Some of Mandopop's biggest names come from Singapore. JJ Lin and Stefanie Sun are both Singaporeans who have sold millions of albums and play concerts to stadiums of fans across Asia. They write and sing in Mandarin, sometimes with a few words of English thrown in.
A typical Mandopop song sounds a lot like pop music you might know already - catchy chorus, big chords, a story about a feeling - but the words are in Mandarin. The Mandarin language is tonal, meaning the pitch of a word can change its meaning, which gives the songs a beautiful flowing sound.
Mandopop concerts are huge. Fans wave glowing light-sticks in time with the music, sing every word back to the singer, and sometimes prepare a surprise: at exactly the right moment in a song, the whole stadium lifts up a coloured card to make a giant pattern visible from the stage.
Because Mandarin is spoken by so many people - more than 1 billion - Mandopop reaches a huge audience. A song released by a Singapore singer can be in the head of a school child in Taipei, Kuala Lumpur and Shanghai by the next morning.