1) BREAKERZ
2) Matsushita Yuya
3) Kuroki Meisa
4) GIRL NEXT DOOR
5) Koda Kumi

I don't list ayumi on there for obvious reasons 8D since she will forever be #1 to me x)

like, lately :
1. Ayu
2. BIG BANG
3. SHINee
4. 2NE1
5. After School

if we put aside ayu since it's too obvious, either onichii/snsd would be there~

1. Ayumi Hamasaki
2. Ai Otsuka
3. alan
4. Koda Kumi
5. Namie Amuro

Atm :3

1. B'z/Koshi Inaba
2. Ayumi Hamasaki
3. Koda Kumi
4. Meisa Kuroki
5. YUI

Honorable mentioned:
2NE1

Japanese:

01 Koda Kumi
02 ayumi hamasaki
03 Namie Amuro
04 Utada Hikaru
05 Kana Nishino

Korean:

01 Lee Hyori
02 BIG BANG (Seungri is <3)
03 SHINee
04 MBLAQ
05 2PM

Yes, nothing changes the fact that Kuu's gonna be my #1 forever. :luv2

1. JYJ
2. KAT-TUN
3. 西野カナ
4. 東方神起
5. ARASHI

1. ayumi hamasaki
2. Utada Hikaru
3. aiko
4. Ikimono-gakari
5. kato miliyah

1. Ayu
2. MERRY
3. Dir en grey
4. GACKT
5. BUCK-TICK

In particular order...

1. UVERworld
2. Abingdon boys school
3. Utada Hikaru
4. Tohoshinki
5. Ayumi Hamasaki

japanese:

1. ayu
2. kana
3. beni
4. miliyah kato
5. aoyama thelma

1. Dir en grey
2. Ayu
3. Shiina Ringo

That's it. I don't have a 4th or 5th, the rest are about the same.

1) BREAKERZ
2) Acid Black Cherry
3) SPYAIR
4) Hilcrhyme
5) Matsushita Yuya

=D

1. Nana Mizuki
2. Ayumi Hamasaki
3. L'arc en ciel
4. Masami Okui
5. Utada Hikaru & Namie Amuro

=)

1. ayumi hamasaki
2. miliyah kato
3. namie amuro
4. perfume
5. kyary pamyu pamyu / koda kumi

1.Ayumi Hamasaki ❤
2.Gackt
3.Koda Kumi
5.Kana Nishino
4.Namie Amuro

Now,

1) Love
2) EXILE
3) Dream
4) Happiness
5) Mao Denda

1) BREAKERZ
2) SPYAIR
3) Acid Black Cherry
4) Hilcrhyme
5) Matsushita Yuya

x)

1. Nana Mizuki
2. May'n
3. SKE48
4. AKB48
5. Kara

1. 赤西 仁
2. Hey! Say! JUMP
3. EXILE
4. 安室奈美恵
5. GACKT

1. Ayumi Hamasaki
2. Angela Aki
3. FLOW
4. Namie Amuro
5. UVERworld

1.hamasaki ayumi~undisputed~ lol...
2.hikaru utada
3.mr.childern
4.b'z
5.nakashima mika
6.yui
7.koda kumi
8.laruku
9.amuro namie
10.southern all star

i choose them because they are a truly artist/musician who make a real music not a computerized music

My current top-5 asian artists, according to Last.fm.

1. Mass of The Fermenting Dregs
2. Hamasaki Ayumi
3. Missmo
4. Yu fei men
5. immi

00. L'Arc~en~Ciel
00. Ayumi Hamasaki
---------------------
01. Miliyah Kato
02. Koda Kumi
03. Kuroki Meisa
04. lecca
05. immi

1. Ayumi Hamasaki
2. Koda Kumi
3. Utada Hikaru
4. Aoyama Thelma
5. OLIVIA

1. ayumi hamasaki -> FOREVER NO.1
2. SNSD
3. Jonghyun of SHINee
4. Rainbow
5. Super Junior

1. Koda Kumi
2. Perfume
3. Kalafina
4. 2NE1
5. alan and Hello! Project groups

1) BREAKERZ
2) SPYAIR
3) Acid Black Cherry
4) NEVER LAND
5) DAIGO STARDUST

Yup very BREAKERZ driven/biased as usual since #4 & #5 are BRZ related 8D :innocent

Currently its:
1. U-KISS
2. L'Arc~en~Ciel
3. Koda Kumi
4. Namie Amuro
5. Ayu

U-KISS and Namie are probably just phases. Kuu, Laruku and Ayu are pretty much permanently up there for the past 4 years :P

:roflmao story of my life!

