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(Fahrenheit - From left to right: Wu Chun, Aaron Yan, Calvin Chen, Jiro Wang)
Fahrenheit (traditional Chinese: 飛輪海; pinyin: Fēi Lún Hǎi) is a Taiwanese boy band that has achieved major success in the last two years in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Vietnam as well as the rest of Southeast Asia. This group consists of four members: Calvin Chen, Jiro Wang, Wu Chun, and Aaron Yan. They are managed by Jerry Fen's Comic Productions Co., Ltd. and records albums with HIM International Music. They are also managed by WOW Music in Hong Kong. Fahrenheit are often associated with their seniors, S.H.E, and are commonly referred to as the most successful Taiwanese boy band after F4.They released their self-titled debut album, Fahrenheit, on September 15, 2006 while their much anticipated second album Two-sided Fahrenheit was released on January 4, 2008.
Derived from the definition of Fahrenheit, each of the four members represents a season or temperature that corresponds with their different personalities. Calvin Chen represents spring, warm; Jiro Wang represents summer, hot; Wu Zun represents autumn, cool, and lastly, Aaron Yan represents winter, cold. Each of the four members also has his respective temperature represented on the Fahrenheit scale: Calvin Chen is at 77 degrees, Jiro Wang is at 95 degrees, Wu Zun is at 59 degrees, and Aaron Yan is at 41 degrees. Each of their temperatures are separated by 18 degrees.
Musical Style
All four members of this group have contradicting vocal ranges to complement each other when harmonizing. Wu Chun's voice ranges from within the bass to the baritone. Therefore, Wu usually harmonizes as the supporting voice but sings more in songs when they are intended for a lower key. Wu's voice can be easily distinguished from his accent. Jiro Wang's vocal ranges is less wide when compared to Wu's, but Wang has a higher voice, closer to a tenor approach with vocal belting techniques. His voice is the easiest to distinguish out of the four because of its nasal sound. Calvin Chen and Aaron Yan are the baritone to tenor vocalists of the group, and therefore are the predominant voices in most of their songs. Although their voices are difficult to distinguish at times, Yan's voice has a richer and higher voice and usually does the singing the melody with a vibrato while Chen usually does the supporting vocals. Ultimately, Yan has been acknowledged as the member with the most impressive vocal ability. In most songs, Wu Chun sings the harmony, while Calvin takes the higher harmony, and Aaron sings the melody and often any parts of the songs which require a rich and high voice, and Jiro either does melody as well, or does the other parts of the songs, i.e rapping.
Rise to stardom
Before Fahrenheit released their first album in September 15 of 2006, they gained minor attention as singers from contributing in several Taiwanese drama soundtracks. Their popularity immediately rose after the soundtracks were released, but was only limited to Taiwan and Mainland China. After their first album was released, their fan base had extended to Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Philippines and the rest of Southeast Asia . Overseas fans such as from North America and Europe are also getting more familiar with them.
As soon as announcements for their debut album pre-order was released on August 30, 2006, the album broke past 10,000 copies. [3] After its release in September 15, 2006, the album entered the G-music charts and was ranked #2. It was less than 1% below Jay Chou's Still Fantasy album, which came out two weeks prior to the release. [4] Fahrenheit's album sold passed an impressive 80,000 copies in Taiwan within the first month. [5] Ultimately on the G-music Mandarin Charts their album was ranked 11th for the top 20 of 2006 and stayed in the charts for 17 weeks. [6] Their primary song, or zhuda (Chinese: 主打; pinyin: zhǔ dǎ) song, "I Have My Youth" (我有我的Young) was on Hong Kong's Global Rhythm List as the Top 16th song for weeks. Their duet with Hebe of girl group S.H.E also won them several popular awards. Fahrenheit was also the first new foreign boy band to have won third place for Best Group at Hong Kong's TVB8 Awards. Although unable to defeat their seniors S.H.E and Twins, who had won first place and second place respectively, they have beaten Hong Kong's local boy bands such as Sun Boy'z and Soler. In less than a year, Fahrenheit has already won eight awards. Despite the outburst of winning multiple awards, there had been debates where fans disagreed with the awards that they have won. The most debated topic was when Fahrenheit won HITO Music Awards 2007's Best Male Group award, arguing that Fahrenheit is too inexperienced to have won the award.
ALBUMS:
Released: September 15, 2006
-Sold Over 500,000 Across Asia
-Ranked #2 in G-Music Album Charts)
Singles:
Song / Chart / Peak Position / Chart / Run
I Have My Youth /Hito Chinese Charts /#3 / 1 week
Only Have Feelings For You /Hito Chinese Charts/ #3 / 1 week
Summer Snow /Hito Chinese Charts/ #6 / 1 week
Love Enough /Hito Chinese Charts / #3 / 2 weeks
Wandering Alone /Hito Chinese Charts / #5/ 1 week
Finding Happiness For You / Hito Chinese Charts / #4 / 3 weeks
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Their Second Much Anticipated Album:
Two-sided Fahrenheit (2008)
(traditional Chinese: 雙面飛輪海; pinyin: Shuāng Miàn Fēi Lún Hǎi) is the second album of the popular Taiwanese boy band Fahrenheit, released on January 4, 2008. The album preorder sales reached 50,000 in Taiwan. The album sold 150,000 copies from preorders and as of date, sold over 350,000 copies Asia wide. The album topped the G-Music Combo Chart and the Mandarin Chart in its first week.
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Tie-ups and theme songs
"Superb (出神入化)" is the opening theme song for the Taiwanese drama The X-Family.
"Cannot Love (不會愛)" is the ending song for the Taiwanese drama The X-Family.
"New Home (新窩)" featuring S.H.E was the opening theme song for the Taiwanese drama Romantic Princess starring Fahrenheit members Calvin Chen and Wu Chun.
"I Really Like You (超喜歡你)" was the insert song for the Taiwanese drama Hanazakarino Kimitachihe starring Fahrenheit members Wu Zun, Jiro Wang, and their senior Ella Chen from S.H.E.
"Little VIP" (小小大人物) was a song promoting Disneyland. It is now being played in Disneylands all over Asia.
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-This Album topped G-music Weekly Combo Chart (Taiwan)for 9 Weeks and in
G-music Weekly Mandarin Chart (Taiwan)for 12 Weeks.
Singles:
New Home [Xin Wo] (新窩)and 為你存在 Wei Ni Cun Zai (Existing For You) both charted to number 1 at Hito Chinese Charts; 1 week for Xin Wo & 2 Weeks for Wei Ni Cun Zai.
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[Link to Reference from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_%28Taiwanese_band%29 and http://fahrenheitavenue.chocoforum.net/Fahrenheit-biography-h1.htm
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