Heroes of Earth
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| Studio album 蓋世英雄 by Leehom Wang | ||||
| Released | 30 December 2005 | |||
| Genre | Mandopop, R&B, hip hop | |||
| Length | 39:13 | |||
| Language | Mandarin | |||
| Label | Sony Music Taiwan | |||
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Heroes of Earth (simplified Chinese: 盖世英雄; traditional Chinese: 蓋世英雄; pinyin: gàishì yīngxióng) is American-Taiwanese R&B Mandopop singer-songwriter Leehom Wang's eleventh Mandarin studio album. It was released on 30 December 2005 by Sony Music Taiwan.
Since Wang's debut, this album is the most successful, shipping more than 1,000,000 copies within ten days of release. The album peaked at number one on Taiwan's G-Music Top 20 Charts for 6 weeks. and charted for 23 weeks.
In this album, Wang continued to experiment with "chinked-out", the musical genre he had invented for his previous album, Shangri-La. This time he incorporated ancient Chinese Peking Opera and kunqu instead of the Chinese ethnic minority music he had used in Shangri-La .
In this album, Wang also collaborated with numerous other artists such as Chinese-American rapper Jin, Mayday's Ashin, opera singer Li Yan, as well as Korean artists Rain and J-Lim. He named the album Heroes of Earth to represent all the heroes he has collaborated with in this album .
The track "花田錯" (Mistake in the Flower Fields) was nominated for Top 10 Gold Songs at the Hong Kong TVB8 Awards, presented by television station TVB8, in 2006.
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