[edit]Biography
Personal life
Tsai Jilin, whose real name is Tsai Yiling, was born in Xinzhuang City, Taipei County. She is the second oldest in her family and has an older sister above her. She graduated from King's Beauty Middle School and was admitted to the English Department of Fu Jen Catholic University (where she was in the same class as Faye of F.I.R.). [Once said that her favorite place to eat in college was at Rikyuen.
Music Career Begins
In April 1998, while still attending King Beauty Middle School, Jolin Tsai won the "Freshman Battle" music competition held by MTV Music, beating out more than 3,000 contestants before winning the title with her rendition of Whitney Houston's hit song "The Greatest Love of All". In May of the same year, she entered the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at Fu Jen Catholic University with the first place in the examination. Princess at Universal Records in Korea
Universal Records (1999-2001): In March 1999, Jolin Tsai officially signed a contract with Universal Music. As the annual 7-11 spokesperson, Jolin Tsai became popular with the song "Be a Neighbor to the World" and released her first solo album "Jolin 1019" in September, which successfully created awareness and won her the Music Chart - Best Potential New Artist Award from Sanli TV, ChannelV Asia's Most Popular Newcomer of the Year - Female Singer Award and TVBS Power Disk Awards - Most Popular Trust Award, among other awards, and thus was named by the media as a boy killer. The album also sold 400,000 copies, with the newcomer's sales directly approaching those of the divas, and was regarded by Universal Music as the company's cash cow, not hesitant to drop hundreds of millions of dollars to create today's divas, to learn talent and training abroad to sing in the April 2000 release of the second album "Don't Stop", which indeed inherited the popularity of the previous one's popularity and popularity, and created Jolin Tsai's all-time bestseller, with sales of up to 450,000 copies. In December 2000, the third album "Show Your Love" is the transformation of Jolin Tsai's work, this album tried a lot of dynamic dance music, but also let Jolin Tsai brewed the momentum of the diva style.
Music career downturn
July 2001 contract for the last album "Lucky Number" due to the then agency Loud Studio has accounts unclear, resulting in publicity stop, affecting the album sales and income. However, Jolin Tsai's exposure during the lawsuit was still quite active, and she was constantly invited to advertise. During this "window period", brokerage matters were in high demand, with 8866 Records helping with press releases and Era Integrated Marketing assisting in the process. As the lawsuit contract came to an end, Jolin Tsai's photo book and idol drama "Hi!
Sony Records period
(2002-2006): Jolin Tsai went through a contract dispute with Loud Studio, and signed into Sony Music Records in July 2002, which was a turning point in Jolin's music career, and she was sought after by her new owner, Sony Records, as the successor of the "Queen of Music". Jolin has been touted as the successor of the "Queen of Music" by the new owner, Sunny Records! In March 2003, Jolin released the album "Look at Me 72 Changes", which was a huge success. Due to the successful marketing plan, as well as the first song, Jolin Tsai was back on the top tier of singers, and even won the best-selling female singer of the year, with 360,000 copies of the results of the singing world. 2004 February released "Castle" album, so that has stood in the peak of the music industry Jolin Tsai easily sold 300,000 copies, in April 2005, the release of the fifth album, "J-game" also gained the successor success. The album was released in April 2005, the fifth album "J-game" also gained success, also let Jolin Tsai for three consecutive years in Taiwan female sales champion.
