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December 2001 News
Sammi is this year's movie box office queen. Sammi's movie "Love on a Diet" has the second highest box office and plus the movies "Wu Yen" , "Fighting for Love", the total box office had up to 8500 thousands.
The RTHK's "Best album sales" award, now it predicted the highest chance to get the award are Sammi, Kelly Chen, and Joey Yung. Sammi released two Cantonese album this year, "Love is..." and "Shocking Pink" which both had sales over 100,000 copies, and plus the mandarin album. The whole year of Sammi's album sales are up to 300,000 copies. Sammi is in the league right now for the "Best album sales" award.
Sammi's new Cantonese album released on December 14th which is called "Tender". Christmas and New Year will coming up soon, Sammi specially invited the designer, Thomas Chan, to created 3 different party looks which are full with "Harry Potter" feel, every images' background has like a fairy tale kind of scenes. Sammi spend 15 hours for taking pictures for the new album cover, she needs to act different posts. There is one look that Sammi wears a black see-through dress, her right hand was carrying a high-hill shoes that made with 500 crystals. It is very attractive and Sammi like it a lot. The crystal shoes are the designer specially order from Paris, so it is the only one. Yesterday it was the press conference of the 4 different award stations include Jade Solid Gold, RTHK, CR 2, and Metro 997. They created the "2001 4 station's united music award". The representatives from 4 stations said right now, Sammi, Eason Chen and Jay Chow are leading first for that award. The "2001 4 station's united music award" includes the outstanding performance award, the top hit song award, and the best album sales award. Sammi released two albums this year which had some adventure of getting the best album sales award since the two album sales are pretty good. Sammi have two songs, "forever beauty" and "Love is...." nominated for the top hit song award. Sammi attended TVB's "Happy through Tung Wah" charity show yesterday. Sammi sang a song and helped Tung Wah raised a total of $100,000. The reporters were asking Sammi about the actor of the movie "Sex and the City" will be Nicholas Tse, Sammi said nothing have been confirm yet. She will leave those works to her manager. When asked about the rumors that if Nicholas be the actor, he can use Sammi since Sammi's movies all have a very good box office. Sammi think that is a nonsense and said everyone has their own market values. Also, reporters ask Sammi about her hair style were copying Faye Wong. Sammi's face changed and said bye, she don't know how to answer it, then quickly walked away. Some websites listed this year's top album sales singers. According to the reporters who get the result from various music company. Sammi had the highest album sales of the year, Sammi's "Shocking Pink" album had sales up to 100,000. Following Sammi are Leon Lai's "Leon Club Sandwich", Kelly Chen's "BMP Dance Collection", and Joey Yung's "Like it", they all have sales up to 70,000 to 80,000. Yesterday, GiGi Leung did a rap part for Sammi's new version of the song "Exchange Gentle". GiGi said she was very surprise when she received a phone call from the producer. She didn't even think about it and agreed to sing the rap. GiGi never sing a rap before, so she feels a bit of stress. She spend 3 hours for recording of the rap. She didn't received any money for it, but she said she is very happy to work with Sammi. GiGi Leung wrote a song for Sammi called "To Parachute" (Tiao San). Sammi said she love GiGi's song "Flower fire" which they sang together before in Sammi's Music is Live concert. Therefore, Sammi asked GiGi to wrote her a song. Sammi loved this song "To Parachute", it will be the second theme song for the upcoming Cantonese album. The first theme song for the album is "Exchange Gentle". Sammi's new song is playing on all HK radio stations now. The year 2001 will be end soon, only one month left. Some of the Hong Kong magazines calculated the top five artists who make the most money this year. 1st is Sammi, 2nd is Kelly Chen ($2,600 thousands), 3rd is Joey Yung ($1,900 thousands), 4th is GiGi Leung (almost $1,900 thousands), 5th is Miriam Yeung ($1,320 thousands). According to the report, Sammi's movie and album sales are very good. Sammi's movie price also raised. This year, Sammi filmed 4 movies and released 3 albums. Also, due to Sammi increased of popularity, Sammi's 12 show concert are all full of people. Plus Sammi shoot 3 commercials. Therefore, the whole year salary for Sammi is around $3,500 thousands. Sammi is year 2001 top making money female artist.
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