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Perfume's Ayaka Nishikawa Tops Female Idol Singer Ranking

The readers over at Goo Ranking weighed in last month on their favorite female idol singers. The poll takers were split evenly between 250 men and 250 women, but the winner was clearly Ayaka "A-chan" Nishikawa from the girl idol group Perfume.

A-chan is the unofficial "center" of Perfume with fellow members Ayano "NOCCHi" Oomoto and Yuka "Kashiyuka" Kashino, although the other two members didn't rank on the poll at all.

The group performed the theme song "Mirai no Museum" (Museum of the Future) for 2013's Doraemon: Nobita no Himitsu Dōgu Museum film. Their song "Polyrhythm" was featured in Pixar's Cars 2 animated film in 2011. They held their first U.S. concert in Los Angeles last year.

Here's the full results:

1. Ayaka Nishikawa (Perfume) - 20.2%
2. Momoka Ariyazu (Momoiro Clover Z) - 13.2%
3. Ai Shinozaki - 8.6%
4. Sayaka Yamamoto (NMB48) - 8.2%
5. Minami Takahashi (AKB48) - 8.0%
6. Mayu Watanabe (AKB48) - 5.2%
7. Momoko "Momochi" Tsugunaga (Berryz Kobo) - 4.0%
8. Airi Suzuki (℃-ute) - 3.6%
9. Misaki Iwasa (AKB48) - 3.0%
10. Miyabi Natsuyaki (Berryz Kobo) - 2.8%
11. Suzuka "SU-METAL" Nakamoto (Babymetal) - 2.6%
12. Aika Hirota (Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku) - 2.4%
13. Ayano Konishi (TOKYO GIRLS' STYLE) - 1.8%
14. Eimi "Eitaso" Naruse (Dempagumi, Inc.) - 1.8%
15. Miki Nonaka (Morning Musume) - 1.6%
16. Sayuki Takagi (Juice=Juice) - 1.6%
17. Momoka Itō (Fairies) - 1.6%
18. Risa Aizawa (Dempagumi, Inc.) - 1.4%
19. Monari Wakita (Especia) - 1.4%
20. Meimi Tamura (Angerme) - 1.0%
21. Mahiro Kawamura (Nogizaka46) - 1.0%
22. Hitomi Arai (TOKYO GIRLS' STYLE) - 0.6%
23. Shiori Mori (PASSPO☆) - 0.6%
24. Mieko Sato (SKE48) - 0.2%
25. Haruka Tominaga (Especia) - 0.2%

[Via Otakomu]