Lin Yanjun Explained

Lin Yanjun

Birth Date:

24 August 1995

Birth Place:

Haikou, Hainan, China

Nationality:

Taiwanese (Republic of China)

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Years Active:	2018–present

Lin Yanjun (; born August 24, 1995), also known as Evan Lin, is a Taiwanese singer, rapper and actor. He debuted as a member of temporary Chinese boy group Nine Percent on April 6, 2018, through Chinese survival show Idol Producer.^[1] He is best known for his role as Su Nan Qin in the drama Crush adapted from the popular novel written by Mu Fusheng.

Early life

Lin was born on August 24, 1995, in Haikou, Hainan and because of his parents' work, he grew up moving between Taiwan, Jiangxi, and Guangdong. He passed the Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan student entrance examination and entered Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.^[2] His father is from Taiwan and his mother is from Jiangxi. After finishing his freshman year, he chose to suspend his school and return to Taiwan to complete his military service. He can speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Minnan, Korean and English. He has a younger sister.^[3]

At the age of 18, he was invited by JYP Entertainment to become a trainee but declined as he wanted to focus on his studies and military duties. In 2016, he signed a contract with a Taiwanese brokerage company, but as he did not get the training promised when signing the contract, he and the other members held a press conference at the door of the company to complain. After that he passed the Shanghai Banana Entertainment global trainee audition, signed a contract with Banana Entertainment and officially became a Banana Entertainment trainee.

Career

2018: Idol Producer and Nine Percent

Lin was a member of trainee group Trainee18 under his label Shanghai Project Banana Co. On January 22, 2018, he released the trainee graduation single "Rock The Show" with Trainee18. He then participated in the idol survival show Idol Producer in January 2018. He ranked fifth in the final episode with 12,131,367 votes and debuted as a member of temporary Chinese boy group Nine Percent on April 6, 2018.

Nine Percent released their debut album 'To The Nines' on November 12, 2018, with 7 tracks. Before the group's disbandment on October 6, 2019, Nine Percent released their second album 'More Than Forever on September 26, 2019 where Lin Yanjun has a solo song "Like A Star".^[4]

2019–present: solo career and acting career

Soon after his debut, Lin released his first trap single "YOU" on August 24, 2018. Then on August 29, 2018, Lin's studio was officially formed. On January 7, 2019, Lin released his first solo music EP Imperfect Love (Chinese: 剛好的傷口) with two songs. It earned 5 million yuan within 28 seconds of release, breaking 6 sales records on QQ Music.^[5] The music video was released on February 19, 2019.
On March 25th 2019, he won the Best New Singer Award in Hong Kong and Taiwan at the 26th ERC Chinese Top Ten Music Festival, additionally his EP “Imperfect Love” won the Most Popular EP Award in Hong Kong and Taiwan. The single has also reached No.4 on Billboard China Social Music Chart on March 3, 2019.^[6]

In Nine Percent's first debut anniversary, April 6, 2019, he released image teasers for his second personal music EP "Escape". The album was released on April 12, 2019^[7] and is comprised two songs. Lin wrote the lyrics for the title track "Get Outta My Head" and composed the melody for "Over You". He performed both songs live at his EP launch fan-meetings in Guangzhou^[8] and Chengdu^[9] later that month.

On August 24, 2019 he released his new single "Competitor" (Chinese: 对手). The music video was released on August 30, 2019, on QQ Music and YouTube^[10] and became the third music video to accumulate 50 million points on the QQ Music MV Peak Chart on October 3, 2019. Prior to the release, he released two part documentary on his Weibo account, which was then shared on Sony Music Taiwan's official YouTube channel.
On April 16, 2020, he released his new single "You Are So Beautiful",^[11] with a staggering 900 million views in just mainland China, but creating a ripple across many other South East Asia countries. Then on October 13, 2020, he released a collaboration with Doja Cat of her hit song "Say So" for a Chinese version remix.
On June 13, 2020, Lin attended the filming ceremony of his first drama 一见倾心 / Fall In Love in which he stars as Xu GuangYao. He also attended the filming ceremony of his second drama 原来我很爱你 / Crush on September 14, 2020. He stars as the visually impaired Su NianQin, who is also the mysterious songwriter Yi Jin. This is his first drama as the main male lead.
On August 24, 2020, the day of his birthday, he announced his new EP will be releasing soon, and released a short teaser clip with excerpt of his new song. The song titled "Waiting for the Whole Winter" (等待整個冬天) from his EP "1995" was released on October 27. However, the song had to be taken down after few hours of release for re-producing because three lines of the lyrics were found to be highly similar to an existing song. "Waiting for the Whole Winter" was jointly composed by him and few of his friends before Lin debuted in 2018. Lin was not involved in the writing of the lyrics in question.^[12]

Filmography

Dramas

Year	English Title	Chinese Title	Role	Notes
2021	Fall in Love	一见倾心	Xu Guang Yao
2021	Crush	原来我很爱你	Su Nian Qin	Main lead

