Eason Chan

Eason Chan Yick Shun (English: Eason Chan Yick Shun; July 27, 1974 -), a Hong Kong male singer and actor, is known as the "King of Music", "King of Golden Melody Singer" and "New Generation of Song God". In 1995, he officially entered the industry after winning the 14th Rookie Singing Competition. He has released more than 40 albums so far. In 2005, he was hailed by Time Magazine as a figure who led the trend of Hong Kong Cantonese music and influenced the style of the Hong Kong music scene. The album "U87" released in the same year was also selected by the magazine as "one of the top five most worth buying records in Asia in 2005". In 2010, he was selected into the "30 Years Classic Selection" of the China Golden Melody Awards, becoming the only representative of singers who debuted in the 1990s. To date, he has been nominated for the "Best Mandarin Male Singer Award" at the Taiwan Golden Melody Awards nine times and won three times. He is the record holder for this award as both a finalist and a winner. From 2016 to 2021, he topped the list of Spotify Hong Kong's most streamed singers for six consecutive years. In the 19 years of cooperation with Universal Music Group, the song streaming rate has exceeded 75 billion. In both 2023 and 2024, it ranked third among the most streamed Chinese singers in the world on Spotify; it ranked fifth and fourth respectively on the list of most popular local singers in Hong Kong; in December 2024, the number of monthly listeners exceeded 4 million. In 2025, after 30 years of debut, he still ranks as the third most popular YouTube singer in Hong Kong. Eason Chan has won numerous awards at multiple Asia-Pacific and Chinese music awards ceremonies. He has set many records in major music award ceremonies in Hong Kong, including winning the "Golden Music Male Singer Gold Award" for the first time at the 2001 All-American Music Chart Awards Ceremony. He has won this award ten times so far; he has also won the award ten times in a row. He has won the "Best Popular Male Singer Award" among the top ten Chinese golden songs for three years (2005-2017) and the "Global Chinese Supreme Golden Melody Award" ten times; and won the Music Award-Media Award five times jointly by four channels. In 2006, Eason Chan won the "Most Popular Male Singer" award from Hong Kong TVB for the first time, officially rising to the top of the music industry. Important music awards won in Chinese regions around the world include "Best Male Singer on the Global Chinese Songs Chart", "Best Male Singer on the Music Chart" in mainland China, "Best Mandarin Male Singer on the Golden Melody Awards" in Taiwan (nominated 9 times and won 3 times, both record holders) and "Golden Melody Awards Album of the Year", Taiwan's "KKBOX Digital Music Chart Top 10 Most Popular Singer", Malaysia's "MY"