ayu #18 in Oricon Style Readers award for favourite 2005 artist :(
 

credit to TOKYO NIGHTS FORUM :

30-Year-Old Pony Canyon love ballad singer "aiko" won the 2005 Oricon Style readers award for favourite 2005 artist!
Here is the complete list of 50 atists:
1 aiko
2 Utada Hikaru
3 Mr.Children
4 Porno Graffitti
5 B?z
6 BoA
7 Southern All Stars
8 Spitz
9 Ootsuka Ai
10 Nakashima Mika
11 DREAMS COME TRUE
12 Fukuyama Masaharu
13 Shibasaki Kou
14 Hirai Ken
15 CHEMISTRY
16 EXILE
17 KinKi Kids
18 Hamasaki Ayumi
19 SMAP
20 ORANGE RANGE
21 BUMP OF CHICKEN
22 Ketsumeishi
23 Hitoto Yo
24 Kuwata Keisuke
25 Yuzu
26 L?Arc~en~Ciel
27 YUKI
28 GLAY
29 MISIA
30 Gackt
31 JUDY AND MARY
32 Every Little Thing
33 Makihara Noriyuki.
34 Do As Infinity
35 Kuraki Mai
36 ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION
37 TOKIO
38 Hirahira Ayaka
39 Kazumasa Oda
40 Kimura Kaela
41 Shiina Ringo
42 Onitsuka Chihiro
43 Gospellers
44 Amuro Nami
45 ZARD
46 Nakashima Miyuki
47 Takeuch Mariya
48 Yuming
49 ULFULS
50 T.M.Revolution

Here's the top ten for female and male readers:

Female Readers Top 10:
1 aiko
2 Porno Graffitti
3 Utada Hikaru
4 Mr.Children
5 BoA
6 DREAMS COME TRUE
7 KinKi Kids
8 B?z
9 Spitz
10 Fukuyama Masaharu

Male Readers Top 10:
1 Utada Hikaru
2 Mr.Children
3 B?z
4 aiko
5 Southern All Stars
6 Ootsuka Ai
7 BoA
8 Porno Graffitti
9 Spitz
10 Nakashima Mika


so sad for ayu...

yeah~I have seen it...but i dun care at all. GO AYU~NO MATTERS~^^

awww...owell...thats because Ay only released STEP you single so far

Ayu hasnt released many things this year

oh wow. aiko and hikki on top? i thought ORANGE RANGE and Ketsumeishi would rank higher though, at least in the top 10.

Hrm..

20,000 readers.. I bet most of them are aiko fans~ :3 [If you look @ the site, there's a picture that says 'Aiko wins no.1 out of 20000!' :D

Zeo

*GASP!*..ayu is number 18?????? oy vey..=[

I still think it's funny how the artists who have seemed to sold the most this year are lower on the list. Who reads this magazine? Ketsumeishi at #22? :shakehead

And I have just one question. What has Utada released this year? :eyebrow

Yay, my Masha is on the list. <3

Don't make a big deal out of Ayumi not being #1 or something, this doesn't really have anything to do with sales anyways.

That sucks a little...

aiko :love she highly deserves being #1. Her latest album is awesome and her next single will be a hit for sure. Funny how males like Ai Otsuka more than females. Namie and Ayu are quite low.. that's surprising for rather high selling artists. Especially for ORANGE RANGE and Ketsumeishi.

don't you worry... ayu will get them with fairyland and HEAVEN

These results make me wonder just who they polled. I don't even know why Utada was an option since she hasn't released anything.

O___O BoA at a higher position? Maybe it's because of DO THE MOTION. D:

It doesn't really matter anyway. I think this year will be one of her best. :3

Who care's? It's not important what people think. It's nothing to be sad for, it's just a poll. It doesn't mean anything! I'm just glad she is much higher than Namie... 44th place...

hmm..i'm not sure that this poll is really accurate or not...
top selling is get a low position in this poll
i don't think that ayu has decline her popularity this much...
but i think fairlyland and heaven can do it

crazy awards... when was this poll made anyway? i thought ORANGE RANGE would win (since they are hype in japan). What the heck is TOKIO being there??? I thought they were gone LOL ^^
Anyway perhaps this is the poll of "most anticipated artist to release something in 2005" (bcoz even hikki is on the list)... GO AYU! Beat them all with fairyland and HEAVEN!!!

It doesn't mean anything :P
I don't even think all of Ayu's fans in Japan voted for a silly award thingie :P

wow.... >.< hahaha