Taiwan ROCK music play a pioneering role with Japanese ROCK in Asia, but didn't see any Taiwanese ROCK band or artist on your list ?
Taiwan POP is the core and most influential part in Mandirin POP, more advanced than Chinese & HongKong POP. But I can not find Taiwan POP in your category of Asia POP ?
Angus
"Taiwanese pop" was incorrectly merged into "Mandopop". According to Wikipedia, there "are currently three main subgenres within C-pop: Cantopop, Mandopop and Hokkien pop." Now though, Allmusic's C-pop excludes Hokkien pop (also known as T-pop, for Taiwanese pop).
These subgenres differ by language, and listeners would need to be versed in a language to understand a C-pop (Chinese isn't a spoken language) subgenre's lyrics when sung. Taiwanese pop is sung in Taiwanese Hokkien, which is "one of the national languages of Taiwan" (alongside Mandarin, which is Mandopop's language). So Allmusic should not have merged "Taiwanese pop" into "Mandopop", because they are sung in different languages.
iTunes recognizes Tai-pop (another abbreviation for Taiwanese pop) and Taiwanese folk.
Here are some influential artists in Mando POP from Taiwan :
1. Jay Chou
2. MayDay
3. Cheer Chen
5. Soda Green
10. MC HotDog
11. Sticky Rice
12. Lim Giong
13. Su Rei
14. Sarah Chen
15. Summer Lei
16. Fire Ex.
17. AccuseFive
18. David Tao
19. Tracy Su
20. Di Zi
21. Yu Whan Lee
22. Yellow Huang
23. Khalil Fong
24. dMDM
26. Baboo
27. Teddy Jai
28. F.I.R.
30. GOOD
31. Tizzy Bac
32. Haor Hsu
33. Tsai Chin
34. Mavis Fan
35. Chief Chao
36. Chih Siou
37. A-Mei
38. Jonathan Lee
39. Lo Ta-yu
40. Bobby Chen
41. Wakin Chou
42. Wooden Guitar
43. Michelle Pan
44. Red Ant
45. Tsai Lan-Chin
46. Ann
47. Shi Shi
48. CHTHONIC
49. Kay Huang
50. NaiWen Yang
51. ChairMan
52. Quarter Back
53. Crowd Lu
54. Jerry Huang
55. Morning Call
56. Mixer
57. Hush
58. Igu Band
60. ECHO
61. Frande
62. Hello Nico Sunset Rollercoaster
63. EggplantEgg
64. Amazing Show
65. Angry Youth
66. KST
67. DECA Joints
68. Wayne's So Sad
70. Mango Jump
71. Your Woman Sleep with Others
72. Trash
73. Sweet John
74. Hello Nico
76. Vast & Hazy
77. Astro Bunny
78. 9M88
79. Julia Wu
80. KarenCiCi
81. Haezee
82. Lucy
83. E.So
84. Sophie
85. GoaterGoat
86. SHOU
Variety of style with the definitely different from K-POP and China-POP you could hear.
Best Regards,
Angus
Allmusic does have Mandopop artists from Taiwan. For example, A-Mei is born on "August 9, 1972 in Taitung, Taiwan" and her styles are C-pop and Mandopop.
A-Mei is just one of Taiwan POP in contemporary misic style , and most of other music style or artists are missed.
