Nikkei TOP 100 entertainers 2009

[Andrenekoi]

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

There are way more popular female acts from the 70s onwards that would take several hands to count on. There aren't THAT few. They just simply aren't talked about much on this board because we pretty much just deal with current artists. But yeah, generally they don't stick around like say Southern All Stars. Many of them left the entertainment industry to raise families.

But anyways, you'd think you'd at least see a few more females on the womens list of rankings, but it is dominated by men as well. I think that might have to do with a general shortage of female talent that are really great that people are interested in at the moment. We need some fresh blood on the female side that not only will do well publicly but that will have real talent to back it up. There hasn't been really any new female talent to come out that I've been super impressed by for at least a few years now expect for Shiho the singer from Superfly - but even then, she's not gaining the popularity she should. I wonder when the next big female star will come and who it will be?

I'm not talking about only popular acts... I'm talking about that bizarre status some of them get becoming then remembered for ages... I may be wrong, but as far I know, very little of the considered top jpop acts were women... when thinking about the really influent ones (artists I discovered talking to people more intereste in old jpop than me, and some of then big fans of enka music and older pop acts), I can remember Matsutoya Yumi, Akina Kakamori, Seiko Matsuda, Princess Princess, Pink Lady, Minako Honda, Izumi Sakai, DCT, Namie Amuro, Speed... Shiina Ringo, Hikaru Utada and Ayumi Hamasaki if we take in consideration the ones that became famous in the final of the 90s...

I don't know... there are so much more man names... IMO it looks like japanese just prefer male enterteiners... and that they still think is wrong when women work after a certain age (a lot of the female singers retired to make some babies )

[SunshineSlayer]

Originally Posted by Andrenekoi

when thinking about the really influent ones (artists I discovered talking to people more intereste in old jpop than me, and some of then big fans of enka music and older pop acts), I can remember Matsutoya Yumi, Akina Kakamori, Seiko Matsuda, Princess Princess, Pink Lady, Minako Honda, Izumi Sakai, DCT, Namie Amuro, Speed... Shiina Ringo, Hikaru Utada and Ayumi Hamasaki if we take in consideration the ones that became famous in the final of the 90s...

You are missing probably the MOST influential one: Yamaguchi Momoe, also it's Akina NAKAmori. You already listed quite a few people, but there are still even way more than that such as off the top of my head: Kudo Shizuka, Chisato Moritaka, Teresa Tan, Rebecca (NOKKO), Tomomi Kahala (if we are going to include late 90s), WINK, Nakayama Miho, Itsuwa Mayumi, Kawai Sonoko. And those I would say are just some of the really top tier names. So really, not that small of an amount. Maybe still smaller than the men, but it seems that there was definitely a higher concentration of successful female talent in the 70s/80s than there is today.