During the 2020 Ultimate Song Chart Awards hosted on 1 January 2021, Lam received the bronze award for best male singer as well as the best composer award. He ranked among the top five in the fan-voted "My Favourite Male Singer" award, which Keung To won. During the awards ceremony, Lam played the guitar and sang his song "Terence’s Adventures in Wonderland". In contrast to most of the other male attendees who wore suits, Lam wore a less formal Mike Amiri "multicolor souvenir patchwork hoodie" and a Paul Smith shirt with colourful striped patterns to match his performance that night of his song "Terence's Adventures in Wonderland", to make it easier to play the guitar, and to make himself more comfortable and relaxed. As an independent artist, he chooses his own outfits to wear at award ceremonies instead of relying on a team to help him with the decisions. After Lam's awards at the 2020 Ultimate Song Chart Awards, "U Lifestyle" called Lam "the fastest rising male singer in Hong Kong's music scene". Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, Lam had a lower income and fewer performing opportunities so he had more time to compose songs. In January 2021, three of Lam's songs ranked in KKBox's top 20 ranking of songs streamed on the platform: "Solitude" ranked third, "In a Funk" ranked 13th, and "Quarantine" ranked 14th. In March 2021, while the pro-democracy supporter Ventus Lau was incarcerated at Stanley Prison, Lau listened to Lam's songs and worked on rewriting the songs' lyrics. In April 2021, he rewrote the lyrics of Lam's most recent song, "The Magical Confused Potion" ().