1. 高橋優　117
2. 鴉 92
3. 倖田來未 73 (#7 Last Year)
4. KLOOZ 71
5. KEN THE 390 67
6. SOUL'd OUT 65 (#2 Last Year)
7. 中村中 63
8. Yurika 56
9. 平井堅 54
10. Double 49

1. 中村中 – 世界のみかた 21
2. 平井堅 – グロテスク feat. 安室奈美恵 18
3. KLOOZ – See ¥ou 17
4. 高橋優 – 裸の王国 15
5. 佐藤広大 – Magic Carpet Ride 12
6. 高橋優 – 絶頂は今 11
6. White Jam – ウソツキ 11
6. 東京カランコロン – 笑うドッペルゲンガー 11
9. AKB48 – 恋するフォーチュンクッキー 10
9. 鴉 – 二度寝 10
9. 高橋優 – BE RIGHT…

Holy shit, I've been using last.fm for exactly 10 years today.

Holy shit I have been compiling this list since 2006.

1. サカナクション 360
My 'new' discovery this year. Two years ago, 『バッハの旋律を夜に聴いたせいです。』 was on my top listened tracks of the year. I really loved that song, and that song only, from Sakanaction. I liked documentaLy well enough - it was technically good, but it wasn't a favorite. It wasn't until this year's most recently album that I grew obsessed. I attribute that to 1) my Japanese skills improving. Sakanaction's lyrics are way more interesting than the average J-pop song. 2) Getting older and finding fewer and fewer 'new' and 'Interesting'…

This isn`t really a good measure of what I listed to this year. I was out of a computer for about three months, and where I live has a tenacious connection to the Internet at best so I can`t keep as up-to-date with music as I would like. But this is my annual tradition, so here we go.

1. THE BAWDIES 230
Solely based on their look, I didn`t think that I would like them. I was wrong. Roy`s English pronunciation from the debut to the present has massively improved (from `uhhh, this is English, right?` to `oh, these are…

1. Ryohei 416 (#2 Last Year)
No matter how many times I listen to him, he's not coming back is he?

2. The Book of Mormon 222
The musical, not the religious text. I'm not clear on the tagging rules for musicals (It's supposed to be under the composers, right?), and it seemed like a bad idea to put the songs under the singers' names when there was like ten singers on one song. So now it looks like I've been listening to the word of Joseph Smith. Oh well. Wicked funny musical.

3. 倖田來未 217 (#3 Last Year)
Busy…

IDK, just need to vent, and OH LOOK I FOUND SOMEWHERE TO TYPE

Recently, one of my favourite singers from my early J-pop fan days, Sowelu, is attempting a comeback. I'd be super excited is any of my other favourite groups or singers from those days attempted a comeback (Heartsdales), but from the first PV Sowelu released under rhythmzone, something made me uncomfortable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH4WCRwnmos

The songs are great!! But I was just struck by how embarrassing the video was. Here is a veteran of the industry having to use sex so prominently - which is usually awesome (Koda Kumi), but…

I noticed recently that last.fm has merged some of the artists plays together on my chart. For example, I used to have my Yuna Ito plays split between "伊藤由奈" and "Yuna Ito", and now they're all under 伊藤由奈.

I get excited when it seems like last.fm is actually making progress, so I'm going to list here some artists in my library that are still split. (You can see I am terrible at tagging!!)

All you have to do is vote for the Japanese reading! It's already an option, so you don't have to hunt for it!

A
Ai Maeda…

1. 清竜人 301
Absolutely my favourite new discovery of the year. Now that my Japanese language skills are a bit better (nowhere near "good", just better than they were when I wasn't taking classes due to an overloaded class schedule), Ryujin is totally my emo music, as opposed to Panic! At the Disco (I am very much looking forward to the new P!ATD album whenever they decide to shit it out).

2. Ryohei 259
I listened through his album "Rat the Wolf" once, and put it aside. My initial impression was that it was alright, but kind of samey. Six…

Artists:
1. Crystal Kay 234
Kuri-chan released her best album of the decade. Kuri-chan was def. my favourite artist this year. I found it really interesting to go back and find some missed treasures from her early years (namely Candy, which I listened to a lot on my iPod, so it didn't really get scrobbled).
Oh, and idgaf if Kuri-chan says "Kuri desu, Kuri-chan de wa arimasen" in her song "Private Dancers". Kuri-chan is Kuri-chan to me, even when she's an obaa-san.

2. Coldfeet 221
I mean, they released two albums this year (Well, "TEN" was released in December 2008,…

Fri 27 Mar – Lady GaGa, The White Tie Affair, Chester French

Chester French - No one gave two shits about them. It was kind of sad, so I over-compensated by turning my mild enthusiasm into over-enthusiasm. My friends all thought they were bad, but I didn't think they were so terrible that people should be sitting down after they stood-up. The first three songs or so were godawful, but after they did "She Loves Everybody" they really heated up and everything after that point was great. But they'd already lost the audience, and there was no getting them back.…