Tomorrow will be Better () is a Taiwanese

Mandopop Mandopop or Mandapop refers to Mandarin popular music. The genre has its origin in the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; with later influences coming from Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Taiwan's Hokkie ...

charity record A charity record or charity single is a song released by musicians with most or all proceeds raised going to a dedicated foundation or charity. George Harrison's "Bangla Desh" single in 1971 is commonly acknowledged as the first ever purpose-made ...

written by Brendan Graham,

Rolf Løvland Rolf Undsæt Løvland (born 19 April 1955) is a Norwegian composer, lyricist, arranger, and pianist. Together with Fionnuala Sherry, he formed the Celtic-Nordic group Secret Garden, in which he was the composer, producer, and keyboardist. He beg ...

and

Lo Ta-yu Lo Ta-yu (; born 20 July 1954), also known as Luo Dayou and Law Tai-yau, is a Taiwanese singer and songwriter. During the 1980s, Lo became one of the most influential Mandopop singer-songwriters with his melodic lyrics and love songs, and his ...

and sung by over 60 artists. It was recorded on 15 September 1985 and released on 25 October 1985 and was directly inspired by the UK charity single ''

Do They Know It's Christmas? "Do They Know It's Christmas?" is a charity song written in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia. It was first recorded by Band Aid, a supergroup assembled by Geldof and Ure consisting of pop ...

'' and ''

We Are the World "We Are the World" is a charity single originally recorded by the supergroup USA for Africa in 1985. It was written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie and produced by Quincy Jones and Michael Omartian for the album '' We Are the World''. Wi ...

'' in order to raise money for ''

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'' to help with aid to Africa.

Artists

The song was originally sung in

Mandarin Chinese Mandarin (; ) is a group of Chinese (Sinitic) dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the phonology of Standard Chinese, the official language ...

and the more than sixty Taiwanese artists involved in the original recording were from the four main Chinese music industry markets of

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...

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and

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. In 1985, some

singers sang a Cantonese lyrics rewriting of the song in

1985 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation The 1985 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation () was held in January 1986. It is part of the Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation series held in Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong S ...

. In 2010, many Taiwan singers made another MV of the song.

External links

*{{YouTube, id=s6T4DXRKYHM, title=【明天會更好 Tomorrow Will Be Better】Official Music Video
香港512關愛行動-張靚穎、孫楠、楊坤、羽泉等合唱《明天會更好》
1985 singles 1985 songs All-star recordings Charity singles Mandarin-language songs Pop ballads Songs written by Brendan Graham Songs written by Rolf Løvland