1) BREAKERZ
2) Acid Black Cherry
3) SPYAIR
4) BENI
5) Tegomass

00 Koda Kumi :heart
-------------------
01 Ayumi Hamasaki
02 JUJU
03 Miliyah Kato
04 Aoyama Thelma
05 ayaka
05 Lee Hyori

Currently

1. SKE48
2. AKB48
3. May'n
4. Buono!
5. Girls Dead Monster

1) BREAKERZ
2) Acid Black Cherry
3) SPYAIR
4) BENI
5) Tegomass

Still no change x)

Jrock
1. L'Arc~en~Ciel
2. the GazettE
3. AnCafe
4. Nightmare
5. alice nine

Jpop
1. Changin' My Life
2. H/\L
3. Ai Maeda
4. Ayumi Hamasaki
5. Ami Suzuki

:)

1. Ayumi Hamasaki
2. Utada Hikaru and MAA
3. Miliyah Kato
4. BENI
5. Mika Nakashima

2011 artist ranking:
1.Itano Tomomi
2.Namie Amuro
3.AKB48
4.GReeeeN
5.ayumi hamasaki

My top 5 according to last.fm! :laugh

1. B'z
2. 稲葉浩志
3. SNSD
4. 浜崎あゆみ
5. 2NE1

according to last.fm, it seems like this:

1. Joey Yung
2. Namie Amuro
3. Ayumi Hamasaki
4. Karen Mok
5. Lee Jung Hyun

At the moment my Top 5 looks like this (by the taste of music at the moment):

#1 Koda Kumi
#2 Kana Nishino
#3 BoA
#4 MBLAQ
#5 2NE1

And the Top 5 for other reasons that's probably more true than the one above (Well the top 2 spots are the same as above lol):

#1 Koda Kumi
#2 Kana Nishino
#3 ayumi hamasaki
#4 BIG BANG
#5 MBLAQ

My lists changes quite regularly based on my feelings. At the moment I've been into R&B and Pop mostly and I haven't listened to Ayu almost at all since August. XD

If VOCALOID counts...

1. Ayumi Hamasaki
2. Miku Hatsune
3. Lia
4. KOTOKO
5. Rin Kagamine

If VOCALOID doesn't count...

1. Ayumi Hamasaki
2. Lia
3. KOTOKO
4. capsule
5. BoA

at the moment:
1. 信 (Shin)
2. ayu
3. Eason Chan
fourth and fifth place according to last.fm, but I don't listen to them as much now
4. F.I.R.
5. Koda Kumi

Shin surpasses ayu atm >.< this had never happened before, I am not sure if this will be permanent or not.

1. L'Arc~en~Ciel
2. the GazettE
3. Psychic Lover
4. Gackt
5. Dir en grey

1) BREAKERZ
2) GIRL NEXT DOOR
3) BENI
4) SPYAIR
5) Acid Black Cherry

:love

After about a year since posting last:

1. ACO
2. MAA
3. UA
4. immi
5. ayumi hamasaki
6. Namie Amuro
7. Jun Togawa
8. Utada Hikaru
9. Mademoiselle Yulia
10. MELL

Whoops, I guess that was ten! :)

Current Temporary Top 5:
1. 2NE1
2. SNSD (never would have thought in a million years)
3. Narsha
4. Kanno Yoko (famous Japanese composer)
5. T-ara

All Time Favorite Top 5:
1. Utada Hikaru (#1 till the end of time)
2. Clazziquai Project
3. Crystal Kay
4. L'arc~en~Ciel
5. Koda Kumi

1) BREAKERZ
2) GIRL NEXT DOOR
3) BENI
4) SPYAIR
5) Acid Black Cherry

No change :innocent even though lately I've been listening to lots of ON/OFF , Hilchryme & also YUI

I still need a new album from both Hilchryme & Matsushita Yuya before the year ends ._.

