Due to suggestion from various members, this thread was created intended to prompt discussion on the HK Music Scene in 2008, on the (new or old) singers, the albums, the concerts and to provide news as well.

Album Releases:

January:


February:


March


April


May


June


July


August


September


October


November


December


Concerts :
* Compiled with the help of 60699 and boa fan929

HK Coliseum



AsiaWorld Expo Concert



Star Hall



Contract Watch:

* Denise Ho's Contract with East Asia will end in 2008.
* Alex Fong's Contract with Gold Label will end in 2008.
* Yan Ng's Contract with SillyThing has been resolved.
* Leo Ku's Contract with Gold Label will end in Feb 2009.
* EC Music has closed, Daniel Chan, Rannes Man, VEGA are looking for new record companies.

Singers in 2008 TVB Series:

Ella Koon in Survivor's Law 2
Vincent Wong in War of In-Laws 2
Yumiko Cheng in The Gentle Crackdown 2
Renee Dai, HotCha, and Vincent Wong in Your Class or Mine
Elanne Kong is in The Academy 3
Joey Yung, Wada Hiromi will cameo in The Academy 3
Ken Hung, Ryan Lam, and a member of Cream in Dressage to Win (aka Hearts of Fencing 3)
Alex Fong, Fiona Sit, Jason Chan cameo in Dressage to Win
Edwin Siu is in When Westerly Showers Fall on the Sunny West
Eric Suen in Pages of Treasure
Eva Chan cameo in Burning Flames 3

TVB Theme/Subsongs by Singers:

Liza Wang & FAMA <再見> (Themesong to WOIL 2)
Vincent Wong & Myolie Wu <最難過今天> (Subtheme to WOIL 2)
Steven Ma & Yumiko Cheng <豺狼與羊> (Themesong to The Gentle Crackdown 2)
Eric Suen <不可不愛> (Themesong to Wasabi Mon Amour)
Vincy Chan <最美麗的第七天> (Cover of Themesong to The Seventh Day)
Ivana Wong <認命> (Themesong to Silver Chamber of Sorrows)
Edmond Leung <遺留> (Themesong to Forensics Heroes II)
Kay Tse <十優生> (Themesong to Money Maker Recipe)
Joyce Cheng <直覺> (Themesong to Speech of Silence)
Kary Ng <距離> (Themesong to Love Exchange)
Bobby AuYeung, HotCha, Renee Dai, Percy Fan <好學為福> (Themesong to Your Class or Mine)
Shirley Kwan <鑽禧> (Themesong to Gem of Life)
Joyce Cheng <無人完美> (Subtheme to Off Pedder)
Eric Suen <我的最愛> (Themesong to Pages of Treasure)

FYI: The Record Companies & Its Artists Now (Credits to SuNsEtGeR with minor changes)

Ummm does anyone know why it's taking forever for Fiona to record and release her Mandarin album? I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be released in 2007, but then they pushed it back to 2008.


Hmmm for Leo...his 2nd contract with Gold Label has only been so-so. I think it might be better if he had fresh start with a new company, but I think he'll probably re-sign since Paco is the one that rejvenated his career.

I think both Denise and Fiona will re-sign with their respective companies. I'm not sure about Gigi though.

In my opinion, there are only 2 companies Leo would sign with when his contract expires -- Gold Label or AMusic. That is because Mark Lui has close ties with these 2 companies and with the success Leo has had with Mark I can imagine that Leo's future will involve Mark.

I think his ultimate decision will be made depending on how his year goes in comparison to his "competitors." If Paco & Co. can get Leo another hit song then I think it'll sway Leo to stay with Paco, so he has a chance of winning TVB's Favorite Male Singer award. I'm sure Leo wouldn't want to waste a good award year by changing companies. Also, I think this year proved that East Asia isn't that great when they "fight" for awards.

I believe Leo will resign with Gold Label. Paco has helped him a lot in terms of becoming popular and Mark is there. If Cineoply lets Eason do what he wants next year, Eason will not release a solo Cantonese album. Which means Leo's chances of winning the Male Singer award is that much higher, which means him staying with Gold Label is that much higher.

Universal will not sign Leo, they have too many male singers already and they're pushing Hins. EEG is actually another choice because if Paco can't get him the award, EEG can.

As for Denise, I don't think she will resign or sign with any company. She started her own company (goomusic) and it'll probably be intact by the time her contract expires, so she can be under her own company.

Remember when Denise made that speech when she won the album award at Metro? She said she feels that full length albums will no longer exist in the future because of the trend of the industry and of technology. If I'm making a guess as to what she really means, I'm guessing that she will release songs via the internet in the future. She and Green Mountain Orchestra have become extremely internet-friendly. As a fully active artist, Denise is by far the most active on her blog and I feel there's a reason for that. I think she's starting to connect with her fans via the internet now so she and her fans can transition into the technology phase easier.

Hey, when push comes to shove and things don't work out (though I hope it does) she can just produce under Edison's company, which is of course under East Asia.

I thought it was supposed to be released early 2008. During July after the release of "F Best," Fiona mentioned that she would be spending the rest of the year (2007) in Taiwan recording the new mandarin album. I think the move seemed to be a really stupid move on part of Warner, it literally destroyed any chance that Fiona had at getting awards at the music ceremonies. And Fiona had a pretty good relationship with all the stations. Her songs got into CRHK 903 Top 10 every year since she's been out and I believe she has gotten a JSG Gold Song. Fiona's absence led to Kary, Stephy, Kay, etc seemingly climb over her.



I think EEG also presents a high chance. They are in desperate need of a male singer, Leo seems to be good friends with Joey. Joey was able to pull Jeff Chang over to EEG, it is possible that Joey can help convince Leo to join EEG.

