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A-Mei discography

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A-Mei discography
A-Mei in 2024
Studio albums18
EPs4
Compilation albums6
Live albums17

The discography of Taiwanese singer A-Mei consists of 19 studio albums, 4 extended plays, 6 compilation albums, and 17 live albums. She released her debut album, Sisters, in 1996, which sold over 1 million copies in Taiwan and 4 million copies in Asia. Her sophomore record, Bad Boy, (1997) was also commercially successful and sold over 1,300,000 copies in Taiwan, and remains the highest selling album in the country to date. Her fifth studio album, Can I Hug You, Lover? (1999), sold over 1,180,000 copies in Taiwan and 8 million copies throughout Asia.

Three of her albums have been certified 3x Platinum+Gold by the Recording Industry Foundation in Taiwan (RIT). A-Mei's twelfth studio album, I Want Happiness? (2006), saw commercial success following her cross-straits controversy, selling over 160,000 copies and Taiwan and 2 million copies in Asia. Her eighteenth album, Story Thief (2017), received a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association Singapore (RIAS). Having sold over 50 million albums throughout her career,[1] A-Mei is the best selling female artist in Taiwanese music history.

Studio albums

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List of studio albums, with release date, label, and sales shown
Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales Certifications
TWN
[2]
HK
[3]
MLY
[4]
Sisters
  • Released: December 13, 1996
  • Label: Forward Music
  • Formats: CD, cassette
1 10
  • Asia: 4,000,000[5]
  • TWN: 1,210,000[6]
  • RITTooltip Recording Industry Foundation in Taiwan: 3x Platinum+Gold[7]
  • IFPI HK: Gold[8]
Bad Boy
  • Released: June 7, 1997
  • Label: Forward Music
  • Formats: CD, cassette
1
  • Asia: 6,000,000[9]
  • TWN: 1,380,000[6]
  • RIT: 3x Platinum+Gold[7]
You Make Me Free Make Me Fly!
  • Released: December 29, 1997
  • Label: Forward Music
  • Formats: CD, cassette
3
Holding Hands
  • Released: October 12, 1998
  • Label: Forward Music
  • Formats: CD, cassette
1 5 9
  • RIT: 3x Platinum+Gold[7]
Can I Hug You, Lover?
  • Released: June 8, 1999
  • Label: Forward Music
  • Formats: CD, cassette
1 5
Regardless
  • Released: December 5, 2000
  • Label: Forward Music
  • Formats: CD, cassette
8
Journey
  • Released: September 7, 2001
  • Label: Forward Music
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Truth
Fever
  • Released: August 30, 2002
  • Label: Warner Music Taiwan
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Brave
  • Released: June 27, 2003
  • Label: Warner Music Taiwan
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Maybe Tomorrow
  • Released: September 21, 2004
  • Label: Warner Music Taiwan
  • Formats: CD, digital download
I Want Happiness?
  • Released: February 17, 2006
  • Label: Warner Music Taiwan
  • Formats: CD, digital download
1
Star 1
Amit
  • Released: June 26, 2009
  • Label: Gold Typhoon
  • Formats: CD, digital download
1
R U Watching?
  • Released: April 23, 2011
  • Label: Gold Typhoon
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
1
Faces of Paranoia
  • Released: July 2, 2014
  • Label: EMI, Universal
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
2 6
Amit 2
  • Released: April 4, 2015
  • Label: EMI, Universal
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
6
Story Thief
  • Released: December 12, 2017
  • Label: EMI, Universal
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
2
  • RIASTooltip Recording Industry Association Singapore: Gold[26]
"—" denotes releases that did not chart, chart did not exist, or were not released in that region.

Extended plays

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Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales
TWN
[27]
Listen to You, Listen to Me
  • Released: October 29, 1997
  • Label: Forward Music
  • Formats: CD, cassette
Feel
  • Released: April 20, 1999
  • Label: Forward Music
  • Formats: CD, cassette
1
  • TWN: 180,000
Taiwan, Touch Your Heart
Happy and Free Flowing
  • Released: March 17, 2010
  • Formats: CD
  • Label: Gold Typhoon

Compilation albums

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Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales
HK
[3]
MLY
[4]
A-Mei New Century Collection
  • Released: December 28, 1999
  • Label: Forward Music
  • Formats: CD, cassette
10 9
1996–2002 A-Mei's Best Selection
  • Released: October 11, 2002
  • Label: Forward Music
  • Formats: CD, cassette
The Power of Love: 1996–2006 Greatest Hits
  • Released: February 9, 2006
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download
2 Her (with Stefanie Sun)
  • Released: January 21, 2009
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download
Acoustic Best
  • Released: December 13, 2011
  • Label: Forward Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download
My Dearest A-Mei: The Music Within Me
  • Released: April 1, 2014
  • Label: Warner Music
  • Formats: CD, digital download