1) SNSD
2) After School
3) Chara
4) T-ara
5) MAA

My taste changed again (well, spots 3 to 5 are new lol):

01 Koda Kumi
02 Kana Nishino
03 2NE1
04 Park Bom
05 4minute

1. Buono!
2. SDN48
3. Tokyo Girls' Style
4. May'n
5. AKB48

1. Perfume
2. SDN48
3. AKB48
4. Utada Hikaru
5. Shoko Nakagawa @_@

1. Ayumi Hamasaki
2. Maaya Sakamoto
3. 2NE1
4. Koda Kumi
5. Kana Nishino

1) BREAKERZ
2) BENI
3) girl next door
4) Hilcrhyme
5) ON/OFF

1. ayumi hamasaki
2. akiko shikata
3. 2NE1
4. TVXQ
5. Brown eyed girls

omg whats with the recent kpop invasion into my list ><

1. Ayu
2. L'Arc~en~Ciel
3. Any Yuki Kajiura project

^ Consistent top three.

4. Do As Infinity
5. alice nine

1. Fairy Story
2. Toshi
3. Ai Maeda
4. Ayu
5. Ami Suzuki

:) for now :P

1. Ayumi Hamasaki
2. alan
3. Perfume
4. Stefanie Sun Yan Zi
5. Hebe Tian (Tian Fu Zhen)

1 Utada Hikaru
2 ayumi hamasaki
3 TVXQ
4 Olivia Lufkin
5 BoA

The one's that never change

1. Ayumi Hamasaki
2. Namie Amuro

Can switch places

3. BoA
4. Koda Kumi
5. Utada Hikaru

1) Ayumi Hamasaki
2) Koda Kumi
3) Namie Amuro
4) Utada Hikaru
5) Dir en grey

I have no idea if I've posted in this thread before and don't feel like going through 8 pages of posts to find out, so here's my list, which is inevitably different from whatever I may have posted in the past anyways:

1. Namie Amuro
2. Faye Wong
3. Ayumi Hamasaki
4. AKB48
5. SNSD & KARA (tied)

tough choice, but atm it should be something like that

1. Mika Nakashima
2. Miliyah Kato
3. BENI/Meisa Kuroki
4. Ayumi Hamasaki
5. SNSD

1) BREAKERZ
2) KAT-TUN
3) Kis-My-Ft2
4) Kuroki Meisa
5) BENI

The fact that BRZ announced today on their fanclub site they're releasing a new single on my birthday month = *_______________*

1. TVXQ
2. Big Bang
3. Wonder Girls
4. Brave Girls
5. Orange Caramel / Infinite

1. Eri Nobuchika
2. After School
3. SNSD
4. Perfume
5. school food punishment

01. ayumi hamasaki
02. Anna Tsuchiya
03. Minori Chihara
04. alan
05. T-ARA & 4minute

I'm pretty much stuck in a K-pop obsession phase atm

Favourites:
1. U-KISS
2. Super Junior
3. TVXQ
4. Trouble Maker
5. Kyuhyun (his solo works ain't bad)

mine...

01. ayumi hamasaki
02. GACKT
03. TUBE
04. L'Arc-en-Ciel
05. Kawamura Ryuichi (Luna Sea)

Mine are:
1. Ayumi Hamasaki
2. Kumi Koda
3. Namie Amuro
4. AAA
5. GIRL NEXT DOOR

Of course there are maaa~ny others as well, and actually after the top3, I can't really decide who is better than others.

1 Namie Amuro
2 Mika Nakashima
3 Ayaka Hirahara
4 Aural Vampire
5 Miliyah Kato

Honorable mention:
Anna Tsuchiya, ayaka, alan

1 Ayumi Hamasaki
2 Hebe Tian (Tian Fu Zhen)
3 alan
4 2NE1
5 Koda Kumi

If there was a 6, I'd give it to Jolin Tsai!!!

honorable mention: Namie Amuro, Ai Otsuka, Utada Hikaru, ayaka, brown eyed girls

1. All 48 groups (AKB/SKE/NMB/SDN)
2. Ayumi Hamasaki
3. Nana Mizuki
4. Girls' Generation
5. May'n

1. Ayumi Hamasaki
2. alan
3. Kana Nishino
4. 2NE1
5. Super Junior

1. Ayumi Hamasaki
2. Tomoko kawase
3. Namie amuro
4. Alan
5. Koda kumi

1) BREAKERZ
2) Kuroki Meisa
3) SPYAIR
4) Matsushita Yuya
5) Koda Kumi

I wouldn't list ayumi down for obvious reasons since she's already & forever #1 to me ;)

1. Perfume
2. SDN48
3. Utada Hikaru
4. FLOWER
5. AKB48

(1) Ayumi Hamasaki :heart
(2) Utada Hikaru
(3) Girls' Generation
(4) Koda Kumi
(5) Namie Amuro

Ayu is easily number one, but the others... it was hard to put them in order! :eek I could easily swap Hikki and Kuu's places around depending on my mood.

