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Released | June 7, 1997 | |||
Recorded | 1997 | |||
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Length | 49:03 | |||
Label | Forward Music | |||
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Bad Boy is the second studio album by Taiwanese singer A-Mei. It was released on June 7, 1997, by Forward Music.[1] Predominantly an R&B, pop and soul record, Bad Boy centers on the theme of love and relationships.[2] The album was produced by her mentor Chang Yu-sheng with the aid of Benjamin Lin, Ma Yu-fen and Yu Guangyan.[2] It was ultimately the last album of hers that Chang was actively involved with due to his untimely death caused by a car crash five months later.[3] On August 17, 2018, 21 years after its initial release date, a vinyl reissue of Bad Boy was released by Forward Music.[4]
Commercially, the album found immense success at home and abroad, topping Taiwan's IFPI sales chart for 9 weeks and went on to sell over 1.38 million copies in Taiwan alone.[5] Since its release, Bad Boy has remained the highest-selling album of all time in Taiwan.[6][7] The album also managed to shift more than 6 million copies throughout Asia, setting a major record for the highest sales for a Taiwanese singer.[8]
In order to promote Bad Boy, five songs off it were released as singles; the title track, "Can't Cry," "Whenever I Think About You," "Dancing Alone" and "Listen to the Sea." All five singles attained commercial success throughout Asia and are now regarded as modern day classics in the Mandopop genre.[2] To this very day they are still sung at karaoke boxes and are often performed by contestants on major televised singing competitions.[9][10][11][12][13] A-Mei performed songs from the album on her concert tour A-Mei Live in Concert 1998 the following year.[14]
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