Vote Vote Vote for B'z and Koshi Inaba!!

[Pierro]

Hello folks!

The French J-music Awards have begun once again and once again we can support our favourite japanese band and artist.

This year, B'z and Koshi Inaba have been nominated (but not Tak Matsumoto... wait, wait...):

Best male solo single of the year 2010 / Meilleur single solo masculin de l'année 2010 : Okay

Best male solo album of the year 2010 / Meilleur album solo masculin de l'année 2010 : Hadou

Best Live DVD of the year 2010 / Meilleur DVD Live de l'année 2010 : B'z Live-Gym 2010 Ain't No Magic

If you want to remember the results of last year (Ichibu to Zenbu / DIVE had hit the 4th place in the single ranking):
http://bznetparty.offthelock.com/index.php/topic,367.0.html

And if you want to vote this year:

http://www.frenchjmusicawards.com/

I tell you how to do:

First go on VOTER

Then you must register, so click on  "Cliquez ici pour vous inscrire"

You give a username (nom d'utilisateur) and a password (mot de passe).

Don't forget to validate! You will receive an e-mail for confirmation!

Then you can go once again on VOTER and get in with your nom d'utilisateur and your mot de passe.

Then you can see all categories and nominees and you can vote for:

at least 0 or 1 artist/band

maximum 3 artists/bands (but not 3 times the same band!)

So NOW you can also vote for Tak Matsumoto and Larry Carlton here:

15- Artiste ou groupe masculin de l'année 2010 / Artist or band of the year 2010

Here, you can write the name you want!

18- Meilleure jaquette de CD de l'année 2010 / Best CD cover

For example... Hadou... or Okay...

19- Artiste ou groupe le plus attendu en France pour l'année 2011 / Most awaited artist or band in France in 2011

For example... Larry Carlton et Tak Matsumoto!!


Try to vote and support the best vocalist and best guitarist of Japan!

The deserve it!

Don't hesitate to say when you have voted!

[anjoschka178]

Just finished voting!
I hope B'z or rather Koshi get good results... 

[Pierro]

I hope the 30 of you have voted! I hope the next will do it too!

Remember, don't try to cheat (by voting more times with some techniques), your vote would be disqualified!

I think I forgot but at the end three persons will win the right to order a CD by CD-Japan!

[soccernbz]

Just finished voting... Hope B'z will get good results.

[Lebon14]

The thing is I made an account last year and... wow, I need to make another one.  Sorry, but, not doing it because of that.

[Pierro]

The thing is I made an account last year and... wow, I need to make another one.  Sorry, but, not doing it because of that.

(é_è)

But it takes one minute to make another one... And another minute to vote for B'z and Koshi...

Sometimes it looks like fans of Hamasaki, L'arc en ciel or some other Japanese artists are more motivated than (international) B'z fans...

I hope you change your mind until January 30th! 

[Lum]

Honestly, I don't understand this kind of poll. Or better, I don't understand why I should vote in such polls.
This is from a French website... I'm not French and I don't understand French. If people from other countries start to vote I'd feel like polls are altered.
I don't care if Ayu or Lakuru have more "motivated" fans... They just have more fans than B'z, it's a matter of fact even if we don't like it. If the poll winner would came to tour in Europe, I'd vote right away, but it's not this case.

[Pierro]

Come on Lum, what are you talking about?
 
We know you are Italian, and you surely know you can travel free inside the European Union, so you can come from Italy to France with no one at the border asking where you are going or what you want to do. You also know we have the same money.

Laruku, or L'Arc-en-Ciel, is a big band and has already come... to Paris. Gackt has come to Paris (and London that's right). The biggest event outside Japan for Japanese culture is the Japan Expo every year... in Paris and every year with more artists from Japan. In 2010 you could see members of X-Japan for example.

Personnally, I don't think as just a French but as a European and if there was such a poll in Germany, in England or in Italy I would try to participate and to support B'z.

And yes, it's from a French site but the Internet is a free world, so this topic is just an invitation from me, a least an information. Nobody is obliged to participate.