Television shows appearance

Year	Title	English Title	Network	Notes
2017	天生是優我	Born U5	Zhejiang Television	Pre-Debut
2018	偶像练习生	Idol Producer	iQiyi	Contestant Finished fifth
	花路之旅	Flower Road Journey	iQiyi	Cast MemberNine Percent Variety Show
	快乐大本营	Happy Camp	Hunan Television	Guest
	奔跑吧兄弟	Keep Running	Zhejiang Television
	中国音乐公告牌	Idol Hits	iQiyi
	咕噔咕噔Banana	Guten Guten Banana		Cast Member
	小姐姐的花店	Sister's Flower Shop
	野生廚房	Wild Kitchen	Hunan Television
2019	快乐大本营	Happy Camp		Guest
	天天向上	Day Day Up		Guest
	我们的演唱会	Our Concert	iQiyi	Cast Member
	限定的记忆	More Than Forever	iQiyi	Nine Percent's Final Documentary
2020	野生廚房2	Wild Kitchen 2	Hunan Television	Special Appearance
2020	快乐大本营	Happy Camp	Hunan Television	Guest

Discography

EPs

Title	Album details	Sales ^[13]
刚好的伤口 (Imperfect Love)	Released: January 7, 2019 Language: Mandarin Label: 永稻星娱乐	CHN: 2,389,571
Escape	Released: April 12, 2019 Language: Mandarin Label: 永稻星娱乐	CHN: 1,209,556

Singles

Title	Year	Peak chart positions	Sales	Album
Title	Year	CHN ^[14]	Sales	Album
"You"	2018	14	刚好的伤口 (Imperfect Love)
"刚好的伤口" (Imperfect Love)	2019	3
"Get Outta My Head"		6	Escape
"对手" (Competitor)		4	CHN: 2,096,869	rowspan="6"
"You Are So Beautiful"	2020	5	rowspan="5"
"休息之道" (Turn Off)	2021	16
"在飞翔与迷失之间" (Lost)	2021	36
"别待了" (Stay No More)	2022	5
"爱情从遗忘开始"(Love Starts from Oblivion)	2022	55

Soundtrack appearance

Title	Year	Peak chart positions	Album
Title	Year	CHN ^[15]	Album
"最好的安排" (The Best Arrangement)	2020	5	Love Designer OST^[16]
"盛夏" (Midsummer) (with Xue Mingyuan)	2020	27	Love Designer OST^[16]
"Meeting You" (with Wan Peng)	2021		Crush OST
"Forever Shine For Me"	2021		Crush OST

Other charted singles

Title	Year	Peak chart positions	Album	Notes
Title	Year	CHN	Album	Notes
"Over you"	2019	19	Escape
"Like a Star"	2019	17	限定的记忆 (More Than Forever)

Collaborations

Awards and nominations

!Year!Name!Award!Work!Result!Ref
2019	第26屆東方風雲榜音樂盛典	Best New Singer (Taiwan)
2019	第26屆東方風雲榜音樂盛典	Most Popular EP	刚好的伤口 (Imperfect Love)
2020	QQ Music "Boom Boom Awards"	Youth Star Of The Year
2020	Sohu Fashion Awards	Popular Star Of The Year

Endorsements and ambassadorship

In 2018, Lin was chosen to endorse the cosmetics brands Elizabeth Arden and Panasonic Beauty as well as being the ambassador for multiple Korean brands such as Innisfree and MISSHA. Lin was also given the opportunity to be the spokesperson for both Philosophy and skincare line Martiderm.

In 2019, Lin was chosen to present the full line of YSL Beauty as well as the Korean make-up brand 3CE. He was also chosen to become the ambassador of multiple brands, including Longchamp, LANVIN, Schwepps, CLEAR and Mirinda. He also became China's first ambassador for the brand Superga.

In 2020, Lin was chosen as a brand ambassador for Clé de Peau Beauté and Descente.

