[1] The album contains Sprite's 2000 advertising song "I Want to Fly,"[2] along with the charity single "Love, Never Disappears," which was specially composed by Leehom Wang for the 1999 Jiji earthquake victims.

Commercially, A-Mei New Century Collection was a huge success in Greater China, selling over 410,000 copies in Taiwan,[4] while also selling over 3 million copies throughout Asia.

[5] In March 1996, A-Mei signed a recording contract with Forward Music, through which she later released five studio albums—Sisters (1996), Bad Boy (1997), You Make Me Free Make Me Fly!

On December 28, 1998, Forward Music released a double-disc greatest hits album titled A-Mei New Century Collection, which contains A-Mei's 18 previously released songs and two new bonus tracks titled "I Want to Fly" and "Love, Never Disappears."

In January 2001, the track "I Want to Fly" was listed at number 11 on the 2000 Hit FM Top 100 Singles of the Year chart.