Trendy Man
Trendy Man is the sixth Mandarin studio album by Taiwanese recording artist Show Lo. It was released on December 26, 2008, by Gold Typhoon (Taiwan). It is the first release after Show's continuation of contract with them, formerly EMI Music Taiwan.
Release
Two preorder limited editions were available: Trendy Man and a Box Limited Preorder Edition, which includes gifts. A further edition was released, Waist Support Celebration Edition containing a bonus CD with a new song "Song Written for You".Songs
The track "Best of the Bunch" is a high-tempo dance track, and is the opening theme song of Taiwanese drama, Hot Shot, starring Show, Jerry Yan and Wu Chun. "Making Jokes", a ballad, is the second lead track, with the music video featuring Alice Tzeng.The third lead track, "Waist Support" is an upbeat fun dance track. The music video features guest appearance by Party Boys, Barbie Shu, Dee Shu, Jolin Tsai, Blackie/Hei Ren, Da Mu, Hu Gua, Jacky Wu, Chai Zhi Ping, Lin He Long and Luo Ma Ma "Cause I Believe" a piano ballad is an insert song of Hot Shot.
Commercial performance
The album debuted at number one on Taiwan's Top 20 G-Music Weekly Combo and Mandarin Charts, and Five Music Chart at week starting December 26, 2008, to January 1, 2009, with a percentage sales of 32.32%, 37.8%, and 31.54% respectively. It charted continuously in the Mandarin Chart for 19 weeks, the Combo Chart for 13 weeks and the 5 Music Chart for 15 weeks.The tracks "Waist Support" and "Making Jokes" are listed at number 30 and 61 respectively on Hit Fm Taiwan's Hit Fm Annual Top 100 Singles Chart for 2009. The track "Waist Support" won one of the Songs of the Year at the 2009 Metro Radio Mandarin Music Awards presented by Hong Kong radio station Metro Info.
According to Taiwan's G-Music chart the album is the second List of [best-selling albums in Taiwan|best selling album in Taiwan] in 2009. It was also awarded one of the Top 10 Selling Mandarin Albums of the Year award at the 2009 IFPI Hong Kong Album Sales Awards, presented by the Hong Kong branch of IFPI.