Maverick director Miike Takashi just can't seem to stop making movies. The prolific auteur recently revealed two upcoming projects, starting with a remake of the 1963 Kudo Eiichi samurai classic Thirteen Assassins. The film revolves around thirteen samurai and their suicide mission to kill a cruel feudal lord whose procession vastly outnumbers them. The Thirteen Assassins remake is spearheaded by Oscar-winning producers Jeremy Thomas (The Last Emperor) and Nakazawa Toshiaki (Departures), who produced many of Miike's films including Sukiyaki Western Django and The Bird People in China. The film starts shooting in July, and will be released in Japan by Toho.

Miike, whose recent Crows Zero adaptations were both box office hits, has also been tapped to direct a big-budget big-screen adaptation of the digital manga Takeru by Cobra and Midnight Eye Goku creator Terasawa Buichi. Set in an alternate-world Japan, Takeru is a fantasy adventure about a ninja who battles evil to protect the woman he loves. Produced by Nagasawa Yoshiya, Takeru is expected to feature a pan-Asian cast, and will start filming in 2010 for a 2011 release.

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Morning Musume's latest single Syou ga Nai Yume Oibito released on May 13 has crossed weekly sales of 48,000 copies, rewarding them with a new Oricon #1 single. It's their first #1 single since Aruiteru released in November 2006. It's also the first #1 for eighth-generation Morning Musume members Mitsui Aika and Chinese members Jun Jun and Lin Lin.

The runner-up is Rain is fallin'/Hybrid by the Japanese-Korean collaboration of trio w-inds and Korean hip-hop group Big Bang's leader G-Dragon, while two you by the special unit Yuzuguren (formed by duos Yuzu and Kimaguren) ranks third. Finally, duo VAMPS consisting of L'Arc-en-Ciel vocalist Hyde and Oblivion Dust's guitarist K.A.Z hold a #4 hit with Evanescent. Top R&B singers Kato Miliyah and Shimizu Shota share the 5th place with the song Love Forever.

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Well-known novels by two of Japan's greatest modern writers, Murakami Haruki and Dazai Osamu, are set for movie adaptations. Murakami Haruki's popular 1987 novel Norwegian Wood is traveling to the silver screen in the hands of acclaimed French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung, with Detroit Metal City's Matsuyama Kenichi in the leading role.

Backdropped by the student movements of the late 1960s, Norwegian Wood revolves around college student's Watanabe Toru's emotional struggle over the suicide of his best friend, and his relationships with two very different women - one energetic and outgoing, the other fragile and troubled - played by newcomer Mizuhara Kiko and Oscar-nominated actress Kikuchi Rinko from Babel. The film's supporting cast includes Snakes and Earrings' Kora Kengo, Giniro no Season's Tamayama Tetsuji, and A Stranger of Mine's Kirishima Reika. Norwegian Wood begins shooting on June 1, and is scheduled for release in autumn 2010.

Late Showa-era writer Dazai Osamu's semi-autobiographical 1948 masterpiece Ningen Shikaku (a.k.a. No Longer Human), one of the most representatives works of modern Japanese literature, is also getting its first screen adaptation. Ningen Shikaku details the life of a troubled college student who feels alienated from the world, but chooses to hide his pain behind a jolly facade. The adaptation is being helmed by Zigeunerweisen producer and Akame 48 Waterfalls director Arato Genji, and Johnny's idol and television star Ikuta Toma will make his film debut as the protagonist Oba Yozo. Filming begins in July with a target release for spring 2010.

As 2009 marks the 100th anniversary of Dazai's birth, many adaptations of the writer's works are actually hitting theaters this year including Shayo directed by Akihara Masatoshi (I Carry the Ticket of Eternity), Pandora's Box directed by Tominaga Masanori (The Pavillion Salamandre) and starring Kubozuka Yosuke, as well as Villon's Wife directed by Negishi Kichitaro (Dog in a Sidecar) and starring Asano Tadanobu and Matsu Takako.

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The nominations for the 20th Golden Melody Awards were announced on May 15. A total of 101 works are up for 23 awards. Jay Chou has again wowed the music world garnering eight nominations for his album Capricorn, including Best Mandarin Album, Best Mandarin Male Singer, Best Album Producer, plus Best Song of the Year, Best Lyricist, Best Composer for his hit song Rice Fragrance, and Best MV Director for Mr. Magic.