Broadway Records period
(2006-2008): In February 2006, Jolin Tsai joined the new owner Capitol Records, which led her to the international stage. In May, she released her debut album "Dancing Girl", which created a wave of popularity among teenagers. Jolin Tsai's popularity was evident among teenagers, and the trend was even more popular that year! This album for Jolin Tsai brought not only the year's total sales in Taiwan (30 million), but also has been insulated from the Golden Melody Award Tsai Jilin in the 18th Golden Melody Awards in one fell swoop won the Best Female Vocalist and vote for the Most Popular Female Vocalist Award, becoming an unprecedented double "Golden Melody Queen"; this album has been a huge success, whether it is in the production quality, singing, dancing and music, or in the production quality, singing and music. The album was a huge success, in terms of production quality, singing, and dance styling, all of which brought the public a refreshing feeling, and was even recognized by professional judges. Later on, she organized the "Only Dance" concert, and her difficult performances were even applauded by the audience. Jolin Tsai's "The Story of Geocaching" DVD was released to depict Jolin Tsai's struggles under the stage. The success that followed from her hard work has helped Jolin to stabilize her position in the pop music industry. In September 2007, Jolin Tsai released her second album "Secret Agent J" with the theme of secret agent styling style, this album not only crosses the United Kingdom, France and Thailand to shoot music videos and music movies, for the music movies Jolin also went to practice pole dancing and gravity-defying spinning ribbons, Jolin practiced both of these items also appeared in the first wave of the album's self-titled hit "Secret Agent J" inside the album, specially invited Kim Jae-won, Feng De-lun, Wu Jia-jin and Jolin to perform in the album, which is a great success. In November, Jolin Tsai was selected by EMI to sing the song "In My My Heart" with Australian diva Kylie Ann Minogue in a duet with Kylie Ann Minogue because of her great popularity in Asia. Minogue on "In My Arms". In 2008, originally scheduled for release in March of the English book "Love Practice Language", the record company to the mainland approval for the reason that the release date will be delayed, but this move triggered fans and outside media speculation, because the contract with the Gold Medal Wind (EMI renamed) is the last album, for Jolin Tsai once the release of the "Love Practice Language" and the contract expired after the departure is in the personnel changes in the Gold Medal Wind A big blow to Gold Medal Wind in the personnel change, and deliberately delayed Jolin Tsai's departure strategy. The English-language album sold only 30,000 copies, but it was still Taiwan's No. 1 Western album of the year.
Warner Music period
(2008-present): In 2008, Jolin Tsai joined her new employer, Warner Music, and continued to work with Chen Zaisan, the first singer to be signed to the Water Cube, which was the site of the recently concluded Olympic Games. The signing ceremony was held at the Water Cube, which is the first time a singer has been invited. The signing fee is rumored to be as high as 30 million RMB or about 150 million NTD, and Warner Music claims that they will push Jolin Tsai to develop in Japan and release a Japanese album, in addition to the intention of letting Jolin Tsai enter the big screen to challenge the movie industry. Now also upgraded to an international brand designer own brand-72 changes (Seventy Two Changes). In 2009, released to join Warner Music's first album "Butterfly", a new style of modeling also led to a wave of fluttering butterfly effect trend, the dance style in this album into the street jazz dance, ballet's most difficult part of the Fouette (French: whip turn), which is Jolin went to the United States East and West coasts for the Devil's special training to learn a new dance steps; which the album in the Up to 16 sets, a record high price of publicity clothing in the singing world, this time more than five stylists (2 for the United States stylist); which the first wave of hit songs "big man" in Asia's largest LED screen for the premiere of the new street jazz dance style is to bring up a wave of new dance; which the electronic dance hit "butterfly" this cost millions of dollars to build the MV Jolin changed five sets of clothes, dance no fewer than 30 times. Dance no less than 30 times. The pre-order of "Butterfly" exceeded 120,000 copies and hit an all-time high sales percentage of 68.11% in the first week of the G-music charts.