Singles

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1990s

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List of singles released in the 1990s
Title Year Album
"You Don't Want Anything" 1996 Sisters
"Sisters" (姊妹)
"Release" (解脫)
"Cut Love" (剪愛)
"Bad Boy" 1997 Bad Boy
"Can't Cry"
"Whenever I Think About You"
"Listen to the Sea"
"Crying Sand" (哭砂) You Make Me Free Make Me Fly!
"Blue Sky" (藍天) 1998 Holding Hands
"Holding Hands" (牽手)
"Give Me Feelings" 1999 Feel
"Don't Rub Salt in the Wound"
(別在傷口灑鹽)
Can I Hug You, Lover?
"Can I Hug You" (我可以抱你嗎)
"Three Days and Three Nights"
(三天三夜)
"I Want to Fly" (我要飛) A-Mei New Century Collection

2000s

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List of singles released in the 2000s
Title Year Album
"One Night Stand" (一夜情) 2000 Regardless
"Before It's Too Late" (趁早)
"Remember" (記得) 2001 Truth
"Truth" (真實)
"Hate That I Love You" (我恨我愛你)
"Understanding" (知道) 2002 Fever
"Creulty" (狠角色)
"Brave" (勇敢) 2003 Brave
"Why I Love You So Much"
(我為什麼那麼愛你)
"Fake It" (假惺惺)
"Fire" (火) 2004 Maybe Tomorrow
"Are You Well" (你好不好)
"Maybe Tomorrow" (也許明天)
"Hostage" (人質) 2006 I Want Happiness?
"I Want Happiness" (我要快樂)
"Have You Heard Lately?"
(如果你也聽說)
2007 Star
"A Moment" (一眼瞬間)
(with Jam Hsiao)
"Victoria's Secret" (維多莉亞的祕密)
"You Do Love Me" (你是愛我的)
"Disappear" (掉了) 2009 Amit
"Bold For My Love" (好膽你就來)
"Rainbow" (彩虹)

2010s

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List of singles released in the 2010s
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
CHN Air.
[29]
CHN TME
[30]
SGP Reg.
[31]
"My Dearest" (我最親愛的) 2011 R U Watching?
"As Long As I Can Cry" (還有眼淚就好)
"March" (三月) 2014 Faces of Paranoia
"Do You Still Want to Love Me"
(這樣你還要愛我嗎)
"Jump In" (跳進來)
"Matriarchy" (母系社會) 2015 Amit 2
"A Bloody Love Story" (血腥愛情故事)
"Shouldn't Be" (不該)
(with Jay Chou)
2016 2 19 Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories
"We Are One"
(with various artists)
2017 Non-album single
"Story Thief" (偷故事的人) 5 Story Thief
"Full Name" (連名帶姓) 2 16
"Left Behind" (身後) 1 30
"Catfight" (傲嬌)
(featuring Eve Ai and Lala Hsu)
2018 2
"Double Shadow" (双影)
(with Sandy Lam)
62 Non-album single
"—" denotes releases that did not chart, chart did not exist, or was not released in that region.

2020s

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List of singles released in the 2020s
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
CHN TME
[30]
TWN
[32]
"Huan Huan" (緩緩) 2020 Non-album single
"Equivalence Relation" (对等关系)
(with Li Ronghao)
2021 27 18 Free Soul
"Tritesse" (離別總是那麼突然) 2023 Non-album singles
"—" denotes releases that did not chart, or was not released in that region.

Promotional singles

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List of promotional singles
Title Year Album
"Who Loves Me" (誰愛我) 2007 Star
"Dreams You Can Hear" (聽得見的夢想) 2009 Amit
"Open Happiness" (快樂暢開) 2010 Non-album single
"Thirsty" (渴了) 2011 R U Watching?
"Intoxicated" (High 咖)
"Rift" (裂痕) 2012 Non-album singles
"Ling Hun Jin Tou" (靈魂盡頭) 2015
"Better Dayz" (M116 featuring A-Mei) 2019

Notes

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  1. ^ Sales figures are based on certification alone.[26]

