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Andy Lau discography

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ4272968 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is the discography of Hong Kong recording artist Andy Lau. He has released 49 studio albums, including 21 in Mandarin, and 28 in Cantonese. He has additionally released over six compilation albums and seven live albums. He made his debut with the Cantonese album Just Know I Only Love You in May 1985.

Lau has sold over 48 million albums throughout his career. His Mandarin studio album Forget Love Potion (1994) went on to sell over 3.8 million copies throughout Asia, including over 1.2 million copies in Taiwan, making it one of the best-selling albums in the country.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Andy Lau discography” as wikimedia artist discography. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985, 1994—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Andy, discography and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4272968. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1985 and 1994.

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This entry incorporates text from “Andy Lau discography” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.