has won a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the best-selling female singer of Cantonese pop music.According to the Web site guinnessworldrecords.com, Wong had sold 9.7 million copies of her 20 albums by March 2000 and is one of the first women to dominate Hong Kong's recording industry, Reuters reported.
Her album "Lovers & Strangers," released in September 1999, has sold more than 800,000 copies so far and was a number one seller in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia.
The Guinness accolade is unique for the Beijing-born, native Mandarin speaker, who only learnt the southern Chinese dialect of Cantonese after settling in Hong Kong in the late 1980s.
The 32-year-old single mother released her first CD in 1989 and was named the most popular female singer in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan by music Channel V in January.
She boasts at least 100 dedicated Web sites, thousands of fans in Chinese-speaking communities all over the world and a long list of awards under her belt.
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