''Meteor Rain'' () is the debut Mandarin studio album of

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F4. It was released on 28 August 2001 by

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. The Hong Kong version of the album is an audio visual CD (AVCD) which includes two music videos.as listed in the Music Video section The album is organized in the style of a

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with two tracks by each of the F4 members and two tracks collectively as F4. The leading track "" (Meteor Rain, a Chinese cover song of

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's ''Hit Fm Annual Top 100 Singles Chart'' () for 2001 as well as the theme song for the 2001 Taiwanese drama series of the same title. The album was awarded one of the ''Top 10 Selling Mandarin Albums of the Year'' at the 2002 IFPI Hong Kong Album Sales Awards, presented by the Hong Kong branch of

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. Following the success of their TV series ''

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'', the album also received commercial acclaim in Indonesia with sales of more than 300,000 copies.

Track listing

# "" ''liu xing yu'' (Meteor Rain) - F4 # "" ''wo shi zhen de zhen de hen ai ni'' (I Truly Love You/I Really Really Love You) -

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# "Here We Are" -

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# "" ''shui rang ni liu lei'' (Who Made You Cry?) - Vanness # "" ''wei ni zhi zhuo'' (Persistence For You) -

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# "" ''di yi shi jian'' (At The First Place) - F4 # "" ''yao ding ni'' (Got To Have You) -

# "" ''ni bu ai wo ai shui'' (Everywhere/Who Do You Love If Not Me?) - Vanness # "" ''ai bu hui yi zhi deng ni'' (Show Me Your Love/Love Will Not Wait For You) -

# "" ''zui te bie de cun zai'' (The Most Special Existence) -

Music videos

# "" (Meteor Rain) MV # "" (At the First Place) MV

Controversy

The group's label Sony Music Taiwan encountered controversy in October 2002 when South Korean media noted the similarities between the song "Everywhere" () and the popular Korean song "Love and Remember" (), which was originally recorded by best-selling K-pop group

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in 1999 as part of their second album and was composed by their producer

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. Park filed a lawsuit against Sony Music Taiwan, stating that the song had been remade without his permission. Sony Music Taiwan disputed the case on the grounds that they had purchased the rights from

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, as "Love and Remember" was partly based on Curtis McKonly's arrangement of the Christmas carol "

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References

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