Jacky (album)

Production of the album took six months.^[4] Of the ten tracks on the album, Xue composed music for six and wrote lyrics for five, a rare feat for a first album.^[5] Musically, the album presents a fusion of Eastern Classic of Poetry and Western R&B elements.^[6]

The album received strong support from Shanghai Media Group, who live streamed the press conference.^[5]

"Yellow Maple Leaves" and "Return of the Prince" were created by Xue while participating in the singing competition show My Style, My Show.^[7] The latter received praise for having a majestic prelude with rich visuals, telling the love story between a prince and a princess during a war.^[4]

The album's English title is "Jacky" because that was Xue's English name at the time. He later changed his English name to "Joker" in 2016.^[8]

"Serious Snow" performed well on charts and was one of the highest downloaded ringtones of the year.^[9] It became one of Xue's most well-known works.

Jacky sold more than 200,000 copies within 1.5 month; the success prompted Shang Teng Entertainment to release 10,000 sets of limited edition photobook, CD, and DVD.^[10]

Due to high demand, second and third edition were released in late 2006, an unprecedented accomplishment for a new artist.^[11] The third edition included the commercial song for Wrigly chewing gum, "Everybody Wants It" featuring Liu Junlin.^[12]

Jacky was the best-selling album by a male mainland China artist of 2006.^[13] The total sales volume is more than 500,000.^[14]