As for A-Music, they really need to focus on helping their singers (mainly Miriam and Janice). But it also seems likely that East Asia is in the hunt. They like EEG need some male singers (other than Andy/Leon) to bolster their roster. EA made a strong offer to Eason. But like you mentioned, EA proved to be vulnerable in their award grabbing for their artists this year. And this seems to be the point that Leo focuses on more imo, for some reason, I feel that he unlike Denise and Miriam, doesn't seem to value that FREEDOM factor that they love and made them sign with EA.

As for Paco, I think Leo's majorly pissed at him right now. Plus, has anyone noticed..most of the singers that he helped pushed to the top, all leave him? Kelly Chen chose to resign with Go East rather than follow him to Gold Label. Sammi Cheng & Andy Hui left him as well. Miriam left him last year.

As for Denise, I believe she will resign with EA. Like she mentioned @ CRHK, EA and Peter Lam has always been supportive of her and her music. They let her do whatever music she wants and even support her like her musical despite it not making any money. And Denise, I believe, values that freedom more than anything else. Despite rumors that Denise is unhappy to have to share funds with Sammi, Miriam, and Janice.

For Fiona, I believe she will resign with Warner. Quite frankly, Warner NEEDS TO KEEP FIONA. Because they really don't have anyone big. Plus eariler rumors that she was rumored for EA seems unlikely. EA doesn't need any more female artists.

Isn't it a bit ironic that Miriam went to EA for the freedom factor? I mean wasn't it Leon that actually picked the songs for Meridian? I think the main reasons why Miriam left GL for EA was because: a) EA offered the money, GL didn't (they used it on Leo) I think EA offered her HK$20 million or was it HK$40 million? and also b ) EA has a stronger movie business than GL.

As for Leo, EEG could be a possible candidate. If they're desperate, I'm sure they have at least the money to outbid GL (GL gave HK$10 million to Leo last time; I'm sure EEG can easily come up with that money, I'm not sure if GL can still do that though); they're a larger company in general, so what Leo wants can probably be done by EEG. However, one thing that GL/EMI have an advantage might be the Mandarin side since I think EMI probably has the stronger presence there; but then again, I think Leo probably wants to focus on his HK side work now.

Eason has a number of projects that he wants to do that are different from just choosing songs for a Cantonese album, one of them which is "Listen to Eason Chan." Cineoply let him do the full dance album, but it wasn't FULL dance. So I'm wondering if Cineoply will let him work on his next project "Duels," which a full collaboration album. I don't think Cineoply will allow him to release this sort of album towards the end of the year UNLESS Kay Tse becomes extremely popular, otherwise Cineoply will need Eason to compete for awards.

Eason has already told the media of his plans to work on this project, so I think Cineoply is allowing him to really get it together, but won't allow him to release it until early 2009 when he plans to "change direction" in his career as a whole.


Sammi wasn't with Paco, was she? Anyway, I think the reason why they leave Paco is because Gold Label is like a second EEG. Gold Label will give you more freedom than EEG, but in terms of management, everyone is sharing the same manager. I think a lot of the above mentioned singers left to get independent managers, so someone fights for them first and does things in their best interest instead of the company's best interest.

I don't think Leo's pissed at Paco. Remember about a year ago, some reporter wrote an article (which is archived here at AF) that Leo has relied on popular songs to be where he is and what if he doesn't have a popular song next year (2007), will he still be up there? Human is a concepted album that Leo agreed to, so he can't really blame Paco for it not having a popular song. I commend Leo for choosing different types of songs (all the weird ones that I like) but he can't blame Paco if he doesn't have a popular song. Paco did what he could to promote Leo's music and it was going all well, until...

Anyway, I believe Leo will be releasing a Mandarin album this year before a Cantonese album, IF there is a Cantonese album before his contract is up.


Those factors you named are of course in the mix, but freedom is also. I think Leon was just trying to do his part as the "boss," especially with all the hype of a top tier singer joining his company. He will let Miriam do what she wants afterwards. Like Miriam fans have said, Miriam will have say on her next album.

Thanks for the explanation. If Cinepoly will release it, I do agree it will be in the beginning of the year, so that they'll be able to release solo material (an EP or New+Best Selection) at the end of the year.

This thread is going to be so dead for the first half of 2008 because there's probably not much going on except for HK Coliseum concerts.

I'm kind of afraid of what's going to go on with TVB and Eason in 2008. During the post-JSG celebration dinner, Virginia Lok was eyeing Eason and went over to him to celebrate and everything. After getting some praises for his acting in 2007, will TVB ask Eason to film a series? I certainly hope not because he remains the only singer, who debuted before 2000, that has yet to star in a TVB series, which certainly says something.

Leo, Hacken and Eason are all reportedly releasing Mandarin albums this year. Joey and Miriam have also stated they are going to release Mandarin albums. So what kind of year will it be in 2008?

It's safe to say that Miriam had some freedom in Gold Label era as well, but not as much, because she's under the strong armed Paco. Miriam stopped all other work for 3 months to work on her "All About Love" concerts, because of the disaster in 2004. That's a lot of money lost for a company. She could have filmed a movie, done a lot of ads during that time. But it paid off and garnered a lot of praise and news, so that was probably one of the few brights spots for Miriam in 2007.

And the other thing, for "Meridian," Miriam VOLUNTARILY gave up her producing to Leon. She said she wanted a change and thought that Leon was good at picking songs, seeing what he did with Janice. So she gave him that, which shocked a lot of people, because for a while now, Miriam has been in control over the music she's being doing. Of course, she produced "Electric Girl" (a really good album), the first female singer to get the 4 Stations Joint Album Award. Even Miriam mentioned when she got the award, how hard it is for an album produced by a woman to get recognition.

