Quote Originally Posted by Ouch! View Post
Utada Hikaru is as much a western artist as she is a Japanese artist. She was born and raised in the United States. She's fluently bilingual and releases different albums (with different songs, not just translations) in the United States and Japan. She puts out more albums in Japan because she's more popular there.
Hikaru Utada has released select albums in the United States, but, personally, I feel that she is still too underground to be considered a mainstream Western artist. I know that she was born in New York and that she fluently speaks English and Japanese. I think that SuperMillionaire wants to see a mainstream Western artist rather than an underground Western artist with popularity in Japan. The Wikipedia article for Hikaru Utada has more information about her activity in North America. It looks like she is trying to make a comeback in North America, so hopefully this will give her more exposure and help promote the series should she decide to record another song.