Japanese Society of Rights of Authors and Composers Karaoke Ranking
 

nmskalmn asked me to post this for you all

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20...0142-kyodo-ent

The Japanese Society of Rights of Authors and Composers (JASRAC) announced the ranking of the songs for 2002 based of the rental fees collected from karaoke, CD, etc. in 2002 fiscal year.

1) Spirited Away BGM (By Joe Hisaishi
2) Hikaru Utada's "traveling"
3) Hitomi Shimatani's "Amairo no Kami no Otome"
4) Ayumi Hamasaki's "Dearest"
5) Hikaru Utada's "DISTANCE."

According to the report from JASRAC, up to the end of March this year, the total amount of the rental fee for one year is about 106,060 million yen. It increased 0.7% since last year.

There was also some sort of "interactive distribution" (I'm not exactly sure what this is). The interactive distribution top was Hikaru Utada's "SAKURA DOROPPUSU."

[Added by kawai]: Interactive distribution might covers ringtone download and online sales of songs in secure digital format like windows media format.

Sankyuu for the information Grantith!Traveling is such a good song in my opinion!

wahs..... ayumi is 4th! kinda sad.... her songs are quite easy to sing~

thanx for the info!

Dearest.. That's a good song now. :)

Thnx for the info

Thanx alot for the info. :) Kinda disappointed at the fact that she got only the 4th position.

erm...
does anybody know who is the artist for the Spirited Away theme song??
i love that song!

Ayu's always on the chart. that's the way !!!

yea, least shes on that chart. i love dearest..

Ayu has way too many songs that people could be singing that it wouldn't necessarily put any one of them at the top. :thumbsup

That's how I look at it.

Ashley

yay! dearest! :D

but i think that implies that there arent enough people singing them, so she only got charted at 4th :weep

hmm i thought endless sorrow was a pretty easy song to sing, i can sing that song pretty good for a non japenes speaking Brazilian Male :roflmao

thanx n Utada even gt 2 songs in it

Ayu's song r too complicated to sing and pplx dont sing it cux dey dont wanna ruin da song !!! duhhh lolss