The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 舊金山美容院 (direct translation is San Francisco Beauty Salon) is a 24-episode Taiwanese drama series which premiered on October 19, 2025 in Taiwan.
(more…)October 23, 2025
February 3, 2025
Most Popular Mandopop Songs of 2024
These are the Top 100 most streamed Mandopop and Taiwanese songs of 2024 in Taiwan according to Taiwanese KKBox streaming platform. These are songs released onto the KKBox platform for streaming from December 2023 to December 2024, but the number of streams are calculated from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024. Keep in mind that since the calculation is based on accumulation of plays, songs released earlier in the year were streamed for more months than songs released at the end of the year. The year and month date shown below the title of each song is the month the particular song was released onto KKBox.
(more…)January 1, 2025
Top 100 Mandopop Songs of 2024 in Singapore 新加坡2024年度頂尖100單曲
July 15, 2024
Mesmerize 催眠 – Power Station 動力火車
The brand new single from Power Station’s new album, Always With You 結伴… Love the song and foung myself unconsciously humming the song the last few days, LOL…
(more…)April 24, 2024
The Relentless 俯衝的靈魂 – Power Station 動力火車 & JJ Lin 林俊傑
During a Power Station‘s concert in Taipei last year where JJ Lin was a surprise guest, they joked and talked about a collaboration in the future. Well, it has now happened, JJ fulfilled his promise and composed this new song for Power Station and getting prominent Taiwanese lyricist Daryl Yao 姚若龍 to write the lyrics for the new song. On first listen, I already liked it so much!
(more…)November 9, 2022
Winter Flashback 初雪的夜空 – Power Station 動力火車
Brand new song from Power Station 動力火車 from the collaborative album, In the Name of the Moon 以月之名, which features 6 songs from 6 mandopop artists. This song is co-composed by 77Ke 柯棨棋 who came to our attention this year by composing and singing the 2 theme songs for the BL series, About Youth 默默的我，不默默的我們. He co-composed the song with Venk Yang 楊子樸 and the lyrics is written by the famed lyricist Vincent Fang 方文山 who writes lyrics for Jay Chou 周杰倫 almost exclusively…
(more…)January 29, 2022
December 10, 2021
Most Streamed Mandopop Songs of 2021
Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube have released the most streamed songs for 2021 in Taiwan. Here they are…
(more…)November 26, 2020
Let Bygones be Bygones 跳上車子離開傷心的台北 – Power Station 動力火車
Just heard this song today and immediately love the melody of the song! This is the new song by Power Station 動力火車, and according to the publicity, this song is the sequel to their 2001’s song 忠孝東路走九遍. This new song is to represent what happened 20 years after the story in the 2001 song. The melody of this new song is actually a cover of the song Ghost sung by the Danish singer, Christopher, from early this year. So I have included the MVs of all 3 songs below…
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Corner Café 