Actually Miriam addressed why she left GL in an interview with MingPao. She and Paco acknowledged that EA gave her more money, it was ruomred HK$40 Million, but no one confirmed/denied it. GL offered nothing near that amount. But Miriam said that she still would have signed with Paco if he was able to offer her opportunities to expand her market/opportunities, even though he offered her last money. Miriam said the main reason for EA was because of the MOVIE opportunties, she said Media Asia was an excellent investor in movies and she knew that her time as a singer was running out. To survive in the industry, she had to find other avenues to prolong her career. From interviews, you can really see the intelligence that Miriam has. I remember her saying that once you have that opportunity, you gotta be able to smartly use it to your advantage.



Wasn't Leo's album "Moments"? But nevertheless, Leo is going to come relatively cheap for a top male singer. He won't nearly command as high as Miriam did, because his movie career is non-existant. The funny thing to me (IMO) is that Leo is like the most "unpopular" popular singer. I mean his concert series seriously went by ..hardly any reporting or discussion. And look at the other concerts held this year..Sammi, Miriam, Eason, Andy Lau, it was point of discussion. But Leo, seriously even the Scoop, just did a segment at the end of the series. For Sammi, Miriam, etc, there was news on EVERY show.

Sammi was with Paco for a while. I believe Paco mentioned it in an article. At time he was managing Sammi's movie career and Kelly's music career. So I think he mentioned that Kelly's manager Chung Chun was worried that Paco would not help fight for Kelly at year end awards. And I think he said that all worked out in 1999 when Sammi got the Gold Song Gold while Kelly won the Favorite Female Singer (JSG).



I really hope this thread won't be dead! Remember guys we can discuss the albums as well. Actully, like we talked about in the Awards thread, 2008 looks like good competition, there's a slew of album releases from Fiona, Janice, Kelly, Ella, Charmaine Fong. The newly minted Asia's Most Favorite Female Singer, Twins, has released a new mandarin album. I'll comment when I listen. Plus, Janice has started plugging a song already. She took your advice, to plug early in the year!

Yeah I remember Eason was supposed to play Ray's role in "A Taste of Love," how weird that would have been, in a love triangle with Miriam and Hillary. Actually, I think Kelly Chen has never filmed a TVB series, she has been in mini-series. But considering the Kelly-TVB relationship, it's probably never going to happen.

EDIT: Could you guys check and see if I made any mistakes/left artists out for the company list? Thanks!

That's true. And I also think the news from Leo's concerts happened mostly because of Vivian Chow...

Yup! And this going to sound awful, but the guests @ Leo's concerts was not that great. He really only had Vivian Chow (sorry Justin & Alex just don't cut it yet). I mean Sammi had Miriam, Gigi, Andy Lau, Denise, etc. Miriam had Louis Koo, Eason, Daniel Wu, Daniel Chan. Eason had Miriam, Andy Lau, Denise. I mean in comparision, Leo's concerts guests were just not as great (even Miriam's surprise guest of Daniel Wu was ). I wonder does Leo not have many friends in the industry?

Read somewhere that Priscilla Chan is having a concert on Feb 8, anyone know if it's at HK Coliseum? She said mainly she was going to be singing other singers songs. She said that she loves Sammi's songs and is going to do 默契 (which makes me ecstatic, because that also is my favorite Sammi song).

Since I guess we're supposed to include news in this thread, I guess we should talk about Kary's concert. Sounds like pretty good reviews coming in, reporters are saying that Kary sounded good while singing and dancing. (an obvious slight to Stephy -- gee the reporters don't cut her any slack). If you guys didn't hear already, Edison was a surprise guest. Other guests were Justin, Sammy Moving. Stephanie Cheng and Fiona Sit went to watch the other day (so Fiona's back ?) and wore the concert tee, no idea that the two of them were close to Kary.

Leo had pre-concert publicity, with the whole Harry Potter girl starring in his MV and then whoever's girlfriend dancing during his concert. His concert also had good reviews as being solid and nicely themed. It's not as bad as people think. What was bad was timing. Right after his shows were over Eason's tickets went on sale and that was just...no need to mention. Miriam also held her shows after his and the high profile guests she had really overshadowed Leo's concerts. So it's not that Leo didn't do well it's just bad timing.

And you're right themissingpiece, Kelly was never in a TVB series, neither was Gigi Leung. I don't know why I keep forgetting the two of them. Of course there's also Cass Pang, but she's another story and just doesn't count. I think everyone else is covered.

Priscilla's 2 show concert will be held in Kowloon Bay Star Hall. (I don't know why people choose to hold it their, can't they just hold it at the Convention Centre?)

I watched Leo's concert on DVD and it was alright. I guess they did a good job given how his whole concert is basically composed of slow songs.

So which song will be "song of the year" at RTHK?

Well Katie Leung still isn't as big profile as the others. I'm sure his concert was fine and would get good reviews. But to me at least, Leo lacks that charisma & spark that makes me want to watch his concert. He's a rather boring singer, like it's hard to imagine him creating a great atmosphere. Like Sammi/Eason just make you watch, Miriam has her humor and her wit on top of that. And Joey has that energy, and Leo? I dunno, watch him cry? As for the timing of the concerts, to be honest, he really had no high profile guests. Which really puzzles me..how come the other top singers get so many awesome guests, but Leo really could only manage Vivian. But no doubt, he's a good singer. Sorry to any Leo fans.

Also, Gigi Leung filmed a guest spot for "The Last Breakthrough." I guess it doesn't really count?



Thanks for the news, it seems like Star Hall is the new concert venue. Both Kary and Stephy held their concert there too.

Other Kary news: Her concert series ended and Leo showed up as guest in the last one. Plus, Stephy went to watch. So the reporters are saying now that Kary is the new Gold Label "Big Sister" because based on guest list, she got higher profile artists as her guest. And with her results at the awards, people are saying that Paco is set on making Kary the big sister. What do you think? Is Paco behind Kary or Stephy? It certainly looks like Kary..because the way that he gave up Stephy's Top 10 spot to Justin..