Highly acclaimed newcomer Crowd Lu has proved to be the revelation of the year. His debut album 100 Ways For Living is the black horse fighting on five fronts: Best Newcomer, Best Song of the Year, Best Mandarin Album, Best Composer, and Best Arrangement. Singer-songwriter Khalil Fong's Orange Moon got four nominations, as did Taiwanese diva Jody Chiang's Holding You Tight.

Jay Chou faces fierce competition from Leehom Wang (Heart Beat), Xiao Huang Chi (I'm Xiao Huang Chi), Hong Kong singer Eason Chan (Don't Want to Let Go), and Khalil Fong for Best Mandarin Male Singer. Their Female counterparts are five-time nominee Fish Leong (Valentine's Today), the twice-crowned Tanya Chua (MY SPACE), Tsai Chin (Without Regrets), Sandee Chen (If There is One Thing That is Important), and A-Lin Huang (Diva). Mayday, The Chairman, 13 Band, The Hohak Band, and Natural Q vie for Best Band, while Best Group Vocal sees Da Mouth, Y2J, NyLas, and HoneyVoices in tight contention.

For Best Newcomer, singer-songwriters Crowd Lu, Joanna Wang (Start From Here), and Hsiao Hung Jen (Hsiao Hung Jen) are up against One Million Star graduates James Lin (Mystery), Jam Hsiao (Jam Hsiao), and Rachel Liang (Love Poem), but the fan-favorite OMS idol Aska Yang was surprisingly omitted.

Nominations for Best Mandarin Album go to the aforementioned Capricorn, 100 Ways For Living, plus Stanley Huang's We All Lay Down In The End, Sandee Chen's If There is One Thing That is Important, and Eason Chan's Don't Want to Let Go.

The Golden Melody Awards ceremony will be held June 27 at the Taipei Arena. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the biggest annual music award in Taiwan, there will be an online poll for the public to vote for the 20 most memorable songs of the last two decades.

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Some long-absent Korean artists are making their comebacks in May. Away for almost three years, R&B and ballad singer Kim Tae Woo of g.o.d, who completed his army service in February, is leaving tracks around the globe this month for his comeback. He performed at the Korea Drama Song Festival in Tokyo on May 8, and then at the Hollywood Bowl Korea Times Festival in Los Angeles on May 9. The Hollywood Bowl turned into a mini g.o.d reunion as Park Joon Hyung and Son Ho Young were at the event as well, fueling more rumors of a possible g.o.d. comeback in 2009, the group's tenth anniversary year. Kim Tae Woo will be releasing his new solo digital single on May 19 and holding comeback concerts from May 26 to 31.

Korean-American hip-hop guru DJ Shine, who has been out of the public eye since leaving Drunken Tiger four years ago, finally returns with the single album Right Round. Released on May 14, the song is a Korean cover of Flo Rida's same-titled hit, and features Noh Si Hyun of Gavy N.J.

Perhaps the most unexpected comeback though is that of popular 90s group The Blue which disbanded 14 years ago. Better known as actors, Kim Min Jong and Son Ji Chang were big as pop duo The Blue in the early and mid-90s during Korea's early wave of idol actor-singers. Their new album The Blue, The First Memories includes collaborations with Tiffany and Soo Young of Girls' Generation and a rearranged self-cover of "With You", the theme song of their classic 1994 youth drama Feelings.

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Besides making his Hollywood debut this year in an action comedy with Jack Black and Anne Hathaway, Hong Kong's comedy king Stephen Chow is also going to work with China Film Group to produce an animated film based on his 2008 blockbuster CJ7 for a possible release next year. When he began shooting CJ7 three years ago, Chow had already planned to make an animated version with the same setting but a different storyline. The film will combine 2-D and 3-D animation, and the cast of the live-action original is expected to come back to voice the characters. On the creative side, Chow will hand the reins to acclaimed director Dante Lam (The Beast Stalker), whose resume also includes the animated films Storm Rider: Clash of Evils and Sparkling Red Star, and to screenwriter Erica Li (King of Comedy).

