Jade Solid Gold
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Jade Solid Gold is a music show on the TVB Jade
TVB Jade
TVB Jade is a flagship TV channel in Hong Kong, established by Television Broadcasts Limited, and is one of the free-to-air Cantonese language television channels in Hong Kong, the other being its arch-rival ATV Home...

 television channel. It has been running since October 10, 1981.

TVB HD Jade

    • Thursday at 6:00am to 6:30am
    • Thursday at 6:00pm to 6:30pm
    • Friday at 2:45am to 3:10am

History

Starting on October 10, 1981 every week, Jade Solid Gold features today's music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

s, live performances or concerts, and a countdown of the top 20 best albums sold amongst the competition. The show has a live audience. Most of the performances are cantopop
Cantopop
Cantopop is a colloquialism for "Cantonese popular music". It is sometimes referred to as HK-pop, short for "Hong Kong popular music". It is categorized as a subgenre of Chinese popular music within C-pop...

, rock
Rock and roll
Rock and roll is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s, primarily from a combination of African American blues, country, jazz, and gospel music...

, soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

, and light music. Every January the Jade Solid Gold Top 10 Awards
Jade Solid Gold Top 10 Awards
The Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation is one of the main C-pop music award in Hong Kong based on the Jade Solid Gold TVB television show. The award began with the 1984 ceremonial season after the 1983 music season. Historically the ceremony is held in January following the end of...

 is one of the biggest music awards in Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...

. Along with the RTHK Top 10 Awards, they are the most recognized and publicized awards given. In 2004 moved to 7:35pm. On November 23, 2005, moved to 11:00pm. On February 2, 2009, News Roundup Early to every Saturday at 7:30pm. On July 3, 2009, Jade Solid Gold again moved to recorded.

Participants

The majority of the singers to appear on the show are cantopop or Hong Kong-based artists. Some mainland Chinese
Mainland China
Mainland China, the Chinese mainland or simply the mainland, is a geopolitical term that refers to the area under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China . According to the Taipei-based Mainland Affairs Council, the term excludes the PRC Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and...

 and Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

ese artists have also performed on the show.

Comparisons

A number of music themed shows have a similar format with Jade Solid Gold. This includes 360º Boundless Music (360º 音樂無邊) and Global Rhythm
Global Rhythm
Global Rhythm is a New York-based monthly music and lifestyle magazine featuring coverage of world music, film, cuisine and travel. It is published monthly and circulated across North America, Europe and hundreds of other locations worldwide....

(無間音樂).

Former presenters

  • at17
    At17
    at17 , consist of Eman Lam and Ellen Joyce Loo, is a Hong Kong based Cantopop and folktronica girl band managed under production company People Mountain People Sea.-Biography:...

  • Cindy Au
    Cindy Au
    Cindy Au Sin-yi is a Hong Kong TVB actress. She plays major supporting roles in drama serials.She began her entertainment career as a singer, and was famous for the theme song to the Cantonese version of the cartoon Chibi Maruko-chan.On July 22, 2006, Cindy Au married her boyfriend Roger Kwok at...

  • Nadia Chan
    Nadia Chan
    Nnadia Chan Chung Ling is a Hong Kong actress and singer. She started show business in 1985 at the age of 14 winning a Sally Yeh impersonation contest hosted by TVB, within the show Enjoy Yourself Tonight . Thereafter she hosted many children's show and sang many children's songs which gained her...

  • Lawrence Cheng
    Lawrence Cheng
    Lawrence Cheng Tan Shui is a Hong Kong film actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. He was a Hong Kong DJ and radio channel executive....

  • Nicola Cheung
  • Bondy Chiu
    Bondy Chiu
    Bondy Hok Yee Chiu is an actress and singer with Television Broadcasts Limited in Hong Kong. She is best known for her role as Lam Yuk Lo the long-running TVB series Virtues of Harmony...

  • Amigo Choi
  • Kent Choi
  • Paul Chung
    Paul Chung
    Paul Chung was a Hong Kong actor. He committed suicide on Friday, 1 September 1989.- Biography :Paul Chung was originally a host in Commercial Radio. In 1981, he had dispute with Commercial radio, and then turned to ATV to cast several TV drama...

