Nikkei TOP 100 entertainers 2009

[SunshineSlayer]

http://ent.nikkeibp.co.jp/ent/
Nikkei Power Ranking is an annual list of entertainers that ranks how powerful they are within the entertainment industry. Here are the results:




(obviously I got this from an Arashi fan since they highlighted the Arashi names^_^)

Here is some of the people on the list romanized. If anyone wants to do the full list, feel free.

Ayu is noticeably absent - I can't remember if she made the list last year or not either.

1. Southern All Stars
2. SMAP
3. Ichiro (baseball player)
4. Katori Shingo (SMAP)
5. Fukuyama Masuharu
6. Kawata Keisuke (southern all stars)
10. Kobukuro
12. Kimura Takuya (SMAP)
15. Nakai Masahiro (SMAP)
17. Becky
19. Arashi (jumped up from 60 last year.)
21. Tamori
22. TOKIO
23. Downtown
25. Shibasaki Kou
26. Mr. Children
27. Ninety-Nine
28. Dreams Come True
31. Kusanagi Tsuyoshi (SMAP)
33. EXILE
35. Utada Hikaru
36. Ueto Aya
37. Shimura Ken
39. Amuro Namie
42. Shuchushin
44. Kokubun Taichi (TOKIO)
45. Okada Jun'ichi (V6)
48. Nagase Tomoya (TOKIO)
53. Yamaguchi Tatsuya (TOKIO)\
59. Inagaki Goro (SMAP)
61. Kinki Kids
65. Matsumoto Jun (Arashi, big jump from 118 last year)
68. Sakurai Sho (Arashi, another big jump from 160)
75. Ninomiya Kazunari (Arashi, slightly smaller jump from 101^_^)
86. Daigo
99. B'z (surprisingly, last year they were 99 as well.)

How Nikkei gets the rankings:

This is basically "THE" list annually. It tends to be given more weight compared to other lists. As far as the processes, here is what I know:

-It is similar to how Ninki is done, only with a MUCH larger sample. It is also (supposedly) done with an equal number of people from each gender as well as from each age group.
-They test the celebrities level of recognition (how well is their name or face recognized?)
-They ask how much interest the person has in them. Do they want to know more about them? Listen to their music? Watch them on TV? etc etc
From that, they come up with a combined total called the talent power score and then make the list as you see it.

So when you see Southern All Stars at the top with the number 50.3, it means that of all the people asked, slightly more than half answered that they are interested in this artist.

[Yoake]

I don't understand why Ayu is not on the list ?

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by Yoake

I don't understand why Ayu is not on the list ?

I don't see Koda Kumi on there either. Both have lost a significant amount of power in the industry it seems.

[RikkuChii]

I don't get why Ayu and Kuu are not on the list, but Utada is.

She barely did a thing last year, except for Heart Station.

Both Ayu and Kuu did way more than her.. :?

[pommy48]

eh daigo is on there? that's just strange, glad that namie is on there, but not many females....aww wish ayu was there

[Mr. Goto]

Wow I never knew TOKIO was so powerful. I don't see tsunku on the list..?

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by pommy48

eh daigo is on there? that's just strange, glad that namie is on there, but not many females....aww wish ayu was there

I think this list takes more into account an artists power across all types of media, that includes concerts, tv lives, magazines, radio, variety shows, etc etc. So while Daigo may not have high record sales, he is all over tv shows and has pretty much become a part of the general japanese pop culture.

Koda and Ayu both being missing is sort of surprising, but at the same time not. Koda has been going down ever since that scandal. And if you notice, most of the people on the list are those that appeal to a very general, wide audience, where I think it could be argued that Ayu the last few years has been going off of mostly her dedicated core fan base and less and less so the general public perhaps?

I think an accurate description of the Nikkei power list would be to say that it is an annual measure of an artists influence over the general population.

Here also is a further break down of the artists power across different genders/age groups -


Some relevant romanizations
Women teens:
1. Arashi
2. Shuchushin
3. Becky
5. Matsumoto Jun (Arashi)
6. Yamashita Tomohisa (NEWS)
8. Ninomiya Kazunari (Arashi)
9. Sakurai Sho (Arashi)
13. Suzanne
14. Katori Shingo (SMAP)
15. Aiba Masaki (Arashi)
16. Ohno Satoshi (Arashi)
18. Ueto Aya
19. Kobukuro

Women 20s:
1. Arashi
2. Amuro Namie
3. Okada Juninichi (V6)
5. Kobukuro
7. Fukuyama Masaharu
8. Katori Shingo (SMAP)
9. Utada Hikaru
10. Matsumoto Jun (Arashi)
11. Aiba Masaki (Arashi)
16. Sakurai Sho (Arashi)
17. Nakai Masahiro (SMAP)
18. Shibasaki Kou

[AyUta]

Congrats Hikki&Namie

[SunshineSlayer]

Women 30s:
1. Arashi
2. Fukuyama Masaharu
6. Yoshida Miwa (Dreams Come True)
7. Southern All Stars
10. Amuro Namie
12. Kobukuro
16. Sakurai Sho (Arashi)
17. Nakai Masahiro (SMAP)
18. Matsumoto Jun (Arashi)

Women 40s:
1. Fukuyama Masaharu
2. Southern All Stars
5. Kuwata Keisuke (Southern All Stars)
6. Arashi
7. Katori Shingo (he certainly cleaned the other SMAP members clocks this year didn't he?)
8. Kobukuro
15. Okada Junichi (V6)
16. Yamashita Tomohisa (NEWS)
19. Matsutoya Yumi
20. Matsumoto Jun (Arashi)

Men's List:



Anyone else that wants to romanize, go ahead, I'm tired!

