長渕剛 - Nagabuchi Tsuyoshi was the artist in 2003. (His albums after peaked at #2, mostly #4 or #5 before getting a #2 last year.)
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRIENDS...90%E3%83%A0%29
Is it just me or do most artists nowadays end up falling out of the public eye by their 5th or 6th album? (They drop from the "top" basically)