Btw, I just saw the themevideo for the Gentle Crackdown II. And surprised to learn that Ivan Wang dueted with Yumiko in it. Either I'm deaf or A) Yumiko IMPROVED LIKE by HEAPS or It's not Yumiko singing. To be honest, the female voice does not sound like Yumiko. But Ivan sounds pretty good. OT but..Yumiko's hair is awful in the series..

Wow so happy, you mentioned Charmain Fong! I really like her singing haha another East Asia singer! I think right now Charles Ying, Janice Vidal, and Charmaine Fong are my favorites within the new singers and of course there Eric Suen and Jason Chan. Kelvin Kwan actually had a really good album for 2007 all the songs are great but I haven't bought it yet. Oh don't forget Charles Ying will finally release his mandarin album! Seriously I don't get why his album took over a year to record, so long that I lost count. But I think he'll have lots of competition since Khalil Fong already released his "Wonderland" album and it seems to be selling very well from all the post on Khalil's blog. I like Khalil too another one my favorites and his new plug "Love Song". I think 2008 will definitely a much more interesting year with a battle of the mandarin albums!

Yea I think it was a smart move by Khalil and Janice's company to plug a song early in the year. Both are really good songs too! There probably aren't much competition early in the year. Terence Siufay's song 時光機 was a really good song probably the best song in his album. I don't get why Gold Label plugged it so late. I wonder will it qualify for next year's awards then? I heard on RTHK that Khalil has been mostly focusing on promoting his album in Taiwan and many other places last year which is why he wasn't in HK alot. It good that many more people outside of HK are noticing him, I have faith that Khalil will definitely make it big outside of HK.

Ekin Cheng was a guest, if that counts.


I'd say Kary. For one thing, Kary is younger than her. Stephy is already what, mid 20s? Kary is only in her early 20s. Paco can invest in Kary more imo.


Yeah, that does not sound like Yumiko at all.

Can someone please tell me why Jerry Lamb and his wife, Lily Hong (if that's the same Lily) are on a music company's list? (BMA)

And any news on concert DVD release dates? (Jacky & Eason)

I agree that Paco is pushing Kary as the big sister instead of Stephy... and did you guys think that Stephy looked a little uneasy at JSG this year? Or was it just me? It seemed as if she was just there to watch Kary get an award instead of herself and the whole time she sat in the first row watching everyone else from the same row get up to get awards while she didn't get any.

^ Jerry and Lily are BMA contracted artists, not necessarily for their singing but for the entertainment because they both DJ and act.

No news about Jacky's DVD, I don't think Jacky's DVD will be released until his concert run is over. Even then, one would wonder if it will even be released on DVD. I think it will, it's a way for Go East/Universal to profit.

No news on the DVD release of Eason's concert, but the VCD is set to be released this January 17th, so the DVD is expected to follow shortly after. Calculate the amount of time between the CD and VCD release and you'll have an estimate of the time of release.

Leo isn't boring as much as he really didn't have time to create an image for himself. (Well, I mean, he can out his cartoon's and video games out on the stage and what not, but it wouldn't make sense.) It's sort of difficult to assess Leo because he took a number of years off music when he should've been really creating an identify for himself. When he returned he was bomarded with all these popular songs and promotions that again, he didn't have time to create an identity for himself. I'm pretty certain that had he stayed in the industry, he would have an image. Prior to his "leaving" he was sort of this fun laughable guy and when he returned that image sort of went away. As for him not having many friends, I think it's just him not being THAT social. I don't think he has problems making friends, its just harder to make friends when you only work with people in your own company.

Just to make clear, Eason didn't invite guests. They just appeared and got on stage. Eason's not a singer that invites guests to his concert (which I have no idea why), but if you're there and you want to step on the stage you're more than welcome. So to be fair, it's not like Leo doesn't have the star power to invite guests. It's just that Gold Label prefers to promote their own artists, likewise for EEG.

That is not Yumiko Cheng. But since we're on the top of The Gentle Crackdown II, Steven Ma was a singer of the 90's. That alone proves how difficult it was to really rise to fame in the 90's and early 2000's, so definitely extra bonus points to Andy Hui, Miriam Yeung and Eason Chan for suriviving. Steven had a good voice and some good songs, he just didn't have enough star power.

Oh, Gigi's guest appearance doesn't count. She was on the screen for like 10 minutes. Okay, I know it was more than 10 minutes, but anything under an episode's time doesn't count.

Anyway, I think Eason had enough of the TVB publicity with him winning those 2 awards. He was PISSED when they mentioned it again during the filming of this week's weekly JSG and left Amigo and Paisley a little blind-sighted, but they kept it cool. Talking about it comes with winning, but TVB does really push it with all the publicity that surrounds it. The post-award party, the cover of TVB Weekly and the Weekly JSG show all in under one week. More than 2x the publicity than the other award ceremonies. Is this the beginning of a bad relationship between Eason and TVB for 2008? I'm waiting for the news tomorrow to see what really ticked Eason off.

OMG i hated how Amigo dissed Stephy about 'din dung dam' and 'jau yum'. Like wtf, after he won the improv. artist award, he so cocky and thinks he's everything. AND he screwd up the awards with Ivana and Hins, almost making Ivana cry... serves that bastard right... he should get frozen... and just to think i liked him back then... makes me wanna cry...

yeah, Stephy was there just to watch Kary/Leo/Justin and be backup~ GL. Still, Eric was like, who else hasnt received a top 10, and Amigo was like, Stephy lah, and Twins... like seriously Amigo, shut the frick up and stop bashing Stephy on stage... what kind of manners do you have... god it makes my blood boil thinking about it.

