[2008] This Japanese artist = This English Artist

[Damita]

Really? I thought the Aaliyah = Utada Hikaru one was great, they're pretty similar in their R&B works I think...

And this thread was inspired for exactly the reason you pointed out ImpactBreaker, a friend of mine asked me for Rihanna/Beyonce like Japanese artists and I got inspired to make a list of them. I did recommend someone who LOVES Madonna to Ayu, and they liked her a lot. When I was first checking Ayu out two years ago (first J-pop artist mind you) the title I got from her was "the Japanese Madonna" and it made me more interested in her, and I fell in love with J-pop from there. So you never know.

It's hard to find an exactly same artist, the closest I came to one as Misia = Mariah Carey because of both their ranges and styles of music (Pop/Hip-hop) but even they are very different. You don't see Misia running around topless in her videos and you don't see Mariah not performing on TV shows ever (in fact that's all she did for the first couple years of her career) but I still think they are very similar.