Bad Boy (A-Mei album)

Bad Boy is the second studio album by Taiwanese singer A-Mei. It was released on June 7, 1997, by Forward Music. Predominantly a R&B, pop and soul record, Bad Boy centers on the theme of love and relationships. The album was produced by Chen Chih-yuan along with her mentor Chang Yu-Sheng, and was ultimately the last album of hers that he was actively involved with due to his untimely death caused by a car crash five months later. On August 17, 2018, 21 years after its initial release date, a vinyl reissue of Bad Boy was released by Forward Music.

Commercially, the album found immense success at home and abroad, topping Taiwan's IFPI sales chart for 9 weeks and went on to sell a total of 1.38 million copies in Taiwan alone. Since its release, Bad Boy has remained the highest selling album of all time in Taiwan. It also managed to shift more than 6 million copies throughout Asia, setting a major record for the highest sales for a Taiwanese singer. The album's success consequently solidified A-Mei as a dominant force on the East Asian music charts.

In order to promote Bad Boy, five songs off it were released as singles; the title track, "Can't Cry," "Whenever I Think About You," "Dancing Alone" and "Listen to the Sea." All five singles attained commercial success throughout Asia and are now regarded as modern day classics in the Mandopop genre. To this very day they are still sung at karaoke boxes and are often performed by contestants on major televised singing competitions. A-Mei performed songs from the album on her "A-Mei In Concert Live In Concert 1998" concert tour the following year.