Also, Vincy winning a top 10, she was crying before she made it down, and Kay, sitting beside her, was like 'don't cry..' and it was so nice and heartwarming~~ ahh I love how people are so nice... stupid Amigo and Eric ruined the perfect friendliest atmosphere with their cruel cruel jokes...

Ivan WANG and Yumiko... I'll listen to it just for Ivan, but Yumiko (pukes)

OH yeah, I heard Kary's conceert was a great success~~~ YAY FOR KARY~~~ YOU GO GIRL!!!! but I heard she fell down... hope she's all right.

really anticipating KEN and SHERMAN's new CD... and the new movies with Kenny and Ken~~

kencl~~

Thanks, please keep the thread update with when Charles is releasing the mandarin album. I agree, 2008 is filled with Mandarin releases from HK artists. In January, we already have Twins and Fiona.



Stephy looked uneasy as well at 903. She had really blank look in JSG and 903. I was a bit surprised that she didn't even smile or congratulate Kary when Kary won a Top 10 @ 903, because I thought they were supposed to be best friends. But I guess it's understandable, it's heartbreaking to see your hit song not make it, because of the connections.



That's a good point about Leo. He did disappear for quite a while in the HK music industry and didn't really build up his own image etc unlike his peers.

As for Steven, yes, it's a shame he never made it big as a singer. Did he start as a singer or actor with TVB? Because well tv artists are always viewed as lower status than singers and film actors.



Well it's expected with Eric there..but it's funny. I mean as an artists you gotta be able to take the jokes and stuff, because it's definately going to happen at the award ceremonies. Jan Lam did it @ 903 also, he made fun of Stephy going off tune as well.

How about a singer participating in TVB series lookout for 2008?
- Yumiko Cheng in Gentle Crackdown 2
- Renee Dai filming new series with Bobby Au-Yeung & Sheren Tang

Also with the recent news that TVB is looking for female leads for The Academy 3..seeing from past records that Academy 1 had Fiona, OTFB had Joey. The trend points to another singer appearing in TA3. Sooo..do you guys think it will be another singer? if so who?

Personally I do think it will be another singer and for some reason, I think it will be Stephanie Cheng. She mentioned recently that she wanted to film a series. But looking from company, TA1 = Warner, OTFB = EEG, TA3 could be Gold Label, Kary or Stephy or Theresa.

As for Kary/Stephy business, Kary is younger. But Stephy has a better film career at this point. Perhaps Paco can focus Kary on music and Stephy on movies.

Gigi Leung was a guest star in The Last Breakthrough with Raymond Lam, Nick Cheung, Kiki Sheung, Sonija Kwok, Bosco Wong and Leila Tong.
Priscilla Chan is going to held a concert in February and producing a new album but not sure when her new album come out.



He might start as actor with TVB cause TVB asked him to film a series for them. Maybe I am wrong.

I'm not fond of Amigo, but it really wasn't his fault about the awards mix up.

I'm gonna be happy if Stephanie is really in TA3, I'd rather see her than the other girls. Do you think they'll include a male singer as well? (Kenny @ OTFB)

If there are so many Mandarin albums coming out, what kinda awards are they gonna give towards the end of the year when the awards are mostly Canto based?

The following clip was a piece during the 1999 JSG Weekly program. Nice laugh.



Boy have things changed. In just under 10 years, 3 of the 5 singers have become fathers, 4 of the 5 are married and if you consider what Lui Fong and Dodo have a marriage, then that's 5 married singers. Nicholas seems far less playful these days. Hacken no longer has to host these shows. Lui Fong, why'd he ever stop singing? Lastly, the JSG shows were so much more fun back then. It's so rushed these days? I don't know why they don't bring back the games now, I'm sure the artists are more than willing to play.

yea he seemed really really annoyed. sometimes i wish he could just fake a smile or something. but hey, that's eason.

a few days ago i was thinking the same thing about bringing back the JSG games. it's interactive and fun for the singers and entertaining for the viewers. tvb should really consider it.

too bad nicholas isn't active in the music industry. i like seeing nic and eason together

I agree that Nic and Eason are really fun to watch when they're kidding around.
Even if they do make those games again, it just wouldn't be the same as the "old" days. I just wouldn't think people would enjoy it as much as they did in the past because things are just... different.

Personally, I wish Jacky and Eason had their concerts in HK this year because I might be going to HK this Christmas, and 2/3 of my favorite singers (besides Hacken) had their concerts already. Bummer & I can't even go to the HK collesium to watch it! Grrr, why renovations this year?!
I actually thought they would have renovations in the beginning of this year cause Jacky's grand finale concert isn't in the HK collesium and Kary's was somewhere else as well...hmmm.

Btw, does anyone know who else will be at the Leslie Cheung Remembrance concert besides Jacky, Karen, Eason, Grasshoppers, Carina & Tony?

o good point, I forgot about the male singers. TA had Deep, and OTFB had Deep and Kenny. Since they're cutting Michael Tao/Sonija storyline in TA3, I believe Kenny (since he played Sonija's brother) will not be in TA3 as well. Quite possible male singers because TA does the police academy storyline and they use the male singers. Kelvin Kwan, Justin, etc are possibilites. But Pakho would look sooo good in a police officer uniform.

I wouldn't worry about the influx of Mandarin albums from HK singers. First off, they're releasing them early in the year, so by year-end, they will be forgotten. And it leaves them most of the year to work on their canto albums..which they definately will. Plus, music companies hardly ever plug Mandarin songs, so seriously right now is a good time to plug Cantonese songs.

As for Nic, well, he really has himself to blame for his downfall. It's interesting because back in 1999, no one would have ever thought that in the future, Nic Tse would not be one of the top contenders in the music industry. Just shows you how quickly things can change.

On another note, I added several categories to the thread lookout (in the first post), with Singers in TVB Series and Singers singing themesongs/subs.

