(Courtesy of xallyyy)

The idea is to go to the page of your number one artist, and follow the link of it's number one similar artist, then repeating that for this artist and so on, noting down each artist as you go. Do this until you've got to 50 artists (not including your number one). If you get any repeats, just go to the second similar artist or the nearest one that you haven't already had.

my #1: Ayumi Hamasaki
1. Hikaru Utada
2. BoA
3. Namie Amuro
4. Kumi Koda
5. Ai Otsuka
6. ZONE
7. Maki Goto
8.…

What have they done to you?
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You have had a tough childhood,
you know how to be a thief and exploit others
but you stand up for society's cast-offs.

Courtesy of http://www.seabreezecomputers.com/superhero

(damn it, Phoebe Buffay!)

Step 1: Put your iTunes or equivalent on random.
Step 2: Post a line from the first 20 songs that play, not matter how embarassing.
Step 3: Bold out the songs when someone guesses correctly.

1. Don't you know I will free my mind to live my life much better.
2. You gotta turn up the music, music!
3. Just put your hands in the air and wave' em like you just don't care.
4. Rise, bababoo bababoo!
5. I wanna stay with you for the rest of my life.
6. Umarete kitan datte.
7. Sembra che non sia possibile…

Found this little thing while browsing…:

List your top six neighbours, their top three artists, and where those artists stand on your own chart.

hi-cko:
Ayumi Hamasaki (1)
Jasmin Wagner (n/a) (Well, I do know Blümchen…)
Namie Amuro (6)

Phunin:
Anna Tsuchiya (n/a) never listened to anything by her, EVER!
Kumi Koda (2)
Yuna Ito (n/a) same as Anna Tsuchiya

discoduesj:
Madonna (7)
Mariah Carey (5)
Anna Vissi (lower than 291)

sleepingchild:
Rurutia (191)
Heartsdales (35)
Morning Musume (9)

Garnet-Moon (surely a Hitomi Shimatani fan :P):
Hitomi Shimatani (3)
Ayumi Hamasaki (1)
Kumi Koda (2)
- wow, all my…

As the whole thing about artists with special characters has disappeared from this thread I thought the problem was fixed, but apparently all my plays for Röyksopp have been deleted! Really annoying… Does anyone know of a thread that mentions what was done about the special characters problem?

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Sultry JPop singer/actress Mika Nakashima (Mika Nakashima) has jumped the bandwagon and is releasing a compilation of her songs on December 7th called "BEST"
The following songs will be included:
Stars
- well, it was her first song and it's a nice ballad.
Crescent moon
- a nice uptempo track, but I'd rather have One survive instead
Amazing grace (new version)
- errrr…completely unnecessary. She should have put on 接吻 or 火の鳥
Will
- forgettable ballad, even Helpless rain would have been better
Resistance
- reggae influenced bliss!
愛してる
- wonderful dub inspired Valentine ballad
Love addict
- sexy…

According to Penny Foster, Rachel Stevens will be doing a vocal version of Morjac's theme. Ms Foster was one of the writers of the topline for this track. I hope it turns out good!

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Eriko Imai (Eriko Imai)(soon 22) of SPEED fame has apparently been dumped by avex after a semi-flop solo career (they took over after Toy's Factory and neither of the girls did as well on Sonic Groove as over there). So now she's gone and restyled herself and calls herself "elly". She's got a new website as well ellymusic.com. As one of the two lead singers in SPEED along with hiro I would have expected them to be more successful, but hardly anything with success comes out of Sonic Groove these days. Hitoe's comeback particularily dire. At…

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According to Yumi Shizukusa's (Yumi Shizukusa) diary on her Giza website, she recorded a new song on Friday 19th August. Hopefully this will be the long awaited follow up to 花篝り aka Hana kagari which was released in February.
Yay!

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Ditzy JPopster T.M. Revolution caused mayhem and general commotion in Shinjuku - one of Tōkyō's hottest shopping districts. Mr. Revolution, real name Takanori Nishikawa, was doing a stunt live performance to promote his latest single Vestige, and was going to perform two songs from the single, but since he arrived 10 minutes later than scheduled and caused such an uproar the Shinjuku police thought it would be in the public's interest to only let him perform the one song. Party poopers!