Long-time music critic Jin Zhaojun notes that some singers who are popular in the south don't do so well in the north: "Komuro Takuya's 1998 concert in Shanghai was a huge event, but the people in Beijing didn't care for him.
資深樂評人金兆鈞也表示：有些南方喜歡的歌手，北方卻沒什麼反應，「九八年小室哲哉到上海表演很火爆，但是到了北京沒人理他！」