Start from Here
Start From Here | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | January 11, 2008 | |||
Genre | Pop, jazz, soul | |||
Label | Sony BMG Music Taiwan | |||
Producer | Bing Wang | |||
Joanna Wang chronology | ||||
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Start From Here is the debut album by singer-songwriter Joanna Wang, released by Sony BMG Taiwan in January 2008.[1] The album consists of two disks, featuring songs performed in English and Mandarin. It received mostly positive reviews and commercial success, with the sales of over 200,000 copies in Asia.[2]
Wang's rejection of the album
[edit]Despite the album's success, Wang herself strongly dislikes the album, and the label of "jazz singer" under which she became known in Taiwan, in the wake of the album's success.[3] In a Reddit 'Ask Me Anything', she wrote:
At 17, I signed my first contract with Sony Music Taiwan, a decision I would soon have extremely mixed feelings - regret, fear, frustration, arousal, and sometimes hunger.
Long story short, the first two years was not what I expected and hoped for at all. After a lot of "no's, but's" and reluctant "yes's", at 19 I debuted with a shitastic record with the cheesiest and cliche 80's-esque music videos to very lame music that my label coerced me into singing [...][3]
Track listing
[edit]Disc 1 (English)
[edit]- "Let's Start From Here"
- "Lost In Paradise"
- "As Love Begins to Mend"
- "Bada Bada"
- "Lost Taipei"
- "The Best Mistake I've Ever Made"
- "I Love You" (David Tao)
- "For No Reason"
- "Stages of Flying"
- "Now"
- "True" (Spandau Ballet)
- "New York State of Mind"
Disc 2 (Chinese)
[edit]- "迷宮" (Mígōng, lit. maze; Mandarin version of Let's Start From Here)
- "有你的快樂" (Yŏu Nĭ de Kuàilè, I Have Your Happiness; Mandarin version of Lost in Paradise)
- "Now" (Mandarin version)
- "因為你愛我" (Yīnwèi Nĭ Ài Wŏ, Because You Love Me; Mandarin version of As Love Begins To Mend)
- "For No Reason" (Mandarin version)
Sales
[edit]Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Hong Kong | — | 15,000[4] |
Taiwan | — | 80,000[4] |
References
[edit]- ^ China Radio International
- ^ "專訪:創作歌手王若琳". March 1, 2009.
- ^ a b "I am a Taiwanese Celebrity, AMA • /r/IAmA". reddit. September 3, 2011. Retrieved February 4, 2017.
- ^ a b Siu, Joyce (May 25, 2008). "Starter's orders". South China Morning Post. Retrieved June 9, 2024.