Hong Kong's early pop music, on the one hand, borrowed from American folk songs and pop songs, on the other hand, was deeply influenced by Japanese pop music. For example, Samuel Hui's creation and Li Xiaotian's composition style in Gu Jiahui have continued the creation style of Shanghai-style pop music since the 1930s, which can be regarded as the combination of Chinese folk music and European and American pop music.

However, in the era of commercial pop songs, due to the internationalization of Hong Kong record companies and the unique creative mode of Cantonese songs in Hong Kong: melody comes first, then lyrics, a large number of excellent Japanese songs are put into Hong Kong music scene in the form of takenism with the convenience of copyright granting, resulting in almost all the best-selling songs of Japanese singers and composers have Cantonese versions.

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Teresa Teng's Walking on the Road of Life: This is the cover of Miyuki Nakajima's Start. Although I knew there were several songs in Chinese and Japanese, I was shocked to see a long list of Japanese songs covered. As an international superstar, N-language albums released abroad are also heavyweight in Japanese music.

Leslie Cheung's The Wind Always Blows: This is the title song of my brother's first record when he joined Huaxing. It is my brother's famous song and the theme song of the movie Crossing the World. The last song adapted from Yamaguchi Momoe is for you, also known as Goodbye to the other shore. Yamaguchi Momoe is his brother's idol.