90's CROPPED SONGS

In the early 90s, a number of Cantopop star and composers decided to semi or fully retire. There was a shortage of innovated songs as companies just cropped Japanese of English melodies. It was the time when cover versions dominated the music industry. Claiming that Hong Kong lacks original music, Ultimate 903 Commercial Radio 2 started a policy of promoting local originals in 1993 by limiting the broadcasting to original Cantonese songs only. The development of local pop music was very unhealthy before the launch of the policy. The policy was quite successful in upsetting the imbalance between cover versions and original music and the policy had increased the demand for original music and more room is now provided for local composers.