Faces of Paranoia

Faces of Paranoia
Studio album by
A-Mei
ReleasedJuly 2, 2014 (2014-07-02)
Recorded89 Studio
Genre
Length40:05
LabelEMI
Producer
A-Mei chronology
R U Watching?
(2011) 		Faces of Paranoia
(2014) 		Amit 2
(2015)
Singles from Faces of Paranoia
  1. "March"
    Released: June 23, 2014
  2. "Jump In"
    Released: July 2, 2014 (2014-07-02)
  3. "Do You Still Want to Love Me"
    Released: July 19, 2014 (2014-07-19)

Faces of Paranoia (Chinese: 偏執面) is the seventeenth studio album by Taiwanese recording artist A-Mei. It was released on July 2, 2014, by EMI and Universal Music.[1] The album was originally scheduled to be released on July 4, 2014, but due to the audio files being leaked online, it was announced that the album would be released two days earlier.[2] It was jointly produced by A-Mei and Adia, and contains a total of ten songs.[3] The album continues the concept of the first and second half of her previous work R U Watching? (2011), since the first half of the album contains slow-tempo songs while the second half contains upbeat ones.[3]

Faces of Paranoia received positive reviews from music critics, who commended its production and hailed it as one of her strongest efforts in her discography.[4] The record sold more than 50,000 copies in Taiwan,[5] becoming the year's third highest-selling album by a female artist and the year's sixth highest-selling album overall in the country.[6]

The album earned three Golden Melody Award nominations at the 26th Golden Melody Awards the following year, where she won the award for Best Female Mandarin Singer.[7] While the album's graphic designer Joe Fang was nominated for Best Album Design, and the album's title track was nominated for Song of the Year.[8] On April 4, 2015, A-Mei embarked on her seventh major solo concert tour, the Utopia World Tour, in Taipei and ended the tour in December 2017 in Shanghai.[9]

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