1. Ayumi Hamasaki
2. MAA
3. Namie Amuro
4. T-ara
5. Koda Kumi

Updated:
1. Ayumi Hamasaki (1998-2010)
2. Utada Hikaru
3. Namie Amuro
4. Kana Nishino
5. AKB48

1.Ayumi Hamasaki
2.Koda Kumi
3.BENI
4.Tomoko Kawase
5.Maki Goto

honorable mention: Anna Tsuchiya, Sowelu, misono,Crystal Kay,Kaela Kimura, Masaharu Fukuyama

1- Ayumi Hamasaki
2- Boa
3- DBSK
4- Morning Musume
5- Koda Kumi

1. Shiina Ringo
2. Koda Kumi
3. Tokyo Jihen
4. miss A
5. Meisa Kuroki

1. KAT-TUN
2. Ayumi Hamasaki
3. Koda Kumi
4. Namie Amuro
5. n/a

I'm not really listening to much besides these four and the occasional Tomohisa Yamashita song at the moment.

1. BREAKERZ
2. Wada Kouji
3. Ai Maeda
4. Ayu
5. Changin' My Life

for now ^^

After Ayu, Namie, Koda, and Hikki...who are always on top:

1. BENI
2. MAA
3. Eiko Shimamiya
4. MADEMOISELLE YULIA
5. immi

People who don't really release:

1. audio safari
2. Lena Fujii
3. MAI
4. Emi Hinouchi

@ Utadayumi : thank you , your #1 choice is spot on xD

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1) BREAKERZ
2) Acid Black Cherry
3) KAT-TUN
4) Kis-My-Ft2
5) SPYAIR

- INFINITE
- Jay Chou
- Big Bang
- Nell
- Namie Amuro

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T.M.Revolution
安室奈美恵
KARA

00 Koda Kumi
01 Ayumi Hamasaki
02 2NE1
03 JUJU
04 ayaka
05 Miliyah Kato

1. Kumi
2. Namie
3. Ayu
4. 1tym
5. Ivy

new list in no order : )

NEWS
Mizca
May'n

for now : )

Ayu
Namie
Alan
Kuu
Kana nishino

1) BREAKERZ
2) Acid Black Cherry
3) SPYAIR
4) Namie Amuro
5) Kis-My-Ft2

#1 will never ever change , only if something terribly bad has happened to my BRZ devotion x) but I doubt it since I've been there for them from their 2008 debut single til now :innocent

Sorry to neglect you DAIGO STARDUST xD Spacey hug & kiss to you ? :laugh

I don't count Ayu because she's always number 1 for me^^

1. Moumoon
2. Kalafina
3. Acid Black Cherry
4. Shokotan
5. The Sketchbook

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きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅhttp://emoji.ameba.jp/img/user/pi/pink---rose/71212.gif
Perfume
BIGBANG

1. Ayumi Hamasaki
2. Rurutia
3. Hikaru Utada
4. Chihiro Onitsuka
5. Meisa Kuroki

1. Love
2. EXILE
3. ISSA x SoulJA
4. Jay Chou
5. Della Ding

Ummm ayu is on a different level than everyone else, so ayu is my number one automatically. lol sooooo I'll pick the next five, in no particular order:

01 Crystal Kay
02 Namie Amuro
03 Kumi
04 Jamosa
05 Miliyah

love utada, but not counting her since she is on hiatus.

1) BREAKERZ
2) Acid Black Cherry
3) B'z
4) Kis-My-Ft2
5) SPYAIR

Oh lookie , #1 -#3 are all inter-related with each other , fandoms wise :laugh x)

1. Ayumi Hamasaki
2. TVXQ (5 member)
3. KOKIA - I actually consider her to be the most vocally talented singer I have ever heard
4. Utada Hikaru
5. Chihiro Onitsuka - surprise new entry

Only because SHINPEI is a big B'z dork (like myself)! :roflmao

lmao

yeah that & also it helps that he's in their fanclub too xD

I didn't know about him being B'z's #1 ultimate fanboy til much later on :P