5566 (band)
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5566 is a Taiwanese pop boy band thus named because of their five members Zax Wang, Jason Xu, Sam Wang, Rio Peng, and the band leader, Tony Sun, and the six talents they claim to possess, TV acting, singing, hosting shows, dancing, movie acting and modeling. To date they have acted in three idol dramas, My MVP Valentine, Westside Story and Mr. Fighting and have released five albums: MVP Valentine TV Sound Tracks, 1st Album, Westside Story Sound Tracks, boyfriend, C'est Si Bon and Mr. Fighting TV Sound Tracks.
In the year 2004, they sold 520,000 CD's with three albums in Taiwan. In the top ten music ranking list, 5566 got three positions. Their fans are in China, Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan.
They are infamous in Taiwan for their errant behavior such as plagiarizing from the works of foreign artists, assaulting members of the press (either verbally or physically), slandering their fellow bubblegum-pop singers/bands, and torturing endangered species on their syndicated game shows. They also take enormous pride in lip-synching in their concerts, which was eloquently summed up in these words from their manager when they were exposed: "[The concert] was a sincere lip-sync effort by 5566".
Despite their apparent popularity amongst junior high school students, the members of 5566 are more known for their ability to inspire the creation of Internet anti-sites that far outnumber their fan-sites.