Talk:GUMI/@comment-195.222.77.247-20120910233317/@comment-53539-20120922095843

No, most of what w know on populariity is based on fan gathered data.

The next hurdle for gathering data is coming up though, the date of the Voclaoidd software will mark th next time we have to survey them ourselves. That data will be posted when it hapens.

The only ones who won't be part of the survey will be the ones releaser since Gakupo V3 version, since they'll be far too new. ITs helpful though, when people do this on their own without us since its more stable, we're only doing it in the absence of anything else. Even then the data will be based on hits ffor several popular sites like Youtube, NND, Pixiv and DA. We don't have the data for sales (with a few exceptions~), so our popularity notes are based on fan rating. Still the fact its based n hits is still significant enough for the wikias needs. Thats why when someone at VO removed them I had to revert the edit. We wouldn't sdo this at wikipedia though because they want an offical source to do it. But for our purposes its offical enough. :-/

I imagine in the last 6 months alone, a lot of Vocaloids popularity will have changed, IA alone has joined the big popualr 8 to make it the popular 9.