Category:Hong Kong Music

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[edit] A Quick Overview of HK Music in the Past 10 Years

Hong Kong music in the late 1980s began with a domination of singers such as Anita Mui, Alan Tam, Leslie Cheung, and Beyond. Other singers whose music were often ranked on various charts populated by the radio and television stations include Sally Yip, Sandy Lam, Shirley Kwan, Grasshoppers, and Dat Ming Yik Pai, to just name a few. By the beginning of the 1990s, new singers or singers who have begun his/her career not long ago began to come to popularity, with the media naming Jacky Cheung, Leon Lai, Andy Lau, and Aaron Kwok as the "Four Kings" or "Four Aces" of the Hong Kong music industry in 1991. Jacky -- known for his heavenly voice, Leon -- known for his good look, Andy -- known for his manliness, and Aaron -- known for his dancing, began to dominate all the award shows in Hong Kong for the next couple years. Some of their representative music include:

Jacky: Love You More Everyday, Blue Rain, An Unchaged Heart, Love Sparks, Goodbye Kiss, I Can't Forget You, Love is Forever, and A Tale of Youth

Leon: Sorry but I Love You, My Dearest, Summer Love, I Miss You Everyday, You're My Lifelong Love, and I Haven't Told You My Deepest Feeling

Andy: The Time When We're Together, My True Ambience, Thanks for Your Love, Medicine to Forget, and True Forever

Aaron: My Love For You Won't Be Gone, Wide City, Seduction from the Steel Facade, and A Tale of Innocence

Together with singers such as Andy Hui, Edmond Leung, William So, Hacken Lee, Sammi Cheng, Faye Wong, and Cass Pang in the first half of the 1990s, the Hong Kong music industry was going through one of the most prominent periods in history.

By mid-1990s, another wave of new singers began to appear, including the then-controversial youngster Nicholas Tse, Leo Ku, Eason Chan, Daniel Chan, Joey Yung, Miriam Yeung, Cecilia Cheung, Kelly Chan, Gigi Leung, Denise Ho, and Twins. While the music industry was dominated by the four aforementioned male singers in the first half of the 1990s, female singers started to change the phenomenon into a leveled playing field. Singers from Taiwan also started to flood the Hong Kong music industry, especially with the phenomenonal popularity of Jay Chou, David Tao, Stefanie Sun, Elva Siu, and A-Mei Zhang.

Very recently, a wave of new singers with high potential began to make an impression on a lot of the Hong Kong music listeners. Most notably, Justin, Janice, Ivana Wong, Khahil Fong, At-17, and Soler frequently appeared in the annual award shows hosted by radio and television stations. With both experienced and youthful singers vowing to produce quality music for the Canto pop audience, one can only expect the Hong Kong music industry to become more mature and popular.