Can I Hug You, Lover?

Can I Hug You, Lover?
Studio album by
A-Mei
ReleasedJune 8, 1999 (1999-06-08)
GenrePop
Length53:52
LabelForward Music
Producer
A-Mei chronology
Feel
(1999) 		Can I Hug You, Lover?
(1999) 		A-Mei New Century Collection
(1999)
Alternative cover

Can I Hug You, Lover? (Chinese: 我可以抱你嗎？愛人; pinyin: Wǒ kěyǐ bào nǐ ma? Àirén) is the fifth studio album by Taiwanese singer A-Mei. It was released throughout Greater China on June 8, 1999, by Forward Music.[1] There are 12 songs on the album in total, which are produced by musicians such as David Tao, Ma Yu-fen and Yu Guangyan.[2] The album itself incorporates popular musical genres such as pop, pop rock, R&B, and surf rock.[2]

Commercially, Can I Hug You, Lover? was a huge success in Asia. The album sold over 500,000 copies in Taiwan within a week of its release and has since amassed sales of 1.18 million copies nationwide.[3][4] The final sales statistics across Asia exceeded 8 million copies, making it the highest-selling album by A-Mei overall.[5][6][7] She performed most of the songs featured in Can I Hug You, Lover? on her Mei Li 99 concert tour in summer 1999, which became the most successful tour by a Mandopop singer up to that point.[8]

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  7. ^ "阿妹變「偷故事的人」　回歸招牌情歌撼人心". news.tvbs.com.tw (in Chinese). June 24, 2018. Retrieved April 11, 2024.
  8. ^ "Beijing Journal; What Crisis? A Taiwan Temptress Seduces China". The New York Times. August 7, 1999. Archived from the original on May 27, 2015. Retrieved July 9, 2024.