The Netorabo Survey Team and Voice Note recently held a poll asking the Japanese public which Japanese vocalists they thought were world class level.

MISIA topped the ranking with 11.9% of the vote. She has an overwhelming vocal ability and is very popular in the club scene. She debuted in 1998 with the single “Tsutsumi Komu You ni…”, which opens with her whistle register. Her biggest hit, “Everything”, came in 2000. In 2004, she became the first female soloist to hold a five dome tour. Being Japan’s preeminent world class singer, she was chosen to sing “Kimigayo”, the Japanese national anthem, at the Opening Ceremony of last year’s Tokyo Olympics.

See the rest of the ranking below!

1.MISIA

2.Inaba Koshi

3.Utada Hikaru

4.Tamaki Koji

5.Kuwata Keisuke

6.Toshl

7.Taka

8.Toshinobu Kubota

10.HYDE

10.Yoshida Miwa

10.Fuse Akira

10.Oda Kazumasa

13.Yonezu Kenshi

14.Ken Hirai

15.Akikawa Masafumi

15.Nishikawa Takanori

15.Himuro Kyosuke

15.Yazawa Eikichi

19.AI

19.Hikawa Kiyoshi

19.Masaharu Fukuyama

22.GACKT

22.Ochi Shiho

22.Nagabuchi Tsuyoshi

22.Misora Hibari

26.ATSUSHI

26.TERU

26.Inoue Yosui

26.Ikuta Lilas

26.Matsuzaki Shigeru

26.Seiko Matsuda

26.Nakamoto Suzuka

26.Tokunaga Hideaki

26.Kimura Takuya

26.Suzuki Masayuki

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