[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

But if I'm not wrong, those Oricon Rankings usually survey +- the same people or something like that, doesn't it?

All those magazine/site rankings usually survey the same people (being it cuz they asked those people, or cuz they appeal to this or that group), so, no wonder most of the time the same magazines/sites lists the same artists/bands....

Originally Posted by Uemarasan

I have to disagree with Sunshine Slayer regarding the overall results: this isn't the music scene in Japan. It's what a certain fanbase wants to believe the music scene is like. Seeing that most of the population in Japan is much older, I believe that the teens and twenty year olds are over-represented.

I'm not going based off of a survey to tell me whats popular, but what I observe in my day to day life living here.