[Lum]

Of course if B'z would come to Europe I'd be in front row for every single concert... But this kind of pool don't have any "officiality". If, for example, was the Japan Expo organization to hold such a poll, it'd be different.

[Pierro]

Yes that's right, this poll is not official but what means officiality? Is Japan Expo official? But nobody said once: "Okay now, Japan Expo is official."

People on the forum don't know (maybe the French) but the organizer of these French J-music Awards, Shito, is well-known among the French fans of Japanese music. I don't have the same taste as him but I respect him for his passion and engagement.

For years, his line is to be and to stay independent from commercial business. That's why this "award" or poll is interesting because there is no commercial thought in the background. Japan Expo is now big business like the website JAME and they could not have such polls without being concerned by any artists or bands.

On the contrary, Shito tries to give the biggest choice in his poll, and during a month people can discover artists or bands they didn't know before. This poll is also a good publicity for B'z and I don't know any other website in the world doing that so precisely and honnestly. And once again, the Internet doesn't have borders so that's why I think everybody could participate from everywhere in the world, even if the poll is originally French and in French (the results are also in English). If anybody has questions about the language or the working of the poll, he or she can ask me.

Voilà 

[Lum]

If Japan Expo organization'd hold such a poll, I could think they're asking an opinion about who invite (or try to invite) the next year, that's what I mean with "official".

I don't think that polls are bad idea, really. But from my experience I can say people don't care about "others", they just vote their favourite without caring of the rest (that's another reason I usually don't partecipate in this kind of things: I don't know most of band/people/whatever and I feel bad voting someone just "because I know him/her/they" - yes, I'm strange).
So... the poll is good to see popularity of j-pop in French? maybe
It can help B'z populatity? hardly
It can help taking B'z or other artist to come performing in Europe? very very unlikely, from my point of view.

[Pierro]

I don't say you're wrong.

But France is a big market in Europe, so when an artist is known in this land there are more chances to see him come to Europe. You're right about the behaviour of the fans. But my point is to help B'z becoming notorious.

How can be someone popular if he's not notorious first? It's complicated for the people to love B'z in one minute because they have a long career with many albums and songs.

The most important thing is to help B'z becoming notorious. Just when many people will be able to say: "B'z? Yes I know this band" just then we will be able to work on the popularity.

That's why I think this poll has an interest, but I can be wrong.

Anyway, I'll give here the results when they'll be published. I hope they will interest you.

[jayz24]

Hi guys! Back again after a long time (though my love for B'z hasn't diminished at all), but missed the voting for this.  Hope a lot of you voted!

[Pierro]

Hi folks!

After a long time here are the results. They are not extraordinary but there was no new B'z release in 2010 and the french audience doesn't really know Koshi Inaba yet. I am sure B'z will do much better next year.

Best male artist solo single

01- Tomohisa Yamashita - One in a million (26.13%)
02- Gackt - Stay the Ride Alive (22.75%)
03- TM Revolution - Naked arms/SWORD SUMMIT (15.62%)
04- XIAH Junsu - XIAH(Intoxication) (9.5%)
05- Ken Hirai - Sing Forever (4.77%)
06- Tsubasa Imai - BACKBORN (2.98%)
07- Yuu Takahashi - Honto no Kimochi (2.89%)
08- Yuusuke - Lion (2.64%)
09- Masaharu Fukuyama - Hotaru/Shounen (2.12%)
10- Koshi Inaba - Okay (2.1%)
11- Keisuke Kuwata - Hontou wa kowai ai to romance (2.06%)
12- Motohiro Hata - Toumei Datta Sekai (1.98%)
13- Kazuyoshi Saitou - Zutto suki datta (1.58%)
14- Kiyoshi Hikawa - Shamisen tabi karasu (1.52%)
15- Toshinobu Kubota - LOVE RAIN ~Koi no ame~ (1.35%)

