Eric Chou Hsing-che (Chinese: 周興哲; pinyin: Zhōu Xīngzhé; born 22 June 1995) is a Taiwanese singer and songwriter.

[1][2] Chou's self-composed smash hit "The Distance of Love", the ending theme of the 2014 Taiwanese drama The Way We Were, reached 100 million views on YouTube, making Chou the youngest Mandopop artist to reach the feat at that time.

[9] During his time in Boston, he wrote the song, "The Distance of Love" (Chinese: 以後別做朋友, romanized: Yi Hou Bie Zuo Peng You, lit.

[12] Chou was talent scouted by Taiwanese actor Edison Huang (黃懷晨) who heard from a friend that his son "can sing", and was asked to perform at his wedding with actress Queenie Tai when he was seventeen.

[13] He performed the song "The Distance of Love" which will eventually be chosen two years after as the ending theme of the Taiwanese drama The Way We Were where Tai also appeared.

[16] He also had his first leading role in a micro drama for a ramen brand and released the theme song, "I Loved You".

[17] In February 2017, he held his Valentine's concert in Macau where he performed his new song "Unbreakable Love", as well as a cover of Hebe Tien's "A Little Happiness".

[23] In August 2017, he announced the ticket-selling for his second concert tour "22 TWENTY TWO" in Taipei and the tickets sold out within 6 minutes.

[31] In November 2018, Chou appeared as the male lead in IQIYI web drama, The Elfin's Golden Castle.

At the 15th KKBOX Music Awards, Chou performed a medley of his songs, including "At Least I Remember" from his new EP.

[36] In October 2019, Chou released his song "Forever Beautiful" in support for a breast cancer campaign.

On 8 August, Chou became the first singer to hold a concert at Taipei Arena since the COVID-19 pandemic started as part of his "How Have You Been Tour".

[40] To raise funds for the COVID-19 pandemic, Eric Chou donated all proceeds from a new remake of "Forever Beautiful", sung together with other Asian Sony artists.

[41] In January 2019, Chou announced that he has been in a relationship with Sanlih news anchor Dacie Chao (born c. 1989) since March 2018, after previously denying the rumors.

[44] Chou announced their engagement in October 2022 and revealed that he had proposed to Chao in Europe on a hotel balcony in March that year.