The 2017 Golden Melody nominations are out
I was waiting until today so I had time to translate... but it turns out the wonderful people at Taiwan Beats already did it! How did you faves do? Mine has five awards to be shut out of, as per ususal.
Click on the song/album name to hear the song.
Album of the Year
Village Besieged - Sheng Xiang Band
The Servile - No Party for Cao Dong
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Best Mandarin Album nominees
Best Taiwanese Album nominees
Best Hakka Album nominees
Best Indigenous Album nominees
Song of the Year
Confession Balloon- - Jay Chou
Theory of Ring Rainie Yang
Beng Kong - Wu Bai & China Blue
The Sum of Us - Eve Ai
Tough- Mayday
Simon Says - No Party for Cao Dong
Centrifugal Force - Faith Yang
Spoiled Innocence - Yoga Lin
Best Mandarin Album
JTW - Khalil Fong
The Silent Star Stone - Guo Ding
Talk About Eve - Eve Ai
History of Tomorrow - Mayday
Run! Frantic Flowers! - Waa Wei
Feathers - Xu Jun
Best Mandarin Male Singer
Jay Chou - Jay Chou’s Bedtime Stories
Khalil Fong - JTW
Guo Ding - The Silent Star Stone
Crowd Lu - What a Folk !!!!!!
Yoga Lin - Sell Like Hot Cakes
Namewee - Cross Over Asia
Dwagie - Hard Knock
Best Mandarin Female Singer
Eve Ai - Talk About Eve
Jia Jia - Still Missing
Waa Wei - Run! Frantic Flowers!
Ellen Loo - Imperfections
Faith Yang - Centrifugal Force
Miss Ko - Queen of Queens
Band of the Year
FLUX - FLUX
Mayday - History of Tomorrow
No Party for Cao Dong - The Servile
GDJYB - vol.2 GDJYB 2359 BEFORE TOMORROW
LION - LION (力Q 哥!)
Gina’s Can - Tung Blossom Funk <~I'm not sure about them
The Chairman feat. Liu Fu Zhu - The Boyhood of Chairman
Best Duo or Group
Guess What - Guess What - ONE (a capella!!)
Power Station - 20th
AstroBunny - Loneliness Will Be Over, Away and Gone.
Mr. Miss - Mr. Miss
The Grasshopper - Music Walker
RADIO MARS - RADIO MARS (I can't find anything on them)
Best New Artist
Flux - Flux
Mr. Miss - Mr. Miss
No Party for Cao Dong - The Servile
SHIO - Abstract Painting
Erika - I Am Erika
GONG - GONG
Music Video of the Year
Chai - Chang and Lee (Peng Jun-Yi, Zhu Qi-Guang, and Zhang Xi-An, directors)
Bedtime Stories - Jay Chou (Jay Chou, director)
Love Yourself - Hebe Tien (Bill Bounce, director)
Tough - Mayday (Muh Chen, director)
Dust My Shoulders Off - Jane Zhang (Leo Liao, director)
Composer of the Year
Guo Ding - The Fog Space (Guo Ding)
Eve Ai - The Sum of Us (Eve Ai)
Monster - Here, After, Us (Mayday)
No Party for Cao Dong - Simon Says (No Party for Cao Dong)
Waa Wei - Only You (Waa Wei)
Hsieh Ming-Yu - Afternoon Waltz (Hsieh Ming-Yu)
Huang Chien Wei - Centrifugal Force (Faith Yang)
Lyricist of the Year
Greeny Wu - Theory of Ring (Rainie Yang)
Wu Bai - Beng Kong (Wu Bai & China Blue)
Guo Ding - The Fog Space (Guo Ding)
Eve Ai - The Sum of Us (Eve Ai)
Ashin - Almost Famous (Mayday)
No Party for Cao Dong - Wimpish (No Party for Cao Dong)
Hsieh Ming-Yu - That Suitcase (Hsieh Ming-Yu)
Arranger of the Year
Hong Shen-Wen - “Na Emaalrup” (Sangpuy) <~ I'm not sure about this one
Wu Bai & China Blue - Beng Kong (Wu Bai & China Blue)
Zhan Xian-Zhe - Bad Check (Eve Ai)
Ellen Loo - Darling (Ellen Loo)
Arai Soichiro, Derrick Sepnio, and Fergus Chow - Izuwa (ABAO)
Howe Chen - You Made My Day (Lala Hsu)
Best Album Producer
Chen Zhu-Hui - Yaangad (Sangpuy)
Khalil Fong & Derrick Sepnio - JTW (Khalil Fong)
Du Kai & Ge Fei - Mr. Miss (Mr. Miss)
Mayday - History of Tomorrow (Mayday)
George Chen - Run! Frantic Flowers! (Waa Wei)
Arai Soichiro - vavayan. (ABAO)
Best Single Producer
George Chen - Theory of Ring (Rainie Yang)
Arai Soichiro - Jia Jia Song (Jia Jia, Ilid Kaolo, and Suming)
Masa - “Still Missing” (Mayday)
Huang Chien Wei & Howe Chen - Centrifugal Force (Faith Yang)
Dakanow - Aka Pacici (Guo Ming-Long)
Sandee Chan - Everyday Is a Miracle (Hebe Tien)
Howe Chen - You Made My Day (Lala Hsu)
*I'll only link to videos for these if someone asks
Best Taiwanese Album
Ding Zi Hua - Wu Bai & China Blue
Taipei Didilong - DJ Didilong
REBORN - Fire EX.
