Jolin Tsai (蔡依林) leads the nominations for this year’s Golden Melody Awards (GMA), with her album Pleasure earning nine nods from the jury yesterday.
Tsai, a leading figure in Mandarin pop music, was nominated for Best Female Mandarin Singer, Best Mandarin Album, Song of the Year for the title track of the album and six other categories, the jury said.
Tsai’s album shows a significant upgrade in overall production scale and aligns with world-class production standards, Kay Huang (黃韻玲), who heads the jury, said at a nomination announcement event in Taipei.
Photo courtesy of Eternal Music Production Co Ltd
"Thank you to the Golden Melody Awards jury for today’s dose of dopamine," Tsai said through her record label. "I hope these songs have, at times, helped you get closer to your sense of joy. I will continue to create with liveliness and honesty."
Other nominees for Best Female Mandarin Singer include Hung Pei-yu (洪佩瑜), Chen Hsien-ching (陳嫺 靜), Julia Peng (彭佳慧), Erika Liu (劉艾立) and Shan Yichun (單依純).
The nominees for Best Male Mandarin Singer are Ayal Komod (張震嶽), better known by his stage name A-Yue or Chang Chen-yue, Crowd Lu (盧廣仲), Nick Chou (周 湯豪), Gummy B (黃立堯) and Jude Chiu (裘德).
Photo: Wang Wen-lin, Taipei Times
Nominations for Best Mandarin Album include Hung’s Still moving, MJ116’s OGS, Ayal’s Go with the Flow, Tsai’s Pleasure, Chiu’s Silver Wasteland and Shan’s Lil Sis.
Ricky Hsiao (蕭煌奇), a five-time winner of GMA’s Best Male Taiwanese (Hoklo) Singer, has again been nominated in the category, and is up against Wu Yung-ji (吳永吉), Kuljelje Salevelev (曾瑋中), Since Chou (周自從) and CJ MiT.
The Best Female Taiwanese Singer category includes 70-year-old veteran entertainer Pai Bing-bing (白冰冰), marking her second Golden Melody Awards nomination since 1998, when she was shortlisted for Best Dialect Female Singer in a category that then also covered other non-Mandarin-language performances.
Others in the category include Enno Cheng (鄭宜 農), Anita Chen (陳怡婷), Showlen Maya (秀蘭瑪雅) and PiA Wu (吳蓓雅).
Pai said in a statement that she was excited at being nominated, and offered her gratitude for the blessings of the sea goddess Mazu.
Meanwhile, 23 albums across the Mandarin, Hakka, Hoklo (commonly known as Taiwanese) and indigenous-language categories have been shortlisted for Album of the Year, along with Same Stories, Different Narratives by The Crane and Quit Quietly by Sunset Rollercoaster.
The jury also named veteran lyricist Lin Huang-kun (林 煌坤) and late arranger Max Tu (屠穎) as recipients of the Special Contribution Award.
Lin, who comes from film and TV production, brings a screenwriting sensibility to his lyrics, creating simple yet vivid works across film, TV and music that have become shared memories for generations, the jury said.
Tu, a leading arranger in the 1990s who died late last year, would be honored posthumously for his distinctive style, which helped define the sound of an era, elevated arrangement into the soul of a work and inspired later generations, the jury said.
Now in its 37th year, the Golden Melody Awards, hosted by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture, remains the most prestigious music awards event in the Mandarin-speaking world. The ceremony will be held on June 27 at Taipei Arena.
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