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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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Universal Music Group
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Universal Music Group is an American-French global music corporation that is a subsidiary of the Paris-based French media conglomerate Vivendi. UMGs global corporate headquarters are in Santa Monica, California and it is considered one of the Big Three record labels, along with Warner Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment. Universal Music was once the music attached to film studio Universal Pictures and its origins go back to the formation of the American branch of Decca Records in September 1934. The Decca Record Co. Ltd. of England spun American Decca off in 1939, MCA Inc. merged with American Decca in 1962. The present organization was formed when its parent company Seagram purchased PolyGram in May 1998, however, the name had first appeared in 1996 when MCA Music Entertainment Group was renamed Universal Music Group. The PolyGram acquisition included Deutsche Grammophon which traces its ancestry to Berliner Gramophone making Deutsche Grammophon UMGs oldest unit, UMGs Canadian unit traces its ancestry to a Berliner Gramophone breakaway firm the Compo Company. With the 2004 acquisition of Universal Studios by General Electric and merging with GEs NBC and this is the second time a music company has done so, the first being the separation of Time Warner and Warner Music Group. On June 25,2007, Vivendi completed its €1.63 billion purchase of BMG Music Publishing, after receiving European Union regulatory approval, doug Morris stepped down from his position as CEO on January 1,2011. Former chairman/CEO of Universal Music International Lucian Grainge was promoted to CEO of the company, Grainge later replaced him as chairman on March 9,2011. Morris became the chairman of Sony Music Entertainment on July 1,2011. With Grainges appointment as CEO at UMG, Max Hole was promoted to COO of UMGI, starting in 2011 UMGs Interscope Geffen A&M Records will be signing contestants from American Idol/Idol series. On January 2011, UMG announced it was donating 200,000 master recordings from the 1920s to 1940s to the Library of Congress for preservation, in March 2011, Barry Weiss became chairman & CEO of The Island Def Jam Music Group & Universal Republic Records. Both companies are restructuring under Weiss, in December 2011, David Foster was named Chairman of Verve Music Group. Among the other companies that had competed for the music business was Warner Music Group which was reported to have made a $2 billion bid. However, IMPALA has said it would fight the merger, coincidentally, UMG sister company StudioCanal has owned the EMI Films library for several years. On September 21,2012, the sale of EMI to UMG was approved in Europe, UMG divested Mute Records, Parlophone, Roxy Recordings, MPS Records, Cooperative Music, Now Thats What I Call Music. Jazzland, Universal Greece, Sanctuary Records, Chrysalis Records, EMI Classics, Virgin Classics, the Beatles recorded music library was allowed to remain with UMG despite being considered part of Parlophone and is now managed by UMGs reorganized Capitol Music Group worldwide. Robbie Williams, who had recorded for Chrysalis, had his transferred to Universals Island Records
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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions
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Agent J (album)
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Agent J is the ninth studio album by Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai. It was released on September 21,2007, by Capitol Music Taiwan and it was renamed Love Mission in mainland China. Tsais last studio album, Dancing Diva, not only brought her to the top of the charts, expectations were naturally high for the new record, and Tsai was upping the ante with eleven new tracks and her first ever music movie. The album is set to be as successful as Dancing Diva, the album has sold more than 2.5 million copies in Asia, with more than 200,000 copies sold in Taiwan alone, and became the best-selling album of the year in Taiwan. The eleventh track, Sun Will Never Set, reached number 1 on the Hit FM Annual Top 100 Singles, the title track, Agent J, reached number 14 on the chart. The second track, Bravo Lover, reached number 41 on the chart, the album earned Tsai an MTV Asia Award nomination for Favorite Artist Taiwan. To further promote the album, Tsai released her debut film under the title on September 5,2007. The film is directed by Jeff Chang, Sheng Kuang, and Wei-kang Lai and starring Jolin Tsai, Kim Jaewon, Stephen Fung, and Carl Ng, the film can be divided into three parts. In the first part, Tsai played a girl who traveled in Paris, France and she was taken away by a secret organization and got brainwashed, and she was selected as a special agent due to her lithe physique to help the organization to assassinate people. At the last, she was instructed by the organization to kill her boyfriend, because she lost all her memory, she was confused about the last smile the man gave to her, and she went to his apartment and found the old photos bearing witness to their relationship. In the