Artists You Became A Fan Of In 2011
 

What artists did you become a fan of this year?

Perfume may be
well, not a fan actually, I just like their music.

- One Direction (adorable boys with a perfect debut album!)
- B1A4 (more adorable boys with two perfect albums)
- APink
- IU (from casual fan to stan)
- CSJH The Grace (Just their music, but I'm very fond of Dana)
- Girl's Day (MAMAMAMAMMAMAMAMA)
- Foster the People (so out of place :roflmao)

2NE1
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

TVXQ and BIGBANG :cool

- Club for Five
- GIRL NEXT DOOR
- MAA
- Maon Kurosaki
- twill

Kara and moumoon I guess. :)

John Mayer

Mademoiselle Yulia
Beni
Miu Sakamoto
Tokyo Jihen
Miki Furukawa
Rihanna
AILI
Hiroki Okano
THE LOWBROWS


actually, not a bad year for music for me.

Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, After School/Orange Caramel, Dal Shabet, umm...Shizuka Kudo, a few others I can't remember.

Just the asian ones:

Missmo
Waa Wei
MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS
aus

Let's see... Mana Ashida, momo (official.stardust.co.jp/momo), azusa (azusa-amami.com), Emi Takei, AAA, Kis-My-Ft2, Sexy Zone...

For Asian artists: Namie Amuro, Kumi Koda, Kana Nishino, alan, 2NE1 (always just been a casual listener and never a fan for these artists.) For non-Asian artists: Ars Arcana, Celtic Thunder, Eric Saade, Future World Music.

SUPER GiRLS and Perfume.

Mika Nakashima (from a casual fan to a lover)
Utada Hikaru (from a fan to a stan)
Itano Tomomi (from a defender to a stan)
Adele
Lana del Rey
Britney Spears (from a fan to a lover)

TVXQ (just Homin)
OLIVIA
BENI

Girls Generation
Fairies - this group has a lot of potention...they can dance very well...the song is not just cutesy poppy...i love their song! they have strong vocal!!! GO FAIRIES!

i think that's it...

Asian:
2NE1
Yuya Matsushita
BENI
Yu-a
Girls' Generation (Never would have thought in a million years. However, I only like their Japanese release.)
Mademoiselle YULIA
f(x)
Simon D
Sunny Hill
KARA
Miss A
T-Ara
Wonder Girls
Kim Kyu Jong
Rainbow
U-Kiss

[Never been a fan of mainstream K-pop but this year's releases were decent]

Western:
Dragonette
GUSH (french indie band)
Adele
Elle Varner
Goldfish
Nicki Minaj
Marina and the Diamonds

2NE1
SPYAIR
Girls' Generation
Yuya Matsushita

SPYAIR & Kis-My-Ft 2 for me =D

AFTERSCHOOL, Brown Eyed Girls, RAINBOW, T-ARA, RaNia, Mika Nakashima, SPYAIR, SuG, ViViD, Piko, SKE48, ACID BLACK CHERRY and AAA

asian artist
perfume..
akb48..
shoujou jidai (casual listener and only liking their japanese ver)
2ne1 (only liking FIRE) lol...

western
RIHANNA...

Asian
Sound Horizon
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
Meisa Kuroki
Sunny Hill
Dear cloud
Alex from Clazziquai Project
MAA

Western
Adele
Taylor Swift
Woodkid
Claudia Brucken (Songs from L.A Noire OST)
Emily Browning (Songs from Sucker Punch OST)

became fan:

After School
Jay Park
IU
J. Cole
SNSD

became stan:

Justin Bieber
SISTAR

thats about it

Leessang
Sunny Hill
10cm
W&Whale
Winterplay

mostly indies artist :roflmao

Foster the People
Kakkmaddafakka

& I am back into the Koda Kumi fandom.

Asian
ONE OK ROCK
SNSD (well I listened to them a bit before but now I really love these girls :heart)
T-ARA
Daichi Miura
IU

Western
Nicole Scherzinger
Adele
Kat DeLuna
The Pretty Reckless

well,not a fan but interested in the music:
Kyary pamyu pamyu
MAA
Utada (i know her before but i really love her music since this year)

TOKYO GIRLS' STYLE
May'n
SKE48
SDN48
NMB48
Buono!
KARA
AKB48 sub-units (No Sleeves, Watarirouka Hashiritai, Not Yet, DiVA)

MAA
Kyarypamyupamyu
f(x)

iamamiwhoami
Nicola Roberts
Feist

Only AKB48... (I think... :P)

Oh this is gonna be fun...

KyaryPamyuPamyu
★STAR GUiTAR
Sakanaction
Nothing's Carved In Stone
Meisa Kuroki

And others...

Asian:

Brown Eyed Girls (casual listener to fan)
Wonder Girls

Western:

Glee Cast (kind of counts I believe)
Jessie J
Lily Allen (casual listener to fan)
Chisu
Demi Lovato
Pixie Lott (only possible, because I've only just started really enjoying her music, so not quite a fan yet)

It was kind of a slow year for Asian music for me. I've mainly just listened to new releases from groups I already liked before.
I got much more excited by Western music this year I found.

Asian:
2NE1
BIGBANG
G-Dragon
Kalafina


Western:
Amaranthe
Greyson Chance

Koda Kumi! lol. I gave her another chance this year and fell in love.

SNSD!
LOL! i've never thought i could get a SNSD fever and it came unexpectedly since i saw Yoona!^^!

*Kalafina
*ayaka
*Tohoshinki (the old and the new one)
*JYJ
*Perfume
*2NE1

wow a lot! but REAL FAN of
would be
Meisa Kuroki
Mika Nakashima
Mai Kuraki
Kara
Orange Caramel
AKB48
Bang Yong Guk
Chi Chi
Chocolat
Itano Tomomi
L'arc en Ciel
Rainbow
Song Ji Eun (but i loved Secret so long ago :3)
TABLO!!! <3

B1A4
A Pink
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
Rainbow
Girl's Day


That's all I can remember lol

Jpop
MAA
AKB48 kinda
JUJU
Miliyah Kato
globe
AAA
Yuka Masaki
AILI
Mademoiselle Yulia
Flower/Happiness

Kpop
Rania,Ali

Western
Lana Del Rey
Xtina

Mademoiselle Yulia
didnt like her album at first becuase i was expecting something slightly different but now her album is still on repeat

I think new groups Johnny's Jr. Sexy Zone

Katy Perry. Start liking her from her performance of Firework at AMA 2011

The only one I can think of is B1A4... And I'm really just a casual fan of them.

ow8, I forgot INFINITE. I like them now. :love