M-Girls

Malaysian girl group

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M-Girls
OriginMalaysia
GenresMandopop
Hokkien pop
Years active2001-2017 (Group Hiatus)
LabelsWayang Tinggi (2000–2008)
Starmedia (2009–2015)
MG Entertainment (2016–2017)
Past membersQueenzy Cheng (deceased)
Angeline Khoo
Cass Chin
Crystal Ong
WebsiteWayback Archive
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese四個女生
Simplified Chinese四个女生
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinSì gè Nǚshēng
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingSei3 Go3 Neoi5-saang1
Southern Min
Hokkien POJSì-ê Lú-seng

M-Girls (Chinese: 四个女生) is a Malaysian girl group consisting of Queenzy Cheng, Angeline Khoo, Cass Chin and Crystal Ong. The group was formed in 2001.

Although M-Girls studio albums have been officially released in many different parts of the world, the group has been a longstanding victim to piracy and unlicensed, illegal distribution. As a result, the group's music company, Starmedia, decided to stop producing additional M-Girls albums in 2014. This announcement came out during the release of the Chinese New Year album True Happiness (真歡喜) in February 2014, weeks after the release of their EP, My Way.[1][2]

In 2015, M-Girls released one last CNY album, New Spring Holiday (新春佳期), through Starmedia. Afterwards, the group later on decided to part ways with the music company and established their own company, MG Entertainment. This new company's first album release was entitled The New Year is Coming (年來了), which came out in 2016.[3]

As of 2017, the members of M-Girls are taking a break from working together as a group and would not be producing any albums together. Instead, everyone is currently pursuing solo projects and endeavors for the time being.[4]

In November 2023, Cheng died at the age of 37 while filming a video production.[5]

Career

Pre-debut

Prior to the group's formation, all members originally were under Ya-Ko Enterprise, with Khoo debuting in 7-member girl group known as Seven Fairies (七仙女).

2000–2005: Debut and Chin's departure

M-Girls debuted in 2001 with the Chinese New Year Song, "Happily Welcoming the Harvest Year" (開心迎接豐收年). It set sales records and sold over 50,000 copies, receiving platinum status.[6] In 2004, M-Girls released a Chinese New Year album with Four Golden Princess titled "Flowers Blossom in the Spring" (春風催花開). Their title music video set a new Malaysia Book of Records at the time for the most number of lion dancers in a music video with 108 lion dancers. The former record holding music video had 88 which was shot around two years before. In 2005, with the release of "Happy Year" (開心年) which was filmed in Australia, Chin announced that she would leave the group to concentrate on her studies.[7]

2005–2012: "Nile River" and Cheng's departure

After Chin left, M-Girls released "Nile River" (尼罗河) in 2005,[8] becoming their last mandopop album release until "My Way".[9] After the release of their 2010 Chinese New Year album "Abundant Wealth" (金玉满堂), Cheng left the group following the end of her contract with the company.[7]

2014: "True Happiness", "New Spring Holiday", appearance on Nick & Stella & "The New Year Is Coming"

On 27 November 2014, their 2014 Chinese New Year album "True Joy" (眞歡喜) was shown on Starmedia Distribution, which was known as Wayang Tinggi Corporation back then. It’s distribution from PMP Entertainment. One day later, pre-release was announced for their new Chinese New Year album.[10] This would be M-Girls' final Chinese New Year album as their albums are heavily shared online, which affected their album sales, causing Starmedia to stop producing their Chinese New Year albums.[11]

On 23 February 2015, M-Girls had their final concert for Hai-O at the HGC Convention Centre in Malaysia.[12][13] After mass online speculation, it was revealed that they will indeed release Chinese New Year 2015 album "New Spring Holiday" (新春佳期).[3] This year for the first time M-Girls cover an English song called Happy CNY, and also a Hokkien song called 發大財 which translates to fortune. [14]

Filming for their 2016 Chinese New Year album began on 8 September 2015. Recording started the previous month. Angeline and Crystal also made an appearance in Nick and Stella Chung's CNY album, "New Year Reunion" (新年團圓).[15] The advertisement of the release of their latest Chinese New Year album titled "年來了" which translates to Year is Coming was released on 21 November 2015. This is the first time they have released an album since they left their former company Starmedia.

In 2017, it was announced that M-Girls would take a break to focus on solo activities.[4]

Members

Albums

Non-Chinese New Year albums

Album title Release date
Dance with Me 2001
Playful Tricks (耍花样) 2003
Silly Goldfish (笨金魚) 2004
Love Code (愛情密碼) 2004
Nile River (尼罗河) 2005
My Way 2013

Chinese New Year albums

Album title[16] Release date Notes
Happily Welcoming the Harvest Year (開心迎接丰收年) 2001
Leaping New Year (飛跃新年) 2002
New Year Yeah! (新年 Yeah!) 2003
Spring Breeze and Blooming Flowers (春風催花開) 2004 featuring Four Golden Princess
Happy Year (開心年) 2005
Have Fun Together (同歡共樂) 2006 featuring Four Golden Princess
Paradise (世外桃源) 2007 featuring Four Golden Princess
Good Day (好日子) 2007 featuring Eight Superstars
Fu Lu Shao Xing/Flower Fairy (福禄寿星拱照/花仙子) 2008
Peach Blossom (桃花開了) 2009
Full of Gold (金玉满堂) 2010
Reunion (團聚) 2013
Very Happy (真歡喜) 2014
New Spring Holiday (新春佳期) 2015
Through the Years (年來了) 2016
Red New Year (过年要红红) 2017

Other albums

Prior to the formation of M-Girls, the members started producing albums at the age of around 6–10 years old. Listed are the albums that they released before the group formation, and also other albums not as the group M-Girls. All Chinese New Year albums are produced months before the release date, but are released for the next year.

Queenzy Cheng

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Angeline Khoo

Cassandra Chin

Crystal Ong

References

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  4. ^ a b c "qhinetic". Qhinetic.com. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  5. ^ "Malaysian singer Queenzy Cheng, 37, and Taiwanese singer Ko Chen-syun, 20, die suddenly in separate incidents". The Straits Times. 29 November 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  6. ^ "Wayang Tinggi". Wayang2u.com/forum. Archived from the original on 31 January 2006. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  7. ^ a b "Sembang Online Bersama M-Girls - Laman Xtive Utusan Malaysia". Xtive.utusan.com.my. 26 October 2013.
  8. ^ "Star Media Distribution Sdn. Bhd". Starmedia.com.my. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
  9. ^ "Star Media Distribution Sdn. Bhd". Starmedia.com.my. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
  10. ^ "2 MGIRLS 2014 Star Media". Starmedia.com.my. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 13 December 2013.
  11. ^ "M-Girls又解散? | 中國報". 25 December 2013. Archived from the original on 25 December 2013.
  12. ^ "发迷你专辑玩"出嫁"．M-Girls被喊话要回娘家 – 娱乐 | 星洲网 Sin Chew Daily". Ent.sinchew.com.my (in Chinese). 22 February 2014. Retrieved 12 November 2016.
  13. ^ "辣手网". Archived from the original on 13 April 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
  14. ^ "《新春佳期》 賀歲专輯签唱会 M-Girls周五独立廣場会歌迷". Intimes.com.my. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
  15. ^ "苏盈之得传媒推荐大奖当場涙". Laksou.com. Retrieved 25 May 2015.
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