Talk:KAITO/@comment-107.4.200.46-20140129213308/@comment-5051846-20140907161849

Personal experience is very subjective, so we must use statistics. You must understand that the fact that you happened to meet people with unusual knowledge of Vocaloid, does not mean that they accurately represent the average fan.

The best way to determine who is the most popular currently is to observe who is recieving the most songs on average per month/year. IA makes it into the Weekly Ranking far more often than Meiko, and in the statistics released for 2013, IA recieved the fourth most uploads per month, compared to Meiko who came in tenth. Therefore, IA can be considered the fourth most popular Vocaloid among producers overall (behind Miku, Rin and Gumi). This puts her well into the Gr8, at least in terms of usage.

You might say that because she has less fanart than Meiko, she doesn't have the longevity to be considered one of the most recogniseable Vocaloids; however what also must be considered is how much longer Meiko has been released, and how popularity changes over time.

Since it is just a fan term, we also don't have any official benchmark for what a Vocaloid needs to be considered part of the Great 8 (or 9, really), so definitions may differ.