Talk:Kokone/@comment-25007813-20140615183231/@comment-5051846-20140615194832

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'success', so I'll just try to do it in tiers, haha. It all depends on what you view as success for a Vocaloid.

299 videos are found when you search 'kokone' into NND, with 224 for her Japanese name; as of today.

Tone Rion had a reputation for being very unpopular, but currently surpasses Kokone at 718 videos. However, what must be considered is that Tone has been released for much longer. What would be better if we knew how many videos are on average released with them per week/month, but they haven't released the graphs containing that information yet. (They usually release some yearly statistics about which Vocaloids get the most uploads, but of cause none have included Kokone yet)

Honestly, it's a bit too early to tell; we can make guessed based on the frequency of kokone videos we think we've seen since her release, but that is always terribly inaccurate. But things we do know for sure:

She's no where near G8 tier. So if you're looking for another IA, Kokone definitely isn't it. Maybe something wild will happen and this will change, but it seems unlikely considering her current situation. No popular song series for Kokone, and no famous voice provider like Lia.

Kokone isn't gaining ground at a particulally rapid rate, but it's difficult to tell how exactly her popularity is trending.

No Vocaloids released around Kokone's time are particulally popular. The most recent batch (Kokone, AnoKano, Flower – but too early to tell with Zunko since she is just so recent), partly for being released into an already saturated market and partly for being just not around for long; are at the bottom in terms of popularity when compared with other Vocaloids overall. They all have a couple hundred pieces of fanart and a hundred/two hundred songs at most. An unpopular V2 probably has a 1000-ish songs right now, to give it some context. But are Vocaloids like Piko getting more songs per week than Kokone (indicating current popularity)? Probably not, so we really need is data we don't have, at least I don't know where you'd get it. orz

The amount of units sold a Vocaloid to be considered a commerical success by the company is 1000, but we sadly don't have this information, if this is what you were wondering about.