Double Trouble is a song by Hong Kong singer and actor

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, written by

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, Kine Ludvigsen-Fossheim, and Olav Fossheim with lyrics adapted into

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by Hong Kong lyricist

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. Double Trouble was issued as the first single from Cheung's Private Corner album, released by What's Music, a subsidiary label of Universal Music Group in 2010, with a companion MV premiering March 2010.

Hong Kong Music Charts

"Double Trouble" reached number 1 on the HMVHK sales chart (most popular Hong Kong radio chart) April 2010. Cheung's "Private Corner" album remained at number 1 on the HMVHK sales chart for 13 weeks.

Credits and personnel

– lead vocals * Guillermo Fuego Jr. – acoustic guitar * Charles Huntley – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, horns *

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杜自持 – arranger, bass, drum programming, piano, horns * Lydia Chew And Group – backing vocals *

( 乔星 Qiao Xing) - lyrics *

, Olav Fossheim,

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– music * Benjamin Pelletier - trombone * John Campo - trumpet

Music video

With sales for Jacky Cheung's Private Corner album reaching 200,000 copies in

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alone, a celebration gathering was held by

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, where Cheung debuted the MV for "Double Trouble", which he invested HKD$500,000 of his own money to make. The MV was directed by Xia Yong Kang and features mainland China model

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. The Double Trouble MV was included as a bonus extra in Jacky Cheung's Private Corner Mini Concert DVD release.

Critical reception

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ranked Double Trouble as best single from the Private Corner album remarking "one feels the mood of caution when facing gangsters without losing the rhythm and jumping sense of jazz" and "adds a sense of joy in "fighting gangsters and having fun".

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* * {{authority control Songs written by Roxanne Seeman 2010 songs Jacky Cheung songs Cantonese-language songs Jazz songs Macaronic songs