Well, I wanted to see who was the Japanese female artist with the most plays in Last.fm (a site that many members of this forum use)
and guess what, Ayumi came out #1 with 14,321,943 plays so far!
here are the positions & details:
Top 20 By plays (Sunday 5 April 2009):
1.
Ayumi Hamasaki: 14,321,943 plays +
2.
Utada Hikaru: 11,102,229 plays + (including “Utada” and “Cubic U” profiles)
3.
BoA: 5,867,512 plays +
4. YUI: 5,080,699 plays +
5.
Koda Kumi: 4,407,827 plays +
6.
Namie Amuro: 3,353,908 plays +
7. Ai Otsuka: 2,897,951 plays +
8. Mika Nakashima: 1,963,899 plays +
9. OLIVIA: 1,700,139 plays +
10. Nami Tamaki: 1,055,571 plays +
11. Crystal Kay: 1,004,715 plays +
12. Angela Aki: 813,887 plays +
13. Hitomi Shimatani: 787,337 plays +
14. hitomi: 770,693 plays +
15. Anna Tsuchiya: 721,569 plays +
16. Ami Suzuki: 493,029 plays +
17.
Ayaka: 433,560 plays +
18. Yuna Ito: 348,603 plays +
19.
alan: 303,857 plays +
20. DOUBLE: 293,921 plays +
(+) This means that the plays keep raising.
keep in mind that this doesn't mean how many listeners the singers have, talking about the number of listeners its a different story
I will publish the top 20 by number of listeners soon too!
I found this very funny! Because I thought that koda kumi and namie amuro would be third and fourth, and also many people talks bad about ayu and she still tops the charts all the time etc ^^
feel free to comment about this information!
EDIT: I picked the most popular Jpop female singers that I know for this! so if you know/found any other female artist with more plays than any of this listed here, please tell me and show me and I will put them up