Popular Music – 聲軌 Soundtraces

1980

滾石唱片，全名為「滾石國際音樂有限公司」（最早的名稱為滾石有聲出版社）由段鍾沂、段鍾潭兄弟於1980年所創建，是台灣首家本土唱片公司。 Rock Records (Rock International Music Co., Ltd. — originally Rock Audio Publications) was founded in 1980 by brothers Duan Zhong-yi and Duan Zhong-tan. It was Taiwan's first homegrown record label.

1982

丘丘合唱團走紅全台 Chiu Chiu Band Becomes a Nationwide Sensation

丘丘合唱團，台灣流行樂團，成立於1981年。流暢的旋律、強勁的節奏、沙啞的唱腔給當時流行校園民歌的台灣樂壇帶來全然不同的音樂風格。 The Chiu Chiu Band, a Taiwanese pop group formed in 1981, brought a radically different sound to a scene dominated by campus folk songs. Their fluid melodies, powerful rhythms, and raspy vocals heralded a new direction in Taiwanese popular music.

1984

MTV包廂空間在台出現 MTV Private Screening Rooms Emerge in Taiwan

1984年，第一家打著「MTV」三個字為旗幟的視聽中心正式設立，主要是放映西洋流行音樂的錄影帶，在空間的格局上，除了公開播映的大廳外，又首創了包廂隔間的設計。 In 1984, the first video screening center operating under the 'MTV' banner opened in Taiwan, primarily showing Western pop music videos. Beyond a communal viewing hall, it pioneered the concept of private booth partitions — an innovation that defined the format.

1985

西洋五大唱片公司紛紛由台灣唱片公司代理 Five Major Western Labels Enter Taiwan Through Local Distributors

自1980年代起，五大跨國音樂集團：寶麗金（Polygram）、科藝百代（EMI）、博德曼（BMG）、華納（Warner）、新力（Sony）的觸角陸續進入台灣，初期主要以授權代理的方式進入台灣。 From the 1980s onward, the five major multinational music conglomerates — PolyGram, EMI, BMG, Warner, and Sony — began entering Taiwan, initially through licensing and distribution arrangements with local record companies.

1987

IFPI 舉辦「第一種聲音—中華民國反盜錄演唱會」 IFPI Hosts Anti-Piracy Concert ‘The First Kind of Sound’

自1986 年在校園民歌之後崛起的11 家唱片公司，著手成立 IFPI 臺灣分會後，IFPI成為積極向政府要求及施壓的唱片業政策遊說團體，主要的方向即是「打擊盜版」以及加強宣導著作權保護觀念。 The eleven record companies that rose following the campus folk song era established the IFPI Taiwan chapter and made it an active lobbying body pressuring the government on music industry policy — primarily focused on combating piracy and raising public awareness of copyright protection.

1988

KTV開始流行 KTV Rises to Popularity

1980年代末期開始在台灣流行的KTV源自日本的「卡拉OK」以及當時在台灣出現的新興娛樂「MTV(音樂錄影帶)包廂」融合而成。 KTV, which began sweeping Taiwan in the late 1980s, was a fusion of Japan's karaoke and the private-booth MTV video screening rooms that had recently appeared in Taiwan.

中廣青春網開台 BCC Youth Network Launches

1988年開播的「中廣青春網」是台灣第一個鎖定年輕聽眾，全天候播放流行音樂的電台，裡投集結了一批台灣廣播史上最最放肆乖張、動搖國本的年輕DJ。 The Broadcasting Corporation of China's Youth Network, which launched in 1988, was Taiwan's first radio station aimed exclusively at young listeners and dedicated to playing pop music around the clock. It assembled a roster of the most irreverent and influential young DJs in Taiwanese broadcasting history.

2005

台客搖滾嘉年華 Taikè Rock Carnival

台語由滾歌手伍佰指出，台灣一直沒有超越語言、族群的文化，自2006首次舉辦的「台客搖滾嘉年華」演唱會就是由伍佰等眾多音樂人推動台客流行文化活動之一。 Taiwan rock musician Wu Bai has observed that Taiwan has never had a culture that transcends language and ethnicity. The Taikè Rock Carnival, first held in 2006, was one of the events promoted by Wu Bai and many other musicians to popularize taikè (台客) cultural identity.

2014

Gangnam Style於Youtube 點閱率達21億，打破紀錄 Gangnam Style Reaches 2.1 Billion YouTube Views, Breaking Records

Gangnam Style這首歌除了榮獲2012年Youtube最佳歌曲、熱門歌曲外，更是史上第一支突破10 億點閱率的音樂影片。並在2年後因為點擊率突破21億大關，讓Youtube特地到PSY的官方頻道發表聲明。 Gangnam Style won YouTube's Best Song and most popular song of 2012, and was the first music video in history to surpass one billion views. Two years later, when it crossed 2.1 billion views, YouTube issued a special statement on PSY's official channel.

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