Only Love Strangers is a 1999 album by Beijing

Beijing

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-based C-pop

C-pop

C-pop is an abbreviation for Chinese popular music , a loosely defined musical genre by artists originating from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Others come from countries where the Chinese language is used by a large number of the population, such as Singapore and Malaysia...

 singer Faye Wong

Faye Wong

Faye Wong is a highly successful and influential Chinese singer-songwriter and actress who is usually referred to as a diva . Early in her career she briefly used the stage name Shirley Wong . Born in Beijing, she moved to Hong Kong in 1987 and rose to stardom in the early 1990s by singing...

. It contains 10 tracks in Mandarin with bonus Cantonese

Cantonese

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 versions of two of the songs.

The title is from a line of the refrain in track 4 (... 我只爱陌生人, I only love strangers...). Although there is no official English title on the original Chinese version, the lyrics card in the Japanese release bore the English subtitle Lovers and Strangers, and this is sometimes given as the title in English media.

The album sold more than 800,000 copies and reached number one in the album charts of Hong Kong

Hong Kong

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, China

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, Taiwan

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, Singapore

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 and Malaysia.

After the release of Only Love Strangers, Guinness World Records

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 declared Faye Wong

Faye Wong

Faye Wong is a highly successful and influential Chinese singer-songwriter and actress who is usually referred to as a diva . Early in her career she briefly used the stage name Shirley Wong . Born in Beijing, she moved to Hong Kong in 1987 and rose to stardom in the early 1990s by singing...

 the best selling female Cantopop

Cantopop

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 artist of all time.

Track listing

1. "開到荼蘼"

   The Last Blossom

2. "當時的月亮"

   The Moon at That Moment

3. "催眠"

   Hypnotise

4. "只愛陌生人"

   Only Love Strangers

5. "百年孤寂"

   Century of Loneliness

6. "蝴蝶"

   Butterfly

7. "過眼雲煙"

   A Passing Cloud

8. "嗶一聲之後"

   After the Beep

9. "推翻"

   Overthrow

10. "精彩"

    Spectacular

11. "守望麥田"

    Watching the Field (Cantonese version of track 5)

12. "郵差"

    Postman (Cantonese version of track 6, with a different musical arrangement)

Use in other media

Track 10, the rock song "Spectacular", featured in a Pepsi

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 commercial. A VCD showing the filming of the commercial was released with some versions of the album.

The title track, "Only Love Strangers", was featured in the Sylvester Stallone

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 film Get Carter

Get Carter (2000 film)

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