Golden Melody Award for Best Mandarin Album explained

Golden Melody Award for Best Mandarin Album
Awarded For:	quality Mandopop music albums
Presenter:	Ministry of Culture
Country:	Taiwan
Year:	2005
Holder:	Tanya Chua for Depart (2022)

The Golden Melody Award for Best Mandarin Album is an honor presented at the Golden Melody Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1990, to recording artists for quality Mandopop music albums.

The honor was first presented in 2005 as Best Mandarin Pop Vocal Album at the 16th Golden Melody Awards to Sandee Chan for Then We All Wept in Silence. In 2007, the category became known as Best Mandarin Album. Tanya Chua and Jay Chou currently hold the record for the most nominations, with six; followed by A-Mei with five.

Recipients

Year	Performing artist(s)	Work	Nominees	Ref.
2005	Sandee Chan	Then We All Wept in Silence	Jay Chou – Common Jasmin Orange Natural Q – C'est La Vie Stefanie Sun – Stefanie Biung – Man Fights with Wind Stanley Huang – Shades of My Mind Wang Leehom – Shangri-La	^[1] ^[2]
2006	David Tao	The Great Leap	Kimbo – In a Flash Cheer Chen – Peripeteia Tanya Chua – Amphibian Penny Tai – Crazy Love	^[3] ^[4]
2007	MC HotDog	Wake Up	Hao-en and Jiajia – Blue in Love Deserts Chang – My Life Will... Sodagreen – Little Universe Jyotsna Pang – All I Want Jolin Tsai – Dancing Diva	^[5] ^[6]
2008	Karen Mok	L!ve Is...	Sodagreen – Incomparable Beauty A-Mei – Star Stefanie Sun – Against the Light Tanya Chua – Goodbye & Hello Jay Chou – On the Run	^[7] ^[8]
2009	Eason Chan	Don't Want to Let Go	Sandee Chan – What If It Matters Crowd Lu – 100 Kinds of Life Stanley Huang – We All Lay Down in the End Jay Chou – Capricorn	^[9] ^[10]
2010	A-Mei	Amit	Tanya Chua – If You See Him Karen Mok – Hui Wei Lala Hsu – Lala Cheer Chen – Immortal	^[11] ^[12]
2011	Jay Chou	The Era	Soft Lipa & Jabber Loop – Moonlight Yao Hung – Flower Love Karen Mok – Precious William Wei – Wei Bird Hebe Tien – To Hebe Wang Leehom – The 18 Martial Arts	^[13] ^[14]
2012	Mayday	Second Round	Yoga Lin – Perfect Life Hebe Tien – My Love Waa Wei – No Crying Tanya Chua – Sing It Out of Love Dwagie – People	^[15] ^[16]
2013	Sandy Lam	Gaia	Jay Chou – Opus 12 MC HotDog – Ghetto Superstar Khalil Fong – Back to Wonderland Jolin Tsai – Muse	^[17] ^[18]
2014	Chang Chen-yue	Ayal Komod	Li Ronghao – Model Li Jian – Classic Soft Lipa – Inside Trim Emil Chau – Jiang Hu	^[19] ^[20]
2015	Jolin Tsai	Play	Lala Hsu – Missing Jacky Cheung – Wake Up Dreaming Eason Chan – Rice & Shine Jay Chou – Aiyo, Not Bad Karen Mok – Departures	^[21] ^[22]
2016	Sodagreen	Winter Endless	Peggy Hsu – Swing Inc. Eli Hsieh – Progress Reports A-Mei – Amit 2 Tanya Chua – Aphasia PoeTek – Infinity	^[23] ^[24]
2017	Mayday	History of Tomorrow	Khalil Fong – Journey to the West Guo Ding – The Silent Star Stone Eve Ai – Talk About Eve Waa Wei – Run! Frantic Flowers	Xu Jun – Feathers	^[25]
2018	Lala Hsu	The Inner Me	Leon Zheng – When I Leave Taipei Eason Chan – C'mon In~ A-Mei – Story Thief JJ Lin – Message in a Bottle Dean Ting – The Journal	^[26]
2019	Shi Shi	Shi's Journey	Eli Hsieh - Where Are We Going? Leo Wang - Wu Bing Singing, Yo Chin Soothing Eve Ai - Fade to Exist Jolin Tsai - Ugly Beauty ØZI - ØZI: The Album Sandy Lam - 0	^[27]
2020	Joanna Wang	Love is Calling Me	G.E.M. - City Zoo Peggy Hsu - Hypnocity Sandee Chan - Juvenile A Waa Wei - Hidden, Not Forgotten Wu Qing-feng - Spaceman	^[28]
2021	Soft Lipa	Home Cookin	Wanfang - Dear All Shi Shi - Where is SHI? Hebe Tien - Time Will Tell WeiBird - Sounds of My Life James Li - SHI RI TAN	^[29]
2022	Tanya Chua	Depart	Faye - Zai Yun Cai Shang Tiao Wu Ji Ji Zha Zha Jerry Li - AI-CHING Waa Wei - Have a Nice Day Non-Physical Troupe (NPT) - Night Shift Cui Jian - Fei Gou	^[30]

