Second, by saying dat China alone cannot support an artist. Have you ever heard of Li Yu Chun? -.-' She's a veryyy popular artist (champion of 2005 super girls) yet nobody really knows her outside of China. Yet, she is very successful and just in that first year she's out, she graced the cover of more magazines than any other artist. I have evidence for dat. let me find it.. here
http://www.bjreview.com.cn/06-38-e/china-1.htm
The fact dat most ppl here not knowing her, and yet she's still doing so well shows that China does have dat ability.. she even appeared in stamps for god's sake.. have you ever seen a celeb's face on stamps? Well, I havent..
http://www.shanghaiist.com/archives/...oice_gir_1.php
Evidence of Li yang's popularity. Tieba or Baidu forum is very popular in China. And there's ranking for personal ba(s)...
ranking here..
http://post.baidu.com/top500/12.html
Li yang's number 9.. Gg's not even in the top 500 list..
And of course Li Yu Chun number one.. You should have seen the number of posts posted there.. The fact dat gigi's been around so long yet, none of her fans are (like u say), 'rabid' enough to post a lot for her shows something about their interest in her..
Googling hits..
Results 1 - 10 of about 553,000 for 黎姿
Results 1 - 10 of about 710,000 for 刘力扬
Of course, i know the hits cannot be use to measure ones' popularity...
Why don't you help me by proving that Gigi is more popular than Li yang in China.