Play World Tour (album)
# Play World Tour (album)

Play World Tour (Chinese: Play世界巡迴演唱會) is a live video album by Taiwanese singer Jolin Tsai. It was released on January 30, 2018, by Warner and Eternal. The performances at the Taipei Arena in Taipei, Taiwan during May 22–25, 2015 were documented for the video release. The album only released physical format in Taiwan, and it topped the 2008 video album sales charts in the country.

## Background and development

On May 22, 2015, Tsai embarked on her fourth concert tour Play World Tour at Taipei Arena in Taipei, Taiwan. On November 17, 2015, the video release of the tour rumored to be finished recording. On September 30, 2016, Tsai as a representative of Asian artists attended the International Music Summit's Asia-Pacific event, and during a backstage interview she said that no plan for a live video album release for the Play World Tour. On December 24, 2016, Tsai attended the 10th Migu Music Awards, and in a backstage interview she confirmed that she would release a live video album for the Play World Tour in response to the great demand by music fans.

On April 11, 2017, Tsai's management company revealed on Sina Weibo that they have finished the rough cut for the concert video. On October 30, 2017, Sam Chen, the president of Warner Music Greater China, revealed on Facebook that the album would be released in December 2017, and he said that the album would be also released in Blu-ray format, becoming Tsai's first Blu-ray release. On December 12, 2017, Tsai confirmed that the album would be released in January 2018.

## Release and promotion

On December 23, 2017, Tsai announced that the album would be available for pre-order on January 3, 2018. It includes 29 live tracks, four We're All Difference, Yet the Same documentary films directed by Hou Chi-jan and Gavin Lin, and one behind-the-scenes footage. Warner confirmed that the video was recorded by 26 sets of ground and aerial camera, and more than 400 hours of source material have been distilled into a two-hour concert video.

On January 2, 2018, Tsai held a press conference for the album release at Lihpao Land in Taichung, Taiwan. On January 29, 2018, Tsai held the Double Play Fan Meeting to promote the album at the Taipei International Convention Center in Taipei, Taiwan. On January 29, 2018, the concert video was first broadcast on Line TV in Taiwan. On February 6, 2018, the concert video was broadcast on Tencent Video and Migu Music in China.

The album only released physical format in Taiwan, it peaked at number one on the weekly video album sales charts of Chia Chia, Eslite, Five Music, G-Music, Kuang Nan, PChome, Pok'elai, and YesAsia, and it topped the 2918 video album sales charts of Five Music, Kuang Nan, and Pok'elai.

## Critical reception

Taiwan's PlayMusic gave the album 4 out of 5 stars, and it commented that it was "another magnum opus of the Taiwan's pop diva, the costume, stage, and dance are refreshing, it showed us the high quality of C-pop music, as well as made people more look forward to Tsai's later work", adding that: "We can hear that Tsai's vocal has improved a lot compared with her previous few albums, in addition to her better breath support, Tsai's vocal expression, rhythm, and emotion became more vivid, she can now handle whether dance songs or ballads with more ease, and she performs with a lot more confidence, musically she re-arranged all the music for the show and made the whole show looks more smoothly."

## Track listing

The following is the track listing for the Blu-ray version, while the DVD version is divided into two discs, one for tracks 1 to 21 and one for tracks 22 to 34.

## Personnel

Live Shooting Crew:

* 3 Aqua Entertainment Co. – post-production supervision
* Leo Hsu – executive production, direction
* Chenyeen Chen – supervisor
* Paul Kuo – video engineering supervision
* Ruya Cheng – assistant direction
* Jadee Li – assistant direction, production coordination
* Michelle Yang – assistant direction, production coordination
* Katie Lin – floor direction
* Jaguar Hung – floor direction
* Pao Lin – direction of photography, camera
* Chen Po-chuan – camera
* Liu Chun-hsin – camera
* Hu Yan-xun – camera
* Hime Li – production coordination
* Kate Lin – production coordination
* Mark Liu – production coordination
* Eva Chen – production administration
* Cindy Zhan – production administration
* Joan Lin – production administration
* Scott Lin – file management
* Noah's Ark Co. – equipment management
* Baishen Marketing Co. – GoPro camera

Behind the scenes:

* Leo Hsu – supervision, DVD/BD video production/edit
* Wen Chiu – behind the scenes filming supervision, behind the scenes camera
* Zhong Zhi-hong – behind the scenes camera
* Jiang Guo-ding – behind the scenes camera, Shanghai video engineering supervision
* Shanghai Top Solutions Advertising Co. – Shanghai equipment support
* Michelle Yang – executive production
* Li Li-rui – Japanese translation
* Mi Hsueh-er – English translation
* 3 Aqua Entertainment Co. – DVD/BD video/animation rendering, DVD/BD menu animation design
* Kuo Hsing-yi – DVD/BD menu animation design
* Katie Lin – DVD/BD visual effects
* Jadee Li – DVD/BD visual effects

Others:

* Ian Lee – production, programming editor engineering
* Cherry Guns Factory Co., Ltd. – live recording
* AJ Chen – programming editor engineering
* Mega Force Studio – programming editor studio
* Kenny Fan – mixing engineering
* Yohu Studio – mixing studio
* Sun Chung-shu – mastering
* U-Tech Media Co. – DVD/BD video/audio mastering

## Release history

| Region | Date | Format(s) | Distributor |
| - | - | - | - |
| Various | January 30, 2018 | Streamingdigital download | Eternal |
| Taiwan | January 30, 2018 | Blu-ray | Warner |
| Taiwan | January 30, 2018 | 2DVD | Warner |
