Culture critic Weng Chia-ming divides Taiwan's Mandarin pop song history into several stages, including the Teresa-Teng-dominated 1970s; the Feng-Fei-fei-dominated early 1980s; the mid- to late-1980s, which were the heyday of campus folk music; and the 90s, which are the era of commercialized "music factories."
文化評論作家翁嘉銘指出，若粗分政府遷台後國語流行歌曲的幾個階段，一九七○年代可謂由鄧麗君獨領風騷，八○年代初期鳳飛飛風靡一時，八○年代末開展民歌潮流，九○年代則是商業化「唱片工業」開始運作的分水嶺。