In their paper The Role of Yuan in Chinese Social Life: a Conceptual and Empirical Analysis, published in 1988, Professor Yang Kuo-shu of National Taiwan University's Department of Psychology and Professor David Ho of Hong Kong University's Department of Psychology analyze 1008 songs from 92 albums in the Hong Kong commercial media's hit parades for the four years from 1980 to 1984.
台大心理系教授楊國樞，與香港大學心理學系教授何友暉在一九八八年發表的「在中國社會生活中緣的角色：一個概念的及實證的分析」一文中，蒐集分析一九八○至一九八四年間，香港商業廣播各年的暢銷金曲中，共計九十二張專輯、一千零八首作品。