When the numbers were announced at a press conference in Beijing recently, the 32-year-old Li smiled shyly in front of her roaring fans.
"The idea for the new album started two years ago. At that time, I just followed the traditional pattern of selecting new songs and put them into an album," Li says.
What inspired her to break the album into four segments was that "usually we pick up one or two songs as the leading tracks, which then tend to overshadow the other songs," Li says. "But I like all 12 new songs very much and couldn't decide which one should be the leading single. So why not introduce them to the fans three at a time?"
According to Andy Wai Lam Ng, the vice-president of Tencent Music Entertainment Group,Growing Wild achieved China's highest digital music sales since the company released the first Chinese digital album, Taiwan pop icon Jay Chou's album, Aiyo, Not Bad, in December 2014. So far, QQ Music has
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