Records and record players arrived in Taiwan during the Japanese colonial era. Taiwan became capable of manufacturing records after its handover to the Republic of China in 1945, but true mass-production of records of locally written songs did not come about until the 1960s.
電唱機、唱片傳入台灣，是在日據時代，台灣有能力製作唱片則是光復以後的事，但是真正由國人自己作曲、填詞，且能大量生產的唱片，還是在民國 50 年以後才出現的。