CJ7 tells of the friendship between poor schoolboy Dicky and the extraterrestrial being that he names "CJ7". Doubling as director, writer, and producer, Stephen Chow plays second fiddle on screen to child actress Xu Jiao, whose turn as Dicky won her Best New Performer at the Hong Kong Film Awards. The sci-fi comedy was a gigantic hit at the box office across Asia, and an online game based on the movie is also in the works.

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The Association of Music Workers in Taiwan announced their annual picks for 2008's Best 10 Albums and Singles on May 11. Hong Kong singer Eason Chan and Taiwan hip-hop artist MC Hog Dog were the industry favorites with an album and two singles each on the winner's shortlist.

The Association awarded their Best 10 Albums to Eason Chan's Don't Want to Let Go, MC Hot Dog's Mr. Almost, perennial winner Jay Chou's Capricorn, Hong Kong singer-songwriter Khalil Fong's Orange Moon, indie queen Sandee Chen's If There Is One Thing That Is Important, breakthrough singer-songwriter Crowd Lu's 100 Ways For Living, rock band Chairman's Spend All Of His Money!, 13 Band's Ma Lian Shui Shou De Xia Tian ("Summer of the Horse-Faced Sailor"), and two debut releases, Joanna Wang's Start From Here and Xiao Yu's Xiao Yu Tong Xue Jiu Shi Wo ("Classmate Xiao Yu Is Me").

In singles, Eason Chan's "Don't Speak" and "Rewind Life" and MC Hot Dog's "Mr. Almost" and "Ocean" are joined by Jay Chou's "Mr. Magic", Mayday's "You Are Not Truly Happy", Cheer Chen's "Wings of a Loser", Crowd Lu's "I Love You", Aska Yang's "Onion", and fellow One Million Star newcomer Yoga Lin's "Eye Color". The Association of Music Workers in Taiwan's Best 10 picks are often viewed as a precursor to the Golden Melody Award nominations which will be announced on May 15 this year.

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Considering the blockbuster success of TV-drama spin-offs Suspect X and Hana Yori Dango: Final last year, it comes as no surprise that there are many more Japanese small-screen hits trying their luck on the big screen in 2009.

Opening on May 30, Rookies -Sotsugyo- is the silver-screen finale to the 2008 TBS spring drama Rookies. Based on Morita Masanori's best-selling manga, Rookies revolves around a do-good high school teacher and baseball coach and his adventures reforming his team of delinquent students. After continuing the mini-series' storyline in a TV special in October 2008, the Rookies will finally graduate in May. The entire cast, including coach Sato Ryuta and players Ichihara Hayato, Koide Keisuke, Shirota You, and Sato Takeru, return for the movie along with new additions like Yamamoto Yusuke, Ishida Takuya, and Takeda Kohei. Over 180,000 advance tickets have been sold for Rookies -Sotsugyo- already, more than double the advance ticket sales of Hana Yori Dango: Final.

The similarly themed and even more popular Gokusen arrives in movie theaters on July 11. Based on Morimoto Kozueko's manga, NTV's Gokusen revolves around a cluelessly earnest teacher with a yakuza background, and her hilarious efforts reforming her delinquent Class 3D students. After headlining three hit seasons, leading actress Nakama Yukie will take her famed character "Yankumi" to the big screen, along with Takaki Yuya, Miura Haruma, and other young stars from the 2008 season and 2009 TV special. Kamenashi Kazuya of KAT-TUN will also make his silver-screen debut in the movie. He reprises his role from the 2005 season of Gokusen, now returning four years later as a rookie teacher.

The 2007 Fuji TV thriller Liar Game starring Matsuda Shota and Toda Erika is getting both a second season and a movie in a simultaneous release setup similar to Akai Ito. Another 2007 Fuji TV hit, the police drama S.P. starring Okada Junichi and Tsutsumi Shinichi, also has a movie spin-off in the works with hit-making Bayside Shakedown director Motohiro Katsuyuki remaining at the helm. Finally, the 2006 Fuji TV favorite Nodame Cantabile is lined up for not one but two movies, both due in 2010.

