Mandopop: Xiao Zhiming & Chen Wei - Most Beautiful (倍兒美)

CCTV music competition "Avenue of the Stars" evidently has this special where artist combine to special groups (not that unusual in this kind of competition, to be true) and this (天喜果組合) is the result of one of them. The title "倍兒美 / Bei er mei" is Beijing dialect and means roughly "Most Beautiful". The song has become quite popular and I can understand why, it is a very charming KTV style ballad.

• Xiao Zhiming & Chen Wei - Most Beautiful (倍兒美)

Mandopop: Nine Month Miracle (玖月奇跡)

The traditional chinese pop duo Nine Month Miracle hasn't shown anything beyond rather standard KTV (Chinese karaoke) songs up until the recently released Bloom, which is something quite else. It actually not so much a better kind of song, as a melodramatic schlager that would find its place perfectly in the European Song Contest with its mix of opera and dramatic scenery and acting. Their name comes from how they almost directly when they met (in the month of September) they knew they wanted to form a group.

• Nine Month Miracle - Bloom (盛開)
• Nine Month Miracle - Tread Tread Tread (踩踩踩)
• Nine Month Miracle - Chinese Fan Children (中國範兒)
• Nine Month Miracle - My Motherland (我的祖国)
• Nine Month Miracle - China and United States (中国美)