Yan Zi (album)

Yan Zi
Studio album by
Stefanie Sun
Released9 June 2000 (2000-06-09)
Recorded1999–2000
GenreMandopop
Length41:13
LanguageChinese
LabelWarner Music Taiwan
Stefanie Sun chronology
Yan Zi
(2000) 		My Desired Happiness
(2000)

Yan Zi (Chinese: 燕姿) is the debut album by Singaporean singer Stefanie Sun, released on 9 June 2000, by Warner Music Taiwan.[1] Produced by Anthony Bao, Tino Bao, Peter Lee and Paul Lee, it incorporates genres such as pop, chamber pop and rock.[2]

Yan Zi received positive reviews from music critics for its compositions and lyrics.[3] The album swept all major music charts within just ten days of its release and ranked in the top three for eleven consecutive weeks on the charts of Taiwan's two major record stores, Tachung Records and Rose Records. By the end of the year, the cumulative sales in Taiwan for Yan Zi had exceeded 330,000, becoming one of the highest-selling records in Taiwan in 2000.[4][5] As of September 2006, the album's sales across Asia have exceeded 2.7 million.[6] Sun won twelve new artist awards for this album, including the Golden Melody Award for Best New Artist at the 12th Golden Melody Awards.

  1. ^ (in Chinese) Warner Music Taiwan Album Information Archived 28 September 2011 at the Wayback Machine 9 June 2000. Retrieved 9 May 2011
  2. ^ "孙燕姿 同名专辑". 9 June 2000. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference MTVreview was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  5. ^ "2000年度台灣唱片銷量排行榜". Retrieved 24 August 2024.
  6. ^ 此銷量由孫燕姿所屬的唱片公司台灣華納音樂官方公佈在孫燕姿2006年9月22日發行的精選集《My Story, Your Song》CD所附贈的幕後寫真本內