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This month's Indies Ranking still has a lot of songs from the previous ranking, but there is surprisingly a large number of new ones. There are instrumentals, V-kei material, and your usual dose of post rock.

Like with the Weekly Utaran, a mirror to the English Nico Nico Site is also provided for the Monthly Indies Ranking, so if you want to comment in English, feel free to view this one.

English nicovideo link
original nicovideo link

new upload ranking )

overall upload ranking )
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This is a combination of the rankings for September and October. As the NNI category is pretty slow with updates, there's still a lot of old stuff in this ranking. However, there are also a lot of new ones worth watching, although you may have already encountered them somewhere if you follow some VocaloP/utaite's original stuff. Apologies for the lateness, I didn't realize it was already uploaded OTL.

original nicovideo link

new upload ranking )

overall upload ranking )
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NioP / におP

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NioP is a seasoned Vocaloid producer, having uploaded Vocaloid songs in NND since the start of 2008. You might have known him from his first hit, rain stops, good-bye which remains one of the most favorite ballads in the Vocaloid-dom. It is also his second most-viewed work in NND.

While his songs exhibit a wide range of melodies, instrumentation and themes, NioP's works are mostly piano ballads, the rest bordering towards bossa nova and jazz. As a piano player, he does all the piano melodies in his songs. His ballads are often described as calming and easy to listen to, while his jazzy, more upbeat works are often mentioned as smooth and classy. The themes of his songs mostly talk of personal and relationship issues and they have a variety of sensitive themes from separation to cheating. The clarity as well as the messages hidden behind pretty metaphors and actions give a certain sentimental feeling to his songs that make them timeless favorites by newcomers and old members of the Vocaloid community.

NioP uses Miku for most of his works, but he also uses the Kagamine twins from time to time. His Rin and Miku are tuned high and solid, with a slight softness in ballads and a slight sharpness in jazz. His Len is often tuned low, but he can have strong high-pitched notes in song climaxes.

Aside from composing Vocaloid works, he has also done original songs and collaborated with utaite like Himawari and Umineko. He also collabs with other producers, often providing piano melodies for their works, like with buzzG's Albino or tuning Vocaloids, like with DevilishP's Hikarizakura. He also sings a lot, whether covers of his own works or other people's, as you might see in his utattemita mylist. His voice is gentle, calming and reminiscent of Umineko's voice, like his songs.

So far, NioP has released one album, called UFHs -luxury-, but he has taken part in compilation albums like Farbe and EXIT TUNES PRESENTS Supernova 6

sample songs
muddy cloud (Miku)
Kaerimichi (Miku)
Tómur (Miku)
Boku wa Haineko (Len)
Mitsubachi (Len)
Yogoreta Prism (Rin)

sample covers
Rainbow Connection (OreginalP original)
Colorful World (gomezP original)
Boku wa Haineko (self)
rain stops, good-bye (w/ TsurutusuP; self)
Hikarizakura (w/ LiveP)

nikki says
Like most of you, I was introduced to NioP's wonderful songs starting with rain stops, good-bye. He is one of my favorite ballad-makers with Rerulili, because his songs are always so...descriptive, either full of adjectives or actions. I have a lot of favorites that it was hard for me to list sample songs, but my favorite favorites are Mitsubachi, muddy cloud, After this, and Kaerimichi. I also looooove listening to his covers because they're so yasashii/////. I especially liked his cover of Rainbow Connection (English lyrics!) and Hikarizakura because of LiveP's and his wonderful contrast in range and voice.
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Since I'm on vacation today, I'm posting the Vocaran while we wait for Utaran :D. I looooooove this week so much because there are a lot of new, amazing releases from famous producers and new ones that have so much potential (I swear, I will stop using 'so much' so much). Because of the awesome new stuff, there are only a few left from last week's ranking, some of them pulled down as a consequence. Still, there are some surprising returns (Matryoshka, what!) and rises. I hope this week will also be an interesting listen for you guys, too, so let's get started.