References

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  1. ^ "Profiles #3: A-Mei張惠妹 – From Indigenous Sister to Mandopop Matriarch". Asian Pop Weekly. March 7, 2020. Retrieved June 21, 2022.
  2. ^ The IFPI Taiwan album chart operated from 1996 to September 1999. The G-Music album chart operated from 2005 to 2015.
  3. ^ a b Peak chart positions (Hong Kong):
  4. ^ a b Peak chart positions (Malaysia):
  5. ^ "【明星倒退嚕】阿妹《五燈獎》挫敗再起 2個男人推向天后之路". Apple Daily. January 21, 2022. Archived from the original on January 21, 2022. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
  6. ^ a b "九零年代超強專輯歌手,第一名真的是天后中的天后!" [The super album singer of the 1990s, the number one is really the queen of divas!]. Yahoo News (in Chinese). May 19, 2017. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
  7. ^ a b c 認證紀錄 [Certifications Awarded] (in Chinese). Recording Industry Foundation in Taiwan.
  8. ^ "IFPIHK Gold Disc Award − 1997". IFPI Hong Kong.
  9. ^ "阿妹《Bad Boy》賣破600萬張 經典黑膠重生" [Amei's "Bad Boy" sells over 6 million copies of classic vinyl reborn]. Apple Daily. August 16, 2018. Archived from the original on March 12, 2022. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
  10. ^ "張惠妹明年10月襲港開騷 細數銷量最高5張專輯". hk.on.cc (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). December 16, 2022. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
  11. ^ "五燈獎回顧系列報導(十四)-華人國語歌壇的傳奇—張惠妹" [Five Lantern Awards Review Series (14) – Legend of the Chinese Mandarin Music Circle—A-Mei]. Tanabe (in Traditional Chinese). September 2, 2006. Archived from the original on March 21, 2021. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
  12. ^ a b "韓人氣歌手Lisa個人專輯造型乘坐時光機 巧撞23年前張惠妹《牽手》". Apple Daily. September 13, 2021. Archived from the original on September 13, 2021. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
  13. ^ "張惠妹我可以抱你嗎愛人?全亞洲賣破800萬張" [Zhang Huimei, can I hug you, love? Over 8 million copies sold across Asia]. PChome (in Chinese). May 1, 2019. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
  14. ^ "1999年台灣唱片銷量成績單 暢銷歌手 唱片公司財神爺" [Taiwan’s record sales in 1999, best-selling singer record company God of Fortune]. PChome. April 7, 2019. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
  15. ^ a b "張惠妹不顧一切專輯台灣銷售36萬張" [A-Mei's album sold 360,000 copies in Taiwan]. PChome (in Chinese). January 6, 2021. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
  16. ^ a b "A-Mei – Truth" (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 5Music. May 20, 2016. Archived from the original on March 25, 2021.
  17. ^ 2002年台灣全年度歌手銷售排行榜揭曉 (in Chinese). December 23, 2002. Archived from the original on August 24, 2004. Retrieved April 30, 2024.
  18. ^ "孫燕姿阿妹金曲兩大遺珠". Apple Daily (in Chinese (Taiwan)). March 31, 2004. Archived from the original on March 11, 2022.
  19. ^ "【分析】金曲獎分析--國語最佳女演唱人" [[Analysis] Golden Melody Award Analysis--Best Mandarin Female Singer]. PChome (in Chinese (Taiwan)). April 7, 2019. Retrieved June 18, 2024.
  20. ^ "【岁月有歌】2006年的今天:'我要快乐'" [Today in 2006: 'I Want Happiness']. Nanyang Siang Pau (in Chinese). February 17, 2021. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  21. ^ "張惠妹攻陷小巨蛋 細數阿妹經典情歌" [A-Mei captured the Little Arena and recounted her classic love songs]. hk.on.cc (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). April 6, 2022. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
  22. ^ a b "138萬張變5萬張!揭密阿妹發片興衰史". PChome (in Chinese). July 2, 2014. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
  23. ^ "張惠妹 / 阿密特 意識專輯 [New XRCD]" (in Chinese). Warner Music Taiwan. Archived from the original on September 28, 2020. Retrieved May 14, 2024.
  24. ^ Mo, Xiangzhen (March 12, 2015). "阿妹連唱10場「飢餓行銷」賣《阿密特》專輯". TVBS (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved April 1, 2024.
  25. ^ "搶金6專輯共賣15萬張 aMEI也難敵數位化何況新人" [6 gold albums sold a total of 150,000 copies, aMEI can’t beat digitalization, let alone newcomers]. China Times (in Chinese). May 15, 2016. Retrieved April 1, 2024.
  26. ^ a b "RIAS Accreditations" (Enter Amei in the search bar). Recording Industry Association Singapore. Retrieved April 7, 2024.
  27. ^ "Feel" (in Chinese). IFPI Taiwan. May 23, 1999. Archived from the original on December 24, 1999. Retrieved April 5, 2024.
  28. ^ a b "21世紀最賣專輯前5名". mypaper.pchome.com (in Chinese (Taiwan)). April 8, 2019. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
  29. ^ Billboard Radio China airplay peak positions:
  30. ^ a b The Tencent Music UNI chart was launched in September 2018.
  31. ^ The Singapore RIAS chart was launched in 2018.
  32. ^ Taiwan Songs: