Causes And Impacts Of Pop Music In Hong Kong

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Pop music in Korea, as known as K-pop, is in vogue. It is not only popular in Korea, but countries all over Asia and even in Europe. Every teenage has heard one or two K-pop songs. In fact, similar trend occurred before. Canto-pop (Hong Kong pop music) and J-pop (Japanese pop music) also become popular in the world since 1980s and 1970s. In this essay, backgrounds of the pop music will be discussed. The differences in pop music among these three places and the impacts made will be included.

In the 1980s, Canto-pop started its golden age. Stars like Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung, Sally Yeh, Sandy Lam, and Alan Tam became famous in Asia. Canto-pop songs often occurred in Hong Kong movies. Since action movies produced in Hong Kong were widespread in Asia, the songs got benefit from it. According to Business Guide to the Greater Pearl River Delta (2004), numbers of fans of Canto-pop started to expand in Southeast Asian countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand at that time. Now, love songs become mainstream music in Hong Kong. Singers such as Eason Chan, Joey Yung, are famous in the region.

While J-pop began its success since 1970s, rock music brought Japan a worldwide market. According to an article from Oricon (2006), Eikich Yazawa 's rock single “Jikan yo Tomare” (“Time, Stop”) became a smash hit. Over 639,000 copies had been sold. He gained a worldwide success, and later he signed a contract with the Warner Pioneer record company and started his career in

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