[Utada Hikaru] Utada Hikaru: Oricon's #1 Favorite Artist of 2008!

[CoriKaru]

Utada #1 on Oricon’s 20K Reader’s Favorite Artist 2008

Oricon has revealed this year’s Favorite Artist selected by 20,000 readers, and Utada comes in at #1 again this year, making this her 2nd consecutive #1 and 3rd time at the top of the list (2004, 2007, 2008). #2 goes to Kobukuro, followed by Aiko at #3, Mr. Children at #4, and Dreams Come True at #5. No word yet on whether there will be a special issue of the magazine this year. Congratulations to Utada!

http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/music/60075/

Credit: U.Blog


I love this girl.

[Amrai-chan]

Congratulations to her! That's great!

[Beauty4123]

HIKKI POWER

i'm so happy! utada deserves it 110%.

Congrats to Hikki! It was definitely her year!

[emi♡]

YEY!

GO HIKKI!!!!!!

[Kingdom]

she is like japan's sweetheart. congrats gurl

[Luv ~Venus~]

Yay for Hikki!

So happy for her. Chic totally deserve it. I hope she gets next year's title as well.

Here's the rest of the list:

2. Kobukuro
3. Mr.Children
4. aiko
5. DREAMS COME TRUE
6. Ayaka
7. Spitz
8. Porno graffiti
9. Fukuyama Masaharu
10. B'z
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11. Southern All Stars
13. YUI
14. Kou Shibasaki
15. Storm
21. Namie Amuro
22. Ken Hirai
29. EXILE
30. Yuzu

(Unranked) -> Kuwata Keisuke and YUKI

[Melon Panda]

I wish Ayumi had made the list (I suppose she didn't do a ton this year, compared to other years), but Namie definitely should have been ranked higher than aiko or ayaka, I think.

[pommy48]

hm aiko..is she that one that sang the theme song for hana yori dango, the movie?

[Beauty4123]

Originally Posted by pommy408

hm aiko..is she that one that sang the theme song for hana yori dango, the movie?

yup, pommy.

[prussian blue]

WOW how old is aiko? i think she's not that young, is her?

and where's ayu? its so surprising she's not in the list! and btw, namie deserve higher rank! and good to know ken is still in the list 0___0 he's like absent from the whole 2008 after the releasing of his album and one single

[Purple Neko]

Good for Utada! She's the best.

[sanzo2011]

Congrats Hikki !
But no Ayu ! i'm so sad !.

These are just the artists people like personally. That's why you don't see Ayumi on here, or Koda Kumi. Both of them get a lot of anti-fans.

[Luv ~Venus~]

^

It's still just funny that Ayumi wins are the Oricon polls yet she doesn't get the artist of the year from them. Weird much? lol

^That's cuz they're always something like "Which artist would you most want to go shopping with?" Like, who wants to go shopping with Hikki? You'd probably just go to a manga store or somewhere to buy accessories for Kuma and then maybe get some cheap ramen on the way home.

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by Luv ~Venus~

Yay for Hikki!

So happy for her. Chic totally deserve it. I hope she gets next year's title as well.

Here's the rest of the list:

2. Kobukuro
3. Mr.Children
4. aiko
5. DREAMS COME TRUE
6. Ayaka
7. Spitz
8. Porno graffiti
9. Fukuyama Masaharu
10. B'z
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11. Southern All Stars
13. YUI
14. Kou Shibasaki
15. Storm
21. Namie Amuro
22. Ken Hirai
29. EXILE
30. Yuzu

(Unranked) -> Kuwata Keisuke and YUKI

thanks for the list Shanny

I'm surprised to see Ken on the list :p

EDIT - is this updated daily ? because the list that Shanny provided , it's different from the one I'm seeing on the link that CoriKaru provided

[Luv ~Venus~]

^Oops my bad. I see what I did wrong. I couldn't copy the list by right clicking the page so instead I just used the edit tab and translated it. I ended up copying their last year's positions to0 and it got mixed up in the current positions. Sorry! (^_^)

Here's the list (srsly):

2. Kobukuro
3. aiko
4. Mr. Children
5. DREAMS COME TRUE
6. Southern All Stars
7. Namie Amuro
8. B'z
9. Spitz
10. Storm
11. Fukuyama Masaharu
12. Kou Shibasaki
13. Exile
14. Porno graffiti
15. Ayaka
16. YUI
17. Ken Hirai
18. Yuki
19. Kuwata Keisuke
20. Yuzu
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Okay. Yay for Namie!

[sanzo2011]

ah ! i just realize that Yuzu's on the list ! Are they really popular in Japan ? .

[ayumixfan]

AHH GO AIKO <333 ~! AND UTADA <333 ~! lol Its nice to see that japan still likes aiko =) and UTada was awesome this year. She deserved number one. I really like the top three position! Kobukuro 2nd =D How perfect lol! Poor ayaka tho =( trailing in at 15. At elast she made it ^^

Eh I don't think ayumi deserves it this year lol =x ~! She released GUILTY >_> lol sorry I don't like this album, a compliation and mirrorcle world. nothing too interesting as an artist this year. But hopefully next next year she releases more pop music and makes it =).