Start from Here


Start From Here is the debut album by singer-songwriter Joanna Wang, released by Sony BMG Taiwan in January 2008. The album consists of two disks, featuring songs performed in English and Mandarin. It received mostly positive reviews and commercial success, with the sales of over 200,000 copies in Asia.

Wang's rejection of the album

Despite the album's success, Wang herself strongly dislikes the album, and the label of "jazz singer" under which she became known in Taiwan, in the wake of the album's success. In a Reddit 'Ask Me Anything', she wrote:
At 17, I signed my first contract with Sony Music Taiwan
Long story short, the first two years was not what I expected and hoped for at all. After a lot of "no's, but's" and reluctant "yes's", at 19 I debuted with a shitastic record with the cheesiest and cliche 80's-esque music videos to very lame music that my label coerced me into singing

Track listing

Disc 1 (English)

  1. "Let's Start From Here"
  2. "Lost In Paradise"
  3. "As Love Begins to Mend"
  4. "Bada Bada"
  5. "Lost Taipei"
  6. "The Best Mistake I've Ever Made"
  7. "I Love You"
  8. "For No Reason"
  9. "Stages of Flying"
  10. "Now"
  11. "True"
  12. "New York State of Mind"

    Disc 2 (Chinese)

  13. "迷宮"
  14. "有你的快樂"
  15. "Now"
  16. "因為你愛我"
  17. "For No Reason"