The Old Years - Hsieh Ming-Yu
TaiKo Electro Company - TaiKo Electro Company
The Boyhood of Chairman - The Chairman
Best Hakka Album
The Golden Age - Urban Cat
Born at Night - Misa x Underground Stream
The World of Laughter - Misa, Lo Sarong, and Lin Sheng Xiang
Gina’s Can - Tung Blossom Funk
My Dad Speaks Hoi-Iuk, My Mom Speaks Xi-Ien - Weiroo Chen
Best Indigenous Album
Yaangad - Sangpuy
Tracing the River of Life - Tai Saio-Chun
Longer Story - Guo Ming-Long
vavayan. - ABAO
SADU KATA BUAN - Tulbus Mangququ and Bunun Warriors
Best Taiwanese Male Singer
Daniel Luo - Love Hurts
Sam Liao - Door
Wu Bai - Ding Zi Hua
DJ Didilong - Taipei Didilong
Yuming Lai - Draw Out
Hsieh Ming-Yu - The Old Years
Best Taiwanese Female Singer
Elly Chang - Sound of the Wind
MaYa - Sing for Myself
Olivia Tsao - The Song of Missing
Huang Fei - Twin Flowers
Sasha Li - Father
Best Hakka Singer
Urban Cat - The Golden Age
Misa x Underground Stream - Born at Night
Robin Tseng - Shepherd Boy
Weiroo Chen - My Dad Speaks Hoi-Iuk, My Mom Speaks Xi-Ien
Best Indigenous Singer
Sangpuy - Yaangad
Cemelesai Pasasauv - Circularity ZEMIYAN
Tai Saio-Chun - Tracing the River of Life
Guo Ming-Long - Longer Story
ABAO - vavayan.
Tulbus Mangququ and Bunun Warriors - SADU KATA BUAN
Best Instrumental Album
Cin Cinema - CinCin Lee
ALL KINDS OF GOOD - MUSA
Fade to Blue - Chung Yufeng & David Chen
SEDAR - Sedar Chin
07 Sessions - Toby Mak
Best Instrumental Album Producer
CinCin Lee - Cin Cinema
Martin “Musa" Musaubach - ALL KINDS OF GOOD
Chung Shefong - Fade to Blue
Sedar Chin - SEDAR
Lawrence Ku - PROPER UP!
