here's mine :
Ayu
Ai otsuka
Mayday
Cyndi wang
Southern all stars

HA! <3


Except mine's something like... (if this is only solo artists...)

1.Ayu/Vienna/Hikki (Yeah 3 number ones...I can't really put one of em in 2.)
2. Tujiko Noriko
3. Keiko Matsui or Ai Aso...probably Keiko...

If it's both solo artists/bands then it's...

1. Ayu/Vienna/Hikki
2. Boris (at least with the rock albums)
3. HEAD PHONES PRESIDENT or Keiko Matsui

Here is my current Top 5. This is without including Ayumi. I'm mostly interested in JPop from the 80/90s. I could easily mention more than 20 artists.

1. 松田聖子 (Seiko Matsuda)
2. 中森明菜 (Akina Nakamori)
3. 宇多ヒカル (Hikaru Utada)
4. 酒井法子 (Noriko Sakai)
5. ZARD

1. L'Arc~en~Ciel
2. Ayumi Hamasaki
3. Miliyah Kato
4. Koda Kumi
5. DBSK

1.- Ayu
2.- Utada
3.- alan
4.- Namie Amuro
5.- BoA

1. Kumi Koda
2. Jade Valerie (even thoug she is not Asian, she most known in Asia).
3. Ayumi Hamasaki
4. Sowelu
5. Sweetbox Next Generation :D

I can only think of three artists that I can say without a doubt are in my Top-whatever...

1. Koda Kumi
2. Namie Amuro
3. BoA
4. ?
5. ?

All the other artists I listen to, I obviously like, but I don't listen to them as much as the top three.

well, my current top 5 is quite easy.

1. DBSK/THSK
2. Super Junior
3. Utada Hikaru
4. JJ Lin
5. KAT-TUN (latest addiction - thanks to Karen)

Uhh..I only have a top 3? XD

1. Koda Kumi
2. Ayumi Hamasaki
3. Namie Amuro

1. Utada Hikaru
2. Ayumi Hamasaki
3. BIG BANG
4. Base Ball Bear
5. Wonder Girls

My list:

1. Koda Kumi
2. Namie Amuro
3. Mai Kuraki
4. Utada Hikaru
5. Ami Suzuki

Ayu was left out for a good reason. I just don't listen to her so much right now so I thought that I'd leave her out. I really adore all of the girls I mentioned.

1) Ai Otsuka <--- Obvious
2) Utada Hikaru
3) ayaka
4) aiko
5) namie amuro

I really wanted to add kobukuro D: ~! But I cant remove the rest XD ~!

my fav. artists in no order:
- Amuro Namie
- Mai Fukui
- Rurutia
- Utada Hikaru
- Yuya Matsushita

In order of course:

* Ayumi Hamasaki <3 <3 (Will always be number 1 in my heart) (ALWAYS)
* BoA
* Hikaru Utada
* Namie Amuro
* Ayaka

After ayu it doesn't really go in order:

1. Ayumi Hamasaki
2. L'Arc~en~Ciel
3. Shiina Ringo
4. Jolin Tsai
5. globe

I wanted to put Iruma Rioka on it but seeing as she only debuted last year (and her album blew me away <3) I'm still waiting to see what else she can deliver :P

so here's mine:
Korean:
1. Epik High
2. Nell
3. TBNY
4. T
5. Dynamic Duo

Japanese:
1. GReeeeN
2. alan
3. Nagase Miyu/ZONE
4. BREAKERZ
5. Hinouchi Emi

Chinese:
1. JJ Lin
2. Picks
3. Vivian Hsu
4. F.I.R
5. Nicholas Teo

(alan would be in the chinese, but i already had her in japanese...)

all combined would be too complicated so i had to separate them by language

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D

I agree with you. :yes I could easily list upwards of 20 favorite artists as well.

But here is what I would say currently, though its too hard for me to rank them:

Akina Nakamori
Yamaguchi Momoe
NOKKO
Ayumi Hamasaki
Namie Amuro

Can I do separate lists for men and women? haha. Top male artists, once again in no particular order:

Arashi
SMAP
L'arc en Ciel
Gackt
Kuwata Keisuke

But there are sooo many more.

my top 5 artists would be ad not in order
- Ayumi Hamasaki
- KAT-TUN
- Daigo Stardust
- Tackey & Tsubasa
- Gackt

1st 4 approved :P :laugh

DAIGO because of BREAKERZ :lmfao