Winners at the 22nd Golden Melody Awards (AP)

TAIPEI, Taiwan – A list of winners in the major categories at Taiwan's 22nd Golden Melody Awards, announced late Saturday at Taipei Arena:

Song of the year: Jonathan Lee, "Jonathan's Song."

Best Mandarin album: Jay Chou, "Cross-generation."

Best Mandarin male singer: Jay Chou, "Cross-generation."

Best Mandarin female singer: Karen Mok, "Precious."

Best pop group: Da Mouth.

Best rock group: Matzka.

Best composer: Jonathan Lee, "Jonathan's Song."

Best lyricist: Jonathan Lee, "Jonathan's Song."

Best album producer: Eric Hung, "Flower of Love."

Best single producer: Wang Ji-ping, "Love!"

Best arranger: Tsai Ke-jun, "Free Instructional Video."

Lifetime achievement award: Huang Min.

Best music video: Hebe Tien, "Things Will Look Up If You Spend Some Time Alone."

Best newcomer: William Wei.

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Jay Chou, Leehom Wang lead Golden Melody nominees (AP)

HONG KONG – Taiwanese pop sensation Jay Chou, Chinese-American singer-songwriter Leehom Wang and Hong Kong's Karen Mok led nominations for Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards announced Friday.

Chou's "Superman Can't Fly," Wang's "Things You Don't Know" and Mok's "Perfect Loneliness" are up for song of the year, along with Eric Hung's "Flower of Love," Jody Chiang's "I Wanted to Marry Then," Freya Lim's "Heavy Injury" and Jonathan Lee's "Song for Myself."

Chou, Wang, Mok and Hung are also competing for album of the year. Chou, a 32-year-old singer-songwriter who burst onto the scene in 2000 and has become one of Chinese pop's top acts, also received nominations in the best composer, best producer and best Mandarin male singer categories.

The nominations also mark a strong resurgence for Lee, a veteran singer-songwriter who's one of the industry's top producers. Lee's "Song for Myself" is from the second of two albums that are part of a one-off collaboration with Lo Da-yu, Emil Chau, Chang Chen-yue dubbed "Super Band."

Wang is also a best Mandarin male performer nominee, along with Singaporean Wayne Lin and Taiwanese singers William Wei and Chyi Chin.

The best Mandarin female singer nominees are Mok and fellow Hong Kong singer Denise Ho, Lim and Taiwan's A-Lin and Wanfang Lin.

The winners will be announced June 18 in Taipei. The annual awards are the Chinese-language equivalent of the Grammys.

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