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Initial J
''Initial J'' is the first greatest hits album by Taiwanese singer Jay Chou, released on 31 August 2005 by Sony Music Japan and Alfa Music. Yesasia.co''Initial J: Jay Chou's Greatest Hits (limited edition) '' album info31 August 2005. Retrieved 2011-04-15 It features each songs from ''Jay'', ''Fantasy'', '' The Eight Dimensions'', '' Yeh Hui-mei'', ''Common Jasmin Orange'' and ''November's Chopin ''November's Chopin'' () is the sixth studio album by Taiwanese singer Jay Chou, released on 1 November 2005 by Sony Music Taiwan. The album was nominated for two Golden Melody Awards. The album won for an IFPI Hong Kong Top Sales Music Award fo ...''. Track listing Standard edition # "All the Way North" (一路向北) – 4:57 (from album ''November's Chopin'') # "Nunchucks" (雙截棍) – 3:23 (from album ''Fantasy'') # "Adorable Woman" (可愛女人) – 4:01 (from album ''Jay'') # "The Final Battle" (最後的戰役) – 4:14 (from album ''The Eight Dimensions'') # "Double Blade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay Chou
Jay Chou ( zh, t=周杰倫, s=周杰伦, poj=Chiu Kia̍t-lûn, p=Zhōu Jiélún, first=t, w=Chou Chieh-lun; born January 18, 1979) is a Taiwanese singer, songwriter, record producer, rapper, actor, and television personality. Dubbed the " King of Mandopop", and having sold over 30 million records, Chou is one of the best-selling artists in Taiwan and is known for his work with lyricist Vincent Fang, with whom he has frequently collaborated on his music. In 2000, Chou released his debut studio album, '' Jay'' (2000), under the record company Alfa Music. Chou rose to fame with the release of his second studio album, '' Fantasy (范特西)'' (2001), which combined Western and Eastern music styles. The album won five Golden Melody Awards, including Album of the Year. He has since further released twelve more studio albums, spawning a string of hit singles and gaining significant prominence in Asian communities such as Taiwan, Hong Kong SAR, China Mainland, Malaysia, and Singapo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandopop
Mandopop or Mandapop refers to Mandarin popular music. The genre has its origin in the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; with later influences coming from Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Taiwan's Hokkien pop, and in particular the Campus Song folk movement of the 1970s. 'Mandopop' may be used as a general term to describe popular songs performed in Mandarin. Though Mandopop predates Cantopop, the English term was coined around 1980 after "Cantopop" became a popular term for describing popular songs in Cantonese. "Mandopop" was used to describe Mandarin-language popular songs of that time, some of which were versions of Cantopop songs sung by the same singers with different lyrics to suit the different rhyme and tonal patterns of Mandarin. Mandopop is categorized as a subgenre of commercial Chinese-language music within C-pop. Popular music sung in Mandarin was the first variety of popular music in Chinese to establish itself as a viable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese ()—in linguistics Standard Northern Mandarin or Standard Beijing Mandarin, in common speech simply Mandarin, better qualified as Standard Mandarin, Modern Standard Mandarin or Standard Mandarin Chinese—is a modern standardized form of Mandarin Chinese that was first developed during the Republican Era (1912‒1949). It is designated as the official language of mainland China and a major language in the United Nations, Singapore, and Taiwan. It is largely based on the Beijing dialect. Standard Chinese is a pluricentric language with local standards in mainland China, Taiwan and Singapore that mainly differ in their lexicon. Hong Kong written Chinese, used for formal written communication in Hong Kong and Macau, is a form of Standard Chinese that is read aloud with the Cantonese reading of characters. Like other Sinitic languages, Standard Chinese is a tonal language with topic-prominent organization and subject–verb–object (SVO) word order. Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment (SME), also known as simply Sony Music, is an American multinational music company. Being owned by the parent conglomerate Sony Group Corporation, it is part of the Sony Music Group, which is owned by Sony Entertainment and managed by the American umbrella division of Sony. It was originally founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed as Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture known as Sony BMG, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the Sony Music name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Incomparable Concert
''2004 Incomparable Concert'' () is the second live album by Taiwanese singer Jay Chou, released as of 21 January 2005 by Sony Music Taiwan and Alfa Music and included a date filmed at Taipei Municipal Stadium The Taipei Municipal Stadium () is a multi-purpose stadium in Taipei, Taiwan. The original stadium, built in 1956, was used mostly for track and field events. Entertainer Michael Jackson performed two concerts there during his ''Dangerous World ... on 2 October 2004 from the 2004 Incomparable Concert. ''JVR Music''. 2 February 2005. Retrieved 2011-12-22 Track listing # "In Father's Name" (以父之名) – 5:59 # "The Wound That Ends War" (止戰之殤) – 4:37 # "Her Eyelashes" (她的睫毛) – 3:50 # "S ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
