Friday December 15, 2006 Taiwan After five years of playing second fiddle to Jay Chou, Taiwanese pop princess Jolin Tsai finally managed to out-sell Chou to become the top-selling artiste of the year in Taiwan. Tsai’s Wu Rang sold 210,000 copies in Taiwan, beating Chou’s Still Fantasy to become Taiwan’s biggest selling album of 2006 recently. However, Chou still managed to move a whopping three million copies of Still Fantasy throughout Asia, and remains the best-selling Taiwanese artiste in Asia. In a recent interview, Tsai played down the win over Chou, and stressed that there was no competition in the first place. “I’ve never thought about beating anyone. All I wanted was to challenge myself, and I hope that the next album will do just as well,” she said. Nevertheless, Tsai’s sales of 210,000 copies was still way below that of last year’s top-selling album – Chou’s November Chopin, which sold 250,000 copies in Taiwan – indicating a steady and somewhat alarming market decline for music records in the country. credits: star-ecentral, asianfanatics.