Best Instrumental Composer
CinCin Lee - “Taipei Andante"
Martin “Musa" Musaubach - “ALL KINDS OF GOOD"
David Chen - “Fade to Blue"
Sedar Chin - “Arboreal Tunnel"
Tseng Tseng Yi - “Call It Anything"
Best Album Package Designer
Gelresai Chen - Yaangad
Mirr Lo - Village Besieged
Starr Chen, Shu Ting Ho, Rookie, Yu Pin Han, Hsiao Hu, Mao Guai, and Li Xia - Welcome To The Next Level
Xiao Qing-Yang - When Will We Meet Again
Shane Yang & Aaron Nieh - Cin Cinema
Best Vocal Recording Album
Yaangad (Tien Chih Sun, Recording & Mixing Engineer; Ted Jensen, Mastering Engineer)
JTW (Derrick Sepnio & Jeff Li, Recording Engineers; Phil Tan, Ken Lewis, Jaycen Joshua, Tony Maserati, and Dave Pensado, Mixing Engineers; Chris Gehringer, Mastering Engineer)
#MWHYB (Brian Paturalski, Ken Lewis, Tye, and Enik Lin, Recording Engineers; Brian Paturalski, Ken Lewis, Tye, and Enik Lin, Mixing Engineers; James Cruz, Mastering Engineer)
Thief (Chief, Recording Engineer; Jerry Lin, Mixing Engineer; Chris Gehringer, Mastering Engineer)
Flow (Sean Chen, Yu Hsuan Yeh, Jim Lee, John Hermanson, Johnny Lin, Yi-Lin Chen, and Li Yuesong, Recording Engineers; Kenny Fan, Jerry Lin, and Jim Lee, Mixing Engineers; Michael D., Mastering Engineer)
Best Instrumental Recording Album
Cin Cinema (David Santiago & Mickey Yang, Recording Engineers; Mickey Yang, Mixing Engineer; Mickey Yang & Cheng Kuei, Mastering Engineers)
“Ice Fantasy" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Frank Cunningham, Antonio Oliart, Chenao Wang, and Jorge Velasco, Recording Engineers; V.K & Shinnosuke Miyazawa, Mixing Engineers; Jason Sun, Mastering Engineer)
SEDAR (Li Yuesong, Mali, Mitsuru Sutoh, Goh Hotoda, Wang Yaowei, Larry Williams, Gary Grant, Dustin Higgins, Richard Bons, Chris Parks, Brendan Muldowney, James Genus, Sedar Chin, Scott Henderson, Jia Yinan, Alain Caron, and Julian Miller, Recording Engineers; Goh Hotoda & Mali, Mixing Engineers; Bob Ludwing, Mastering Engineer)
Chromatics (A-Len Yue, Recording & Mixing Engineer; Jeff Lipton, Mastering Engineer)
Kind of True (Tommy Cavalieri, Recording, Mixing, and Mastering Engineer)
Outstanding Contribution Award
Chi Lu-Hsia
Tom Chang
Jury Award
Sheng Xiang Band
Tawan Beats
Can we make this a best of 2016/early 2017 music post?
Click on the song/album name to hear the song.
Album of the Year
Village Besieged - Sheng Xiang Band
The Servile - No Party for Cao Dong
+
Best Mandarin Album nominees
Best Taiwanese Album nominees
Best Hakka Album nominees
Best Indigenous Album nominees
Song of the Year
Confession Balloon- - Jay Chou
Theory of Ring Rainie Yang
Beng Kong - Wu Bai & China Blue
The Sum of Us - Eve Ai
Tough- Mayday
Simon Says - No Party for Cao Dong
Centrifugal Force - Faith Yang
Spoiled Innocence - Yoga Lin
Best Mandarin Album
JTW - Khalil Fong
The Silent Star Stone - Guo Ding
Talk About Eve - Eve Ai
History of Tomorrow - Mayday
Run! Frantic Flowers! - Waa Wei
Feathers - Xu Jun
Best Mandarin Male Singer
Jay Chou - Jay Chou’s Bedtime Stories
Khalil Fong - JTW
Guo Ding - The Silent Star Stone
Crowd Lu - What a Folk !!!!!!
Yoga Lin - Sell Like Hot Cakes
Namewee - Cross Over Asia
Dwagie - Hard Knock
Best Mandarin Female Singer
Eve Ai - Talk About Eve
Jia Jia - Still Missing
Waa Wei - Run! Frantic Flowers!
Ellen Loo - Imperfections
Faith Yang - Centrifugal Force
Miss Ko - Queen of Queens
Band of the Year
FLUX - FLUX
Mayday - History of Tomorrow
No Party for Cao Dong - The Servile
GDJYB - vol.2 GDJYB 2359 BEFORE TOMORROW
LION - LION (力Q 哥!)
Gina’s Can - Tung Blossom Funk <~I'm not sure about them
The Chairman feat. Liu Fu Zhu - The Boyhood of Chairman
Best Duo or Group
Guess What - Guess What - ONE (a capella!!)
Power Station - 20th
AstroBunny - Loneliness Will Be Over, Away and Gone.
Mr. Miss - Mr. Miss
The Grasshopper - Music Walker
RADIO MARS - RADIO MARS (I can't find anything on them)
Best New Artist
Flux - Flux
Mr. Miss - Mr. Miss
No Party for Cao Dong - The Servile
SHIO - Abstract Painting
Erika - I Am Erika
GONG - GONG
Music Video of the Year
Chai - Chang and Lee (Peng Jun-Yi, Zhu Qi-Guang, and Zhang Xi-An, directors)
Bedtime Stories - Jay Chou (Jay Chou, director)
Love Yourself - Hebe Tien (Bill Bounce, director)
Tough - Mayday (Muh Chen, director)
Dust My Shoulders Off - Jane Zhang (Leo Liao, director)
Composer of the Year
Guo Ding - The Fog Space (Guo Ding)
Eve Ai - The Sum of Us (Eve Ai)
Monster - Here, After, Us (Mayday)
No Party for Cao Dong - Simon Says (No Party for Cao Dong)
Waa Wei - Only You (Waa Wei)
Hsieh Ming-Yu - Afternoon Waltz (Hsieh Ming-Yu)
Huang Chien Wei - Centrifugal Force (Faith Yang)
Lyricist of the Year
Greeny Wu - Theory of Ring (Rainie Yang)
Wu Bai - Beng Kong (Wu Bai & China Blue)
Guo Ding - The Fog Space (Guo Ding)
Eve Ai - The Sum of Us (Eve Ai)
Ashin - Almost Famous (Mayday)
No Party for Cao Dong - Wimpish (No Party for Cao Dong)
Hsieh Ming-Yu - That Suitcase (Hsieh Ming-Yu)
Arranger of the Year
Hong Shen-Wen - “Na Emaalrup” (Sangpuy) <~ I'm not sure about this one
Wu Bai & China Blue - Beng Kong (Wu Bai & China Blue)
Zhan Xian-Zhe - Bad Check (Eve Ai)
Ellen Loo - Darling (Ellen Loo)
Arai Soichiro, Derrick Sepnio, and Fergus Chow - Izuwa (ABAO)
Howe Chen - You Made My Day (Lala Hsu)
Best Album Producer
Chen Zhu-Hui - Yaangad (Sangpuy)
Khalil Fong & Derrick Sepnio - JTW (Khalil Fong)
Du Kai & Ge Fei - Mr. Miss (Mr. Miss)
Mayday - History of Tomorrow (Mayday)
George Chen - Run! Frantic Flowers! (Waa Wei)
Arai Soichiro - vavayan. (ABAO)
Best Single Producer
George Chen - Theory of Ring (Rainie Yang)
Arai Soichiro - Jia Jia Song (Jia Jia, Ilid Kaolo, and Suming)
Masa - “Still Missing” (Mayday)
Huang Chien Wei & Howe Chen - Centrifugal Force (Faith Yang)
Dakanow - Aka Pacici (Guo Ming-Long)
Sandee Chan - Everyday Is a Miracle (Hebe Tien)
Howe Chen - You Made My Day (Lala Hsu)
*I'll only link to videos for these if someone asks
Best Taiwanese Album
Ding Zi Hua - Wu Bai & China Blue
Taipei Didilong - DJ Didilong
REBORN - Fire EX.
The Old Years - Hsieh Ming-Yu
TaiKo Electro Company - TaiKo Electro Company
The Boyhood of Chairman - The Chairman
Best Hakka Album
The Golden Age - Urban Cat
Born at Night - Misa x Underground Stream
The World of Laughter - Misa, Lo Sarong, and Lin Sheng Xiang
Gina’s Can - Tung Blossom Funk
My Dad Speaks Hoi-Iuk, My Mom Speaks Xi-Ien - Weiroo Chen
Best Indigenous Album
Yaangad - Sangpuy
Tracing the River of Life - Tai Saio-Chun
Longer Story - Guo Ming-Long
vavayan. - ABAO
SADU KATA BUAN - Tulbus Mangququ and Bunun Warriors
Best Taiwanese Male Singer
Daniel Luo - Love Hurts
Sam Liao - Door
Wu Bai - Ding Zi Hua
DJ Didilong - Taipei Didilong
Yuming Lai - Draw Out
Hsieh Ming-Yu - The Old Years
Best Taiwanese Female Singer
Elly Chang - Sound of the Wind
MaYa - Sing for Myself
Olivia Tsao - The Song of Missing
Huang Fei - Twin Flowers
Sasha Li - Father
Best Hakka Singer
Urban Cat - The Golden Age
Misa x Underground Stream - Born at Night
Robin Tseng - Shepherd Boy
Weiroo Chen - My Dad Speaks Hoi-Iuk, My Mom Speaks Xi-Ien
Best Indigenous Singer
Sangpuy - Yaangad
Cemelesai Pasasauv - Circularity ZEMIYAN
Tai Saio-Chun - Tracing the River of Life
Guo Ming-Long - Longer Story
ABAO - vavayan.
