Ayu ranks #60 on Top 100 Asian Artists by French Fans

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Originally Posted by Kazeyomi

J-rock and visual kei communities are way larger than jpop ones.

Half-wrong. Visual Kei is huge in Europe but nobody listens to j-rock.

Anyway this ranking is pretty fair. Ayu's is probably the most listened japanese solo singer in Europe. She's only overtaken by Miyavi, Gackt and YUI in this ranking if you delete bands, actors and kpop singers.
This ranking is relevant cause we obtain the same result in the online poll French J-music Awards which is set each year : YUI first, then Ayu and Gackt, and only then Kumi Koda.

But it's only relevant of huge jpop fans who visit online community, not all listeners of the wider audience.

Online fans listens a little more to YUI cause she has made some anime music, but in fact there's surely some people who listens to Ayu and still never go to such websites or facebook pages, don't know YUI or don't even watch animes.

I mean there's still a chance Ayu is the most famous japanese singer in the wider audience.

Don't act like your are surprised she's ranked. She's one of the top most, if not the most famous japanese singer in Europe really. It's a fact.