''A-Mei New Century Collection'' is the first

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album by Taiwanese singer

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. It was released on December 28, 1999, by

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. The album contains Sprite's 2000 advertising song "I Want to Fly," along with the

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"Love, Never Disappears," which was specially composed by

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for the

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victims. In addition, the album also includes A-Mei's past best-selling

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from her previous studio albums that were released between 1996 and 1999. Commercially, ''A-Mei New Century Collection'' was a huge success in Greater China, selling over 410,000 copies in Taiwan, while also selling over 3 million copies throughout Asia. It is also Taiwan's best-selling album by a female artist in the 21st century, along with being the third best-selling album in Taiwan of the year 2000.

Background and release

In March 1996, A-Mei signed a recording contract with

, through which she later released five studio albums—''

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'' (1996), '' Bad Boy'' (1997), ''

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'' (1997), ''

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'' (1998) and ''

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'' (1999). The five albums have sold more than 1.21 million, 1.38 million, 800,000, 1.1 million copies, and 1.18 million copies in Taiwan, respectively. On December 28, 1998, Forward Music released a

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greatest hits album titled ''A-Mei New Century Collection'', which contains A-Mei's 18 previously released songs and two new bonus tracks titled "I Want to Fly" and "Love, Never Disappears." In January 2001, the track "I Want to Fly" was listed at number 11 on the 2000

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chart.

Track listing

References

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