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International star Jackie Chan held his "Descendants of the Dragon: Jackie Chan and Friends" charity concert at the Beijing National Stadium on May 1. He was joined by over 100 performers including well-known Asian artists Alan Tam, Eric Tsang, Emil Chau, Sun Nan, Joey Yung, Khalil Fong, Charlene Choi, Yumiko Cheng, Super Junior, Zhang Liyin, Leehom Wang, Jane Zhang, Hacken Lee, Jonathan Lee, Angela Chang, Li Bingbing, Chris Lee, and Rain.

Jackie opened the performance with a drum performance and the song "Descendants of the Dragon". He also sang other Olympic songs and teamed up with Jonathan Lee and Emil Chau for "True Hero". The highlight of the show was perhaps Korean group Super Junior who have not appeared in Mainland China for some time. They sang the songs Sorry Sorry and "The Reason Why I Like You" amid thunderous applause. As for Rain, not only did he perform his hits Rainism and It's Raining, but he also sang the duet "Who Can Judge Love's Right or Wrong" with Jackie Chan. The tour closed with an ensemble song by all performers called "Singing Homeland".

Jackie's concert attracted over 70,000 people, amounting to around 95% of the Beijing National Stadium's seating capacity. Jackie also especially invited poor and disabled children who received aid from his charity fund to attend the concert.

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Having proposed for umpteen times throughout the years, 62-year-old Hong Kong actor Law Kar Ying finally got an affirmative answer from his longtime girlfriend, 61-year-old veteran TV personality Liza Wang. TVB General Manager Stephen Chan broke the news that the popular couple got hitched on May 2 in Las Vegas. This is Wang's second marriage and Law's first. The two began dating after collaborating on a Cantonese opera in 1988, and in recent years Law has publicly asked Wang to marry him on many occasions, despite her constant refusal. This made their decision to tie the knot after a 20-year relationship a pleasant surprise.

As an actress, singer, and TV host, Liza Wang has enjoyed a spectacular career spanning over four decades, and is a symbol of TVB. She is also influential as a politician and a leader of Hong Kong's Cantonese opera circle. Law, a famous Cantonese opera actor, rose to fame in the 90s with his comedic performances in several Stephen Chow movies. He was awarded Best Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards and Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards for the 1995 film Summer Snow.

The marriage could be a boost for their careers. Wang is set to start shooting the TVB drama "The Queen's Office" when she comes back to Hong Kong, and Law appears in two high-profile 2009 Chinese sci-fi films, Wong Jing's Future Cop and Jeff Lau's Kung Fu Cyborg.

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Martial arts biopic Ip Man was no doubt the 2008 Chinese movie juggernaut, being one of the year's biggest box-office successes and winner of Best Film at the Hong Kong Film Awards. Two sequels are being planned, and Part II will start shooting this August with a target release date of summer 2010. Director Wilson Yip recently revealed some details concerning the first sequel.

Donnie Yen and Lynn Xiong are locked to reprise their roles as Mr. and Mrs. Ip Man, who will have arrived in Hong Kong following the story in Part I. At the time, many martial arts clubs in Hong Kong are controlled by the triad, prompting the upstanding Ip Man to set up a martial arts school to teach Wing Chun himself. Action director Sammo Hung will step in front of the camera this time to play the leader of the rival "Hung Fist" school, and the film will stage plenty of fights between different schools of Chinese kung fu. Most of the first film's main cast members will return, including Lam Ka Tung and Fan Siu Wong.

It is known that the sequel involves a young Bruce Lee as one of Ip Man's disciples. Wilson Yip said that Lee will be a teenager and just a minor role in this film, so they will cast a newcomer with similar looks and temperament to play him, squashing rumors that Taiwanese superstar Jay Chou or Shaolin Soccer actor Chan Kwok Kwan are being courted for the role.

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EXILE continues to sell big after doubling their member size with members from J-Soul Brothers. Their new double A-sided single THE MONSTER-Someday- released on April 15 recorded initial weekly sales of 172,000 copies, giving the 14-member EXILE a welcome new start with an Oricon #1 hit. This marks the third consecutive #1 single for the band after last year's The Birthday - Ti Amo - and Last Christmas. Including THE MONSTER-Someday-, EXILE now has seven #1 singles under their belt.

