[Andrenekoi]

I think Utada got a little "old" right now... When I talk to most recent jpop listeners, they usually like neither that much (but they also don't really know them).

Still, both girls are the most relevant jpop musicians since Namie, and some of the few that have enough control over their own careers to feed their own twitters... In the end, even if Ayu is not selling loads, a lot of people over here who doesn't overestimate her actual level of fame underestimate it...

Also, Utada has a safer image and deals with safer themes on her lyrics and videos, what makes her easier to reach a larger audience... She experiements a lot more than Ayu when it's about melody, production and arrangment, but Ayu touches subjects that not everyone is really pleased to hear or see... what limit a little her public in comparation to Hikki