Actually Joey did have a lot of guests that were not from her company. eg. Hacken, Denise, Grasshoppers, Alan Tam, Fish Leong, Dicky Cheung. The same with Twins, who had Miriam and Hacken. And in 2004 wen Miriam was still was Gold Label he did have some non-Gold Label guests like Liza Wang and Kelly Chen.

But yeah i agree that its probably not that Leo doesn't have the star power, as you said its probably just cuz he isn't AS social.

Any thoughts on Janice's 雜技 ? It's a typical k song, but I like it..quite catchy and Janice's voice is beautiful in it. Maybe it's because I haven't heard her sing in a while. Read some comments that said it sounded a little like Leo's 花灑. And I hear the resemblance, especially in the beginning of the song. And in comparision, I like Janice's song better.

I haven't heard any of Janice Wei's song in a while and I like some of her songs. What happen to her? She didn't win any award at music award ceremony.

^She pretty much went missing after her concert in March/April.

I heard the 2 Janice plugs and I don't like either of them.

did Janice stop being a singer after her concert in March/April last year? She won one award at Metro Hit Award. What happen to Janice's sister Jill? Did she stop being a singer?

Priscilla Chan is going to have interview by I-Cable variety show.

Kenny Kwan will be releasing a greatest hits and new songs album in February!
Source from Kenny's International Forum.

I just checked out the theme song for "The Gentle Crackdown 2" and the girl who sang the song is actually Yumiko Cheng!

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^ Wow, if that really is Yumiko, then it must be really computerized (just like Kenneth's SL2 theme) cause there's no way Yumiko can sing like that... it doesn't sound like her at all.

^ Hehe...me too, it was totally not like Yumiko's voice!
Maybe the tone of her voice changed?!

I was speaking in general. I mean, Ekin's not part of Gold Label but he appeared at Leo's concert. But you see so many more Gold Label artists at their own artists' concerts than non-Gold Label artists, and likewise for EEG. EEG has lessened it while Gold Label has upped it in the past 2-3 years, but EEG has always been sticking their newer singers into shows and concerts in guest performances for their more veteran singers. I understand why, but that's not to say that a singer doesn't have the star power when your company wants to promote their own artists.

As for Kary and Stephy. From a listener standpoint, it is totally unfair to both girls because one of them will be sacrificed for the more popular one. But from a business standpoint, Paco is only doing what's best for the company. He put both girls out there, Stephy for her looks and Kary for her vocal backing from her Ping Pung days and whoever gets the popularity will get to be the #1 sister. Everyone thought that Paco was pushing Stephy to be the #1 sister because he promoted her first, but that is not at all true because you can get better statistics when you push them seperately. Notice that Paco also pushed Theresa towards the summer. I think there's just some obligation that he should promote all 4 girls, but he's really only doing it to see who becomes more popular.

Back to singers and their companies. I'm actually quite surprised that no big company signed Grace Yip (or Ip, as she credits herself). The only reason I can imagine is that Grace didn't want to sign under a big label because she wanted to do her own thing and have her own freedom, which Silly Thing gives her. Other than that, I'm wondering why there were no rumors that Paco wanted to sign her. Grace signed under Silly Thing in 2004, which was one of Miriam's big years, but Miriam's contract would expire in 2 years, so I don't see why Gold Label or Paco didn't want a security. Grace is more than capable of being a #1 sister and she sure as heck would be regarded as one over the 4 Cookies just for entering the industry before 2000. Just strange, but oh well she's happy with what she's doing so that's what really matters.

I apologize that my comments are so random.

^yeah i know what you mean. In the past Joey has always had a newer EEG singer as regular guests for her shows. Like last time Kenny was in every single Reflection of Joey's Live shows, even her world tour shows. Even in TVB shows and promotional songs, its always Joey or Twins with a whole bunch of new EEG singers. Another example was how EEG really wanted to start promoting Deep in 2003 and got him to sing a duet with Joey. But as you said EEG is definitely lessening that, especially for Joey. Cuz Joey almost never sings those huge all-EEG-artists-singing-together songs anymore, which is good cuz if she did it'll make her look like all the other EEG teen idols, and Joey is obviously beyond that. Also, Joey said that her StarLight concert coming up in around a week won't have any guests unless its a really special person, which is really shocking for EEG but i think its a good thing finally EEG is giving Joey more say in what she's doing.

^ Are they giving Joey all that freedom because they're scared they might lose her? (Which is impossible because her contract was for, I believe, 15 years). But let's just say, if EEG didn't have that long of a contract for Joey and she leaves, who do you think they would promote next to be the big sis @ EEG? I don't see anyone that's up to Joey's level in that company now.

I was so glad Eason's contract wasn't for 10+ years like Nic & Joey, because if he was still with EEG, it'd be bad for both him and his fans because there isn't much freedom and he was pretty much forced to do a lot of things he didn't want to do.
Will there be a big bro for EEG anytime soon?

Btw, isn't Bosco the one singing the sub to WOIL2? Or are there 2 subs?

^If Joey left, then obviously the big sis title would go to Twins (for a while) - EEG is already working them like zombies. But during that time, I think EEG would be all out on Vincy (on the singing) and maybe even Isabella (with the movies).

As for the EEG big bro, given how bad they have been at producing a male artist, maybe they should focus on getting male artists to switch to their company instead? (i.e. As mentioned earlier, like Leo Ku? EEG could give him as much as he wants?)

Thanks for the Kenny news, added it to the list.

BUT OMG, it can't really be Yumiko. That's why I was questioning whether the credit I saw on Youtube was right, because that simply..isn't Yumiko's voice? That is quite scary..mainly because Yumiko sounds decent and actually good. I don't even think that Yumiko's voice can be computerized that much to make it sound like that. Also, Actually surprised that TVB didn't push Steven to take part in the theme.