[Edit]Legendary Experience
01. The first singer to hold a press conference at the Water Cube, an Olympic venue. 02. 02. The first singer to travel the world's four major international record labels (Universal, SONYBMG, EMI, Warner). 2010 MusicRadio won the best Mandarin album, etc. 03. Airborne in Europe "X-Chart" Dutch singles chart in 2008, the 34th week of the 10th, in the history of the record is tied for the 10th place in the fifth person, into the list 4 weeks after the number 1, become the history of the first Asian singers to win the title, shocked neighboring countries! Belgium. 04. 04. Airborne European "X-Tip" Dutch Singles Chart 2008 34th week No.1, became the only Asian singer to win the title, set a record for the highest voting index, and overwhelmed the American diva Rihanna at the same time on the list. 05. Successfully entered the European X-Tip 100 Netherlands year-end chart at No.10, the only Asian artist to enter the top 10 in history. 06. The cumulative record sales in Asia so far exceeded 20 million copies, with sales in Taiwan exceeding 4 million copies. Among the 10 official Mandarin albums released, 9 of them have sold more than one million copies in Asia. It is the most sold album by a Chinese female singer. 07. In Taiwan G-MUSIC charts won the championship for more than 70 weeks (comprehensive list ignored), the most in history. At the same time won three years of Chinese chart annual sales female champion (2003-2005), three years of Chinese chart annual sales total champion (2006-2007/2009) and one year of Western chart annual sales total champion (2008). 08. The first singer to premiere her new music video on the LED giant canopy of the World Trade Center, the largest of its kind in Asia. 09. The only Chinese singer on the AskMen's 2008 World's Top 99 Female Celebrities list. 10. The first Asian artist to design Hello Kitty, successfully designing the Hip Hop Kitty badge. She was also the first celebrity designer for Sanrio. 11. Won the "International Best Style Award" at the 2006 MTV Asia Awards, the first Chinese singer to win the award (previous winners include Avril Lavigne), and more than 1 billion people around the world watched Jolin Tsai's performance of "Dancing Girl". 12. appeared on the cover of the international Chinese edition of the Japanese magazine "Nail Up", the first Chinese singer. 13. Invited by Saks Fifth Avenue department store in New York to design and create her own brand, the first Asian singer to be invited in history. 14. Won the 2008 French magazine "Asian Music" Asian Female Vocalist, Asian Video, Asian Album Awards, and is also the only Chinese singer to be recognized. 15. Invited to Chanel Fall/Winter 2007 Haute Couture Fashion Week in Paris, France. 16. Won the 3rd place in the 4th Asian Album of the Year Award of Minu- Net, France, the highest ranking for Chinese. 17. Interviewed by the famous British publication "Monocle", the first Chinese female singer to be interviewed. 18. Singing the song "In My Arms" with Australian sex goddess Kylie Minogue, becoming the first Chinese female singer to collaborate with her, and attending the London premiere of her documentary film as the only special guest. 19. Became the first Chinese female singer to collaborate with Beyonce in McDonald's commercials. 20. The first Chinese singer to be listed on the annual financial statement of EMI, one of the world's four major record companies. 21. The first artist to endorse the international female brand LUX Rex throughout Asia. 22. The song "Pirate" premiered on synchronized radio stations across Asia, with a record number of over 800 million listeners. 23. J1 World Tour Taiwan's first Broadway theater-style stage, the first mother-size stage. In addition to spending millions of dollars to set up 10 groups of LED, this luxury Broadway-style stage can be said to have set the record for the longest concert stage - the longest elevation stage, the highest elevation sub-stage, the site includes China, Malaysia, Singapore and the United States. 24. The Only Dance World Tour lasted for 2.5 years and 28 shows, attracting 500,000 people worldwide, with a ticket revenue of up to $1 billion, including stops in China, Malaysia, Singapore, the United States and Australia. The Australian stop set a record for the highest number of Chinese local concerts with 8,000 people at the box office. 25. The first singer to hold a signing event in the square in front of the Taipei City Hall in Taiwan Province, with a record-breaking attendance of 6,000. 26. 26. Holds three consecutive concerts in Taipei Dome and fills up each concert (15,000 people x 3), setting a record. 27. Awarded the title of "Queen of Money Suckers" for being the No. 1 female artist in Taiwan in terms of income for 6 consecutive years. 28. The first singer to win the "Female Singer of the Year" award at the HITO FM Awards in Taiwan for 6 consecutive years! The first Chinese female singer to win the No. 1 spot on HITO FM's annual Top 100 Singles Chart for six consecutive years. 29. Released the first digital album in Taiwan's history. 30. The first Asian star to complete the difficult dance vogue (see Beauty Plan mv) 31. The first Taiwanese artist to collaborate with English-Thai model Paula Taylor on a Lux advertisement.