Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-85.166.165.242-20161222173752/@comment-25986720-20170107104639

well, Japanese people don't create that word for "singer" in geneneral because they have other word 'kashu', if u want to discuss about the language instead of the definition that we are using for this wikia. Why don't u consider her as a youtaite? since many people accept this word and use it to classify 2 type of covered singers.

As far as i know, u can be called an utaite when covering songs and uploading it to Japanese sites, not to an international site of a company from outside Japan like youtube. They have different magazines for utaite and youtuber in Japan and i haven't seen any singer who is active on YT only can be introduced in utaite magazine. If u know about Japanese culture, u will understand my point of view, that the Japanese people will not think they are the same.