1. William Wei has released six studio albums, one live album and two extended plays.
66 Facts About William Wei
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William Wei won the Golden Melody Award for Best New Singer in 2011 and Best Composer in 2015.
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William Wei gained media attention as the winner of the first season of the reality television singing competition Happy Sunday in 2007.
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William Wei released his eponymous debut album William Wei in 2010, which received 4 nominations at the 22nd Golden Melody Awards and subsequently won him the Best New Artist award.
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In 2021, William Wei was nominated in four categories at the 32nd Golden Melody Awards for the album Sounds of My Life.
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William Wei received a nomination at the 58th Golden Horse Awards for Best Original Film Song with "Red Scarf".
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William Wei's grandfather was a songwriter and both of his parents were previously choir members.
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William Wei grew under their influences and has developed great sensitivity toward music.
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However, William Wei did not pick up any music instruments when he was a child as he felt it would be tiring.
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William Wei began learning the basic chords on his own and practiced it whenever he was free.
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William Wei was inspired to start writing his own songs after watching a songwriting showcase by his school music club.
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William Wei started composing songs and posted his works onto StreetVoice, a music-publishing platform for independent songwriters.
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William Wei's songs were very well received by the Netizens and Wei became one of the most popular songwriters on StreetVoice.
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William Wei was accepted into one of the top universities in Taiwan, National Taiwan University, and pursued a major in Foreign Languages.
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In 2006, William Wei decided to sign up for a school singing competition for fun and he performed Black Humor by Jay Chou.
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William Wei won the competition unexpectedly and was selected to represent his school in the reality television singing competition, Happy Sunday.
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William Wei covered songs from many singers including David Tao, Stefanie Sun, Wang Leehom.
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William Wei ultimately won the competition and was crowned the first winner of Happy Sunday.
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However, William Wei did a shocking decision by turning down the prize contract from the partnering music label.
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William Wei decided to put his budding music career on hiatus and continues his study.
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William Wei felt that he was not ready to become a singer and he did not want to be bonded by a contract.
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William Wei returned to his student life and continued publishing his songs on StreetVoice.
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William Wei's works dominated the music charts on StreetVoice and many of his works remained in the top ten positions for more than two years.
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William Wei started writing songs for singers such as FanFan, Angela Zhang and Rene Liu.
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In 2009, William Wei decided to sign a record deal with Linfair Records.
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William Wei released his first EP on 13 March 2009, titled Slowly Wait.
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William Wei began promoting his EP by touring 14 live houses in Taiwan.
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Subsequently, William Wei released his first self-titled debut studio album on 4 June 2010.
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William Wei received nominations 4 different categories in the prestigious 22nd Golden Melody Awards.
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William Wei was nominated for Best Mandarin Male Singer and eventually won Best New Artist.
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William Wei held his first nationwide concert tour, The Fleeing of a Two-Legged Bookcase, on 18 September 2010 at the Taipei International Convention Center to a crowd of 3000.
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William Wei covered songs from his debut album and some of his all-time favourite songs by other artistes.
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William Wei was conscripted for mandatory military service in late 2010.
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William Wei served as the ambassador for the anti-drug campaign during his military service.
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William Wei completed his 13-month military service and was discharged on 25 December 2011.
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William Wei held his second concert tour Through My Lenses concert at Hong Kong and Taipei.
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William Wei released his third studio album, Journey into The Night, on 25 March 2014.
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William Wei distinctively changed his public image to appear more mature and masculine.
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William Wei embarked on By Your Side concert promotional tour, and visited Kaohsiung, Taichung, Taipei, Kuala Lumpur and Beijing.
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Journey into The Night received generally positive reviews, with critics praising William Wei for expanding and integrating more styles into his base of folk and alternative rock.
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William Wei was nominated for Best Mandarin Male Singer and 'Wolves' earned William Wei the Best Composer Award.
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In October 2014, William Wei filmed his second movie, The Grand Song.
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On 12 September 2015, William Wei held his third concert, Free That Girl, at the Taipei Arena.
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In promotion of the concert, William Wei released a promotional single titled "Girl" on 28 May 2015.
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William Wei enlisted help from various female artistes including Hong Shi from Taiwanese girl group Popu Lady, Waa William Wei and Lala Hsu to promote the concert.
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William Wei's rising popularity has won him endorsement deals and opportunities to sing for soundtracks of television drama series.
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William Wei held his Free That Girl concert in Hong Kong on 18 June 2016.
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William Wei released his fourth studio album, It All Started from an Intro, on 16 August 2016.
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At the 12th KKBOX Music Award, William Wei was one of the ten recipients honoured with the 'Artist of the Year' award.
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William Wei lent his voice to the role of Brainy Smurf in the 2017 animated Sony Pictures film Smurfs: The Lost Village.
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On 2 September 2018, William Wei announced he has left his record label, Linfair Records and established his own music label, Awesome Music.
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William Wei eventually won the lawsuit after embroiling in a 2 years legal battle with Linfair Records.
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William Wei released a new single 'At Thirty' on 13 September 2018, which became the promotional single for his 'At Thirty World Tour'.
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On 29 April 2020, William Wei released his 5th studio album titled Sounds of My Life.
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William Wei was nominated for Best Mandarin Male Singer and 'I Wrote A Song For You' earned William Wei a nomination for Best Composer.
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In 2021, William Wei released "Just Stay With Me", which served as the opening credit song for television series Tears on Fire.
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William Wei was eliminated in the Cross Knockouts round.
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William Wei was invited by Giddens Ko to compose a song for his movie Till We Meet Again which was adapted from his novel 'Yue Lao'.
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William Wei co-wrote the theme song "Red Scarf" with Jerry C and Ko, which was a commercial success, becoming the biggest hit song in 2021.
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William Wei was honoured Artist of the Year at the 17th KKBOX Music Awards Ceremony.
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William Wei announced his new concert 'See You Tomorrow' which will be held at Taipei Arena and all two shows were sold out within minutes after going on sale.
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William Wei has been a spokesperson for many popular brands including Lipton, Microsoft Office 365 and Cotton USA.
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In many of his endorsements, William Wei specially wrote songs for the brands such as 'Playing Games' for Microsoft Office 365 and 'Mirror of Sanctity' for ARPG mobile game 'Xuan-Yuan Sword: Mirror of Sanctity'.
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William Wei was the ambassador for World Vision Taiwan on numerous occasions.
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In 2013, William Wei was first appointed as the ambassador for World Vision Taiwan's "Love Loaf" campaign and travelled to Armenia to bring awareness about combating poverty and improving the lives of children and their families.
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Subsequently, Claire Kuo joined William Wei and visited Zambia in 2015 to raise awareness about issues such as water scarcity, malnutrition and diseases.