Best known for his role as F4's Mimasaka Akira in the TBS drama Hana Yori Dango, Chinese-Japanese actor Abe Tsuyoshi announced his marriage with Chinese actress Shi Ke on April 27. The 27 year-old actor met his Shi during the shooting of the film Stand In Love.

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The lineup for the 62nd Cannes Film Festival was announced on April 23. This year's Cannes, which will be held from May 13 to May 24, features a virtual who's who of world auteurs, with films from Ken Loach, Quentin Tarantino, Lars Von Trier, Pedro Almodovar, Michel Gondry, and Jane Campion as well as Asia's own Ang Lee, Johnnie To, Park Chan Wook, Tsai Ming Liang, Kore-eda Hirokazu, Bong Joon Ho, and Pen-ek Ratanaruang.

Twenty films are up for the Palme d'Or, six of which are from Asian filmmakers. Mainland Chinese director Lou Ye returns to Cannes three years after his Summer Palace caused a wave of controversy, and earned him a ban at home for screening at the festival without Beijing approval. His new feature Spring Fever, a Chinese- French co-production, was filmed secretly in Nanjing in defiance of the ban. Taiwan filmmaker Tsai Ming Liang sticks with his arthouse aesthetics and perennial muse Lee Kang Sheng in Face, which follows a Taiwan director who travels to the Louvre to shoot a film exploring the Salome myth. Hong Kong director Johnnie To also stays to the genre he knows best with crime thriller Vengeance starring French rocker Johnny Hallyday.

Ang Lee goes back to Hollywood to direct Taking Woodstock, an adaptation of Elliot Tiber's memoir set during the iconic summer of 1969. Korean maverick Park Chan Wook, whose Old Boy won the Grand Prix in 2004, brings the vampire tale Thirst starring Song Kang Ho as a priest-turned-bloodsucker. Filipino filmmaker Brillante Mendoza competes for the second consecutive year with his new kidnap thriller Kinatay. Also in competition for top honors is Spanish director Isabel Coixet's Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, which is set in Japan and stars Babel's Kikuchi Rinko.

Kore-eda Hirokazu's Air Doll, Bong Joon Ho's Mother, Pen-ek Ratanaruang's Nymph, and Raya Martin's Independence are screening in the Un Certain Regard category. Raya Martin's twin bill with Adolfo Alix Jr., Manila, will also be shown in special screenings, making it the first time a Filipino filmmaker has had two films at Cannes. Mainland director Zhao Liang's Petition is also being screened out of competition.

This year's Cannes jury is chaired by French actress Isabella Huppert, and the jury includes Korean director Lee Chang Dong, and Taiwan actress Shu Qi. Pixar's Up will be the first ever animated film to open the Cannes Film Festival, while French director Jan Kounen's Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky will do the closing honors.

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Lam Seung Yee, the iconic Hong Kong soccer commentator and comic actor better known as "Ah Suk" (Uncle in Cantonese), was found dead in his home on April 23. He was 74.

A former soccer player and coach, Ah Suk was perhaps the most revered soccer commentator in Hong Kong in the last couple of decades. His trademark voice and witty commentary style have endeared him to generations of soccer fans. His career as a comic actor also owed much to his deadpan delivery of often-improvised dialogs. Between the Stephen Chow blockbuster Fight Back to School II in 1992 and the Herman Yau romantic comedy Herbal Tea in 2004, Ah Suk scored almost a hundred movie and TV drama acting gigs, his most popular role being the priest in the Young and Dangerous series. Retired in 2006 after hosting the World Cup live broadcasting program for TVB, Ah Suk's sudden death came as a blow to soccer and movie fans alike.

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The 28th Hong Kong Film Awards were held on April 19. Wilson Yip's martial arts biopic Ip Man beat out Red Cliff, CJ7, Painted Skin, and The Way We Are for Best Film honors. The film also picked up Best Action Choreography for Leung Siu Hung and Sammo Hung, who also happened to be the award's presenter along with the other members of the Seven Little Fortunes. Ip Man leading man Donnie Yen, however, lost out in the highly contested Best Actor race to Nick Cheung for The Beast Stalker, which also won Best Supporting Actor for Liu Kai Chi. Ann Hui's low-budget critic's favorite The Way We Are, the only solely Hong Kong-invested production in the Best Film race, won Best Director and Best Screenplay, as well as Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress for veterans Paw Hee Ching and Chan Lai Wun, respectively.

