Jay

Jay is the debut studio album by Taiwanese singer Jay Chou, released on 7 November 2000 by BMG Taiwan. It was entirely produced and composed by Jay Chou, with lyrics written by Vincent Fang, Vivian Hsu and others. Musically, it incorporated genres such as pop, hip-hop, R&B, and adult contemporary. Jay was what helped put Chou's singing career on the map and the album is credited for starting a whole new era of C-Pop music. Commercially, it was a success, shipping over 250,000 copies in Taiwan, making it one of the highest selling albums of the year in the country, and is one of the best-selling albums in Taiwan of the 21st century. The album also earned an IFPI Hong Kong Top Sales Music Award for Top 10 Best Selling Mandarin Albums of the Year in 2001. Background and development In September 1997, Jay Chou was discovered by Jacky Wu at a talent show and joined Wu's record company Alpha Music as a music production assistant. However, no singer was willing to accept the songs that Chou wrote. In December 1999, Wu told Chou that if he could write 50 songs in 10 days, he would help him select 10 songs to make an album. In the end, Chou completed it as promised. He single-handedly took care of the production, composition, and chorus writing of 10 songs, the arrangement of three songs, and the lyrics of two songs, creating his first album. In July 2000, Jay Chou showed the demo of "Adorable Lady" to JR Yang. JR Yang praised him and planned an album for him. The lyricism, composition, chorus, guitar and chorus of "Starry Mood" were all done by Jay Chou himself. This song was submitted to Forward Music before 2000. Huang Shu-Jun, who was signed to Forward Music at the time, felt that the song was very well written and expressed to the company that he wanted to sign a contract with Jay Chou, but when he wanted to use this song later, Jay Chou had already started recording the album Jay.