Baidu's explanation of "God of Songs" is that it is used by the public to praise singers with exceptional singing skills, outstanding contribution to the development of the music industry and wide influence in the society. And Jacky Cheung is the only one.
To put it mildly, Jacky Cheung is not the first God of Songs. In the seventies, Jacky Hui gave Cantonese songs a place in the Chinese pop music scene and was the founder of Cantonese pop music, thus making him the first God of Songs. At the 1992 TVB Top Ten Golden Songs Awards ceremony, Yu Zheng, who presented him with the award, praised Jacky Cheung, calling him "the successor of the God of Songs in the 1990s", thus spreading the name of the God of Songs. The name of Jacky Cheung has spread since then. Of course, all these are inseparable from his achievements.
However, the album "Kiss Me Goodbye," released in 1993, broke numerous sales records for Chinese-language records, and his singing career reached its peak. 1995, he became the first Asian singer to perform in a superstar concert at Madison Square Garden, and he released the album "New Songs for True Love + Selected," with cumulative sales of more than 10 million, which is the same year he won the "World Music Award" at the World Music Awards. It was also the year he won the "Highest Selling Asian Pop Singer" and "Highest Selling Chinese Singer" awards at the World Music Awards. This is also the year that Jacky Cheung was selected by Time Magazine as one of the "50 most influential people in Asia".
In addition to his numerous awards and prizes, Jacky Cheung's concerts also broke numerous records, and he was at his peak in the mid-1990s, when in 1995 he was ranked number two in the world in terms of record sales, just behind the legendary Michael Jackson, who was in the ascendant. By 2000, his cumulative record sales had already exceeded 60,000,000, and from December 30, 2010 to December 29, 2011, he held the Jacky Cheung 1/2 Actual World Tour, breaking the Guinness World Record for the number of audience members on a tour in a 12-month period. The God of Songs came out of these countless achievements piled up with talent and hard work.