CJ7 child actress Xu Jiao, who lit the firecrackers that kicked off the award ceremony's opening lion-dance performance, was named Best New Performer, while Derek Kwok picked up Best New Director for The Moss. John Woo's epic war film Red Cliff, which led in nominations, took home the most awards, though all in technical categories: Best Art Direction, Best Costume & Makeup Design, Best Sound Design, Best Visual Effects, and Best Original Film Score. Gordon Chan's Painted Skin won in Best Cinematography and Best Original Film Song. Best Asian Film was given to Feng Xiaogang's Assembly.

Sixties movie icon and two-time HKFA Best Actress winner Josephine Siao was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Director Wong Kar Wai presented the award, and Stephen Chow, who did not attend the ceremony, narrated her tribute clip. As 2009 also marks the 100th anniversary of Hong Kong Cinema, Infernal Affairs, The Eye, Days of Being Wild, and A Better Tomorrow version parody clips of Hong Kong's first film "Steal Roasted Duck" were shown at the ceremony. The ceremony was hosted by Eric Tsang and a round robin of co-hosts including Teresa Mok, Vincent Kok, Wong Cho Lam, Lam Tze Chung, Tenky Tin, Michelle Lo, Chin Kar Lok, Fan Siu Wong, Denise Ho, Kay Tse, and Sandra Ng.

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Popular Korean duo Fly to the Sky gave their final Korea performance on April 12, concluding 10 years of K-pop success. Formed by Brian Joo and Fany (a.k.a. Hwan Hee), Fly to the Sky made their debut in 1999 under powerhouse talent agency SM Entertainment, with whom the group remained until 2004 when they switched to PFull Entertainment. The duo celebrated their tenth anniversary this year, making them one of K-pop's longest-running idol groups. With the release of their eighth album Decennium in February, however, Fly to the Sky also announced that they would not renew their management contract, and that Decennium would be their last official album.

Though Fly to the Sky are not officially disbanded, Brian and Fany, now signed to different agencies, have expressed they are parting ways to focus on solo careers. Wrapping up activities for their album, the duo gave a series of farewell performances in early April, bowing out on April 12 with a final appearance on music program SBS Inkigayo, where they sang their debut single Day by Day and their last single Restriction.

Brian and Fany will continue to stay active in the entertainment industry as solo artists. Fany is planning to release a solo album later this year, while Brian is returning to his native United States in May to begin shooting for a Hollywood action comedy.

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The 2008 Hong Kong IFPI Gold Disc Awards, which distributes awards based on album sales, were presented on April 11. Superstar Andy Lau walked away with six awards, including Best Selling Hong Kong Male Artist and Best Selling Cantonese Album for his Wonderful World Concert Tour Hong Kong 2007 live album. His 2007 release Everyone Is No. 1 and Mandarin live album Wonderful World Concert Tour Shanghai also made it into the Top 10 Best Selling Cantonese and Mandarin Albums shortlists. Joey Yung was named the Best Selling Hong Kong Female Artist, with two of her albums in the Top 10.

The remaining eight top-selling artists were Aaron Kwok, Leo Ku, Stephy Tang, Kary Ng, Denise Ho, Ivana Wong, Vincy Chan, and Raymond Lam, whose 2007 and 2008 albums both made it into the Top 10 sellers. Fellow TVB crossover singers Myolie Wu and Linda Chung received Best Selling Newcomer awards along with G.E.M., William Chan, RubberBand, and Square. Best Selling Mandarin Album went to Taiwan boy band Fahrenheit's 2 Face. The other Top 10 Mandarin releases belonged to S.H.E., Show Luo, Lollipop, Yoga Lin, Andy Lau, and Twins. Japanese boy band w-inds.' Seventh Ave and Single Collection Best Eleven were the Best Selling Japanese/Korean Albums.

There are some glaring omissions from this year's Hong Kong IFPI Gold Disc Awards recipients as four major music labels - Universal, Sony BMG, Warner, and EMI - pulled out of the IFPI last year so their records and artists, including big sellers like Jay Chou and Eason Chan, are not accounted for in the calculations.

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