Frank Kogan

I don't really know what Western pop was big in China in '00. XD;; Tons of stuff was still banned then. I was there in '98 and '04, and on the earlier trip it was all ABBA and the Carpenters. Loreena McKennitt, Enya. But in recent months of reading message boards I've realized that by turn of century stuff was filtering to the kidz via means other than CDs from stores - bootlegs, video games.

Gaga: I really don't know! Japan - The Fame/The Fame Monster peaked at Oricon #6/#7, respectively. China - reading Douban threads: some fans saying she's not as popular as she deserves to be, others retorting she's plenty popular now (recently?). Loads of comments to the effect that she's vulgar (well, she is, by Asian pop idol standards). Then again, Douban is skewed, in the same way Pitchfork or last.FM or ILX may be.

Marit has a chance I think; Bjork is persona non grata of course after those Tibet-related remarks, but she was doing a big gig at the time, so she must've had a fanbase. XD;;