Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24052263-20140722042414/@comment-53539-20140722132141

Meiko's problem is that she is the least popular to begin with of that companies Vocaloids. Kaito, for instance, fairs better then her as a regular.

Go back to the V2 era, Kaito became popular due to a fluke. The reason he grew in popularity so fast after that fluke was the lack of a good all round Vocal. Kaito's vocal was good for many genres, despite it being more towards Jazz... He was a vocal type that was missing from Vocaloid and to this day, is still one of the vocals which stands out quite a bit against all others.

We got Kiyoteru later, yeah, who is one of the closet sounding to Kaito at a time, but his tone is a little more tenser, whereas Kaito's is more relaxed. Therefore, Kaito could be used to sound happy or sad without changing tone, because of the lack of tension. Also, Kaito had established himself by then and Kiyoteru couldn't get in, as also he was from a new untested company and released along side two other Vocaloids on the same day.

The issue is Meiko is a older female vocal, which is fine except we have more appealing Vocals in the CFM lot. Even if this isn't the issue, Meiko's voice is also "common", in both comparisons to a real life singer and a Vocaloid, with about half a dozen or so vocaloids which are all around her typing group. She doesn't have a design which stands out like the Character Series and is competing with more appealing voices that the producers adore already. :-/

http://www.crypton.co.jp/mp/do/news/ranking/vi#no4

In the current rankings, Meiko is below Kaito. But.. Note the absence of everyone else but Miku and these two right now. These rankings will change once the others get released, with Meiko likely disappearing again. But... She isn't in so much trouble for the moment. :-/