I don't think so. It was being reported on American sites too. And actually, people from all the way in the far East (Japan, China, etc.) are East Asians. Southeast Asians are Thai, Filipinos, Cambodians, etc. Anyway we're on Wikipedia so it shouldn't be about vernacular in some certain country, but rather accuracy. If he's not the first artist of Asian origin to get a #1 in the US, it should be changed to South Asian.   Ayan