Princess (Jam Hsiao album)

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Princess
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Princess cover
Studio album 王妃by Jam Hsiao
Released 17 July 2009 (2009-07-17)
Genre Mandopop
Language Mandarin
Label Warner Music Taiwan
Jam Hsiao chronology
Jam Hsiao Self Titled Album
(2008)
Princess
(2009)
Love Moments
(2009)
Alternative cover

Princess (Chinese :王妃) is Taiwanese Mandopop artist Jam Hsiao's (Chinese :蕭敬騰) second Mandarin studio album. It was released on 17 July 2009 by Warner Music Taiwan. [1] The album was available for pre-order, from 23 June 2009, as the Princess (First Press Limited Edition) (王妃 全球首日封榮耀限定款) which includes gifts and photobook. [2] A further edition, Princess (Live Limited Edition) (王妃 Live 影音限定版 2CD+DVD) was released on 28 August 2009 with bonus CD and DVD containing live tracks and footage from Hsiao's Princess Live Concert Tour at Tainan, Taiwan. [3]

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Mandopop refers to Mandarin popular music. The English term was coined around 1980 soon 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. It is now used as a general term to describe popular songs performed in Mandarin.

Contents

The track "Say a lil something" is composed by label mate Khalil Fong and four tracks, "小男人大男孩" (Not A Boy, Not Yet A Man), "Green Door", "給愛人" (To My Beloved) and "寂寞還是你" (Lonesome for You) are composed by Hsiao. The music video for "我不會愛" (Don't Know How to Love) features Taiwanese actress Sandrine Pinna.

Khalil Fong (simplified Chinese: 方大同; born 14 July 1983) is a Hong Kong-based American singer-songwriter and producer.

Sandrine Pinna Taiwanese actress

Sandrine Pinna is a Taiwanese actress who started her career as a child actress and appeared in many advertisements.

Reception

The album debuted at number one on Taiwan's G-Music Top 20 Weekly Mandarin and Combo Charts at week 29, and Five Music Chart at week 30 with a percentage sales of 33.1%, [4] 22.76% [5] and 24.45% [6] respectively.

The tracks "王妃" (Princess), "我不會愛" (Don't Know How to Love) and "阿飛的小蝴蝶" (A-Fei's Little Butterfly) are listed at number 2, 4 and 9 respectively on Hit Fm Taiwan's Hit Fm Annual Top 100 Singles Chart (Hit-Fm年度百首單曲) for 2009. [7]

The track, "Say a lil something" won one of the Songs of the Year at the 2010 Metro Radio Mandarin Music Awards presented by Hong Kong radio station Metro Info. [8] According to Taiwan's G-Music chart the album is the eighth best selling album in Taiwan in 2009. [9]

Hong Kong East Asian city

Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and commonly abbreviated as HK, is a special administrative region of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in southern China. With over 7.4 million people of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the world's fourth-most densely populated region.

Track listing

NB. Title - Songwriter/ Composer/ Producer
  1. "王妃" (Princess) - 陳鎮川 / Lee Shih Shiong / Lee Shih Shiong - 3’39”
  2. "我不會愛" (Don't Know How to Love) - 鄔裕康/ Kim, Seok Jin / 李偉菘 - 4’05”
  3. "阿飛的小蝴蝶" (A-Fei's Little Butterfly) - Adia (阿弟仔)/ Adia (阿弟仔)/ Adia (阿弟仔) - 4’13”
  4. "善男信女" (Believers) - 陳鎮川/ Lee Wei Song/ Lee Wei Song - 4’28”
  5. "Say a lil something" - 崔惟楷 / Khalil Fong / Lee Shih Shiong - 3’28”
  6. "愛遊戲" (Love Games) - 陳鎮川 / 陳偉 / 陳偉 - 3’48”
  7. "小男人大男孩" (Not A Boy, Not Yet A Man) - Jam Hsiao/ Jam Hsiao/ Jam Hsiao - 3’32”
  8. "會痛的石頭" (Stone That Knows Pain) - Yáo Ruòlóng / Jeong Si Ro, Kang Eun Kyung/ Lee Shih Shiong - 4’46”
  9. "愛過了頭" (Loving You Too Deeply) - 胡如虹/ Lee Wei Song/ Lee Wei Song - 4’24”
  10. "Green Door" - Jam Hsiao/ Jam Hsiao/ Jam Hsiao - 3’15”
Bonus tracks
  1. "給愛人" (To My Beloved) - 陳鎮川/ Jam Hsiao/ 鍾興民 黃韻玲 - 3’44”
  2. "寂寞還是你" (Lonesome for You) - Jam Hsiao/ Jam Hsiao/ 馬奕強 - 3’39”

Releases

Three editions were released by Warner Music Taiwan:

Tainan Special municipality in Southern Taiwan, Republic of China

Tainan, officially Tainan City, is a special municipality of Taiwan, facing the Formosan Strait or Taiwan Strait in the west and south. Tainan is the oldest city on the island of Taiwan and also commonly known as the "Capital City" for its over 200 years of history as the capital of Taiwan under Koxinga and later Qing dynasty rule. Tainan's complex history of comebacks, redefinitions and renewals inspired its popular nickname "the Phoenix City".

Live CD/DVD
  1. "王妃" (Princess)
  2. "善男信女" (Believers)
  3. "愛過了頭" (Loving You Too Deeply)
  4. "小男人大男孩" (Not A Boy, Not Yet A Man)
  5. "Green Door"
  6. "Say a lil something"
  7. "我不會愛" (Don't Know How to Love)
  8. "阿飛的小蝴蝶" (A-Fei's Little Butterfly)
  9. "寂寞還是你" (Lonesome for You)
  10. "會痛的石頭" (Stone That Knows Pain)

Charts

Chart NameDebut PositionWeek# / Week Dates of Peak PositionPeak PositionPercentage of Album Sales at Peak
G-Music Mandarin Chart, Taiwan
風雲榜 (華語榜)
#1#29 / 17–23 July 2009#133.1%
G-Music Combo Chart, Taiwan
風雲榜 (綜合榜)
#1#29 / 17–23 July 2009#122.76%
Five Music Taiwan
5大金榜
#1#30 / 17–23 July 2009#124.45%
Hit Fm Annual Top 100 Singles Chart - 2009
Track namePosition
"王妃" (Princess)#2
"我不會愛" (Don't Know How to Love)#4
"阿飛的小蝴蝶" (A-Fei's Little Butterfly)#9

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References

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  2. (in Chinese) Warner Music Taiwan Princess (First Press Limited Edition) album info 17 July 2009. Retrieved 2011-05-19
  3. (in Chinese) Warner Music Taiwan Princess (Live Limited Edition) album info 28 August 2009. Retrieved 2011-05-19
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