Thanks to everyone for the lists of names! I only knew one: Ruichi Sakamoto. >BUT Joeri asked about "well selling" and those >people are all highly eclectic acts that have larger followings >outside Japan than within and even in the places where they are most >popular their fan basses are small groups of hard core fans. > Aha... I'm curious to know e.g. the Japanese Backstreet Boys, the Japanese Britney Spears... "things" like that. Cheap mainstream pop for mass consumption. Do the names at the site of Avex represent such acts? >Joari asked why so many people hate the Majors and I was simply >explaining what it is I hate about them. > Yes, and it's a valid argument. I still didn't have the time to reply... hopefully tomorrow. Bye, Joeri -- Joeri Vankeirsbilck joeri@... Belway Productions - http://www.belway.com List-admin Logic-users/SoundD*ver-users/Logic-TDM