Sandy Lam discography

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Sandy Lam discography
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Lam in 2024
Studio albums32
EPs9
Live albums8
Compilation albums30

This is the discography of Hong Kong recording artist Sandy Lam. Since her debut in 1985, Lam has released 32 studio albums in various languages, including Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese and English. Her first Mandarin album, Falling in Love With Someone Who Doesn't Come Home (1990), sold over five million copies in Asia and 600,000 copies in Taiwan. Lam's fourth Mandarin record, Love, Sandy (1995), sold around four million copies throughout Asia, including 800,000 copies in Taiwan. Both records are amongst the best-selling albums in Taiwan.

Contents

Studio albums

Cantonese albums

TitleAlbum detailsSalesCertifications
Sandy Lam (林憶蓮)
Self-Indulgence (放縱)
  • Released: March 1986
  • Label: CBS Sony Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette, CD
  • HK: 100,000 [1]
  • IFPI HK: Platinum [2]
Sandy (憶蓮)
  • Released: 19 February 1987
  • Label: CBS Sony Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette, CD
  • HK: 100,000 [1]
  • IFPI HK: Platinum [2]
Grey (灰色)
  • Released: 21 August 1987
  • Label: CBS Sony Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette, CD
  • HK: 150,000 [3]
  • IFPI HK: 3× Platinum [3]
Ready
  • Released: 8 June 1988
  • Label: CBS Sony Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette, CD
City Rhythm (都市觸覺)
  • Released: 15 December 1988
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: LP, cassette, CD
  • IFPI HK: Platinum [4]
City Rhythm II
  • Released: 24 October 1989
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: LP, cassette, CD
  • IFPI HK: Platinum [5]
Part III - Faces And Places (都市觸覺)
  • Released: 28 August 1990
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: LP, cassette, CD
  • IFPI HK: Platinum
Drifting (夢了、瘋了、倦了)
  • Released: 14 February 1991
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: LP, cassette, CD
Wildflower (野花)
  • Released: 26 December 1991
  • Label: Stardust Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Come Back To Love (回來愛的身邊)
  • Released: 8 October 1992
  • Label: Stardust Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Begin Again (不如重新開始)
  • Released: 29 April 1993
  • Label: Stardust Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Sandy '94
  • Released: 16 June 1994
  • Label: Stardust Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Feeling Perfect (感覺完美)
  • Released: 15 January 1996
  • Label: Rock Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
S/L (本色)
  • Released: 10 November 2005
  • Label: Gold Medal Entertainment
  • Formats: CD
In Search of Lost Time (陪著我走)
  • Released: 16 March 2016
  • Label: Lead Talent Limited
  • Formats: CD, digital download

Mandarin albums

TitleAlbum detailsSales
Falling in Love With Someone Who Doesn't Come Home
(愛上一個不回家的人)
  • Released: 27 December 1990
  • Label: UFO Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
  • Asia: 5,000,000 [6]
  • TWN: 600,000 [7]
City Heart (都市心)
  • Released: 5 October 1991
  • Label: UFO Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Doesn't Matter Who I Am (不必在乎我是誰)
  • Released: 14 May 1993
  • Label: Rock Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Love, Sandy
  • Released: 25 January 1995
  • Label: Rock Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
  • Asia: 4,000,000 [8]
  • TWN: 800,000 [9]
Night's Too Dark (夜太黑)
  • Released: 19 July 1996
  • Label: Rock Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
  • Asia: 1,000,000 [10]
Clang Rose (鏗鏘玫瑰)
  • Released: 28 January 1999
  • Label: Rock Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Sandy Lam's (林憶蓮's)
  • Released: 18 January 2000
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD, cassette
2001 Sandy (2001蓮)
  • Released: 5 December 2000
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Truly... (原來...)
  • Released: 6 December 2001
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Breathe Me (呼吸)
  • Released: 26 August 2006
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD
Gaia (蓋亞)
  • Released: 20 September 2012
  • Label: Universal Music
  • Formats: LP, CD, digital download
0
  • Released: 21 December 2018
  • Label: Universal Music
  • Formats: LP, digital download

Japanese albums

TitleAlbum details
Simple
  • Released: 10 March 1994
  • Label: Stardust Records/Amuse
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Open Up
  • Released: 3 March 1995
  • Label: Stardust Records/Amuse
  • Formats: CD

English albums

TitleAlbum details
I Swear (愛是唯一)
  • Released: 14 February 1996
  • Label: Rock Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Wonderful World (美妙世界)
  • Released: 31 January 1997
  • Label: Rock Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette

