12 Facts About Cantopop

Cantopop or HK-pop is a genre of pop music written in standard Chinese and sung in Cantonese.

Cantopop is used to refer to the cultural context of its production and consumption.

Cantopop then reached its height of popularity in the 1980s and 1990s before slowly declining in the 2000s and experiencing a slight revival in the 2010s.

The term "Cantopop" itself was coined in 1978 after "Cantorock", a term first used in 1974.

Around 1971, Sandra Lang, a minor singer who had never sung Cantopop before, was invited to sing the first Cantonese TV theme song "A marriage of Laughter and Tears" .

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Cantopop was the lead singer of the band Lotus formed in the late 1960s, signed to Polydor in 1972.

Cantopop's achieved commercial success with her original Cantonese Hits under the Polygram Label in the early 1980s.

Interest in Cantopop was renewed in the early 2020s in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong, which led to border closures and restriction of travel.

Early Cantopop was developed from Cantonese opera music hybridised with Western pop.

Cantopop songs are usually sung by one singer, sometimes with a band, accompanied by piano, synthesizer, drum set and guitars.

Cantopop was born in the 1970s and became a cultural product with the popularity of two popular TVB drama's themes songs in the early 1970s: "Tower Ballad" and "A marriage of Laughter and Tears" .

The majority of "hit" Cantopop is not entirely local produced but the cover versions of "hit" foreign melodies.