#bibi zhou

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It feels like half my posts are about music...apologies for those of you who aren’t as interested in Mandopop content. It is not going anywhere.

I had Spotify premium for a good chunk of the year, so now I really feel like I got my money’s worth! So yay for that.

I am not surprised to see 鱼罐头 at #1. I listened to that album a lot, and with 鱼罐头 being the first song on the album, it just makes sense. 密友 and 透 are a little more surprising to see. I remember not loving them earlier in the year, but as I heard them more and more, they grew on me a lot. I was a little surprised that no Tanya Chua songs made it into the top 5 because I’ve listened to her a lot throughout the 2nd half of the year.

At first I was so surprised to see kpop! I used to be into kpop before I started listening to Chinese music. But I realized that I still sometimes listen to kpop with my friend who likes it.

The middle is a little hard to read, so I’ll type it out:

Truth: The artist you binge-listened to the most was Bibi Zhou. Lie: Your #1 Spotify playlist of the year was Release Radar. Truth: The artist who appeared most in your playlists was Tanya Chua.

The lie was pretty obvious seeing as I rarely look at Release Radar.

Bibi Zhou doesn’t actually have that many monthly Spotify listeners, so I don’t think being in the top 0.01% of listeners is that impressive.

6,857 minutes ~ 114 hours :-O

I was surprised by my top 3-5. I would probably have guessed Sandy Lam over A-Mei. Karen Mok makes sense now that I’m thinking about it because I get her songs stuck in my head all the time. I would have thought 孙盛希 or 林宥嘉 would be #5 also.

Below are some of my other top songs from the personal playlist Spotify put together. I’ll list them out under the cut for your convenience. 

I observed that my top songs playlist really mirrors what I was listening to during the first half of the year. This checks out because 1) Spotify Wrapped apparently only includes through October and 2) I spent a lot more time listening to music in the first 6 months of 2021.

my master gwsn miya just posted these frankly illegal pics and after I finished drooling, I was reminded of this piece of random kpop history that no one will care about:

amber has said that the only reason she was scouted into SM and debuted so quickly (she debuted ahead of seulgi who had trained for 3 years longer at that point) was bc LSM got wind of the 'handsome girl' trend that was making so much money in china at the time due to the likes of chris lee and bibi zhou (of super girl fame aka the OG survival show), and wanted to capitalize on it - amber was specifically cast for her androgynous look to fill that slot in f(x). just a reminder that entertainment is capitalism and none of the choices these companies make are by accident. representation just means more dollars to them.