Hypnosis Show (Chinese: ??Show) is Taiwanese Mandopop artist Show Lo's third Mandarin studio album. It was released on 14 October 2005 by Avex Taiwan. After receiving good reviews for the music video of the first lead track, "????" (Destined Guy), featuring Jolin Tsai, the album went on pre-order sale and all of the 10,000 copies were sold in one day.
Four editions of the album were released, including Hypnosis Show (Limited Charity Edition) (??Show ????) (CD) which included a pass to Luo's debut solo concert 'Love's Strength' Charity Concert (???????????) at Taipei Arena, Hypnosis Show (MV Encore Edition) (??Show ??????) containing four music videos; and Hypnosis Show (Commemorate Edition) (??Show ?????) (CD+DVD) with a bonus DVD containing 70 minutes of highlight live footage from Love's Strength Charity Concert on 18 November 2005.
Video Hypnosis Show
Album
In this album Show continues his partnership with producers Golden Melody Award winner and songwriter Di Zi (Chinese: ???), Bi Guoyong (Chinese: ???) and Guo Jianliang (Chinese: ???) plus Chen Wei (Chinese: ??) of For Take One Music and Eric Ng (Chinese: ???) of Funkie Monkies Productions, as well as choreographer Tommy (Chinese: ??) of Dance Soul studios.
The first lead track, "????" (Destined Guy), a collaboration with Jolin Tsai, is a dance track, in it she rapped and performed in the music video with Luo. The other lead track "????" (Self-Hypnosis) is composed by fellow artist Jay Chou, especially for Luo with the music video featuring his then co-host on 100% Entertainment Barbie Shu.
The music video for "????" (Chance Chance), a mid-tempo dance track, was directed by Lai Wei Kang. It features Taiwanese actress Maggie Wu (???), who later co-starred with Luo in Hi My Sweetheart; and a cameo by Luo's mother.
Maps Hypnosis Show
Reception
This is the first time that an album of Luo's debuted at number one on Taiwan's G-Music Weekly Top 20 Combo and Mandarin Charts, and Five Music Chart. at week 42 (14-20 October 2005) with a percentage sales of 8.06%, 16.7%, and 18.22% respectively. It stayed on the G-Music Mandarin Chart continuously for 14 weeks, selling over 100,000 copies, the Combo Chart and Five Music Chart for 12 weeks.
The tracks, "????" (Destined Guy) and "????" (Self-Hypnosis) are listed at number 55 and 70 respectively on Hit Fm Taiwan's Hit Fm Annual Top 100 Singles Chart (Hit-Fm??????) for 2005.
The tracks, "????" (Self-Hypnosis) was nominated and "????" (Destined Guy) won one of the Songs of the Year at the 2006 Metro Radio Mandarin Music Awards presented by Hong Kong radio station Metro Info. Both tracks were also nominated for Top 10 Gold Songs at the Hong Kong TVB8 Awards, presented by television station TVB8, in 2006.
Track listing
Music videos
- "????" (Self-Hypnosis) MV - feat Barbie Shu - directed by Tony Lin
- "????" (Destined Guy) MV - feat Jolin Tsai - directed by Lai Wei Kang
- "????" (Chance Chance) MV - feat Maggie Wu (???) and cameo by Luo MaMa (show's mother) - directed by Lai Wei Kang
- "??" (Strength) MV - directed by Tony Lin
Karaoke version with concert footage + some original footage
- "???" (Eliminated Man) MV
- "?????" (Don't Understand My Heart) MV
- "???" (Dark Eye Circles) MV
- "????" (Diary of a Muscle Man) MV
Releases
Four editions(excludes pre-order editions) were released by Avex Taiwan:
- 4 October 2005 - Hypnosis Show (Preorder Edition) (??Show) (CD) - includes a playing card set with logo designed by Show and autograph.
- 14 October 2005 - Hypnosis Show (??Show) (CD)
- 4 November 2005 - Hypnosis Show (Limited Charity Edition) (??Show ????) (CD) - includes a pass to Show's 'Love's Strength' Charity Concert (???????????) at Taipei Arena.
- 25 November 2005 - Hypnosis Show (MV Encore Edition) (??Show ??????) (CD+DVD) - includes 3 MV's
- ???? (Destined Guy) feat Jolin Tsai
- ???? (Self-Hypnosis) feat Da S
- ???? (Chance Chance) cameo by Luo MaMa
- 20 January 2006 - Hypnosis Show (Commemorate Edition) (??Show ?????) (CD+DVD) - includes a 70 minutes version of Show's 'Love's Strength' Charity Concert (???????????) at Taipei Arena with special guest performance of "????" (Destined Guy) with Jolin Tsai and behind the scenes footage. For details of track listing - see Show Lo discography.
Charts
References
External links
- (in Chinese) Show Lo@Avex Taiwan (2003-2007)
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