Extended plays

TitleAlbum detailsCertifications
Heartbreak Lane (心碎巷)
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: CBS Sony Records
  • Formats: LP
Sandy (忆莲)
  • Released: April 1987
  • Label: CBS Sony Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
Project Gray Phase Three: The 12" Remix
  • Released: December 1987
  • Label: CBS Sony Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette
Xin Zhuang Yi Lian (新装忆莲)
  • Released: December 1988
  • Label: CBS Sony Records
  • Formats: LP, CD, cassette
City Rhythm Take Two
  • Released: April 1989
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: LP, CD, cassette
  • IFPI HK: Gold [5]
Dynamic Reaction (都市觸覺之推搪)
  • Released: 27 March 1990
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: LP, CD, cassette
Dance Mega Mix (傾斜都市燒燒燒)
  • Released: December 1990
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: LP, CD, cassette
Love Returns (回歸)
  • Released: 8 October 1996
  • Label: Rock Records
  • Formats: CD
Encore
  • Released: 18 June 2002
  • Label: EMI
  • Formats: CD, cassette

Live albums

TitleAlbum detailsCertifications
Yi Lian is confused and infatuated
  • Released: September 1991
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: CD, cassette, LD, VCD, DVD
Wild Flowers of Heaven and Earth 1993 Love Shakes the Red Hall
  • Released: April 1994
  • Label: Stardust Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette, LD, VHS, VCD, DVD
Remember the memory lotus blooms
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Rock Records
  • Formats: CD+VCD, CD, LD, VHS, VCD
Favorite
  • Released: 10 July 1997
  • Label: Rock Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Hong Kong Philharmonic x Lam Yi-lian x Lun Wing-liang
  • Released: 30 July 2004
  • Label: East Asia Records
  • Formats: CD, VCD, DVD
Endless Night Concert
  • Released: 4 January 2006
  • Label: Gold Medal Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, VCD, DVD
Yi Lian Live 07
  • Released: 27 February 2008
  • Label: Gold Medal Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, DVD
Lin Yilian Concert MMXI
  • Released: 5 June 2012
  • Label: Lead Talent Limited
  • Formats: CD, DVD

Compilation albums

TitleAlbum details
Hardcover Elemium
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: CBS Sony Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette, CD
Platinum Collector's Edition
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: CBS Sony Records
  • Formats: LP, cassette, CD
Super Golden Elemium
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: CBS Sony Records
  • Formats: CD
Memories are always tender
  • Released: June 1991
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: LP, cassette, CD
Memories always jump
  • Released: August 1991
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: LP, cassette, CD
Love Ballad Collection in Chinese
  • Released: August 1991 (only released in Japan)
  • Label: Warner Music (#WMC5-439)
  • Formats: CD
Unforgettable 15 Warner Music Platinum Classics
  • Released: June 1992
  • Label: Warner Music, Stardust Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
The Platinum Years 1985-1992
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Sony, Warner Music
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Golden Disk Hardcover Lin Yilian
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: CD
The Platinum Years 1985-1992 II
  • Released: February 1993
  • Label: Sony, Warner Music
  • Formats: CD
Best of Sandy Lam: The Warner Music Years 1989-1992
  • Released: 21 December 1993
  • Label: Warner Music (#WMC5-673)
  • Formats: CD
About her love story
  • Released: 14 October 1994
  • Label: Stardust Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Memories are always good
  • Released: 14 October 1994
  • Label: Flying Saucer, Warner Music
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Ai Lian said
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: CD
The Best of Sandy
  • Released: 1997 (only released in South Korea)
  • Label: Rock Records
  • Formats: CD
Fond memories...
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Flying Saucer, Warner Music
  • Formats: CD+VCD, cassette
Have Yilian
  • Released: October 1999
  • Label: Rock Records
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Complete Plus
  • Released: February 2000
  • Label: Creative Artist Management & Productions Limited
  • Formats: CD
The Story of Sandy Lam So Far
  • Released: February 2002
  • Label: Rock Records
  • Formats: CD
Hui·Yilian
  • Released: February 2002
  • Label: Stardust Records, Zhengdong
  • Formats: CD
Belong to Me
  • Released: 10 May 2002
  • Label: Viking
  • Formats: CD, cassette
The Best…
  • Released: 17 January 2003
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Starting from 611
  • Released: March 2004
  • Label: Sony
  • Formats: CD+DVD
Sandy
  • Released: 1 November 2005
  • Label: New Age Studios
  • Formats: CD+DVD
Blooming Remembrance Lotus
  • Released: November 2005
  • Label: Sony, Warner Music
  • Formats: CD
Remembering Lianlian
  • Released: August 2006
  • Label: Rock Records
  • Formats: CD
Not the main feature of Yilian
  • Released: January 2008
  • Label: New Age Studios
  • Formats: CD
Re:Workz
  • Released: 17 January 2014
  • Label: Lead Talent Limited
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Sense and Sensibility: Color Memory 30 Lotus
  • Released: 15 May 2015
  • Label: Sony
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Still... Lin Yilian
  • Released: 23 March 2016
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download

Singles

Japanese

TitleYearPeak chart positionsSalesAlbum
JPN
[12]
"Dakaratte..."199348
  • JPN: 48,000
Simple
"Doshite Yo"199446
"Pieces of Mind"1995Open Up

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