Ayu is the 4th best-seller

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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.