  • Vivian Chow
    Vivian Chow
    Vivian Chow is a Hong Kong based Cantopop singer and actress. She is well known for her ladylike stage image as well as her charity works for animal rights and breast cancer awareness....

  • Cerina Filomena da Graça
  • G.E.M.
  • Denise Ho
    Denise Ho
    Denise Ho Wan-See, also known as HOCC, is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer.-1996-2001:Denise Ho was born in Hong Kong and received her education in Canada and Diocesan Girls' Junior School, Hong Kong. She emigrated with her family to Montreal, Quebec at the age of 11. She studied and graduated High...

  • Elaine Ho
  • Leo Ku
    Leo Ku
    Leo Ku Kui Kei is a famous China and Hong Kong artist, Cantonese and Mandarin pop singer, actor, host, cartoonist, MV Director and Producer, and designer; he is one of the highest visibility and Greater China Pop Male Artist, a major figure in popular music culture. Leo had earned the "Ten...

  • Andrew Lam
    Andrew Lam
    Andrew Lam is a Vietnamese American writer. He was born in South Vietnam, where he led a privileged life as the son of General Lâm Quang Thi of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. He attended Lycée Yersin in Dalat....

  • Jerry Lamb
    Jerry Lamb
    Jerry Lamb Hiu Fong is a Hong Kong actor. He is also known as Lamb Hiu Fung.He was born in Hong Kong. He is the younger brother of popular DJ, pop singer, and actor, Jan and radio personality-turned-singer Sandy. Jerry is best known to hardcore movie fans as the young lackey Pou-pan in the Young...

  • Hacken Lee
    Hacken Lee
    Hacken Lee Hak Kan is an award winning Hong Kong based Cantopop singer and lyricist, actor, Master of Ceremonies and Association football sportscaster.-Early years: 1985-1995:...

  • Joey Leung
    Joey Leung
    -Career:He has starred in movies such as Girl Boxer , Master of Martial Arts and Kung Fu King . He hosted the show Minutes to Fame with Hacken Lee....

  • Sammy Leung
    Sammy Leung
    Sammy Leung Chi Kin is a popular DJ/MC/actor in Hong Kong's Commercial Radio.-Life and career:Sammy Leung tried out to become a DJ for Commercial Radio when he was studying at the New Asia College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. At the time, he was working part-time. However Sammy became a...

  • Joe Nieh
  • Patrick Tang
    Patrick Tang
    Patrick Tang is a Hong Kong singer, actor, and TV show host who has been involved in numerous drama and movie productions. He was born 6 May 1974 in Hong Kong. He has three sisters. He started his career with TVB, where he has been from 2000 to the present day.-Television:-Film:-External links:* *...

  • Wyman Wong
  • Woo Fung
  • Paisley Wu
  • Anna Yau
  • Anita Yuen
    Anita Yuen
    Anita Yuen Wing-yi is a Hong Kong film and television actress. She was the winner of the 1990 Miss Hong Kong Pageant.-Pageant career:At the age of 18, Yuen entered the Miss Hong Kong 1990 pageant. She was a heavy favorite to win the crown from the semifinal to final. During the semifinals on August...

  • Louis Yuen
    Louis Yuen
    Louis Yuen is a Hong Kong TVB actor. He co-hosted the Super Trio series, Supreme Trio Supreme, in season 8 with Eric Tsang, Chin Kar-lok, and Wong Cho-lam.Finalist in the 1986 5th TVB New Talent Singing Awards.-Filmography:Actor...


  • See also

    • Jade Solid Gold Top 10 Awards
      Jade Solid Gold Top 10 Awards
      The Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation is one of the main C-pop music award in Hong Kong based on the Jade Solid Gold TVB television show. The award began with the 1984 ceremonial season after the 1983 music season. Historically the ceremony is held in January following the end of...

    • List of programmes broadcast by Television Broadcasts Limited

    External links

    • TVB.com Jade Solid Gold - Official Website
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