Who cares really? America is a wasteland for untalented artists and crappy music anyway. The only way to get known in America nowadays is to either be 1) on American Idol 2) work for Disney 3) be an outragous, attention whoring clown 4) be lucky enough to have your song played in a movie, tv show, commercial etc etc.

If this were the 80's Utada would have been bigger then Madonna because the American music scene was much more open to foreign acts and ecletic sounding pop music then it is now.
Now it's just a business. Everything is auto-tuned, nobody can really sing, nobody writes their own music and most of the pop music as a result is monotonous, dispensable crap.

There isn't a single American female artist today that can hold a candle to Utada. And if you can think of one please post it here so I can have a good laugh.