Overview
A Perfect Day is the eighth studio album by Singaporean singer Stefanie Sun, released on 7 October 2005 by Warner Music Taiwan. Produced by Jia Minshu, Peter Lee, and Paul Lee, it incorporates genres such as pop, rock, electronic and lounge music.
Though this album did not reach the heights of her previous albums, it still fared well commercially by selling over 1 million copies in Asia. In Taiwan, it sold more than 100,000 copies, becoming the 10th best-selling album of the year. The album earned an IFPI Hong Kong Top Sales Music Award for Top 10 Best Selling Mandarin Albums of the Year in 2005. A Perfect Day ended up being Sun's last original studio album to be released under Warner, since she left the company the following year in 2006.
Background and development
On October 29, 2004, Sun released her seventh studio album, Stefanie, which sold more than 2.2 million copies in Asia. In Taiwan, it sold more than 180,000 copies, becoming the year's sixth highest-selling album overall.The album also earned two Golden Melody Award nominations for Best Mandarin Album and Best Female Mandarin Singer in 2005, and she finally won Best Mandarin Female Singer.
Stefanie Sun can be regarded as the music director of A Perfect Day. The entire plan for the production of this record was personally discussed and decided by Sun, and the songs were all selected only if she was fond of them. The entire album represents Stefanie Sun's own views and attitudes. In an interview, Sun stated that the concept of the album is defined as: "You like it, you don't like it, it's all very intuitive. The most direct things are the most touching. The music doesn't need to be fancy. If it's already like that, you just need to add the icing on the cake without blurring the focus."
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