Japanese artist clamoring to get into iTunes

Sell a million songs in four days and all sorts of cool things start to happen. Apple launched the iTunes Music Store in Japan only days ago, but it is now the most popular download service in the country. This popularity hasn't been lost on Japanese artists whose music isn't available on the iTunes Music Store.

Sony artists are scrambling to get their music available on the iTMS with or without Sony's help (at the time of writing Sony and Apple haven't reached a deal on carrying Sony music on the iTMS). Artists' agents are even getting into the fray by trying to get their clients' work on without the intervention of the record labels.

A harbinger of things to come? Do you think that Apple will displace the record companies as more and more artists go directly to the iTMS themselves?