But in comparision btw Miriam and Leo when they were both in Gold Label, I don't believe Miriam had many GL guests @ her concerts. Someone refresh my memory for Miriam's 2004 concerts, the guests were like Twins, Edmond, Eason?

As for the Cookies girls, it is some good competition btw Kary and Stephy, but I wonder when their contracts end (probably around the same time considering they are from Cookies). I'm pretty sure they are going to go their separate ways in terms of company-wise. And of course Paco will put his backing behind the one who wins the popular race. But does anyone feel really sad for Miki Yeung? Like ..she doesn't get to do anything..like literally her role in "Love at First Sight" was the girl that just randomly appears.



EEG isn't afraid of losing any of their artists, because they are all tied down for many many years. Yeah I didn't like having Kenny appear at all of Joey's Reflections concerts, but it's EEG. Hmm, if Twins break up, then the solo careers of them, and probably Vincy Chan. I don't think EEG will ever regain a big brother. They were once at the top of the industry but they have slowly slipped down..simply put, East Asia is the top company rite now in terms of the artists they have.

There are supposedly 2 subs, one Myolie & Bosco. The other, Vincent Wong & Myolie. Supposedly the one with Vincent & Myolie is a sad song. I think that Vincent & Myolie sub will sound better, because Vincent is a good singer.

As for Janice & Jill..LOL, they are still singers, but were in Leon jail for most of the year last year. Janice appears to be back.

Another bit of news: There were reports that Miriam was not going to listen to Leon's input for her new album. Supposedly 903 djs told her that Leon chose songs that weren't right for her. But Miriam denied the claims and said that she was waiting for Leon to come back from filming in Beijing to start on her next album. Yikes.. Miriam, please EDIT: DO NOT let Leon chose the songs.

^When the Cookies' contracts end, I don't think any of them will be leaving Gold Label. If they do want to switch companies, which ones can they really go to? The 4 of them get decent treatment/status in that company, if they go to another company like EA, they would have to "fight" their way up.

As for Miriam, after what happened to Meridian + All About Love, I want Miriam to pick her songs this time. I agree with the 903 djs about Leon choosing songs that weren't right for her.

I was about to make some comment on Miki, lol.
I do feel really bad for her. Even when Cookies were a group, she never stood out like Stephy and Theresa. I was actually surprised that she made it to the 'mini Cookies'. Did she ever have any solo songs? It's people like her that have to suffer a lot in the industry, it's pretty sad.

IMO, I really hope Leo doesn't sign with EEG. That'd be so terrible. I don't think anyone has ever transfered into EEG from another company... it's usually people getting out of it and signing with another one right? I don't know, it'd be so... [insert something here] to see Leo as an EEG artist.
*shrug*

Deep Ng would have been with Hins/Justin in the running for male bronze if he did not get busted for drugs... that literally ruined his career.

Deep sings live very well, like VERY well, and his voice is thick, resembling that of Eason, and his 'zun yum' are good~

EEG, still hasnt given up on Deep, and is trying despartely to get Kenny up there. Kenny doesn't have the right ingrediants... so EEG pushed Ken really hard this year. If I remember correctly, EEG (last year, before Ken n Sherman, the year of Vincy??) did not push any male newcomers. At that time, they were giving time to Ken to be comfortable with people, be less shy, therefore IMO, EEG is really trying to push Ken. ++ people say he resembles Eason, which might be an okay thing for him~

2 roads for EEG, 1. Hope that Kenny/Ken prevails, and has immense success the next two years.
2. Get Hins or Leo over, even Justin... someone that is already built up.

I'd say, give Ken and Kenny one more year, if they don't show promising hopes, ditch them (*cries*) and try to snag Hins/Leo/Justin

Females, is definately Vincy. She can ACTUALLY SING, and is in EEG!!! Charlene OR Gillian can NOT carry EEG... Even Sherman might be with Vincy, like the Kary and Stephy relationship right now in EEG. 'Ping Hei Ping Cho'

kencl~~

^I don't think giving Kenny another year will do anything. I'd rather put my resources in Ken instead.

I don't think Hins or Justin will switch companies anytime soon, since they are having/had good results during their contracts which means they'll probably resign with their Universal and GL respectively. Also both are singer-songwriters; I don't think EEG would exactly be the right place.


Well Eason went from Capital Artists -> Music Plus (EEG) if that counts.

Well not only Eason, also others who signed with EEG: George Lam, Dave Wang, Anthony Wong.

Deep is a good singer but he singlehandedly destroyed his career with the drug thing. Who knows where his career would be before that. Before the drug thing, he was about to hit it, he had "wash, cut, dry". but then..yeah. Plus, Mani said in Be My Guest, that she had always thought that Deep had it. But I don't think after the drug incident...he will ever make it again. Much like Nic Tse and his youthful stupidity.

I really hope and believe that Kenny will not make it. He's simply too bad of a singer. On that count, has anyone heard 代表作, the lyrics are really meaningful, just wished that another singer would have done it. Other fitting candidates for the song, I think it fits people like Charmaine Fong, Ella Koon, and to a lesser extent Jade Kwan.

Well..right now it IS Joey & Twins carrying EEG.

A number of artists signed with EEG pre-Edison, pre-Twins when the company was reputable from pre- to just after acquiring (or whatever) from Fitto Entertainment.

As for Deep, I don't know if he would've made it. It's sort of hard to tell because I heard people say good things about him, but then I never really felt he would make it even without his drug thing. It's sort of like Wilfred, you know that they have it at that moment (when the HK industry was suffering) but they lacked something in them. Of course Deep faired better than Wilfred because Deep has the looks. With Mani, if she really though Deep had it why didn't she promote him after his whole drug ordeal? If he has it, he has it he might have damaged his image, but if he has it then that's all that matters -- since she appears to be such a believer.