second part, Tsai played a people in prison and was selected by an organization to carry out an assassination in exchange for her freedom. Her target, Blue Beard, received intelligence and sent two killers to assassinate her in London, England and she met a photographer named Hsiao-tung Lu, and she fled under the cover of the man. They started a relationship, but one day she found her boyfriend was also an agent sent by Blue Beard. On the night she went to kill Blue Beard, Blue Beard shot her boyfriend from behind, in the third part, she played an undercover agent who was instructed to save a fellow agent named Vince who approached a gang boss in Bangkok, Thailand. However, she found the Vince was her ex-boyfriend who was supposed to be died a few years ago was working for the gang boss, one day both of their undercover identities exposed, and they started a gun battle with the gang member. Vince took a bullet in the chest and was died, and he left her alone again
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Jolin Tsai
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Jolin Tsai is a Taiwanese singer, songwriter, dancer, actress and entrepreneur. Known for reinventing both her music and image, she is cited as a role of popularizing dance music as mainstream music in Greater China. Born and raised in Taiwan, Tsai began her career by winning the champion at an MTV singing competition at the age of 18. Her debut album, released in 1999 and titled 1019, was a huge success and her fifth album, Magic, is regarded as one of her biggest successes so far, right after her album, Dancing Diva, which reflected her mature artistic statement. After several successful albums and dozens of hits, she released her latest album, Play, having sold more than 25 million records in Asia, Tsai is recognized as one of the best-selling artists in Asia. Her work has earned her numerous awards and accolades, including six Golden Melody Awards, an MTV Asia Award and she has been acclaimed as an entrepreneur, particularly after she founded her own music production and management company Eternal in 2009. Forbes reported that she is one of the highest-paid Chinese celebrities, Tsai was born to parents Tsai Chu-chen and Huang Chun-mei in Hsinchuang, Taiwan, on September 15,1980. Her father is of Han Chinese descent, while her mother is half Han Chinese and her Papora maternal grandmother hails from Puli. Tsai was known for her grade, and frequently achieved top 3 in class since elementary school. Tsai was a 200-meter sprinter in school, but quit after she injured her ankle. Tsai later attended Hsinchuang Junior High School and Chingmei Girls High School where she and her friends formed a band Twister for which she sang, but the band quickly dissolved. In the second year of school, she made her performance debut on campus. In a different campus event, she sang Bette Midlers The Rose, in 1998, Tsai joined an MTV singing competition for a record of an extracurricular activity she performed in order to help her apply for colleges. However, she emerged champion at the competition where she sang a rendition of Whitney Houstons Greatest Love of All in the final round. It was a win that kickstarted her singing career and paved the way to her journey in becoming a teen idol. In 1999, she majored in English literature at Fu Jen Catholic University, after Tsai signed a recording deal with Universal, her debut single, Living with the World, was released in July 1999. She then started developing her album,1019, which was primarily recorded in Quad Studios in New York City. The album was released in September 1999, and she received positive feedback for the album, Tsai was named as the Teenage Boy Killer by media, and became an instant hit among teenagers in Taiwan
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Don't Stop (Jolin Tsai album)
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Dont Stop is the second studio album by Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai. It was released on April 26,2000, by Universal Music Taiwan, after the release of her debut album,1019, her label wanted to solidify her future in the music industry, by building on the success of the first album. Tsai erased any fears of a slump with the production of her second studio album. The album contains hit singles that dominated the Asian charts for the better part of the year. The album has more than 450,000 copies in Taiwan alone. The title track, Dont Stop, reached number 17 on the Hit FM Annual Top 100 Singles
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Lucky Number (album)
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Lucky Number is the fourth studio album by Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai. It was released on July 7,2001, by Universal Music Taiwan, Tsai tinkered again with her style for the album, but the downturn in her fortune continued from her last album, Show Your Love. Just after the released of the album, Tsais music career came to a due to the conflict with her management company of the time. The album did not manage to bring her back to the popularity she enjoyed. The fourth track, If You Dont Want to, reached number 94 on the Hit FM Annual Top 100 Singles
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Hit FM (Taiwan)
