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Originally Posted by hpg23
Utada also had a huge potential to make it (and to make it bigger than Ayu), but her lack of releases and tours donīt make it for it. Surpassing Ayu is going to be real hard, and the only other female artist that I can recall as having as much power/significance as Ayu on her time was Seiko Matsuda.
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It's not true Utada Hikaru didn't eclipse Ayu. Both have very different carreers so it makes no sense to say she isn't bigger than Ayu because of lack of releases and tours since, in the end, Utada sales are higher to this days, she has three CDs in the Top 5 best-selling ever albums, "Prisioner of Love" and "Flavor of Life" were bigger than any Ayu single since 2002 and she is much more well regarded by the Japanese public (since she is not as active as Ayu and she still ranks very high on this list). So I think it's really unfair to say Hikki never reached Ayu since that's obviously not true and her popularity is higher.
Although I think Ayu deserves to be the "Queen of Jpop" since "pop" is very connected to the image, flashy outfits, impressive concerts and PVs and Ayu played that part, while Hikki didn't. But, in the end, I think Utada Hikaru is and was bigger in the Japanese music scene than Ayu. Even in Ayu peak, in 2001, Utada Hikaru outsold her.