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  Title Album details Track listing Jam Hsiao 蕭敬騰同名專輯 Released: 16 June 2008 Label: Warner Music Taiwan Formats: CD, digital download Track listing 收藏 王子的新衣 原諒我 奮不顧身 疼愛 多希望你在 活著 一輩子存在 我在哭 Blues 海芋戀 Princess 王妃 Released: 17 July 2009 Label: Warner Music Taiwan Formats: CD, digital download Track listing 王妃 我不會愛 阿飛的小蝴蝶 善男信女 Say a lil something 愛遊戲 小男人大男孩 會痛的石頭 愛過了頭 Green Door 給愛人 寂寞還是你 Love Moments 愛的時刻 自選輯 Released: 13 November 2009 Label: Warner Music Taiwan Formats: CD, digital download Track listing 開到荼蘼 新不了情 如果沒有你 夢一場 無言花 我懷念的 記念 寫一首歌 記得 倒帶 Jam Wild Dreams 狂想曲 Released: 30 June 2011 Label: Warner Music Taiwan Formats: CD, digital download Track listing 你 You 複製人 Clone 狂想曲 Wild Dreams 只能想念你 Miss you forever 話不多 Quiet 怎麼說我不愛你 How to say I don't love you 不停有意外的世界 The Unexpectable World 敷衍 Perfunctoriness 信仰 Faith 好想對你說 (悲傷版) I really want to say (sad version) 好想對你說 I really want to say 白蛇傳 Tale of the White Snake 茉莉戀 Jasmine Love 看對眼 Love at the first sight Mr.Jazz – A Song fo...

Identity controversy

In January 2022, he expressed his support for unification by PRC government by taking part in a pro-unification pop song "Looking at the Taiwan Strait" aired on Chinese television.

Acting career

In 2010, Jam Hsiao joined the cast of a movie, The Killer Who Never Kills, based on a series of novels by popular Taiwanese novelist Giddens Ko. In the film, he plays the leading role, the titular Killer Who Never Kills, Ouyang Bonsai, and wrote the film's theme song. Released in 2011, the movie was a box office success, and he won the Best New Actor Award in the 31st Hong Kong Golden Film Awards in 2012. Hsiao played the lead role of as the "Master of all Geeks" in his second film, romantic-comedy movie My Geeky Nerdy Buddies, directed by Kevin Chu alongside China artistes Jiang Shuying and Xie Na. It was released on 10 July 2014 in Mainland China and Taiwan.

2016–present: Sound of My Dream, formation of Lion, and I Am a Singer appearance

In September 2016, Hsiao formed the band Lion, together with Lee Q Wu, Tsou Chiang and Liu Chao-chu. They released their self-titled album on 16 September. In the same year, he appeared as one of the mentors of Zhejiang Television's Sound of My Dream, together with Yu Quan, Hebe Tien, JJ Lin and A-Mei. In 2017, Hsiao, together with his band Lion, participated in Singer 2017 and got third overall. In 2020, he later returned in I Am a Singer's eighth season (also called Singer: Year of the Hits) this time as a solo singer, and finished third. Hsiao also doubled as a host for the first two episodes until he was replaced by his Music Partner Eliza Liang, after the show announced that subsequent episodes were to be taped remotely as part of the safety measures due to the coronavirus pandemic.

2013–2014, Appearance on Duets, The Song

In 2013, Hsiao assumed the role of a mentor in Beijing Television, BTV's singing competition reality show Duets alongside another three mentors. One of his students, Xiao Yi Hang won first place after three months of competition and was subsequently signed with his record label company, Warner Music Ltd. He reprised his role as a mentor on the Season 2 of Duets. In June 2014, Hsiao released his sixth album, The Song. He composed six out of ten songs in this album and was also the album producer. He specially engaged a dance instructor from Korea to choreograph his dance for the song "Kiss Me" and was reported to have learned it via a video recording in just two days. The song "Kelly" was chosen as the end track for the Korean drama "You Who Came From The Stars" which was aired in Taiwan in May. "The Song" was also selected to be the closing song for thirteen Shin Kong Mitsukoshi malls in Taiwan, which will be played just before the malls clos...

2011–2012: "Jam Hsiao World Concert Tour", Mr. Jazz: A Song For You, It's All About Love

Jam Hsiao's second production of concert tour started from Hong Kong in August 2011. It was going to have only one concert in Hong Kong. However, this show was sold out in a matter of minutes. Many fans failed to get tickets and were very disappointed. Then a second show was added and it was also sold out in 6 minutes. The tour went to Shanghai in December 2011, Singapore in January 2012, and then headed for Taipei Arena in February 2012. In Taipei, the same scenario played out. The second show was added and sold out after the first show was sold out in one afternoon. He received many more invitations to bring this concert tour to different cities including many cities in China, Sydney and Melbourne in Australia. In 2012, Hsiao released his first full English album, consisting of eleven covers of known classics—such as "How Deep Is Your Love" by the Bee Gees and "L-O-V-E" by Nat King Cole—recorded from his Mr. Jazz Private Party Live. With the album, Hsiao showc...

2009–2011: "Mr. Rock Concert Tour", Jam Wild Dreams

Jam Hsiao's Mr. Rock Concert at Taipei Arena in December 2009, was a huge success. It was sold out within minutes. The stage set was designed to mimic a chess game. In lavish costumes, he performed songs in Mandarin, Cantonese, Taiwanese, English and Korean. He also incorporated his drumming and keyboard skills on stage. Without dancers or guest singers, Hsiao single-handedly completed his first large-scale concert and earned enthusiastic praise. He toured four more cities— Singapore, Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, and Shanghai – till February 2011. He tailored each concert to the local market demands and incorporated different local elements in each of the different concert locations which was highly appreciated by fans. Jam Hsiao released his fourth record album Jam Wild Dreams in June 2011. He was involved in selecting, composing, recording, mixing and background harmony production. He had been the individual song producer since his 2009 "Princess" album but this time round, h...