Studio albums 13 Music videos 164 Remix albums 4 | Live albums 6 Greatest hits albums 7 Cover albums 1 | |
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Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai (Chinese: 蔡依林) has released thirteen studio albums, seven greatest hits albums, six live albums, four remix albums, and one cover album. In 1999, Tsai signed a recording deal with Universal Music Taiwan. The first release under the label was her debut album, 1019 (1999). It sold more than 400,000 copies in Taiwan alone. She followed the album with the sophomore release, Don't Stop (2000). The album has sold more than 450,000 copies in Taiwan alone, becoming her best-selling album in Taiwan of her career to this date. Show Your Love was a released as her third studio album in 2000 and sold over 260,000 copies in Taiwan alone. Tsai's fourth studio album, Lucky Number (2001), sold more than 150,000 copies in Taiwan alone, Her remaining contract with Universal ended with two albums: her first greatest hits album, Together, and her first remix compilation, Dance Collection (2002).
In 2002, Tsai signed a recording deal with Sony Music Taiwan. Her next release under Sony, Magic (2003), was heralded as her comeback album, which sold more than 1.5 million copies in Asia, with more than 360,000 copies sold in Taiwan alone, and the album made her the best-selling female singer of the year in Taiwan. Her sixth studio album, Castle, was released in 2004. The album has sold over 2 million copies in Asia, with 300,000 copies sold in Taiwan alone, and made her the best-selling female singer of the year in Taiwan. She also released her second remix compilation, J9, in the same year. Tsai's seventh studio album, J-game (2005), sold more than 2 million copies in Asia, with 260,000 copies sold in Taiwan alone, and made her the best-selling female singer of the year in Taiwan. Her remaining contract with Sony ended with two albums: her third greatest hits album, J-top (2006).
In 2006, Tsai signed a recording deal with Capitol Music Taiwan. The first release from this deal was her eighth studio album, Dancing Diva (2006), which sold more than 2.5 million copies in Asia, with 260,000 copies sold in Taiwan alone, becoming the best-selling album of the year in Taiwan. She also released her third remix compilation, Dancing Forever, in the same year. In 2007, Tsai released her ninth studio album, Agent J, which sold more than 2.5 million copies in Asia, with 200,000 copies sold in Taiwan alone, becoming the best-selling album of the year in Taiwan. Her remaining contract with Capitol ended with her first cover album, Love Exercise (2008), which sold over 30,000 copies in Taiwan alone, becoming the best-selling Western-language album of the year in Taiwan.
In 2008, Tsai signed a recording deal with Warner Music Taiwan. Her first release under Warner was her tenth studio album, Butterfly (2009), which sold more than 1 million copies in Asia, with 190,000 copies sold in Taiwan alone, becoming the best-selling album of the year in Taiwan. In the same year, she founded Eternal Music, which became her main record company, with Warner as distributors of her music. Tsai's eleventh studio album, Myself (2010), sold more than 650,000 million copies in Taiwan alone, and made her the best-selling female singer of the year in Taiwan, while becoming her lowest-selling studio album to this date. The first release under Eternal was the studio album, Muse (2012), which sold more than 100,000 copies in Taiwan alone, and made her the best-selling female singer of the year in Taiwan. In 2014, she released her thirteenth studio album, Play, which sold over 85,000 copies in Taiwan, and made her the best-selling female singer of the year in Taiwan.
Tsai has sold more than 25 million copies in Asia and is recognized as one of the Asia's top-selling female recording artists of the 21st century. Since Magic (2003), each of her studio albums at least made her the best-selling female singer of the year in Taiwan, and each of the three albums—Dancing Diva (2006), Agent J (2007), and Butterfly (2009)—even became the best-selling album of the year in Taiwan.