Kelly Chen - Career Success

Career Success

In 2005, her song "Hope" (希望) from the Korean TV series Dae Jang Geum (大長今) as it was a popular song in both Hong Kong and mainland China. This song also improved her earnings as well as the company promoting her at the time. At the TVB 8 Awards Presentation Chen took home 3 awards for the song "Hope" including the Song Award, World's Most Popular Cantonese Song, and Most Well-Liked Female Singer in mainland China. "Hope" was also the top song of charts for 20 radio stations in China and had even set a high record for ringtone downloads. A month after the initial launch, there were a total of over 3 million downloads and to date, the accumulated figure is over 6 million. As such, her record company had earned $5 million after deductions. Universal Music Group's managing director had called Chen to inform her of the good news. Chen had promised that if the number of downloads were to go over 10 million, she will distribute the earnings to the staff. Chen has also wrapped up her tour, "Kelly Chen Lost in Paradise World Tour" (陳慧琳紙醉金迷世界巡迴演唱會) in 2005-2006 in Asia and North America(10 shows in Hong Kong, 2 Shows in Genting Highlands in Malaysia, 2 shows in Sydney and Melbourne in Australia, 12 shows (2 in Shanghai, 1 in Nanjing, 1 in Wuhan, 1 in Harbin, 1 in Chongqing, 1 in Chengdu, 1 in Hangzhou, 1 in Changzhou, 1 in Wuxi, 2 in Guangzhou)in Mainland China, 3 shows in USA(2 in Connecticut,1 in Las Vegas), 1 show in Toronto, Canada). "Lost in Paradise" lasted three hours and contained 35 songs from Chen's lengthy 10-year music career. Chen has held total 30 shows for "Kelly Lost in Paradise World Tour".

Chen was ranked as the third most-earned income artist, following by Jackie Chan and Andy Lau (the most-earned female artist) overall all Greater China region from 2005 to 2007.

In 2008, Chen performed in the movie Empress and the Warriors (江山美人), the box office was about HKD$100,000,000. She also held 6 concerts in Hong Kong, named "Kelly Chen Love Fighters Concert 2008" (陳慧琳Love Fighters演唱會08). She announced to all the audiences that she will marry to Alex Lau in her last concert in 18 June. Chen has turned down all the shows of the "Kelly Chen Love Fighters World Tour" (陳慧琳Love Fighters 世界巡迴演唱會) in China, Taiwan, Korea, USA, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia because she wanted to give birth. She was married to Alex Lau (劉建浩) in 2 October. She performed in the Closing Ceremony of 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.

In 2009, Chen was chosen as "Young Global Leaders" by World Economic Forum in 2009. Her first son, Chace Lau (劉昇), was born on 10 July. Chen performed with Amei Cheung, in the opening ceremony of National Games of the People's Republic of China.

In 2010, Chen released her first Mandarin album after giving her birth, Chasing dreams (微光) in March. After the miscarriage incident, Chen stopped her work to let her body and mind recover for a few months. However, in March after the Japanese Fukushima Earthquake, she still made a video clip to support the Japanese. Chen then started to come out of the sadness and started mostly working on commercials and as fashion show guests. Near the end of 2011, Chen got involved in filming the 2012 Chinese New Year movie All Well Ends Well 2012 starring with Louis Koo, Donnie Yan, and Sandra Ng. At the same time Chen announced that she was 4 months pregnant with a baby boy. After all the movie promotions, Chen will pause on her work again to wait for this newborn to arrive. Chen gave birth to her second baby boy on 21 March 2012 weighing 6.5 pound.