 Following the stop of the Xinyao Festival in 1990 due to the lack of funding, the "Sing Music Awards" was consequently scrapped due to limited album releases.Other factors contributing the decline of xinyao including the rise of Taiwanese and Hong Kong songs in Singapore's music industry, as the declining of new xinyao talents in Singapore.Xinyao was revived in the early 2000s when a series of xinyao concerts caught the eye of the public once again.