Ayu is the 4th best-seller

[SunshineSlayer]

Good, she widened the gap between her and Dreams Come True and closed the gap a bit between her and SAS. Her placement is even all the more impressive since she hasn't been around nearly as long as the other artists in the top 10 (same for Utada.)

Originally Posted by ImpactBreaker

LOL she's also the first artist who managed to be on top for not releasing boring songs XD I mean, I'm yet to listen to a song from those other groups who doesn't YAWN me.

That's not really fair to those groups. I used to think that too, until I actually really listened to any of them. Southern All Stars has some great classic j-pop songs like Itoshii Ellie. Mr. Children - though I do think a lot of their singles sound the same - really stand out for their lyrics and I especially like their recent singles Fake and Shirushi. And B'z is just great - they have many excellent songs. Of course I prefer Ayu to them all. But any artist that the Japanese public reveres so highly I think is worth giving an objective listen to.

[ImpactBreaker]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

That's not really fair to those groups. I used to think that too, until I actually really listened to any of them. Southern All Stars has some great classic j-pop songs like Itoshii Ellie. Mr. Children - though I do think a lot of their singles sound the same - really stand out for their lyrics and I especially like their recent singles Fake and Shirushi. And B'z is just great - they have many excellent songs. Of course I prefer Ayu to them all. But any artist that the Japanese public reveres so highly I think is worth giving an objective listen to.

LOL yeah, I really generalized and was somewhat unfair since I never listened to even 1% of their works (except for B'z, which i listened to them a little more), but it's just that anything I try from them, I feel turned off. B'z does have some cool songs indeed, but I generally tend to forget most of them and a lot of their songs sound uninteresting, maybe because I'm not that much into the type of rock they produce.