The singles discography of Hong Kong singer Prudence Liew consists of 47 singles, as well as 4 non-single tracks that charted on airplay charts, and 4 appearances as a guest vocalist. Working as a film producer, Liew was signed as the flagship artist to Current Records in 1986 after releasing her single, "午夜情 (Midnight Love)" for the movie 午夜麗人 Midnight Beauties. She released her self-titled debut album in December that year which included her signature song and second single, "最後一夜 (The Last Night)" and sold 500,000 copies, certifying 10× platinum by the Hong Kong IFPI.[1] Liew has released 8 albums with 24 singles under the Current Records/BMG Pacific label before signing with Columbia Records in 1992 and releasing four more albums, which spawned 10 singles before going on hiatus in 1995.
| Prudence Liew singles discography | |
|---|---|
| Singles | 47 |
| Other charted songs | 4 |
| Guest appearances | 4 |
In 2000, Liew briefly returned to the music scene, albeit in Taiwan where she released her first mandopop album 愛自己 Love Yourself which had one chart-topping single, "每次我都很認真 (Everytime, I Take It Very Seriously)". In 2008, she returned to the Hong Kong music industry, signing with Universal Music Group label Cinepoly Records and continued to release Cantonese and Mandarin albums, each spawning Top 10 singles.
Singles
edit1980s – 1990s
edit| Single | Year | Airplay peak chart positions | Album | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TVB | 903 | RTHK[2] | 997[3][A] | |||
| "午夜情 (Midnight Love)" | 1986 | 6 | 1 | 1 | NIL | Prudence Liew |
| "最後一夜 (The Last Night)" | 4 | 1 | 1 | NIL | ||
| "霓虹鳥 (Neon Bird)" | 1987 | — | 7 | 5 | NIL | |
| "亞熱帶少年 Subtropical Boy" | 9 | 3 | 1 | NIL | ||
| "Mind Made Up" | — | 8 | 5 | NIL | ||
| "Man in the Moon" | 7 | 2 | 4 | NIL | Why | |
| "一對舊皮鞋 (A Pair of Old Loafers)" | 6 | 2 | 1 | NIL | ||
| "點解 Why" | 1988 | 4 | 1 | 1 | NIL | |
| "這雙眼只望你 (Can't Take My Eyes Off You)" | 1 | 3 | 2 | NIL | ||
| "Give Me All Your Love, Boy" | — | 7 | 12 | NIL | ||
| "公子多情 (Loving Prince)" | 1 | 1 | 2 | NIL | Loving Prince | |
| "一見鍾情 (Love at First Sight)" | 1989 | 1 | 3 | 1 | NIL | |
| "廣播道神話 (The Legend of Broadcast Drive)" | — | 5 | 3 | NIL | ||
| "愛是無涯 (Love Has No Boundaries)" | 1 | 2 | 3 | NIL | Jokingly Saying | |
| "街邊派對 (Street Side Party)" | – | 8 | 8 | NIL | ||
| "有人 (Someone)" | — | 12 | 16 | NIL | ||
| "我估不到 (I Could Not Have Guessed)" | 1990 | 1 | 1 | 1 | NIL | The Naked Feeling |
| "玩玩 (Play Play)" | 3 | 3 | 2 | NIL | ||
| "事後 (Afterwards)" | — | —[B] | 5 | NIL | ||
| "依依 (Linger)" | 1 | 1 | 1 | NIL | Linger | |
| "這麼那麼怎麼 (This, That, How?)" | 1991 | 3 | 5 | 3 | NIL | |
| "午夜傳真 (Midnight Fax)" | — | 14 | 18 | NIL | ||
| "天長地久 (Forever and Eternal)" | 2 | 2 | 2 | NIL | Listen to Me | |
| "夜已變得騷了 (The Night Has Become Horny)" | 6 | 4 | – | NIL | ||
| "各自各… 精彩 (Each Shining Their Own Way)" | 6 | 1 | 1 | NIL | Not a Little Girl Anymore | |
| "小驚大怪 (Little Scare, Big Reaction)" | 1992 | — | 10 | 5 | NIL | |
| "娃娃歲月 (The Ages of a Little Girl)" | — | 7 | 6 | NIL | ||
| "舊曲新愁 (Old Song, New Sorrow)" | 5 | 2 | 7 | NIL | Autumn Heart | |
| "你的雙眼如深秋 (Your Eyes Are Like a Deep Autumn)" | — | 9 | 14 | NIL | ||
| "再讓我望你多一回 (Let Me Look at You One More Time)" | 1993 | — | 16 | 14 | NIL | |
| "嬉戲號客機 (Flight Playtime)" | 1 | 2 | 1 | NIL | Spoiled by You | |
| "最騷的夢 (The Horniest Dream)" | — | 18 | 5 | NIL | ||
| "被你縱壞 (Spoiled By You)" | 1994 | — | 11 | 8 | 10 | |
| "糊塗族人 (Silly Tribesmen)" | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | Thoughts in the Night, Dreams During the Day | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released to that station. | ||||||
2000s – present
edit| Single | Year | Airplay peak chart positions | Album | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 903 | RTHK[2] | 997[3] | MOOV Top 100[4][C] | TW | |||
| "每次我都很認真 (Everytime, I Take It Very Seriously)" | 2000 | — | — | — | NIL | 1 | Love Yourself |
| "大開色界 (Opening the Sexual Boundaries)" (featuring Jan Lamb) |
2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 | NIL | — | Opening the Sexual Boundaries |
| "浮花 (Floating Flower)" | 1 | 3 | — | NIL | — | ||
| "私人補習 (Private Tutor)" | — | 13 | — | NIL | — | ||
| "最後一夜 (The Last Night) [Studio Ballad Version]" | — | — | — | NIL | — | Opening the Sexual Boundaries Concert CD | |
| "蝙蝠 (Bat)" | 2009 | 10 | 1 | 2 | NIL | — | The Queen of Hardships |
| "雪泥 (Slush)" | 2 | 6 | 2 | NIL | — | ||
| "認錯 (Apologize)" | 2011 | 18 | 12 | 5 | NIL | — | Love Addict |
| "走鋼索的人 (A Tightrope Walker)" | — | — | 4 | NIL | — | ||
| "怪你過份美麗 (Blaming You For Being Too Beautiful)" | 2012 | — | — | — | 14 | — | Stolen Moments |
| "戀愛大過天 (Loving is More Important Than the Sky)" | — | — | — | 6 | — | ||
| "烈燄紅唇 (Red Hot Lips)" | — | — | — | 35 | — | ||
| "兩杯茶 (Two Cups of Tea)" | 2015 | — | — | — | 28 | — | non-album single |
| "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" | 2017 | 1 | — | — | — | — | Reincarnated Love |
| "Torn Between Two Lovers" (duet with Gin Lee) |
4 | 7 | 9 | — | — | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released to that station/country. | |||||||
Other charted songs
edit| Song | Year | MOOV Top 100[4] | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| "明知故犯 (Knowingly Commit the Crime)" | 2012 | 79 | Stolen Moments |
| "小城大事 (Big Matters in a Small Town)" | 88 | ||
| "春光乍洩 (Baring All)" | 92 | ||
| "灰色 (Gray)" | 98 | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released to that station/country. | |||
Guest appearances
edit| Single | Year | Airplay peak chart positions | Album | Album Artist | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TVB | 903 | RTHK[2] | 997[3] | ||||
| "偷窺 (Peeking)" (duet with Bowie Lam) |
1989 | 5 | 5 | 9 | NIL[A] | Natural | Bowie Lam |
| "大開眼戒 (Opening the Taboos of Vision)" | 2005 | — | 3 | 6 | 12 | Wyman Wong After Ten Greatest Hits Collection | Wyman Wong (featuring various artists) |
| "新浪漫 (New Romance)" (Jan Lamb featuring Prudence Liew) |
— | 7 | — | — | Thirties | Jan Lamb | |
| "人人英雄 (Everyone is a Hero)" (group song with Alan Tam, Hacken Lee, Eason Chan, Kay Tse, Kelly Chen, Hins Cheung, Eric Suen, Patrick Tang, Swing, Mr., Keeva Mak, Eva Chan) |
2009 | — | 4 | — | — | Uni-Power: Creating Big Power Singing Together | Universal Music Hong Kong Artists |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released to that station/country. | |||||||
Notes
- A ^ Metro Broadcast Corporation Limited was not established until 1994, therefore no singles had chart positions beforehand in this column and are marked with NIL.
- B ^ The song Afterwards 事後, which deals with sexual pleasure, was banned by RTHK Radio 2 due to its explicit nature.[5]
- C ^ MOOV Hong Kong Top 100 Singles Chart, measuring the downloads and online airplay of songs in Hong Kong, was not established until 2012, therefore no singles had chart positions beforehand in this column and are marked with NIL.
References
edit- General
- "Prudence Liew > Discography > Main albums". Allmusic. Macrovision. Retrieved 2012-06-27.
- "Hong Kong Music & Radio Airplay Charts Archives". Lemon Music HK. Retrieved 2012-06-27.
- Specific
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-18. Retrieved 2010-07-20.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Hong Kong IFPI sales certification – 1988 - ^ a b c http://www.rthk.org.hk/rthk/radio2/chinesepopchart/ RTHK Chinese Pop Chart. Accessed on 2012-06-27.
- ^ a b c http://www.metroradio.com.hk/997/Chart/local.aspx Metro Radio Top 20 Chart. Accessed on 2012-06-27.
- ^ a b http://moov.netvigator.com/music/site/newchart/charts.jsp?chart=2 Archived 2016-08-08 at the Wayback Machine. MOOV HK Local Singles Chart. Accessed on 2012-06-27.
- ^ Come Back to Love – Hong Kong Oldies Blog article on The Naked Feeling Retrieved 2012-06-27.