November's Chopin
''November's Chopin'' () is the sixth studio album by Taiwanese singer Jay Chou, released on 1 November 2005 by Sony Music Taiwan. The album was nominated for two Golden Melody Awards. The album won for an IFPI Hong Kong Top Sales Music Award for Top 10 Best Selling Mandarin Albums of the Year. The track, "Drifting", was nominated a Golden Horse Award for Best Original Film Song and a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Original Film Song. ''Hong Kong Film Awards''. Retrieved 2011-02-25 Track listing Awards References External links *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiwanese People
Taiwanese people may be generally considered the people of Taiwan who share a common culture, ancestry and speak Taiwanese Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka or indigenous Taiwanese languages as a mother tongue. Taiwanese people may also refer to the indigenous peoples of the areas under the control of the Government of the Republic of China since 1945, including Penghu as well as Kinmen and Matsu Islands that collectively form its streamlined Fujian Province (see Taiwan Area). However, the inhabitants of Kinmen and the Matsu themselves may not consider the "Taiwanese" label to be accurate as they are a part of Fujian and not Taiwan. They have a distinctive identity from that of the Taiwanese; viewing themselves as Kinmenese or Matsunese, respectively, or as simply Chinese. At least three competing (occasionally overlapping) paradigms are used to identify someone as a Taiwanese person: nationalist criteria, self-identification (including the concept of "New Taiwanese") criteria and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sony Music Entertainment Japan
, often abbreviated as SMEJ or simply SME, and also known as Sony Music Japan for short (stylized as ''SonyMusic''), is a Japanese music arm for Sony. Founded in 1968 as CBS/Sony, SMEJ is directly owned by Sony Group Corporation and is operating independently from the United States-based Sony Music Entertainment due to its strength in the Japanese music industry. Its subsidiaries include the Japanese animation production enterprise, Aniplex, which was established in September 1995 as a joint-venture between Sony Music Entertainment Japan and Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan, but which in 2001 became a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. It was prominent in the early to mid '90s producing and licensing music for animated series such as '' Roujin Z'' from acclaimed Japanese comic artist Katsuhiro Otomo and Capcom's '' Street Fighter'' animated series. Until March 2007, Sony Music Japan also had its own North American sublabel, Tofu Records. Releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay (album)
''Jay'' () is the debut studio album by Taiwanese singer Jay Chou, released on 7 November 2000 by BMG Taiwan. The album was nominated for five Golden Melody Awards and won for Best Pop Vocal Album The Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality vocal pop music albums. Awards in several .... The album also won an IFPI Hong Kong Top Sales Music Award for Top 10 Best Selling Mandarin Albums of the Year. The track, "Adorable Lady", is listed at number 74 on the 2000s Hit FM Top 100 Singles of the Year chart. The track, "Starry Mood", is also listed at number 80 on the 2001's chart. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy (Jay Chou Album)
''Fantasy'' () is the second studio album by Chinese Taiwan singer Jay Chou, released on 14 September 2001 by BMG Taiwan. The album was nominated for ten Golden Melody Awards and won five awards, including Best Pop Vocal Album The Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality vocal pop music albums. Awards in several ..., Best Album Producer, and Best Composer. The album also won for an IFPI Hong Kong Top Sales Music Award for Top 10 Best Selling Mandarin Albums of the Year. The tracks, "Simple Love" and "I Find It Hard to Say", are listed at number 2 and number 17 respectively on the 2001's Hit FM Top 100 Singles of the Year chart. HITO Radi''Hit Fm Annual Top 100 Singles Chart'' 2001 (#1-50) Retrieved 2011-04-08 Track listing Awards References External links *Jay Chou discography@JVR Music 2001 albums Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Eight Dimensions
''The Eight Dimensions'' () is the third studio album by Taiwanese singer Jay Chou, released on 18 July 2002 by BMG Taiwan. The album was nominated for five Golden Melody Awards The Golden Melody Awards (), commonly abbreviated as GMA, is an honor awarded by Taiwan's Ministry of Culture to recognize outstanding achievement in the Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien, Hakka, and Formosan-languages popular and traditional music .... The album also won for an IFPI Hong Kong Top Sales Music Award for Best Selling Mandarin Album of the Year. The tracks, "Secret Sign", "Back to the Past", and "The Final Battle", are listed at number 1, number 5, and number 42 respectively on the 2002's Hit FM Top 100 Singles of the Year chart. HITO RadiHit Fm Annual Top 100 Singles Chart 2002 (#1 to 50)Retrieved 2011-04-16 Track listing Awards References External links *Jay Chou discography@JVR Music 2002 albums Bertelsmann Music Group albums Jay Chou albums {{Taiwan-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
