in Hong Kong was from the 1950s to mid-1970s. [1]
Western-influenced music first came to China in the 1920s, specifically through Shanghai. [7] Artists like Zhou Xuan (周璇) acted in films and recorded popular songs.. When the People's Republic of China was established by the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, one of the first actions taken by the government was to denounce pop music (specifically Western pop) as decadent music. [7]
HONG KONG — Mirror, the most popular boy band in Hong Kong, is hoping to expand its global reach and promote Cantopop in the process with the release on Friday of its first English-language song ...
Twins is a Hong Kong pop duo formed in 2001 by Emperor Entertainment Group (EEG) and composed of Charlene Choi and Gillian Chung. [1]Since 2001, the group has released sixteen studio albums (twelve in Cantonese and four in Mandarin), three extended plays, five compilation albums and four live albums.