Hatsune Miku nominated to sing at the 2012 Olympic Winter Games (But not really)
The Top Tens, a community voting site, has recently opened up an online poll that allows users to vote on the singers they would like to see perform at the 2012 Olympic Winter games (hypothetical of course). Most surprisingly, Hatsune Miku has shown up on the list!
In a matter of 12 hours, she’s moved from rank #91 to rank #39. If you want to take a look and cast a vote for yourself, you can do so here. This is a perfect opportunity to attract publicity from online readers.
Getting her into the top 10 will be difficult, but we’ll see what happens!
EDIT 1/13/2012 10:09PM: After a few message exchanges with the admins on their message board, Miku has been added back to the site!
If you wish to read the other edits to get an idea of what happened earlier, read the entire post.
Below is the previous edits from throughout the day.
UPDATE 01/13/2012 11:55 AM GMT-8: Just 10 minutes ago, Hatsune Miku’s name vanished from the list not long after reaching rank #22. I’ll try to look for updates or explanations for the removal. Let’s hope it’s just a glitch!
UPDATE 01/13/2012 1:13 PM: I have received a response from the admins of the site.
Because Hatsune Miku is not a person, we felt it was not appropriate for the list.
TheTopTens
I’ve waited a bit to see if it was perhaps some sort of glitch, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Is there any particular reason why the name was removed from the list?
This comes somewhat as a shock as many of the artists listed on the top 100 don’t even sing any lyrics at all. Yet they are quick to eliminate her from the list simply because they view her as nothing more than a tool? If you wish to contact them about the matter to help revise their decision, you can contact them by using this contact form.
Even though it’s likely that the voting isn’t used for official purposes, the response from the admins was rather self contradictory. The list cannot truly represent the interests of the internet community if the site admins are free to remove any entry at will.
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG YAY!!!!!!!!!! i’m keeping constant watch over that voting site. Hatsune Miku is currently at rank 23 and counting. I hope she wins!
i cant find miku ? what number iss she now ? i promise ill vote for her
She was sitting at rank #22 just 10 minutes ago, but her name seems to have vanished from the list. I’ll try and find out what happened, and if she will be re-added to the list.
“WHAT? YOU TOOK MIKU OFF? She may not be a person, but she has the power to change the world of music! It would be a revelation for her to be on there! Plus, you can contact Crypton Future Media so you can use her new english voicebank… PLEASSSEEE PUT HER BACK ONNNNN!”
This was my Facebook comment to the website
Hatsune Miku is not a person. is at least five milion of persons around the world creating something Bigger than ‘a person’
This is too much. Removing her from the list feels like they’re trying to start a war…
2012 Olympics is NOTING WITHOUT MIKU.
I agree with him,If there’s no Miku,what will the world look like boring world.Please… even she’s not a human,please turn her back on.
oh yeah! she is back, and she has climbed to the rank 16. the Vocactivism is paying off.
She’s up to 14!! She’s heading up the list fast! Keep the votes coming and soon she’ll be number 1!!
Now she’s No.14!! SWEET!!!!!!! with enough comments & likes,u will be STRAIGHT to the top MIKU!!!
11 now.
I guess The-Top-Tens gave up upon countering endless reports of us Miku fans. Victory.
They put her back on the list 10 hours later after they agreed to my argument posted on their boards:
http://forum.thetoptens.com/post532.html#p532
YEAH!!!
Victory!!
Ur gonna be in the #1 miku!! someday u will!!!!
Mother Of God! Miku has reached to the top 6! she has kicked Justin bieber and Lady Gaga!!!
She is NUMBER 5 RIGHT NOW! she was 13 yesterday!
OMG SHES 5TH PLACE NAO!!!!!!!
Omg #4
Yay she is at number 3! Stupid K-Pop boy band Super Junior is ranked 1. -.- Every Mikufan vote for her!
-from 10 year old Vocaloid fan
Respect K-pop bands. We don’t want to embarres Miku. Btw she’s rank 2 now. In clash with Big Bang
And also, thx JRHARBORT. We ppl should acknowledge your contribution.
YAY!!! She’s at number 2 right now!! If she keeps going like this she’ll be number one soon! Yay!
OMFG 2:nd! Just to get past Super Junior!
She’s in 2nd place
Come on, guys. We need her to get in first place ^-^
agree JrHarbort went to the fight without hesitation, as a whole vocaloknight.
I think miku should sing ‘magnet’ along with that other girl. it’s really catchy! or sing triple baka.
Miku. NO.1
MY GIRL IS #1 YEAHHHHH!
FIRST PLACE!!!
GO!GO! MIKU!
woot!!!!!!!! man i love her and im in america, the only thing that sucks is i went and checked out the olympics website and there was nothing about this on it. cmon lets spam their websites owner with links to the list so he can see who we want to perform!!
Great idea! Let’s light up their severs telling them we need Miku to perform. Post the like so everyone can click and spam faster.
MIKU MADE IT TO THE #1 SPOT! MIKU HAS WON A DESERVING PLACE AT LONDON 2012! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
http://www.the-top-tens.com/lists/singers-perform-london-olympics-opening-ceremonies.asp
their you go. now lets spam like we mean it. i really would love to see this happen, i would actully pay attenion when my parents force me to watch the olympics this year then.
well i just sent a huge message through youtube to their channel with a link to the list, i really hope it gets their attention. i just spent 20 minutes straight coming up with that in the middle of the night for nothing if it dosent grab their attention.
Does anyone know if there is a way we can contact the Olympic organizers about this list? Maybe if we send them emails about it or organize a petition about what we would like to see happen, we could get them to consider having Miku sing.
The hatsune miku official page on facebook posted miku as the top 1 in the olympics list a few days ago like…… 3 i think… Idontremember… But im really concern if they actually let miku perform in the olympics, i really wish she could, i listen to her songs everyday and download newer ones every week XD
…. Why did my comment doubled? Anyway gudluck miku with the olympics concert!!!
ya at the bottom of there page jacob theres a link to their twitter, facebook, and youtube pages
OK, thank you Jason. I will have to check that out if I have the chance to. Good luck Miku, and we all hope to see you perform during this year’s Olympic games.
Yay! shes #1! i really hope she can perform!
no prob jacob. man, to think i didnt even know who she was untill about october and now i cant get enough of her.
SHE IS FIRST NOW!!! GREATGREATGREATGREAT
OMG, MIKU IS NO.1 ON LIST!!! IM SO EXCITING =))
Its said that her chance to perform is probably slim to none. But don’t give up guys.
well esides praying that it happens (which i wont do since im not religous at all.) is spam there differnt accounts they have at places and also spam there main website
She’s trumping them all…
VOTE MIKU ! VOTE MIKU !tell all your friends and say :
“VOTE MIKU VOTE MIKU VOTE MIKU VOTE MIKU VOTE MIKU VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” P.S. SHE’s NUMBER 1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KEEP VOTING
- A 11-year-old listening to “Melt” by Hatsune Miku continually.
Miku still stands as number one in the list.. will she really sing there? I wish…
so is this topic dead or are we still trying to get her to sing there?
YAY!!!!!!!!!!! HATSUNE MIKU IS IN 1ST PLACE!!!! HOPEFULLY SHE’LL STAY THAT WAY!