Originally Posted by Mr. Goto

Wow I never knew TOKIO was so powerful. I don't see tsunku on the list..?

Between the mid 90s and early 00s he would have been, but definitely not nowadays.

[Ayumi27]

Mmm... strange list. I strongly believe that artists like Ayu (& maybe Kuu) have more power and influence on industry than many of those. And B'z should have ranked higher!

[TITANIC]

weee.No ayu, Ayaka, Kuu>>???
it's kinda weird

[SunshineSlayer]

^ I think it only seems weird to us because around here we tend to just focus on our one or two favorite artists without really paying attention to what else might be going on in Japan. What's huge on AHS isn't always going to be an accurate reflection of whats actually going on in Japan.

For example, most people here could care less about owarai (Japanese comedy) yet comedians take up several spots on this list. Comedians are some of the most popular, powerful, and influential people in the whole country, yet most people here probably could name only 1 or 2 Japanese comedians, if even that.

Notice there is no KATTUN on any list either. Not even any of the individual members. They are another group that I feel is losing a lot of their traction with the general public and is becoming more heavily reliant upon their core fan base.

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

Notice there is no KATTUN on any list either. Not even any of the individual members. They are another group that I feel is losing a lot of their traction with the general public and is becoming more heavily reliant upon their core fan base.

unfortunately but true . They're not as hot property as they were when they finally were able to debut 3 years ago

I'm surprised that not even Akame's not on the list but it's fine

it's great to see ARASHI & let alone their individual members on the list & that goes for DAIGO too

[emi♡]

this is kinda another one of the reflections as to why I can't really get into Japanese culture...

it's just too weird to me.

The music, great...food, yummy...animations + games...best....everything else is just wtf to me lol.

This isn't anymore weird than any other aspect of what is popular in the culture.

[Uemarasan]

The lack of women is very telling. I'd be more interested in how they came up with this list, however. Why is Ichiro on the list? Isn't he an athlete first and foremost? Why aren't there more athletes then?

Is Becky really the highest-ranked female? Does she really wield that kind of power in the industry? I would think she'd rank high because of popularity or visibility and not because she exercises any form of real power in the industry. I would think Miwa Yoshida would be a better candidate, or Sayuri Yoshinaga. Or maybe her media identity can never really be distinguished apart from DCT?

I dislike lists that don't reveal their processes. It's always a guessing game when it comes to their accuracy. But if I am to hazard a guess, I'd say that this is a list that more or less portrays what it's like in the Japanese entertainment industry, in spite of lack of transparency. For instance there are very few female comedians, and even fewer that are as popular as their male counterparts.

It's still a man's world, after all.

[Coelacanth]

Wow. B'z at 99?

I know their last few albums sucked, but they're still Japanese music legends..

[a_kingdom21]

weired list..

ayu,kuu,r more powerfull than many of them which be on list..

d friend of mine who live at tokyo said that ayu still popular in japan..
eventough she ìsnt ayu fans..she is fans of BOC..

May b d man who made d lìst doesnt like ayu..
LoL..

[KarenPang]

usually this type of issue's subjective & you really should take things with a pinch of salt

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by Coelacanth

Wow. B'z at 99?

I know their last few albums sucked, but they're still Japanese music legends..

You have to keep in mind, that this is the current "power" list. If it were an overall list, I'm sure they would be much much higher. But really, they have not been in the media a lot lately and their last song that really seemed to grab the general public was Ocean back in 2005.

As for Ichiro - He is a HUGE icon in Japan. It's not surprising at all that he is on the list. It would be more surprising if he weren't.

Originally Posted by Uemarasan

I dislike lists that don't reveal their processes. It's always a guessing game when it comes to their accuracy.

This is basically "THE" list annually. It tends to be given more weight compared to other lists. As far as the processes, here is what I know:

-It is similar to how Ninki is done, only with a MUCH larger sample. It is also (supposedly) done with an equal number of people from each gender as well as from each age group.
-They test the celebrities level of recognition (how well is their name or face recognized?)
-They ask how much interest the person has in them. Do they want to know more about them? Listen to their music? Watch them on TV? etc etc
From that, they come up with a combined total called the talent power score and then make the list as you see it.

So when you see Southern All Stars at the top with the number 50.3, it means that of all the people asked across all genders and age groups, slightly more than half answered that they are interested in this artist.

^^I should've put this in the first post. haha.

[Uemarasan]

^Thanks for the additional explanation.

So it's a list based on popularity, after all. And I thought we'd be getting some insight into the inner workings of the Japanese entertainment industry and which artists really wield power and influence apart from the producers and executives.

I don't know, I just thought Ichiro would be seen more as an athlete than an entertainer.