[4] Commercially, Sing and Play fared very well, with cumulative sales in Asia exceeding 2.5 million copies.

[5] Sing and Play was the first Chinese album recorded using HDCD techniques,[4] and the creative team still used partners such as Albert Leung, Adrian Chan, Xin Weili, and Jiang Zhiren.

Wong not only served as the producer of the album, she also once again composed four tracks: "Emotional Life", "Face", "Whimsical" and "Child".

The song is arranged by Dou Wei and was also the only work on the album that Wong personally wrote the lyrics for.

In this way, the dorama's plot worked its way into the song's lyric: "I haven't boiled the red beans into a lingering wound for you".

[8] Pan Xieqing, the composer who collaborated with Wong for the first time in the album, created two works, "Give Up Halfway" and "Fly".

[20] Billboard's Asia bureau chief, Steve McClure, placed it in number seven of his top ten list of 1999 Asian albums.

[5] The album was noted for some of its ballads, in contrast to the pop songs which had provided most of Wong's hits around that time.