''Hypnosis Show'' () is

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artist

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's third Mandarin studio album. It was released on 14 October 2005 by

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. After receiving good reviews for the music video of the first lead track, "真命天子" (Destined Guy), featuring

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, the album went on pre-order sale and all of the 10,000 copies were sold in one day. Avex Taiwan new
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7 October 2005. Retrieved 2010-10-13 Four editions of the album were released, including ''Hypnosis Show (Limited Charity Edition)'' (催眠Show 限量慈善) (CD) which included a pass to Luo's debut solo concert 'Love's Strength' Charity Concert (《愛的力量》慈善演唱會) at

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, ''Hypnosis Show (MV Encore Edition)'' (催眠Show 冠軍影音安可) containing four music videos; and ''Hypnosis Show (Commemorate Edition)'' (催眠Show 慶功加場版) (CD+DVD) with a bonus DVD containing 70 minutes of highlight live footage from ''Love's Strength Charity Concert'' on 18 November 2005.

Album

In this album Show continues his partnership with producers

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winner and songwriter Di Zi (), Bi Guoyong () and Guo Jianliang () plus Chen Wei () of For Take One Music and Eric Ng () of Funkie Monkies Productions, as well as choreographer Tommy () of Dance Soul studios. The first lead track, "真命天子" (Destined Guy), a collaboration with

, is a dance track, in it she rapped and performed in the music video with Luo. The other lead track "自我催眠" (Self-Hypnosis) is composed by fellow artist

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, especially for Luo with the music video featuring his then co-host on 100% Entertainment

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. The music video for "嗆司嗆司" (Chance Chance), a mid-tempo dance track, was directed by Lai Wei Kang. It features Taiwanese actress Maggie Wu ( 吳亞馨), who later co-starred with Luo in ''

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''; and a cameo by Luo's mother.

Reception

This is the first time that an album of Luo's debuted at number one on Taiwan's G-Music Weekly Top 20 Combo and Mandarin Charts, and Five Music Chart. at week 42 (14–20 October 2005) with a percentage sales of 8.06%, 16.7%, and 18.22% respectively. It stayed on the G-Music Mandarin Chart continuously for 14 weeks, selling over 100,000 copies, the Combo Chart and Five Music Chart for 12 weeks. The tracks, "真命天子" (Destined Guy) and "自我催眠" (Self-Hypnosis) are listed at number 55 and 70 respectively on

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's ''Hit Fm Annual Top 100 Singles Chart'' (Hit-Fm年度百首單曲) for 2005. The tracks, "自我催眠" (Self-Hypnosis) was nominated and "真命天子" (Destined Guy) won one of the ''Songs of the Year'' at the 2006 Metro Radio Mandarin Music Awards presented by

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radio station Metro Info. Both tracks were also nominated for ''Top 10 Gold Songs'' at the Hong Kong TVB8 Awards, presented by television station

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, in 2006.

Track listing

Music videos

* "自我催眠" (Self-Hypnosis) MV - feat

- directed by Tony Lin * "真命天子" (Destined Guy) MV - feat

- directed by Lai Wei Kang * "嗆司嗆司" (Chance Chance) MV - feat Maggie Wu (吳亞馨) and cameo by Luo MaMa (show's mother) - directed by Lai Wei Kang * "力量" (Strength) MV - directed by Tony Lin ''Karaoke version'' with concert footage + some original footage * "淘汰郎" (Eliminated Man) MV * "不懂我的心" (Don't Understand My Heart) MV * "黑眼圈" (Dark Eye Circles) MV * "猛男日記" (Diary of a Muscle Man) MV

Releases

Four editions (excludes pre-order editions) were released by Avex Taiwan: * 4 October 2005 - ''Hypnosis Show (Preorder Edition)'' (催眠Show) (CD) - includes a playing card set with logo designed by Show and autograph. * 14 October 2005 - ''Hypnosis Show'' (催眠Show) (CD) * 4 November 2005 - ''Hypnosis Show (Limited Charity Edition)'' (催眠Show 限量慈善) (CD) - includes a pass to Show's 'Love's Strength' Charity Concert (《愛的力量》慈善演唱會) at

. * 25 November 2005 - ''Hypnosis Show (MV Encore Edition)'' (催眠Show 冠軍影音安可) (CD+DVD) - includes 3 MV's # 真命天子 (Destined Guy) feat

# 自我催眠 (Self-Hypnosis) feat Da S # 嗆司嗆司 (Chance Chance) cameo by Luo MaMa * 20 January 2006 - ''Hypnosis Show (Commemorate Edition)'' (催眠Show 慶功加場版) (CD+DVD) - includes a 70 minutes version of Show's 'Love's Strength' Charity Concert (《愛的力量》慈善演唱會) at

with special guest performance of "真命天子" (Destined Guy) with Jolin Tsai and behind the scenes footage.Yesasia.co
''Hypnosis Show (Commemorate Edition)'' album info
Retrieved 2010-09-28 For details of track listing - see Show Lo discography.

Charts

References

External links

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Show Lo@Avex Taiwan
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