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I think the reason why there are more pop divas out there than big male pop stars is quite sexist. When it comes to rock bands there are like 99% all male groups and it's just very few all female or mixed bands. Frankly speaking: when artists are considered real musicians and seen as individual people with talent, the majority thinks of men and all male rock bands who make (objectively) better composed music than a manufactured pop star. Pop divas are seen as puppets who are sexualized objects and have no clue when it comes to things like music theory. Most people aren't interested in all female rock bands or female rock soloists.
For example, one of Germany's biggest rock festivals again had a line up with not a single female act at all. It's not like every band in the line up was a successful major one and that there aren't any big female acts out there. People just don't care for female musicians, women in music only have a right to exist when they either are sexualised as hell or in Japan's case at least cute and innocent looking.
But if you're looking for a male soloist who's successful atm, there would be Acid Black Cherry, his album is with around 150k copies the 15th best selling album on oricon so far - but again he's not making pop music but rock.
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