As a singer-songwriter, Hikaru Utada wrote and composed most of his own songs, and began arranging the music independently in 2004. Among the works released, 4 albums won the annual number one on the Japan Public Trust Chart, and were the singers with the most best-selling albums. As of 2010, Hikaru Utada had sold more than 38 million records in Japan. Released in 1999, his first Japanese album "First Love" set a record for the first sales in Japan and even in Asia with 7.65 million copies, ranking in the top two original albums in the History of the Japanese Public Trust Chart.
From 2003 to 2005, he released singles such as "Real Emotion/A Thousand Words", "Love & Honey", and "Butterfly", and won the 47th Japan Record Awards for "Butterfly". At the end of 2005, the "12-week continuous release of singles" was launched. In 2005 and 2006, the number of selected albums exceeded one million for two consecutive years,[5] and won the 20th and 21st Japan Golden Disc Awards. As of December 2017, it has released 62 singles, 14 original albums, 7 selected albums, 2 cover albums and 21 video works. In 2005, 2006 and 2007, she won the "Female Singer Total Sales Champion" in Japan for three consecutive years. Japan's legal digital music download certification female singer No. 1.
Mika Nakajima has never been on the binary axis of "sexy" and "cute", nor is it a "national singer" suitable for all ages. She is beautiful, changeable, full of mystery, with her own unique singing voice to control rock, reggae, jazz and other diverse styles, but also with her own 160 cm small figure to challenge the various shapes from "beauty" to "beauty ghost", she is obsessed with the two totems of stars and lotuses, insists on barefoot recording, and the album name only uses simple words. And it is this female singer who cannot be simply defined, who has repeatedly sung love songs that represent people's hearts and minds, and firmly occupies a place in the Japanese music scene.
Namie Amuro was popular throughout Asia before she was 20 years old, and her every move became the object of young fans' stereotypes, and some observers had long "predicted" that the so-called "Amuro phenomenon" would not last long, but she had been debuting for more than 20 years and still retained the influence of concert ticket sales. In addition to releasing an album, her performances at concerts have already won the title of "Singing Iron Man".
Since its debut in April 1998, it has taken 14 years and four months to set a record for record sales. In 2006, she became the highest-selling female singer in Japanese history, and in the weekly list of oricon singer albums released on August 20, 2012 (statistics from August 6 to August 12), Hamasaki's 65 singles and 45 albums totaling 110 songs sold 50.023 million copies, and reached the top five in total sales for 11 consecutive years, winning the annual championship three times, becoming the first female singer in the Japanese music industry to sell and the third highest-ranking singer in history. It is also the highest-selling female singer in Asia, which has become a major feat in the history of solo singing.
"Two years of singer red" is a famous saying in the Japanese entertainment industry, but this law is invalid for Yamaguchi Momoe. Why has Yamaguchi's popularity continued to grow? Where does her charm come from? In the 1980s, Japan's economy was in full swing, and people were full of optimism and confidence. Momoe Yamaguchi appears as a pure, gentle figure that makes people feel that she is a symbol of Japan's Belle Epoque. She dedicated her most brilliant and bright self to thousands of fans, which is why there is such a long and universal nostalgia.
After his debut in 1980, he won the popularity of the people at that time, although it was not smooth when he just stepped into the music world, and fell off the five-meter-high stage when he performed in 1981, but after the great disaster, Naiboko developed rapidly in the music world, and in the red and white song battle at the end of 1981, Naiboko was able to try her first shot. Her clear high notes are not mixed with any impurities, and are as gentle as a yellow warbler, and the song "Moon And Half Serenade" (Japanese name ハーフームン. セレナーデ) not only achieved the original classic, but also became a classic of Hong Kong Li Keqin's cover.
Miho Nakayama can be called a "sister-level figure" in the Japanese performing arts industry. A long hair, a pair of bright eyes, set pure, feminine, sexy in one of the Nakayama Miho, the appearance seems to be weak and can't help the wind, in fact, is a talented woman, whether it is acting, singing or shooting advertisements, she is all in line.
