Hello Nico

Hello Nico is a Taiwanese indie rock band formed in 2013. The members are Zhan Yuting, Li Yong'en, Chen Xinbo, and Guan Huizhong. They were nominated for Best New Artist at the 27th Golden Melody Awards in 2016.

== Introduction == Lead vocalist Zhan Yuting was born on September 11, 1989. In 2009, he won first place in the 21st Golden Melody Awards' Duet category, second place in the Composition category, and first place in the Duet category. In 2010, he won first place in the Composition category and Best Composer Award at the National Chengchi University Golden Melody Awards. His song "Left-Handed" was selected for the StreetVoice Winter Selection in 2011.

Hello Nico made their debut at the Gongliao International Ocean Music Festival in 2013 and began performing at various live houses. They continued to accumulate works and performance experience. In the same year, they were selected for "2013 The Next Big Thing," a domestic landmark event for emerging bands. At the end of the year, they were selected as one of the "Top 10 New Bands" in Taiwan and were widely praised as one of the most promising new bands in the country. At the end of 2013, they signed with the independent music label "Black Market Music." In August 2014, they released their first five-song EP "Floating City." The EP's focus track, "Flower," became the number one song of the year on the StreetVoice chart with over 120,000 plays. The single "Our Misery Circus," a collaboration with renowned poet Xia Yu, was selected as one of the top ten best-selling singles of the year on the Taiwanese digital music sales platform "iNDIEVOX." With "Floating City," Hello Nico won two awards at the eighth Freshmusic Awards in Singapore: "Best EP of the Year" and "Top Ten Singles of the Year" ("Our Misery Circus").

In January 2015, Hello Nico released songs from their debut album "Familiar Desolation" on online platforms. Many singles topped the StreetVoice charts for multiple weeks. On February 16, they released the album exclusively on the digital sales platform iNDIEVOX and made all 11 songs available for early listening on StreetVoice.

The album "Familiar Desolation" became the top seller on iNDIEVOX for several weeks. Many of the album's songs topped the various radio charts, and the album's total plays on StreetVoice exceeded 900,000. In the StreetVoice annual song play chart statistics for 2015, Hello Nico occupied four of the top ten spots for the most played songs.