"Remember Me (SlimV Mix)" Released: August 22, 2017
m-tp M-TP[3] is the first compilation album by Vietnamese musician Sơn Tùng M-TP, commemorating his fifth anniversary in the music industry. A limited one thousand physical copies of the album sold out at the album signings in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi on April 1 and 3, 2017. The lead single from the album, "Lạc trôi", was released on January 1, 2017. The second single from the album, "Nơi này có anh" was released on February 14, 2017. "Remember Me (SlimV Mix)" was released as a single on August 22, 2017.
Background and release
In late 2016, Sơn Tùng M-TP ended his two-year contract with record label WePro Entertainment and formed his own company M-TP Entertainment.[4] On March 19, 2017, he announced the release of m-tp M-TP, the singer's first compilation album.[3] The album was only made on a USB flash drive in lieu of a traditional compact disc.[5] A limited one thousand copies of the album were sold at two signing events in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, respectively on April 1 and 3, 2017.[6][7] They sold out in an hour and a half at Ho Chi Minh signing and in a record-breaking thirty minutes at Hanoi event.[6][8] In April, the album topped Australian SBS Viceland's radio show SBS PopAsia half-yearly report polls for Best Album and Best Solo Release.[9][10] On August 22, the album version of "Remember Me" was released as a single, subtitled "SlimV 2017 Mix".[11]
m-tp M-TP features eighteen tracks, arranged in chronological order of their release dates from November 2011 to February 2017.[16][17] Six tracks were given a new electronic dance remix treatment, but four of them were accused of having taken other songs' instrumental including: "Em của ngày hôm qua" with the instrumental of EXID's "Every Night", "Anh sai rồi" with Tomohisa Yamashita's "Loveless", "Nắng ấm xa dần" with As One's "Monologue" and "Cơn mưa ngang qua" with Namolla Family's "Sarangi Mareul Deutjianha".[3][16][12][18][15] Sơn Tùng M-TP did confirm that he usually took random instrumental tracks on Internet while still an independent artist.[19] "Chắc ai đó sẽ về" was later accused of plagiarizing Korean musician Jung Yong-hwa's 2011 single "Because I Miss You".[20] Jung's representative dismissed the accusation but Vietnam's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism still concluded that Sơn Tùng M-TP's song did get "influenced" by Jung's production, temporally banned it with parent movie Dandelion until a new mix was conducted.[21][20] Final version created by producer Hà Nguyễn was added onto the compilation.[22][16]
The remixes—except "Như ngày hôm qua" and "Remember Me"—were originally created for the M-TP Ambition tour late 2015.[23][16][14][13][24] Long Halo, who was then working as a prominent producer at WePro Entertainment and as the tour's music director, offered the idea.[13][24] Sơn Tùng M-TP was highly supportive of the proposal and re-recorded vocals for some of mixes.[13] SlimV, who was the musician's teammate on The Remix, along with Triple D, Khắc Hưng and Hiếu Viper took charges as the album's producers.[25][26][27][28] Absent from the compilation was the moderately-received 2013 single "Đừng về trễ".[16][29] It had also been accused of taking Gain's "Nostalgia" instrumental track, while its vocal performance has been compared to GD & TOP's 2010 song "Baby Good Night".[30][31]
^ abHương Hồ (August 5, 2016). "'Vua đạo nhạc' hay 'Hoàng tử V-pop'?" ["King of plagiarism" or "V-pop prince"?]. Vietnamnet (in Vietnamese). Retrieved July 26, 2017.
^ abcMi Ty (March 20, 2017). "Sơn Tùng M-TP ra album đầu tay kỷ niệm 5 năm ca hát" [Sơn Tùng M-TP to release his first album to commemorate five years of music career]. Thế giới Điện ảnh (in Vietnamese). Retrieved July 11, 2017.
^ abcLan Phương (August 23, 2017). "Sơn Tùng hợp tác SlimV tung sản phẩm mới" [Sơn Tùng M-TP collaborates with SlimV in new release]. Zing (in Vietnamese). Retrieved September 7, 2017.
^ abN. Minh (December 7, 2015). "Sơn Tùng M-TP thở oxy để hát live show" [Sơn Tùng M-TP had to use oxygen therapy to go through live concert]. Thể thao & Văn hóa (in Vietnamese). Retrieved July 26, 2017.
^ abcdSơn Tùng M-TP (February 13, 2017). Nơi này có anh [I'm here for you] (Music video) (in Vietnamese). Vietnam: M-TP Entertainment. Event occurs at 4:34. Retrieved July 16, 2017.
^ abThế giới Văn hóa staff(s) (April 14, 2016). "Hồ sơ đề cử của Giải thưởng Âm nhạc Cống hiến 11-2016" [Nomination' profiles for the 2016 Dedication Music Awards]. Thế giới Văn Hóa (in Vietnamese). Dedication Music Awards. Retrieved July 16, 2017.
^ abcSơn Tùng M-TP (January 22, 2016). Một năm mới bình an [A peaceful new year] (Music video) (in Vietnamese). Vietnam: OPPO Electronics. Event occurs at 3:37. Retrieved July 16, 2017.
^M-tp M-TP (Back cover sleeve's liner notes). Sơn Tùng M-TP. Vietnam: M-TP Entertainment. 2017.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