Miho Nakayama stepped into the art world at a young age, and at first starred in TV dramas that were mostly emotional and noisy girls, whether it was a bad girl, a sensible girl or a late intellectual girl and other personality roles, Nakayama Miho can do an excellent job [35]. Therefore, it enjoys the reputation of "Queen of Japanese Drama" and "Queen of the Ninth Moon".
Born in 1988 in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan, Tamaki Ishi, is a female singer of Japanese pop music. Famous for singing the theme song of the anime "Mobile Suit Gundam seed" series, it is known as "Gundam Kaohime".
The late 1980s was the era of Shizuka Kudo, and in 1989 alone, her solo album sales reached 5.4 billion yen, so Shizuka was once hailed as the last miracle of the Japanese idol school. In addition to being an idol, Kudo Shizuka also has both strength and talent, and since the 1990s, Kudo Shizuka has gradually attached importance to her own singing voice, and has participated in the work of filling in the lyrics and composing music and supervising the production of records. In addition, Kudo Shizuka also likes to paint, and many films and record designs have her opinions, and the Japanese art world has gradually regarded her as a talented woman.
In the post-Yamaguchi era, the bass seemed to be left out in the cold until Akira Nakamori stood on the music scene in the 1980s. Like Momoe Yamaguchi, Nakamori was born into a modest civilian family, so from an early age she set herself up to change her destiny by becoming a star like Momoe Yamaguchi. Akiko's stardom did not go well, and at first she participated in the "Star Birth" program, she chose the "Barefoot Season" of later competitor Seiko Matsuda, but was not valued because it did not conform to her tone. Until 1981, she once again challenged "Star Birth" with Yamaguchi's "Dream First Case Insider" and became famous in one fell swoop. At the beginning of the launch of the album "slow motion", "Girl A" also adhered to the style of the traditional idol girl singer, after becoming famous, Nakamori Akiko, did not do the shadow of Yamaguchi Toyuki, nor was it limited to the sweet idol singer route, began to create some rebellious songs with a low-pitched and thick tone, in the mid-1980s, Nakamori Akira formed a bipolar hegemonic pattern with Matsuda Seiko by virtue of his singing ability.
Whether in appearance or influence, the idol girl who could dominate the Japanese music scene in the 80s was Matsuda Seiko. Bright eyes, fluffy "Saint Son's Head" hairstyle, coupled with the typhoon that was quite characteristic of the live performance at the time, made Matsuda Seiko win the pursuit of many young boys and girls, and her clear voice in her debut single "The Season of Bare Feet" proved that her status as an idol queen was not won by appearance alone. She was one of the most successful singers of her time, reaching the top spot on the public trust charts with 24 consecutive singles, and no one among Japanese female singers until 2006 could break it. The dispute between her and Nakamori Akira in the 1980s not only affected Japan but also affected Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the supporters were clearly divided into the Shengzi school and the Ming cuisine school.
Kuraki Mai has a strong stage mobilization and expressiveness, her lyrics, every sentence is full of emotion, as if in the confession of the heart, simple and frank expression of their own feminine feelings. In 2000, Mai Kuraki released singles and albums that sold well, pushing her to the forefront of the Japanese music scene. Kuraki Mai's throbbing notes and clear and clean voice line show the girlish mood that quietly carries love.
Miyuki Nakajima debuted in 1975 and was greatly welcomed in the 1980s, and in the 21st century, she is still active in the front line of the music scene and is generally supported, and it occupies a pivotal position in the Japanese music industry after the evergreen song that spans four generations. Her more than 70 original songs have been covered by Chinese singers such as Teresa Teng, Tan Yonglin and Faye Wong, and are known as "Japan's National Treasure Diva".
Sakai Izumi created a precedent for Japanese rock bands to sing with women as the main singer, but she is also a singer-songwriter, the songs she composed are bright and energetic, the lyrics she writes are not limited to love, but more concerned about society, with a positive attitude to encourage young people to work hard, brave and strong to face love and setbacks in life (.
Whether it is the ending song "my friend" of "Slam Dunk Master", the opening song "Turning the Wheel of Destiny" of "Detective Conan", or the opening song "Can't Breathe" of "China Little Boss", a song with a voice as clear as spring water comes from the singing of Sakai Izumi. Since the release of the sixth single, her works have made it into the top ten of the public trust chart. She's telling the whole story with her songs and great results.