BoA Kwon

BoA Kwon

Born: November 5th 1986

Origin: Guri, South Korea

Years Active: 2000-present

Labels: SM Entertainment, Avex Trax

Selected Discography

Listen To My Heart: 1st Japanese Album - 2002

Sold: 932,200 copies in Japan and 13,000 in S.Korea.

Certified: 3x platinum

Oricon top 200: #1

Valenti: 2nd Japanese Album - 2003

Sold: 1,249,000 copies in Japan and 18,000 in S.Korea

Certified: Million

Oricon top 200: #1

Love & Honesty: 3rd Japanese Album -2004

Sold: 654,000 copies in Japan and 20,000 in S.Korea

Certified: 2x Platinum

Oricon top 200: #1

United World Chart: #1

Outgrow: 4th Japanese Album - 2006

Sold: 428,000 copies in Japan and 22,564 in S.Korea

Certified: 2x Platinum

Oricon top 200: #1

United World Chart: #2

Made In Twenty(20): 5th Japanese Album - 2007

Sold: 349,000 copies in Japan and 16,645 in S.Korea

Certified: Platinum

Oricon top 200: #1

United World Chart: #1

ID; Peace B: Debut and 1st Korean Album - 2000

Sold: 218,000 copies in S.Korea and 13,000 in Japan

Korean Top 200: #10

No.1: 2nd Korean Album - 2002

Sold: 572,000 in S.Korea and 14,000 in Japan

Korean Top 200: #1

Miracle: 2.5th Korean Album - 2002

Sold: 327,000 in S.Korea

Korean Top 200: #4

Atlantis Princess: 3rd Korean Album -2003

Sold: 343,000 in S.Korea

Korean Top 200: #1

My Name: 4th Korean Album - 2004

Sold: 217,160 in S.Korea

Korea Top 200: #1

Best of Soul: 1st Japanese Compilation Album -2005

Sold: 1,099,720 in Japan and 38,000 in S.Korea

Certified: Million

Oricon Top 200: #1

United World Chart: #1

At 13 with two years of training behind her BoA released her debut album ID; Peace B. The album became a success for this child star reaching the top 10 charts and selling more than 210,000 copies. SM Entertainment seeing her success decided to arrange for her music career in Japan with Avex Trax. Her first major success in Japan was her single Listen to My Heart reaching 5th on the Oricon charts and selling 180,000 copies. Her album with the same name was released in 2002. It debuted at #1 on the charts staying there for a total of 91 weeks selling over 1.3 million copies worldwide. After this album she released her second Korean Album No.1. This is her most sucessful Korean album to date selling over 572,000 copies which spourned a mini album "Miracle" selling 327,000 copies. To further solidify her amazing career she won the Artiste of the Year in South Korea, the youngest to receive this award.

Vanlenti became her next success in Japan peaking at #2 and selling over 200,000. The album reached #1 and sold over 1.25 million copies in Japan this makes her the highest and fastest selling Asian foreigner in Japanese history. The tour was subsequently sold out in Osaka and Nagoya in 15 minutes. The album became on of Japan's top selling albums of the year. Her Third Korean Album Atlantis Princess sold over 340,000 copies and won multiple awards.

She later released successful singles like Shine We Are! (#2) and Mily Way (#2). She released her third Japanese album Love and Honesty selling 650,000 copies selling near 1 million copies worldwide. Boa's fourth Korean Album My Name was a mark of aldulthood and sold 202,000 copies winning her, her second Daesang Awards at the 2004 MKMF Awards for "My Name".

In 2005 she won the Best Female Artist at m.net Music Festival. Her 15th single finally garnered her a #1 hit on the Oricon Charts making her the fifth non- Japanese singer to have a #1. Though make a secret was not as successful it still peaked at #3.

Outgrow became her fourth Japanese album and debuted at No.1 on the Oricon charts with 220,000 copies. At the end of 2005 BoA became the only foreigner to perform at the NHK Best Singers Contest for four years which would also be a tremendous achievement considering her age. Winter Love became BoA's second #1 single in Japan also marking her 20th birthday.

Though Made in Twenty (20) gave her her lowest first week sales she still debuted at #1 on the Oricon Charts.

A-mei Chang

A-mei Chang

Born: August 9th 1972

Origin: Taitung, Taiwan

Instruments: Guitar & Drums

Years Active: 1996-present

Company: EMI Taiwan

She is commonly named as a diva of Mandopop and known as the "Pride of Taiwan"

A-mei is a descendent of one of the Puyuma people one of the largest tribal groups in Taiwan. A-mei was interested in music since a young age and enjoyed performing in public. She was later discovered by Chang Yu Sheng who started her career as a singer.

In the beginning in 1996 many were attracted to this new singer who had begun her career singing with established artistes Chang Yu Sheng singing "The One I Love THe Most Hurts Me The Most" aswell as the theme song for UFO Radio Station. Her debut album "Sisters" attracted a lot of attention and immediately became a succes topping th Taiwan IFPI for 9 weeks and selling in excess of 1 million copies in Taiwan.

In June the next year she released her second album Bad Boy which emulated her debut albums success by topping the IFPI for 9 weeks and overselling it's predecessor, reaching 1.38 million copies in Taiwan, this amount of sales led A-mei to achieve the second highest selling album in Taiwanese history (Just a year into her career).

In 1998 she began her tour and later in the year was invited by Japanese TV NHK to perform in the prestigious annual ceremony "Asia Live Dream". She released her third album "Holding Hands" in October which was also well received by the public. Her next album "Can I Hug You, Lover" also became a hit seller winning many awards.

In 2002 A-mei released the album "Truth" with this album she finally won the award of "Best Female Vocalist of the Year" award at the "Golden Melody Awards" after being nominated for four years the win boosted her efforts into returning to the market.

In 2004 she again won the Favourite Artist: Taiwan at the MTV Asia Awards.

A-mei in 2005 was also the ambassafor of World Vision Taiwan. Later in the year she was invited to the Golden Horse Awards as a guest performer, at the event she amazed everyone with her rendition of classical film tunes.

In 2006 she released "I Want Happiness" which was an immediate success. In September at the MTV Mandarin Awards she was honoured with the title of MTV's Legendary Diva's.

Her latest album "Star" sold over 1 million copies emmulating the success of her most recent albums. She will be holding another Tour later expected to go on until 2009.

Future Plans

Like with my TV Series Blog I also have future plans for this blog to. I am going to carry on with the Artiste profile section and hopefully by the end of January I can really start adding all my favourite artistes e.g. A-mei Chang, Se7en, BoA etc. these will be the first on my list to add. I'm also thinking of adding maybe MV's onto this blog of my favourite artistes so you can see how good they really are. Even later on I will start adding poles onto the blog and of course I'll start properly designing it once I have time as at the moment it's just a place for me to write!