Top 100 Japanese Pop Artists

# 1. Southern All Stars
# 2. YMO
# 3. Yumi Matsutoya
# 4. Happy End
# 5. Hibari Misora
# 6. Tatsuro Yamashita
# 7. Momoe Yamaguchi
# 8. Yosui Inoue
# 9. Eiichi Otaki
# 10. Seiko Matsuda
# 11. Ryuichi Sakamoto
# 12. Keisuke Kuwata
# 13. Motoharu Sano
# 14. Eikichi Yazawa
# 15. Flippers Guitar
# 16. RC Succession
# 17. Kenji Sawada
# 18. Kyu Sakamoto
# 19. Blue Hearts
# 20. Miyuki Nakajima
# 21. Tetsuya Komuro
# 22. Boowy
# 23. Yutaka Ozaki
# 24. Hikaru Utada
# 25. Tamio Okuda
# 26. Mariya Takeuchi
# 27. Mr Children
# 28. Kazumasa Oda
# 29. Spitz
# 30. B'z
# 31. Pizzicato Five
# 32. Off Course
# 33. Murahachibu
# 34. Pink Lady
# 35. Tulip
# 36. Ringo Shiina
# 37. Toshinobu Kubota
# 38. Char
# 39. Godiego
# 40. X Japan
# 41. Yujiro Ishihara
# 42. Ayumi Hamasaki
# 43. Cornelius
# 44. Haruomi Hosono
# 45. Dreams Come True
# 46. Takuro Yoshida
# 47. Anzenchitai
# 48. Checkers
# 49. Candies
# 50. Yasuyuki Okamura
# 51. Misia
# 52. Minako Yoshida
# 53. Namie Amuro
# 54. Taeko Onuki
# 55. Akina Nakamori
# 56. Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi
# 57. Alice
# 58. L'Arc～en～Ciel
# 59. Shogo Hamada
# 60. Tatsuya Ishii
# 61. Unicorn
# 62. Chage & Aska
# 63. Dragon Ash
# 64. Hi-standard
# 65. Glay
# 66. Masayoshi Yamazaki
# 67. Akiko Wada
# 68. Moon Riders
# 69. Smap
# 70. Tomoyasu Hotei
# 71. Tokyo Ska Paradaise Orchestra
# 72. Lisa Ono
# 73. Blankey Jet City
# 74. quruli
# 75. Roosters
# 76. Kyosuke Himuro
# 77. Michelle Gun Elephant
# 78. Denki Groove
# 79. Kenji Ozawa
# 80. Yuzo Kayama
# 81. Yellow Monkey
# 82. Jacks
# 83. Fishmans
# 84. Noriyuki Makihara
# 85. Ken Hirai
# 86. Yonin Bayashi
# 87. Rip Slyme
# 88. Princess Princess
# 89. Original Love
# 90. Luna Sea
# 91. Mute Beat
# 92. Alfee
# 93. Hiroshi Fujiwara
# 94. Sadistic Mika Band
# 95. Mondo Grosso
# 96. Judy And Mary
# 97. Zeebra
# 98. Crazy Ken Band
# 99. Ua
# 100. Begin

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as of 2003 pa yan. natuwa lang ako kaya napapost ako. 29 ang spitz nun. wat more ngayon? wuhoooo! ayus at kasama sina utada, hamasaki at ang l'arc en ciel. sana sa susunod included na asian kung fu generation chaka si yui^___^

credits to: http://www.hmv.co.jp/news/article/311040081