Nicholas Tse, IMO did not want his singing career under EEG. He chose not to continue with his music career, so it's not like what he did ruined anything for him. Actually I thought EEG let him have a couple of years off, but he would eventually have to continue his singing...which of course didn't happen. Anyway, even with what Nic did, it wouldn't have stopped him from furthering his music career. Just because he's no longer active in the HK industry people forget the amount of popularity Nic had and still has. He can release a Mandarin album and hardly promote it and get nominated at Mandarin music awards, that's the type of popularity he has. Nic is probably the most popular HK singer outside of HK post-Heavenly Kings era and he still is.

As for Miriam, I don't think it's a problem that Leon chooses songs as long as Miriam also has a say. Leon ranks among the most Gold Song wins (alongside Jacky) at JSG and that doesn't come from luck. Leon knows how to choose songs (and thanks to Mark Lui) so having him choose songs isn't the problem. The problem lies in the fact that what works for Leon doesn't work for Miriam because she has her own image. If Leon can choose 20-25 songs and then Miriam picks and chooses 10 and has say in production then I think it'll be a good album. Leon knows how to choose songs to win and Miriam can have her input and work on the production so that the album will be Miriam-styled.

i think EEG would concentrate on Vincy if Joey left (but yeah dat won't be until like 2013 LOL), cuz Vincy's album sales are pretty good (at least out of the newer generation) and is generally accepted as being a good vocalist. Actually Vincy really reminds me of Joey when she first debuted (even Joey said this herself). When Joey first came out she was seen as the 'girl that can sing but did not have the looks' and because of that Joey's album sales has always been pretty high, and dats really similar to Vincy now. But then again i don't know if Vincy would be able to be a 'pop queen' like Joey. Because Joey right now has shed away that image of being ugly (well some ppl still thinks she isn't good looking, but i think most ppl now thinks that she looks pretty decent), and despite some ppl criticizing Joey for taking the 'sexy image path' i think that's almost necessary in order for someone to become a 'pop queen' (look at Anita, Sally, Sammi). And i can't really imagine Vincy doing that (plus Joey's height made it easier for her to do so).

but yeah i really hope that Leo goes to EEG as you guys said earlier, dat would actually give EEG a chance at being the top company again (well EEG will never catch up to East Asia in terms of the number of 'a-list' singers but at least awards wise EEG will have a chance at challenging Universal).

and yeah, i really hope that Miriam would be the producer for her next album, cuz Electric Girl was a good album, it had a good mix of both mainstream songs as well as more alternative songs.

--edit--
^and yeah EEG was pretty reputable wen it was still Fitto Entertainment. Joyce, Bondy, Grace, and (of course) Joey are all pretty good singers (Joey is like the last singer to sign with Fitto cuz right after they signed Joey they changed to EEG). But from 2000 on almost all singers that signed to EEG are pretty talentless (well there are exceptions like Eason, Deep, Vincy, and Swing. but then again they are all under Music Plus...pretty much all singers that are under EEG and signed after 2000 are not really good singers).

Looks like Joey is releasing her 4th New+Best Selection Album next week-ish (? - although YesAsia dates are never that reliable)
http://us.yesasia.com/b5/PrdDept.aspx/code...pid-1010041858/

Browsing Coolmanmusic forums about future album releases:

Eason:
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一張新曲加精選廣東碟，總結在這間唱片公司三年多以來的成績。」
來源:tvb周刊

-According to TVB magazine, he's going to be putting more time for TV (perhaps a drama?). A May mandarin album and after that his first New + Best selection (Cantonese) album with Cinepoly. (Maybe this could be Leo's year?)

Fiona:
簡介：首張國語專輯
預計推出日期：2008/4/1
第1PLUG快將派台 1月內會派
FIONA係BLOG到講
附加資料：(N/A)
出處：F club + http://www.5music.com.tw/CDList-C.asp?cdno=428495678528

-Apparently Fiona has said that her 1st plug of the Mandarin album will be released in January. According to the link and F club (her fanclub), the album is due to be released around April.

Janice:
預計推出日期：1月尾
將收錄歌曲：
01. 無所謂
02. 雜技
出處：www.janiceforum.com　
JANICE本人留言比FANS話會係1月內推出

-Apparently Janice has left a message at that forum saying her album will be released late-January.

It is also rumoured that Yumiko, Juno and Deep will release their albums in the late January/early February (aka New Year) period.

I heard on RTHK radio pop charts the DJs said that Janice was kinda quiet last year and that it was because something was wrong with her voice? I guess that's why she wasn't that active. But I'm glad they're spending on time on the album cause the 2nd plug is so much better and sounds good.

^ well Mani said that considering the drug thing, she and Mr.Yeung have given him opportunities that other companies might not have given. Well Deep is still releasing albums..though he could use some promotion. But perhaps the strategy is to lay low so ppl forget about it?

As for Nic, I doubt that he under EEG can choose not to release albums. If they thought the albums would make money/fame, they would make him do music. From my eyes (and I think the HK audience), he has been banished to the Mainland to film, to make money for EEG. After his incident, he did release a few albums, and they didn't do so well. He hasn't been able to regain the popularity he once had in the HK market.



Oo, didn't even know about it. But I guess so, Joey has released a new single, "Lucky Star." EEG loves to milk everything for money. Twins, per tradition, are releasing a CNY album.

But WHAT Fiona's new album delayed till April? She really has no time to waste..! And I read Fiona's blog, she never mentioned anything about the album release. In fact, I remember a piece of news that asked Khalil if he was worried about competition from Fiona, considering they are releasing albums close to each other.

And if things are true, quite possibly Leo's year at JSG in 2008.

And actually I do think that Kary/Stephy will leave Paco. He has proven that he can't really boost 2 singers at a time (like in the same category). I assume by the time, one of them leaves, they would already be a "big name" and so they wouldn't have to fight for a spot in another company.

EEG is better off spending the money for a male singer.