Background
Of the ten tracks on the album, Xue composed music for five tracks and wrote lyrics for seven tracks. The title track, "Countless", was written and composed by Xue. The arrangement builds up from low piano notes integrated with percussion, culminating in a powerful and unyielding atmosphere where one rushes forward fearlessly and uncompromisingly despite the countless obstacles in pursuit of countless possibilities. The songs "You Are Not Alone" and "But" are collaborations with Jeff Chang and Jane Zhang, respectively. Zhang performed "But" with Xue as a special guest at Xue's Douyin Online Concert: Ke in February 2023 and at Xue's Extraterrestrial World Tour's third Beijing show in August 2023. "About You" is dedicated to Xue's mother, who died when he was 4, and released on his birthday. "Waiting" is a cover of the song by Xue's good friend Zhao Yingjun, who died in February 2021. Zhao had expressed the wish of having an album of cover songs to hear his music through other artists' interpretation; Xue launched the project in August 2020 and the album ''A Song, a Story'' was released on September 17, 2020. "Waiting" is included on the album ''A Song, a Story'' where thirteen of Zhao's songs are each covered by a different artist and Xue's own album ''Countless''. It is the seventh track on both albums; the placement is significant because Xue had previously said the seventh track holds a special meaning for him.Reception
All songs on the album peaked within the top ten spots on Tencent Music UNI chart, with the exception of "City of Luo", which peaked at 11. ''Countless'' was number 2 on Tencent Music's 2022 Year-End Chart which ranks the albums based on the sum of the five highest scored songs on each album, and "But" was named one of the Top 10 Hits of the Year. On KuGou Music's year-end chart, ''Countless'' was among Top 10 Popular Albums and Xue was named one of Top 10 Artists of the Year and the Favorite Artist of Post-00s Generation. On TME Physical Album Annual Sales Chart, ''Countless'' ranked 5th in 2022 and continued to appear on the list in 2023 (ranked 18th), 2024 (ranked 31st), and 2025 (ranked 35th).Track listing
Accolades
References
{{authority control 2022 albums Joker Xue albums Mandarin-language albums