Best male solo album

01- MIYAVI - WHAT'S MY NAME ? (35.95%)
02- LANDS (Jin Akanishi) - Olympos (17.83%)
03- Koichi Domoto - BPM (5.16%)
04- Ryuichi Kawamura - Sora (5.08%)
05- Kazuyoshi Saitou - ARE YOU READY? (5.07%)
06- Suga Shikao - FUNKASTiC (4.3%)
07- Hideaki Tokunaga - VOCALIST 4 (4.06%)
08- Shouta Shimizu - Journey (3.86%)
09- Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi - TRY AGAIN (3.53%)
10- Kiyoshi Hikawa - Enka Meikyoku Collection 12 ~shamisen tabi garasu~ (2.96%)
11- Koshi Inaba - Hadou (2.32%)
12- Kyosuke Himuro - "B"Orderless (2.29%)
13- Motohiro Hata - Documentary (2.23%)
14- Toshinobu Kubota - Timeless Fly (1.92%)
15- Tortoise Matsumoto - My Way / Highway (1.52%)
16- Naotarô Moriyama - Arayuru mono no mannaka de (1.47%)

Best DVD of the year

01- Arashi - Anniversary Tour 5 x 10 (9.38%)
02- KAT-TUN - No More Pain - World Tour 2010 (8.84%)
03- MIYAVI - Neo Tokyo Samurai Black World Tour Vol.1 (8.56%)
04- L'Arc~en~Ciel - Tour 2008 L'7 -Trans Asia Via Paris- (8.17%)
05- NEWS - NEWS Dome Party 2010 Live! Live! Live! DVD! (7.99%)
06- BIG BANG - Electric Love Tour 2010 (7.56%)
07- VAMPS - VAMPS Live 2009 (7.29%)
08- Dir en Grey - Uroboros -with The Proof In The Name Of Living...- At Nippon Budokan (6.76%)
09- Morning Musume - Concert Tour 2009 Aki -Nine Smile- (6.47%)
10- Ayumi Hamasaki - ayumi hamasaki Arena Tour 2009 A -Next Level- (4.78%)
11- JUNSU / JEJUNG / YUCHUN - Thanksgiving Live in Dome (4.55%)
12- abingdon boys school - abingdon boys school JAPAN TOUR 2010 (3.96%)
13- Perfume - Perfume Second Tour 2009 "Chokkaku Nitohen Sankakkei Tour" (3.3%)
14- BoA - Live Tour 2010 Identity (2.77%)
15- Kumi Koda - KODA KUMI LIVE TOUR 2010 ~UNIVERSE~ (2.58%)
16- Namie Amuro - namie amuro Past (2.57%)
17- B'z - Live-GYM 2010 "Ain't No Magic" at Tokyo Dome (1.33%)
18- ayaka - MTV Unplugged ayaka (0.95%)
19- Do As Infinity - "Eternal Flame" -10th anniversary- in Nippon Budokan (0.79%)
20- TETSUYA - FIRST TOUR 2010 Roulette wo Mawase! - LIVE & DOCUMENTARY FILMS - (0.65%)
21- Tokyo Jihen - Live DVD "Ultra C" (0.5%)
22- w-inds. - Live Tour 2010 "Another World" (0.24%)

http://www.frenchjmusicawards.com/#

So, what do you think? What would be the results of such a poll in your lands? Lum, what do you think for Italy? Arthuro for Germany? Lebon for Canada? And the others?

[Chi1992]

Well, I'm from Poland. If there was such a poll (what is rare possible ^^" ) almost all votes would go for visual key bands, because as far I can see these are the only known bands here and their fans are almost everywhere. I get pissed off when I hear a lot of people saying that JRock=Visual key and nothing more -.- So, if B'z or Koshi appear in such a poll they would have only two or three votes and on top would be The Gazette, Miyavi, Gackt, An Cafe, Girugamesh and so on.

After there would be Jpop artists which are the most popular: Arashi, KAT-TUN, Ayumi Hamasaki (and BoA who is from Korea) but I haven't met yet anyone who even knows Perfume or AKB48 what surprised me a lot oO

Don't get me too wrong, but j-music is not that well known in Poland as in other countries like Italy or Germany, and most of people who listen to it are aged from 11 to 25 who would be interested in such polls and others may not even focus more whose songs they collect (describing other people which I know here XD)

So firstly that kind of poll would be very unpopular and secondly anything connected with B'z would count there like nothing ^^" I'm very impressed by France for the popularity of j-music in this country *-*