Twenty-six years ago, on September 26, 1995, Jacky Cheung released his eighth Chinese album "Friends". At the same time, Jacky Cheung officially launched the "Youxueyou 95 World Tour", continuing the dominant performance of the singer king at that time.
"Friends" album contains a total of eleven works, because each work from a different musician, it seems to be a hodgepodge album without a unified concept, but under the planning of producer Lin Mingyang, these works from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and the United States are perfectly integrated, and the newly added Latin style makes the album exotic, so "Friends" is also regarded as an album of Jacky Cheung's entry into the international market.
If the most memorable and influential work is the title song "Embrace Friends". This heart-opening love song, under the interpretation of Jacky Cheung's unique singing voice, can be described as extremely "lethal". Until now, when we hear "Having your love / Is the best arrangement in my life / As long as the heart is open, I can find that you are always there", we involuntarily follow the chant, as if there is really such a person in front of us.
However, compared with Jacky Cheung's previous Chinese albums, although the overall quality of "Embrace Friends" is not inferior, there are fewer heavyweight works that can jump out and stand alone. Years later, those Jacky Cheung Chinese anthologies, and the album was basically selected as the title song "Owned".
Fortunately, "not famous" does not mean "not good". "The Promise of the Tide" composed by Cheng Jieyin and composed by Li Kaisong is a classic song worth listening to again and again on the album, and the Chinese version of the Cantonese song "This Winter Is Not Too Cold" also has the same quality as the original.
In addition, there is also a song "Love and Commitment" sung by Jacky Cheung and Chan Huixian on the album. During her study in the United States, there are still classic works such as "Drifting Snow", "Black Tea House" and "Come Back". During the preparation of the album "Friends", Chen Huixian returned from studying abroad, so in order to help her friends reopen the Hong Kong music market, Jacky Cheung deliberately added a chorus with Chen Huixian in the new album.
You know, Jacky Cheung's Chinese album rarely put his choral works with other singers, before that, it was his fourth Chinese album "Déjà vu" in 1989, which included the title song of the same name with He Ruhui.
Looking back now, the biggest significance of the "Friends" album is to add a fire to Jacky Cheung's crazy 1995.
This is The third album released by Zhang Xue in 1995, after he released the new song + collection "True Love" in March of that year and the Cantonese album "Allergy World" in June, plus the Cantonese album "This Winter Is Not Too Cold" released on December 20, 1994, these four albums sold more than 5 million copies in 1995, making Jacky Cheung the world's highest-selling Chinese singer this year, and attracting the attention of Western mainstream media such as Time Magazine, Rolling Stone Magazine and BusinessWeek.
Around the high sales of Jacky Cheung's records, there is still a saying that "Jacky Cheung's record sales in 1995 surpassed Madonna and Bruce Springsteen, second only to Michael Jackson".
Since this claim has not been officially confirmed, we are half-convinced. But Jacky Cheung's appeal to the horror market in those years was not obscured by some digital doubts, and we only know that Jacky Cheung was included in the 1990s Superstar Hall of Fame selected by Universal Records in 2000, and was also listed by Time Magazine as one of the 50 most influential people in Asia.
Although these awards from foreigners do not explain anything, at least it can be seen that Jacky Cheung at that time was not only a Hong Kong singer Jacky Cheung, but a singer with real international influence.
Now, that's the real top stream!
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