Category facts

Most wins

Rank	1st
Artist	Mayday
Total wins	2 wins

Most nominations

Rank	1st	2nd	3rd
Artist	Tanya Chua Jay Chou	A-Mei	Jolin Tsai Karen Mok Sodagreen
Total nominations	6 nominations	5 nominations	4 nominations

Notes and References

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2. Web site: 第十六屆金曲獎得獎名單 - 文化部影視及流行音樂產業局. www.bamid.gov.tw. zh-tw. 2017-06-14.
3. Web site: 第十七屆金曲獎入圍名單 - 文化部影視及流行音樂產業局. www.bamid.gov.tw. zh-tw. 2017-06-14.
4. Web site: 第十七屆金曲獎得獎名單 - 文化部影視及流行音樂產業局. www.bamid.gov.tw. zh-tw. 2017-06-14.
5. Web site: 第十八屆金曲獎入圍名單 - 文化部影視及流行音樂產業局. www.bamid.gov.tw. zh-tw. 2017-06-14.
6. Web site: 第十八屆金曲獎得獎名單 - 文化部影視及流行音樂產業局. www.bamid.gov.tw. zh-tw. 2017-06-14.
7. Web site: 第十九屆金曲獎入圍名單 - 文化部影視及流行音樂產業局. www.bamid.gov.tw. zh-tw. 2017-06-14.
8. Web site: 第十九屆金曲獎得獎名單 - 文化部影視及流行音樂產業局. www.bamid.gov.tw. zh-tw. 2017-06-14.
9. Web site: 第二十屆金曲獎流行音樂類入圍名單 - 文化部影視及流行音樂產業局. www.bamid.gov.tw. zh-tw. 2017-06-14.
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19. Web site: 第25屆流行音樂金曲獎入圍名單 - 文化部影視及流行音樂產業局. www.bamid.gov.tw. zh-tw. 2017-06-14.
20. Web site: 第25屆流行音樂金曲獎得獎名單 - 文化部影視及流行音樂產業局. www.bamid.gov.tw. zh-tw. 2017-06-14.
21. Web site: 第26屆流行音樂金曲獎入圍名單 - 文化部影視及流行音樂產業局. www.bamid.gov.tw. zh-tw. 2017-06-14.
22. Web site: 第26屆金曲獎流行音樂類得獎名單 - 文化部影視及流行音樂產業局. www.bamid.gov.tw. zh-tw. 2017-06-14.
23. Web site: 第27屆金曲獎流行音樂類入圍名單 - 文化部影視及流行音樂產業局. www.bamid.gov.tw. zh-tw. 2017-06-14.
24. Web site: 第27屆金曲獎流行音樂類得獎名單 - 文化部影視及流行音樂產業局. www.bamid.gov.tw. zh-tw. 2017-06-14.
25. Web site: 第28屆金曲獎流行音樂類入圍名單 - 文化部影視及流行音樂產業局. www.bamid.gov.tw. zh-tw. 2017-06-14.
26. Web site: 金曲獎第29屆得獎名單即時報 - 中央社 CNA . 23 June 2018.
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28. Web site: 第31屆金曲獎頒獎典禮 - 入圍名單. TTV. 金曲31. zh-tw. 2020-06-29. 2020-07-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20200717170141/https://gma.tavis.tw/GM31/GMA/Nomination.asp. dead.
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