Ayu on the "most searched" list at Yahoo!Japan for the first half of 2008
 

Ayu placed 13th on the "general" list of "searched people" that includes male and female individuals, and 7th on the list of females. I THINK Ayu is one of the "oldest" [in terms of career length] women in the top 20 for that category.. not sure though. Hikki counts so.. they're kinda tied, I guess. And Hoshino Aki is older age-wise than Ayu by a year.. [she's a gravure model.]

Last year she placed 11th on the first list, and 7th on the second.

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/8376/rankinguw8.jpg

In other news, YouTube tops the whole chart, with mixi [2nd] and 2channel [3rd] rounding out the top three.

I don't think this really gauges the amount of fans that one has, but it certainly shows how much interest is still in some artists.. (lack of Namie Amuro is very telling imo.) [though, I imagine the Google search results would be more telling than these.]

Source: http://searchranking.yahoo.co.jp/ran...f/general.html

oo that's cool~, who's that for the first in females?
i should go and search ayu on yahoo japan :P to get her more searches~

@_@ 1 billion hit! that's amazing...70 updates, she really is the new queen of blogging
wonder if she have hairballs? j/k

so ayu will probably get more searches after A COMPLETE comes out

thanks for that truehappiness

Ayu didn't do too bad. I had seen someone post those Nakagawa Shoko pictures on Myspace once. I had no idea who she was. At least I know who it is now. Whoa.

But yeah good for Ayu.

Regarding Ayu's searches.. She'll probably remain the same as usual. I think that her quietness in terms of releases and "drama" attributed her 2007/2008 ranking. I'm sure that before, she was waaay higher. Though the ear drama from the beginning of the year could've helped her "rise" in rank.

[As you know, scandals / drama makes people search for you..]

i know shoko made some new slang to the youngster?

she's so amazing, but ayu is more amazing :D and so does RINKA

Thx for the info, truhappiness !
wondering how's ayu on Google search??

Weird...
The blogger's pic with the cats was so cuuuute!
But I was *O___O* on the last pic.

Anyhow, its very nice to see Ayu was on the list of most FS (frequently searched) article on YJ!

it's amazing that Ayu is searched that much after 10 years.. you'd THINK people already know her.. I mean.. fans know the websites by heart.. how many of you type "ayumi hamasaki" in google?

Initially I thought ayu is the most search artist, hahaha.

Shokotan is amazing!..in a peculiar way.

woow YUI is very popular..

congratz to ayu althought she's senior

Man that girl have huge eyes! She could also pull of ALOT of lolcats pics if she wanted. XD

Thx for posting and clearing some info up truehappiness. ^^

I'm glad Ayu is still up there, that's quite good. :) At least people still have interest in her :P

btw for those who don't know, Shokotan is also a singer. :D Check out "snow tears" PV, the song is awesome <3

good for ayu! :D

nice to know

That's great

shokotan looks so scary!!!
congrats to ayu

Cool!Is Koda on the list?

And the "person" who's in first place females is so weird and creepy,who does that to cats?