Thirty Best Cantonese Songs

The Thirty Best Cantonese Songs to Listen to are "You Conceal From Me", "I Will Be Loving You", "Two Lives Off", "Heartless Love Singing", "Abandoned Princess", "Love Makes Your Heart Ache", "Maiden's Prayer", "Must Kill", "Get Out", "This Season's Shooting for a Drag", "Very Much in Love", and "SINGLE", to name just a few.

Cantonese pop songs, generally referred to as Hong Kong pop songs sung in Cantonese (Cantonese), are also called Cantonese songs because the original composers in Hong Kong are Cantonese.

The term "Cantonese pop music" generally refers to the recent trend of Cantonese pop songs in Hong Kong, which began in the 1970s and flourished thereafter, driven by Lotus band frontman Sam Hui. This definition is also in line with what most Hong Kong people born in the 1970s or later would recognize as "Cantonese pop songs".

Development of Cantonese Songs

Generally, it is said that pop songs originated in the early 1950s, but the exact origin is still a matter of debate. However, it is an indisputable fact that the early Cantonese pop songs were derived from the Xiao Qu (小曲), a form of traditional Cantonese opera. Xiaoqu is a traditional Cantonese opera score. In addition to the original Cantonese score, a large number of easy-to-follow and popular Mandarin period tunes, European and Western popular tunes, and provincial folk songs were used to fill in the Cantonese lyrics, and appeared in Cantonese operatic voices and soundtracks.

From Cantonese opera came the purely vocal Cantonese opera troupe, which was a group of Cantonese opera singers who organized the whole opera into pieces and circulated them among the public. Generally speaking, the troupe was attached to a teahouse for people to enjoy tea and listen to the songs, and the consumption of the songs was quite popular and affordable to the common people, which made them very popular in the early 1950s.