Artist Recommendations

[elaniel]

Hey all.

i've been a huge Jpop fan for over 10 years now. I started off listening to hitomi, Every Little Thing, MAX, Ayu, and m.o.v.e.

I then started listening to many other artists including Hikaru Utada, dream, Namie Amuro, and Koda Kumi. As you can probably tell from my lists I'm a pretty big Avex fan.

I did go absolutely insane for a few years and buy every single album, DVD, and single released by artists I listened to, but life's responsibilities made me start to become sensible in what I buy. I still buy the albums and DVD's/Blu's by artists I like but only a few select artists will I buy singles for (IE: Ayu) as the exchange rate against the Yen has gotten really poor as well. (I even sold some artists singles I had so I wasn't tempted to continue buying to have complete collections of certain artists). It also got to the point where my collection was so large it required it's own bedroom to store (over 1600 JPop CD's/DVDs)

Anyway, what I'm here for is recommendations of artists as the last 2-3 years i have not ventured out into anything but the artists I am familiar with. There used to always be 1 or 2 artists each year that debuted that I really enjoyed, it may just be that Avex have stagnated on debuts. So give me some recommendations guys of some great Jpop artists out there I may have missed as a lot of the artists I enjoy seem to be on significant hiatuses or release so infrequently that I'm hardly listening to more than a few artists now.

Here is a list of all the artists (of which I can recall) that I really enjoy.

Ai Otsuka
alan
Ami Suzuki
AAA
Ayumi Hamasaki
Angela Aki
BoA
day after tomorrow
do as infinity
dream
every little thing
girl next door
hikaru utada
hitomi
hitomi shimatani
hyna
koda kumi
max
move
namie amuro
rin'