Sunday, 7 October 2007

Joey Yung


Joey Yung
Born on June 16th 1980
Record Label: EEG
Singer since 1999
Selected Discography:
EP1 Joey - Double Platinum
Who Will Love Me - Platinum
Love Joey - Double Platinum (Best Selling Album of 2001)
Solemn on Stage - Platinum (2002 Top Ten Best Selling Albums)
My Pride - Platinum (2003 Top Ten Best Selling Albums)
Nin9 2 5ive - Double Platinum (2004 Best Selling Studio Album)
Give Love a Break - Double Platinum (2004 Top Ten Best Selling Albums)
Love:Joey:Love - Double Platinum (2005 Top Ten Best Selling Albums)
Ten Most Wanted - (2006 Top Ten Best Selling Albums)
When she was 15 she begun singing with Go East after participating in many singing competitions. Her contract ended after one song leaving Joey to go back to school. Later on she became the pupil of Roman Tam the godfather of Cantopop. Her first EP garnered her success with EEG selling over 130,000 copies and stayed on the charts for 23 weeks. In less than 2 years she produced an album which won best selling album of the year. In 2003 with her song My Pride she won the best song of the year as well as garnering her first best female artiste of the year in all 4 award ceremonies, the second youngest to do so aswell as the Media award for most awards won by an artiste in a year! In 2004 she took this title again!
In 2004 the albums she has sold accumalated to more than 5 million copies sold, a great achievement for a Hong Kong artiste (HK has a population of 7 million)
She still garners these types of awards every year and is definitely the reigning Cantopop Queen of Hong Kong!

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