i heard the instrumental of utada hikaru's WINGS in a commercial once. and in an itunes or something music related commercial, they mention "japanese pop music". plus, a channel on my TV airs j-dramas (from FujiTV) so i hear music from those openings or endings, too. but then there's also anime (like BLEACH. they air that on my TV, too). so that's basically my only exposure to jpop here. it freaking sucks, lol. i wish i saw PVs on my TV
too bad the japanese TV package on my cable network is too much money (and my mom would also not let me get it anyway
). they have MUSIC STATION and MUSIC JAPAN