[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by Uemarasan

^Thanks for the additional explanation.

So it's a list based on popularity, after all. And I thought we'd be getting some insight into the inner workings of the Japanese entertainment industry and which artists really wield power and influence apart from the producers and executives.

I don't know, I just thought Ichiro would be seen more as an athlete than an entertainer.

^ Yeah, the title "power list" gives it a bit of a wrong impression, at least to english speakers.

There may be other athletes on the list, I just simply don't know what their names are. I actually went to some of the World Baseball Classic games with my boyfriend. He wanted to go even though he isn't really that big of a baseball fan but simply because he wanted to see Ichiro. He really is treated as kind of like a hero there in the pop culture right now.

Originally Posted by hpg23

Koda not being there doesn´t surprises much, but I don´t still get why nor Ayu or Ayaka aren´t there. Ayu may not be selling as hell nowadays, but well, now that I think of it, she has not been much on TV or magazines, and she has been more focused on concerts, but still, she should have least have appeared at the bottom of the list. And wasn´t ayaka really popular?

My guess is that Ayu would have done really well on the recognition question, but must have done poorly on the interest question. As for ayaka, I don't know.

Whats interesting is even on the breakdown of what the women age groups voted for - across all the age groups they heavily favored the male artists over the females and on the mens list its almost exclusively male artists.