↑# - the song moved up from a previous top 30 rank
↓# - song moved down from a previous top 30 rank
- song is a re-entry to the top 30 rankings

original nicovideo link

Songs are arranged from 1-30.

top 30 under the cut )
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You might remember that I did a sort of intro post (plus a previous ranking writeup) for Nico Nico Indies Ranking. This is the ranking for this month. As I said, NNI is much more slow-moving compared to utattemita and Vocaloid, so you might still encounter songs here which appeared in the previous ranking. In order to keep your interests piqued, I'll copy my intro discussion on the artist from last ranking as they appear here. :)

original nicovideo link

new upload ranking )

overall ranking )
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Since I dropped the monthly Vocaloid ranking, I decided to replace it this time with the Monthly Nico Nico Indies Ranking.



Nico Nico Indies is a small part of the Nico Nico Douga site where people post their original works. The concept that is different from Vocaloid/Utattemita/Ensoushitemita is that the works here are all original and are usually instrumental or sung by people. Of course, while there are many unfamiliar names here, there are VocaloidPs and utaites that participate in this area, too, especially when they collaborate to sing original songs. Oftentimes, original songs from NNI appear also in utattemita, so you might recognize some of them. NNI is also a very slow-moving category, so there are only a few views/participants than what you might be used to.

I'm glad this ranking is just monthly because gathering information on the artists is a bit difficult, especially since I am also a bit new in this area. Since this writeup is to introduce people to NNI, I tried my best to be as descriptive as possible. If you are a fan of anyone mentioned in this ranking please feel free to chip in other information you can share re: the artist!

Since it has almost the same format, this ranking will be arranged just like the utattemita ranking, minus the colorful letters :). This might be a bit tl;dr than most of my rankings, so please be warned! Also, as I said before, this is a slow-moving category, so you will encounter songs here which you might have already heard months ago :).

original nicovideo link

new upload ranking )

overall ranking )
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Apologies again for the lateness. If you've read the utaran, you already now my problems with my Internet. I just hijacked someone's net for a while so I can post this. Again, lack of witty comments and stuff :(.

Weekly Vocaloid Ranking #197 (July 04-11, 2011)

↑# - the song moved up from a previous top 30 rank
↓# - song moved down from a previous top 30 rank
- song is a re-entry to the top 30 rankings

original nicovideo link

Songs are arranged from 1-30.

top 30 under the cut )
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This "album" is a collaboration among Vocaloid producers, utaite, illustrators, and other artists, but it's not really an album. Actually, it's a series of songs uploaded in Nico Nico as a "set". If you know about the previous season albums "Utaite Tsunagu Album" which has included Clear, Wotamin, Re:A and others in the past, "&" is very much like them.

The theme is "relationships, ties and connections with all things". Each song is a collaboration of a VocaloidP, a singer, and an artist who did the PV. All songs are original and they are not covers of existing songs.

Here's the list of the songs, collab team and a short description on each song. The whole set is in this mylist. When you listen to one song, it automatically forwards to the next track, but in case it doesn't work, just check the mylist :).

track list )
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Weekly Vocaloid Ranking #177 (February 14 - 21, 2011)

This is not a strong week, although there are a lot of new covers. It's just that you'll be seeing a lot of returnees, a couple of them caused by the number 1 song and the rest...because we love 'em? XD The rest are remnants from last week. Still, it doesn't mean there are no good songs this week. There are a few which are really worth checking out! :3

↑# - the song moved up from a previous top 30 rank
↓# - song moved down from a previous top 30 rank
- song is a re-entry to the top 30 rankings

original nicovideo link

Songs are arranged from 1-30.

top 30 under the cut )
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As you might remember, I posted the midyear special ranking sometime in July, where the songs included were those uploaded from December 2009 to June 2010. This is the LATTER PART of that ranking, where the top songs from June 15 to December 14, 2010 are uploaded.

The video has 80 songs, but the mylist has 200 songs O_O;. A-anyway, I've included them all in the list. As with the previous mid-year ranking and all the other rankings which aren't weekly, this is written in reverse for more suspense :D.

Since all of them are Miku songs, I'll just type the song, composer and additional Vocaloids used if there are any :).

nicovideo link 1
nicovideo link 2

list under the cut! )


The last few are so predictable XD;. Anyway, I'll be doing the rest of the rankings, too (how many more to go? D: ) so please wait for them! /o/

...The tags...I...will do them later orz.

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