A mandopop supergroup surprise! A song written by two of the biggest names in Taiwanese pop, Jay Chou 周杰倫 (music) and Ashin of Mayday 五月天阿信 (lyrics) and sung together with the partly reformed, three members of F4 (Flower Four) who rose to fame starring in the 2001 idol drama Meteor Garden 流星花園, it surprised everyone by premiering unexpectedly just a few hours ago… Looking at the single cover, it hinted at the supergroup name as F✦FOREVER if you don’t want to reel off each of their individual names, LOL…
(more…)December 6, 2025
October 24, 2025
Unexpected Courage 我們意外的勇氣 (Taiwanese Movie OST)
Unexpected Courage 我們意外的勇氣 is a Taiwanese family romance film which premiered on June 25, 2025 at the 27th Taipei Film Festival 台北電影節. It is released in theatres across Taiwan on October 23, 2025. The film is based on a true story from the director of the film, Shawn Yu 游紹翔.
(more…)June 9, 2023
Womxnly 玫瑰少年 – Jolin Tsai 蔡依林
Womxnly 玫瑰少年 is a song sung by Jolin Tsai 蔡依林 from her album Ugly Beauty released in December 2018. It won the category of Song of the Year at the 30th Golden Melody Award 金曲獎 in 2019. This week Jolin sang this song on Japan’s The First Take and she also became the second Taiwanese singer to be invited to sing on this Japanese YouTube channel. The spelling of the English title with the x is to emphasize gender equality (see link to the story behind the song below).
(more…)January 29, 2022
November 27, 2021
Light the Night 華燈初上 (Taiwanese Series OST)
Light the Night 華燈初上 is a new Taiwanese webdrama that premiered on November 26, 2021. It will consist of 3 seasons of 8 episodes each, so a total of 24 episodes. The first season of 8 episodes are now all available to stream online, the premiere date of the subsequent two seasons are yet to be confirmed.
The drama is set in the 1980s in Taiwan, so the OST has some cover songs from that era which was originally made famous by the very popular Taiwanese singer, Teresa Teng 鄧麗君. One of her signature songs very well-known throughout the Chinese community around the world, The Moon Represents My Heart 月亮代表我的心, is now covered by Ashin 阿信 (vocalist of Mayday 五月天) as the opening theme song for the soundtrack!
December 18, 2020
Most Streamed Mandopop Songs of 2020
Spotify has announced the Top 5 most streamed Mandopop Songs of 2020 around the world just a couple of weeks ago. Here they are…
(more…)June 13, 2020
Top 20 Mandopop Songs of 2019 in Taiwan 台灣2019年度二十大中文單曲
This list was compiled by Taiwan’s pop music radio station Hit FM.
(more…)June 6, 2020
Top 20 Mandopop Songs of 2019 in Singapore 新加坡2019年度最受歡迎二十大單曲
This list was complied by YES 933, a Mandarin radio station in Singapore that plays contemporary hits.
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