2000: S.H.E Shortly after Tien's appearance on the show
TV Citizen, the production team invited her to participate on the show again and was scouted by Grand Music International (currently
HIM International Music) for an audition. On 8 August 2000, HIM International Music held the "Universal 2000 Talent and Beauty Girl Contest" in search of new artists to be signed onto their label. The staff of the TV show "Cruel Stage" encouraged Tien to participate in this televised competition. The contest had about 1,000 contestants, and after several rounds of competition, seven contestants remained for the final round. In the first round, Tien's voice began to crack while singing "Return Home". As a result, she decided to sing in a lower key in the final round, choosing
Singaporean singer
Kit Chan's "Loving You". However, she was unfamiliar with the song so about ten seconds of the final lyrics went unsung. Following the competition, the Taiwanese record company gave all seven contestants an audition. The show's manager appreciated her straightforward personality and powerful vocals. As a result, Tien was invited to become a member of
S.H.E, with
Selina and
Ella, and was signed under the Taiwanese record label HIM International Music.
2010–2012: To Hebe and My Love Following a very successful career with S.H.E, Tien debuted as a solo music artist in 2010. In September, she received critical acclaim for her debut album
To Hebe. In May 2011, the album was nominated for four awards in the
22nd Golden Melody Awards. It won Best Music Video for "Leave Me Alone" and Best Single Producer for "LOVE!". The album was also selected for the Top Ten Albums by the Association of Music Workers in Taiwan and her song "LOVE!" was chosen for the Top Ten Singles. In September 2011, Tien launched her second album
My Love. The album's song "Still in Happiness" reached 10 million views on YouTube, making Tien the first Chinese-language female singer whose music video garnered 10 million views. On 21 January 2013, "Leave Me Alone" from her first album also reached 10 million views on YouTube, making Tien the first Chinese-language singer who have 2 music videos with more than 10 million views on the platform. In May 2012,
My Love is the most nominated work at the
23rd Golden Melody Awards, receiving a total of seven nominations including
Golden Melody Award for Best Mandarin Album and Best Music Video for her song "My Love".
2013–2017: Insignificance, world tour and Day By Day Insignificance was released on 29 November 2013, following the music video of her same-titled single a few weeks prior. The music video reached one million views on YouTube within four days and the album sold 40,000 copies in Taiwan within a week. Tien became the female singer with the highest selling album for that year. In May 2014, the album was nominated for two awards at the
25th Golden Melody Awards including Best Music Video. She performed three songs by Taiwanese singer
Tracy Huang during the awards ceremony. By the end of the year, Tien embarked on her first solo world tour "IF" which kicked off on 6 December 2014 at
Taipei Arena. Tickets for the two-day concert in Taipei sold out within 10 minutes. In July 2015, she sang "A Little Happiness" for the Taiwanese film
Our Times which made her the first Chinese-language singer with more than 100 million views on YouTube, and the second Asian female singer with 100 million views. In September, she released "Pretty Woman" as part of the soundtrack for the Chinese film
Go Lala Go 2. In the same year, "Learning From Drunk" and "Insignificance" from her third album received more than 10 million views on YouTube. On 5 March 2016, Tien wrapped up the first leg of the "IF" world tour at the
Singapore Indoor Stadium. At the
27th Golden Melody Awards, "A Little Happiness" was nominated for Song of the Year and Best Composer (Composer: JerryC, lyrics by Xu Shi Zhen & Wu Hui Fa.) The second leg of her world tour titled "IF Plus" kicked off at the
Hong Kong Coliseum on 17 June, where she first performed her songs "When you are gone" and "Every day is a Miracle". Both songs appeared on her fourth album
Day by Day which was released a month after. Towards the end of the year, Tien participated as a celebrity tutor alongside
JJ Lin,
A-Mei,
Jam Hsiao and
Yu Quan in the first season of the Chinese music program
Sound of My Dream. Her live performances were released digitally. In February 2017, Tien performed the Chinese theme song for the film
Beauty and the Beast with Chinese singer
Jing Boran. At the
28th Golden Melody Awards, her album
Day By Day was nominated for two awards including Best Music Video for her song "Love Yourself"
. Tien wrapped up her world tour "IF Plus" on 2 September 2017 after adding two additional dates held at
Kaohsiung Arena with a total of 38 concerts spanning in 23 cities.
2018–present: Departure from HIM and Time Will Tell On 20 August 2018, Tien released her self-composed live recorded song "
Stay" as part of Live in Life series to capture her current emotions. The song which was produced by
Sandee Chan was eventually nominated for Producer of the Year, Single at the
30th Golden Melody Awards. In the same month,
S.H.E released their final single with their record label
HIM International Music titled "Seventeen" written by
Sodagreen vocalist,
Greeny Wu to commemorate the group's 17th anniversary since debut. It was followed by a free open-air concert held at the
Liberty Square in Taipei which was fully booked in a minute with a total of 12,000 attendees. By September 2018, Tien along with the other S.H.E members officially left HIM International Music after 17 years and founded her own management company, A TUNE Music (樂来樂好), and released her first single outside HIM, "Jasper Night" as soundtrack to the Chinese film
''Long Day's Journey into Night'' in December of that year. In April 2019, Tien signed a recording deal with
Pourquoi Pas Music (PQPMusic; 何樂音樂) and will be working in cooperation with her management company. She announced that her fifth studio album and second concert world tour will be in preparation, and released her first single with her new record label, "Still Early" as soundtrack to the Chinese film
Midnight Diner in September. Tien's fifth studio album
Time Will Tell was released in September, and she performed for four nights at her sold-out second concert tour
One, After Another at the Taipei Arena. She was the second artist next to
Eric Chou to hold a concert tour in Taiwan since the
COVID-19 pandemic started. By the following month, she was invited as a guest and performed her songs "Anything Goes", "You Should Know About It" from her new album and "Learning From Drunk" at the
31st Golden Melody Awards. At the
32nd Golden Melody Awards, her fifth studio album,
Time Will Tell was nominated for 6 awards including Best Album in Mandarin, Music Video of the Year for the song "One, After Another" and Best Female Mandarin Singer. Tien won the
Golden Melody Award for Best Female Mandarin Singer for the album. She also won several awards at the 18th
Hito Music Awards for the same album, including Best Female Singer, Global Media Commendation Award, Top Ten Chinese Songs of the Year, 2020 Top 100 Singles, and the single "A Song For You" won the Best Composer award. On 24 February 2022, Tien held a press conference announcing the release of her new song "
It is The Hour" as part of the LIVE IN LIFE series she started back in 2018 and released the music video the day after. She also announced the continuation of her concert tour
One, After Another to be held at Kaohsiung Arena in May. 40,000 tickets sold out within seconds. On 25 April, It was announced that the tour dates will be rescheduled to September due to the increasing local transmissions of the COVID-19 pandemic. On 10 June 2022, Tien released the music video for her song "One Week Friends" as the official soundtrack to the Chinese film of the same name, adapted from the Japanese manga series
One Week Friends. On 18 August 2023, Tien released a new single "Glimpses of a Journey" after playing the song live on her second solo concert tour.
YouTube views Her music videos are among the most-viewed and have accumulated more than 658 million views on YouTube, and she is the Chinese-language female singer with the most views on the platform. Her music video "A Little Happiness" became the first Chinese-language music video to exceed 100 million views on YouTube. She was the second female singer in Asia to reach 100 million views on YouTube. == Discography ==