WORLD RECORD
First Asian Idol
Hady Mirza was crowned Asian Idol in an inaugural contest held in Jakarta on 16 Dec 2007. The 27-year-old beat fi ve other contestants from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam and India in Asia’s largest singing showcase in terms of audience viewership.
Largest Concert By Visually Disabled Singer
In his debut concert on 22 Apr 2006 at the Max Pavil- ion in Singapore, Kelvin Tan Wei Lian sang in Mandarin, English, Thai, Cantonese and Hokkien. With this pub- lic concert, Tan became the fi rst visually impaired singer in Asia to sing in front of a paying audience of more than 5,000 people.
First Singapore Idol
Taufi k Batisah was crowned the fi rst Singapore Idol at the Grand Finals of the talent competi- tion held at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on 1 Dec 2004. Taufi k received 62 percent of the 1.1 million votes cast by the audience, while Sylvester Sim, in second place, received 38 percent of the votes.
First Local Singer Featured On Postage Stamps
SingPost released a special MyStamp sheet of 20 ‘1st Local’ stamps featuring two images of Taufi k Batisah. The stamps were available from 28 Mar 2005 at S$15 per sheet.
Fastest Selling English Album
The only English music album to reach double platinum status in record time is Taufi k Batisah’s Blessings. It sold 30,000 copies in less than 20 days af- ter its release in 2005.
First Campus Superstar
On 2 Apr 2006, Ng Chee Yang, 16, of Hwa Chong Institu- tion emerged as the winner of Campus SuperStar, a talent-search competition organised by MediaCorp from Jan to Apr 2006. The contestants comprised of students from secondary schools, junior colleges and ITEs.
Best Selling Malay
First Successful Singer In Las Vegas
Anita Sarawak was the fi rst local singer to make it big in the Las Vegas show scene, performing nightly at Caesar’s Palace in the 1980s. Anita was wildly popular as a singer on television and stage shows in the late 1960s and 1970s. The diva released her fi rst Malay EP in 1974 entitled Anita Sarawak.
Local Artiste With Most Albums Sold
Stefanie Sun has sold over 10 million copies in Asia. With 11 albums to her name, she is the most popular Mandarin female singer Singapore has produced. Her fi rst album, Yan Zi, was released in May 2000. It sold more than 300,000 copies in Taiwan, 200,000 copies in China, 12,000 copies in both Hong Kong and Malaysia and 17,000 copies in Singapore. In 2007, she was awarded the Singa- pore Youth Award (Arts and Culture).
Recording Artiste
Ramli Sarip and his group, Sweet Char- ity, were very popular in the late 1970s. Warner Music released their fi rst album in 1979, which sold more than 50,000 copies. Having recorded seven albums together, members of the band went their separate ways. From 1989 onwards, Ramli has cut eight solo albums with an average sale of 100,000 original copies per album. The highest sale achieved was 250,000 original copies. Currently, he remains a popular singer and producer in Malaysia.
First TV Artiste To Release Solo Album
Fann Wong was the fi rst television artiste to release a solo album Fanntasy in 1995.
First Solo Concert By Local Singer
Fann Wong was the fi rst local singer to stage a solo paying concert (My Story - Fann Wong In Concert) at the Singapore Indoor Stadium on 24 Jun 2000.
First To Win A Llangollen International Music Eisteddfod Award
Soprano Janani Sridhar was the fi rst Singaporean to win fi rst place at the 58th Llangol- len International Musical Eisteddfod in 2004 in the Vocal Solo under 16 category, one of the world’s great music festivals. She received the 2005 HSBC Youth Excellence Award for musical excellence. In 2007, she won the 6th Asian Youth Music Competi- tion in the voice category for contestants aged between 18 and 35.
First Singer To Top American & UK Music Charts
In 2003-05, three of Ho Yeow Sun’s singles Where Did Love Go, One With You, and Without Love, reached number one position on the weekly American Billboard’s Hot Dance Club Play Chart. From 2004-06, three of her singles, One With You, Without Love, and Ends Of The Earth, reached number one position on the UK MusicWeek Chart, while Without Love and Gone were top on the UK DMC Chart. More popularly known as Sun, she was the fi rst Sin- gaporean to perform at the Hollywood Film Festival 2003, and to present at the American Dance Music Awards 2004 and the 51st Grammy Awards in 2009.
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