We used the Top 10 songs on last-fm to select songs from each diva to be used in this rate. Last-fm pretty much represents what the overseas fans like and so I was wondering what the list would look like if it was looked at from a Japanese fan point of view. Here are the Top 10 most popular songs on iTunes Japan for each of the 4 divas. ITunes may not be a huge digital retailer in Japan but I think it gives an interesting look on what the Japanese fans may prefer compared to the overseas fanbases.
NAMIE AMURO
KODA KUMI
AYUMI HAMASAKI
UTADA HIKARU
Sorry for the play signals. Felt like quickly revisiting some songs.
It looks somewhat reputable. Can You Celebrate, First Love, Automatic...
If you learn one thing about Japan from being into j-pop, it should be that iTunes is as irrelevant over there as Rhapsody, Napster and Yahoo Music are everywhere else.
iTunes Japan? Come on now sis You should have used recochoku or something.
Sis please I know that obviously. But theres no way on Recochoku to look at the most popular songs from an artist like this as far as I know. Plus I was bored and just passing the time.
If you learn one thing about Japan from being into j-pop, it should be that iTunes is as irrelevant over there as Rhapsody, Napster and Yahoo Music are everywhere else.
That's obvious. But at least those are three major songs from two artists where I would expect them to be. I wonder how many Japanese people do use ITunes though cause Utada's list kinda surprised me. With just Western fans buying it would've been pretty different.
It is amazing how Namie's signature song didn't even make it into our rate though.
You know what's gonna happen, and I'm gonna laugh my ass off when it does. What a Feeling is going to win this whole thing, after all the Namie scalping that was going on in the beginning. I swear, though, if I'm right... ahh:
That's obvious. But at least those are three major songs from two artists where I would expect them to be. I wonder how many Japanese people do use ITunes though cause Utada's list kinda surprised me. With just Western fans buying it would've been pretty different.
It is amazing how Namie's signature song didn't even make it into our rate though.
iTunes is growing quickly in Japan, although mobile still dwarfs it. The first three months of this year, 59 billion yen was spent on mobile downloads compared to 19 billion yen on PC downloads (which is mostly iTunes).
. This rate should have shown that she has better songs than that
But at least those are three major songs from two artists where I would expect them to be. I wonder how many Japanese people do use ITunes though cause Utada's list kinda surprised me. With just Western fans buying it would've been pretty different.
(for the Japanese people at least, Taboo is pretty much her signature song elsewhere)
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