Forum:Defining the Popular Vocaloids

There has been some trouble defining what makes a Vocaloid popular. So I created this topic just to discuss things. Firstly, it tends to be from the point of view your standing at.

What makes a Vocaloid popular then? Firstly sales. Secondly, hit counts. Sometimes a conbination of the two. Vocaloids which ahve a lot of merchandise often indicate popularity though it can be a mask so be aware.

Take note, most Vocaloids ARE popular one way or another, this topic is just discussing the mega popular ones, the ones we sort of can't ignore. Heck, any video that gets more then 1,000+ views on NND is seen as a success so you can sort see part of the problem. Its harder to get noticed on NND then Youtube. We're not here to say which vocaloids are unpopular, we're here to discuss those you can't argue that ARE popular.

Traditionally, there is a popular 8, often a few of us refer to this as "Popular 8" or "Big 8" around the wikia, since we don't really have a name for the group. these are classical big hits of Vocaloid that everyone more or less knows.

The core of the popular 8 is often what some regard as the "original" vocaloids responsible for the Vocaloid craze, the Crypton Future Media Vocaloids of which there are 6 members;
 * Hatsune Miku; good sales, good amounts of hits. Plenty of merchandise, games, etc.  Whether you like it or not, Miku's pretty much the overall no.1.
 * Kagamine Rin/Len; didn't sell so well but have merchandise and are included in Miku's stuff.
 * Megurine Luka; same as Rin and Len.
 * Kaito; rough start but has been popular since 2008.
 * Meiko; Bottom fo the CFM vocaloid popularity, still popular.

Included in the popular 8 are the first two Vocaloids by Internet co., Ltd.
 * Gumi; most popular internet co vocaloids and only vocaloid who comes close to the classic Miku popularity.
 * Gakupo; popular singer, popular vocaloids, not as popular as some of the others in this group but still up there.

Outside of the core 8, are recent popular vocaloids;
 * Ia; mega popular, first vocaloid we've seen have any rise to popularity like the first few japanese v2's.
 * Lily; gaining popularity slower then other Internet vocaloids but now getting there.
 * VY1; again, slow but gaining based mostly on reputation.
 * VY2; Ditto, only a bit faster then VY1.

Others are debatable, and so far this list outside of the core 8 only references Vocaloids who have sngs who hit the 1 million views on NND or were mentioned in a hit point (VY2's case).