Tulbus Mangququ and Bunun Warriors - SADU KATA BUAN
Best Instrumental Album
Cin Cinema - CinCin Lee
ALL KINDS OF GOOD - MUSA
Fade to Blue - Chung Yufeng & David Chen
SEDAR - Sedar Chin
07 Sessions - Toby Mak
Best Instrumental Album Producer
CinCin Lee - Cin Cinema
Martin “Musa" Musaubach - ALL KINDS OF GOOD
Chung Shefong - Fade to Blue
Sedar Chin - SEDAR
Lawrence Ku - PROPER UP!
Best Instrumental Composer
CinCin Lee - “Taipei Andante"
Martin “Musa" Musaubach - “ALL KINDS OF GOOD"
David Chen - “Fade to Blue"
Sedar Chin - “Arboreal Tunnel"
Tseng Tseng Yi - “Call It Anything"
Best Album Package Designer
Gelresai Chen - Yaangad
Mirr Lo - Village Besieged
Starr Chen, Shu Ting Ho, Rookie, Yu Pin Han, Hsiao Hu, Mao Guai, and Li Xia - Welcome To The Next Level
Xiao Qing-Yang - When Will We Meet Again
Shane Yang & Aaron Nieh - Cin Cinema
Best Vocal Recording Album
Yaangad (Tien Chih Sun, Recording & Mixing Engineer; Ted Jensen, Mastering Engineer)
JTW (Derrick Sepnio & Jeff Li, Recording Engineers; Phil Tan, Ken Lewis, Jaycen Joshua, Tony Maserati, and Dave Pensado, Mixing Engineers; Chris Gehringer, Mastering Engineer)
#MWHYB (Brian Paturalski, Ken Lewis, Tye, and Enik Lin, Recording Engineers; Brian Paturalski, Ken Lewis, Tye, and Enik Lin, Mixing Engineers; James Cruz, Mastering Engineer)
Thief (Chief, Recording Engineer; Jerry Lin, Mixing Engineer; Chris Gehringer, Mastering Engineer)
Flow (Sean Chen, Yu Hsuan Yeh, Jim Lee, John Hermanson, Johnny Lin, Yi-Lin Chen, and Li Yuesong, Recording Engineers; Kenny Fan, Jerry Lin, and Jim Lee, Mixing Engineers; Michael D., Mastering Engineer)
Best Instrumental Recording Album
Cin Cinema (David Santiago & Mickey Yang, Recording Engineers; Mickey Yang, Mixing Engineer; Mickey Yang & Cheng Kuei, Mastering Engineers)
“Ice Fantasy" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Frank Cunningham, Antonio Oliart, Chenao Wang, and Jorge Velasco, Recording Engineers; V.K & Shinnosuke Miyazawa, Mixing Engineers; Jason Sun, Mastering Engineer)
SEDAR (Li Yuesong, Mali, Mitsuru Sutoh, Goh Hotoda, Wang Yaowei, Larry Williams, Gary Grant, Dustin Higgins, Richard Bons, Chris Parks, Brendan Muldowney, James Genus, Sedar Chin, Scott Henderson, Jia Yinan, Alain Caron, and Julian Miller, Recording Engineers; Goh Hotoda & Mali, Mixing Engineers; Bob Ludwing, Mastering Engineer)
Chromatics (A-Len Yue, Recording & Mixing Engineer; Jeff Lipton, Mastering Engineer)
Kind of True (Tommy Cavalieri, Recording, Mixing, and Mastering Engineer)
Outstanding Contribution Award
Chi Lu-Hsia
Tom Chang
Jury Award
Sheng Xiang Band
Tawan Beats
Can we make this a best of 2016/early 2017 music post?