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Hit FM is a pop music radio station in Taiwan. It broadcasts in Taipei, Taichung, and Kaohsiung, Hit FM is owned by Music of Taipei Communications. It is one of the stations under Hitoradio. com. Hit FM is the highest-rated Top Ten radio station in Taiwan, the show, Fresh Release broadcast pop music. Hit Fm is one of the Chinese radio stations that broadcasts songs and their competitor, Kaohsiung-based Kiss Radio Taiwan, also broadcasts Mandopop as well as English top 40 songs. Each Weekend, two artists introduce music on air. Many Taiwanese/Mandarin Pop Music Artists, such as Jay Chou, Show Luo, A-Mei, Jolin Tsai, S. H. E, Leehom Wang, Stefanie Sun, everyday, Hit Fm introduces the No.1 song from different music charts throughout the world. This show broadcasts at 7,15,11,15,15,15,19,15,00,15, but now this feature has been abolished. Hit Fm Annual Top 100 Singles Chart is a yearly compilation chart since 1998, by Hit Fm of the top 100 singles by online poll, weekly charts,2005 Hito Top 100 Singles 2004 Hito Top 100 Singles Remarks, Timetable is as of March 15,2010. Times stated above are at local times, the names of the DJ are in parenthesis. Official website Source, Pinyin translated by CozyChinese. Com
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Jolin Tsai discography
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Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai has released thirteen studio albums, seven greatest hits albums, six live albums, four remix albums, and one cover album. In 1999, Tsai signed a deal with Universal Music Taiwan. The first release under the label was her album,1019. It sold more than 400,000 copies in Taiwan alone and she followed the album with the sophomore release, Dont Stop. The album has more than 450,000 copies in Taiwan alone. Show Your Love was a released as her studio album in 2000. In 2002, Tsai signed a deal with Sony Music Taiwan. Her sixth studio album, Castle, was released in 2004, the album has sold over 2 million copies in Asia, with 300,000 copies sold in Taiwan alone, and made her the best-selling female singer of the year in Taiwan. She also released her remix compilation, J9, in the same year. Tsais seventh studio album, J-game, sold more than 2 million copies in Asia, with 260,000 copies sold in Taiwan alone and her remaining contract with Sony ended with two albums, her third greatest hits album, J-top. In 2006, Tsai signed a deal with Capitol Music Taiwan. She also released her remix compilation, Dancing Forever, in the same year. In 2008, Tsai signed a deal with Warner Music Taiwan. In the same year, she founded Eternal Music, which became her record company. The first release under Eternal was the album, Muse, which sold more than 100,000 copies in Taiwan alone. In 2014, she released her studio album, Play, which sold over 85,000 copies in Taiwan. Tsai has sold more than 25 million copies in Asia and is recognized as one of the Asias top-selling female recording artists of the 21st century. Jolin Tsai at AllMusic Jolin Tsai discography, forum, and marketplace at Discogs Jolin Tsai at DMOZ Jolin Tsai on Facebook Jolin Tsai at the Internet Movie Database Jolin Tsais channel on YouTube
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Jolin Tsai filmography
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Taiwanese entertainer Jolin Tsai has been featured in two feature films, five short films, four television dramas, and one variety show. In 2001, she made her debut as a guest appearance in the television drama, Six Friends. Her next television dramas, Come to My Place, directed by Doze Niu, Tsai followed it with a leading role in the television drama, Hi. Working Girl, which was directed by Huang Ko-i and Wu Ssu-ta and she received mixed reviews for her leading role in the television drama. To further promote her album in 2007, she played the title role in the film, Agent J, which was directed by Jeff Chang, Kuang Sheng. She was received positively for her role in the film. In 2016, she joined the voice cast of Disney animated film, Zootopia and she voiced a European rabbit named Judy Hopps who is a newly appointed member of the Zootopia Police Department in the films Taiwan edition. Jolin Tsai at AllMusic Jolin Tsai discography, forum, and marketplace at Discogs Jolin Tsai at DMOZ Jolin Tsai on Facebook Jolin Tsai at the Internet Movie Database Jolin Tsais channel on YouTube
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1019 (album)
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1019 is the debut studio album by Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai. It was released on September 10,1999, by Universal Music Taiwan, Tsai emerged champion at an MTV singing competition at the age of 18, and it kickstarted her singing career and paved the way to her journey in becoming a teen idol. In March 1999, she signed a deal with Universal. After she signed with the label, Tsais debut single, Living with the World, was released in July 1999, the single was a big success, and led to the release of her debut album, which has sold more than 400,000 copies in Taiwan alone. Referred to as the Teenage Boy Killer, Tsai became an instant hit among teenagers in Taiwan, the lead single, I Know Youre Feeling Blue, reached number 30 on the Hit FM Annual Top 100 Singles
