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Ayumi Hamasaki - way back in 1999 with Depend on you from that video game the song was featured in (Thousand Arms) so I downloaded that and copied that one song onto a cd and I would always listen to it but I lost it and she still wasn't as popular so i forgot about her until I decided to play the game again in 2001/2002 . I looked her up and listened to her others songs, found out she's like the biggest thing to hit Japan and became a fan.

Koda Kumi - I was her fan when feel my mind was released since I loved Crazy 4 U. Ever since then she was just giving out hit after hit until the disastrous Black Cherry which I still find to be her weakest album for me, and now she's just there. I still like to follow her career though.

Namie Amuro - As I was searching up Ayumi, I saw Namie's name mentioned and I downloaded Never End, loved the song but then I just forgot about her. I started joining forums around 2005 and saw Queen of Hip-Pop was released. Downloaded that and I became obsessed with her and yea.

Utada Hikaru - Kingdom Hearts.

BoA - It was during my "anime is so cool" period and I was watching Inuyasha, heard Every Heart and again, downloaded some songs and just fell in love with her.

And the rest were just found through forums. "The official ______ thread" and then I would click it to see who it was and decided if I like the artist or not.

edit: I should mention that the artists above (aside from Ayumi and Namie) are not my favourite artists anymore lol Those places have been given out to melody. (even though she's done with singing), Mika Nakashima, Angela Aki, Hitomi Shimatani, ayaka and a few others.