External links

Instagram

Notes and References

Web site: 偶练九人团出道！蔡徐坤范丞丞无悬念林彦俊爆冷. 2018-04-06. Sina. 2019-03-14.
Web site: 林彦俊个人资料简介. 2018-07-31. IJQ.tv. 2019-03-14. 2021-11-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20211120021842/https://www.ijq.tv/mingxing/15330252395297.html. dead.
Web site: 专访｜林彦俊：这一年过得很快，也很慢. 杨. 茜. The Paper.
Web site: 林彦俊《限定的记忆》谈"标签化" – 粉丝网星闻. 2020-08-09. news.ifensi.com. 2019-12-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20191203175312/http://news.ifensi.com/article-14-4425188-1.html. dead.
Web site: 開賣28秒進帳逾2千萬鮮肉男星吸金速度超過印鈔機. 2019-01-15. Yahoo Taiwan. zh-Hant-TW. 2019-03-14.
Web site: 中国社交音乐榜周榜_Billboard中国. 2020-10-28. www.billboardchina.cn. 2021-11-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20211120021840/http://www.billboardchina.cn/top/week/2019-02-25.html. dead.
Web site: ESCAPE. 林彦俊 – QQ音乐. QQ Music. 6 October 2019.
News: 林彦俊首次新歌分享会登陆广州，与粉丝畅聊《ESCAPE.》背后故事. 张. 素芹. 21 April 2019. 广州日报. 6 October 2019. 20 November 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211120021849/https://www.gzcankao.com/news/detail?nid=431373. dead.
Web site: 林彦俊首次新歌分享会登录成都，与歌迷玩"你画我猜"脑洞满分！. 23 April 2019. 大风号. 6 October 2019.
Web site: 林彥俊 Evan Lin -《對手 Competitor》Official Music Video. 台灣索尼音樂 Sony Music Taiwan. 30 August 2019. YouTube. 6 October 2019.
Web site: 林彦俊强势回归歌坛全新单曲将于4/16发行_音乐. 2020-08-09. www.sohu.com. 7 April 2020 . en.
Web site: Wei. Wei. 2020-10-27. Evan Lin Yanjun Apologizes For The Plagiarism Found In Song, "Waiting For The Whole Winter" Daily C-pop. 2020-11-01. en-US.
Sales for all works by Lin Yanjun (林彦俊) were retrieved from this link.
Peak chart positions on the China TME UNI Chart:
- "You": Web site: January 7–13, 2019 . 2019年第01期 (Week 1 of 2019) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230427174925/https://yobang.tencentmusic.com/chart/uni-chart/rankListStatic/?issue=201901 . April 27, 2023 . April 27, 2023 . Tencent Music.
- "刚好的伤口 (Imperfect Love)": Web site: January 7–13, 2019 . 2019年第01期 (Week 1 of 2019) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230427174925/https://yobang.tencentmusic.com/chart/uni-chart/rankListStatic/?issue=201901 . April 27, 2023 . April 27, 2023 . Tencent Music.
- "Get Outta My Head": Web site: April 8–14, 2019 . 2019年第14期 (Week 14 of 2019) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230427175226/https://yobang.tencentmusic.com/chart/uni-chart/rankListStatic/?issue=201914 . April 27, 2023 . April 27, 2023 . Tencent Music.
- "Over you": Web site: April 8–14, 2019 . 2019年第14期 (Week 14 of 2019) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230427175226/https://yobang.tencentmusic.com/chart/uni-chart/rankListStatic/?issue=201914 . April 27, 2023 . April 27, 2023 . Tencent Music.
- "Like a Star": Web site: October 7–13, 2019 . 2019年第40期 (Week 40 of 2019) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230427204737/https://yobang.tencentmusic.com/chart/uni-chart/rankListStatic/?issue=201940 . April 27, 2023 . April 27, 2023 . Tencent Music.
- "对手 (Competitor)": Web site: August 19–25, 2019 . 2019年第33期 (Week 33 of 2019) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230427175446/https://yobang.tencentmusic.com/chart/uni-chart/rankListStatic/?issue=201933 . April 27, 2023 . April 27, 2023 . Tencent Music.
- "You Are So Beautiful": Web site: April 13–19, 2020 . 2020年第15期 (Week 15 of 2020) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230427175707/https://yobang.tencentmusic.com/chart/uni-chart/rankListStatic/?issue=202015 . April 27, 2023 . April 27, 2023 . Tencent Music.
- "休息之道 (Turn Off)": Web site: August 2–8, 2021 . 2021年第31期 (Week 31 of 2021) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230427162009/https://yobang.tencentmusic.com/chart/uni-chart/rankListStatic/?issue=202131 . April 27, 2023 . April 27, 2023 . Tencent Music.
- "别待了 (Stay No More)": Web site: March 28, 2022 . 2022年第13期 (Week 13 of 2022) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230427202900/https://yobang.tencentmusic.com/chart/uni-chart/rankListStatic/?issue=202213 . April 27, 2023 . April 27, 2023 . Tencent Music.
- "爱情从遗忘开始 (Love Starts from Oblivion)": Web site: August 8–14, 2022 . 2022年第32期 (Week 32 of 2022) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230427204029/https://yobang.tencentmusic.com/chart/uni-chart/rankListStatic/?issue=202232 . April 27, 2023 . April 27, 2023 . Tencent Music.
Peak chart positions for soundtracks on the China TME UNI Chart:
- "最好的安排 (The Best Arrangement)": Web site: May 18–24, 2020 . 2020年第20期 (Week 20 of 2020) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230427203238/https://yobang.tencentmusic.com/chart/uni-chart/rankListStatic/?issue=202020 . April 27, 2023 . April 27, 2023 . Tencent Music.
- "盛夏 (Midsummer) with Xue Mingyuan": Web site: May 18–24, 2020 . 2020年第20期 (Week 20 of 2020) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230427203238/https://yobang.tencentmusic.com/chart/uni-chart/rankListStatic/?issue=202020 . April 27, 2023 . April 27, 2023 . Tencent Music.
Web site: 《幸福触手可及！》OST来袭，黄景瑜林彦俊甜暖夏日恋曲空降酷狗-千龙网·中国首都网. 2020-08-09. ent.qianlong.com. 2021-11-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20211120021848/http://ent.qianlong.com/2020/0521/4168595.shtml. dead.