When is this year's Japan Record Taishou?
 

Anybody know when this year's edition of Japan Record Taishou will air? I really would love to know...

December 30, 6:30 pm Japan time

http://www.tbs.co.jp/program/nihonre..._20061230.html

please, please, please let kobukuro win.............. please!

strange... the best album winner hasn't been announced yet... do they even have one this year?

thank you so much~!

you're welcome! :D

shadow*puppet, Thanks!

You're welcome, too :D

I can't wait to see who the winner is!

is ayu removed from the rest of the JPT nomination/award?
It seems that there isnt any award from JPT for her anymore =/

She didn't want to receive this award after winning it 3 times. But even if she still continued to accept the award, I don't think she would've gotten nominated in the 1st place this year.

She could've gone for 4 and won with Moments two years back, but she declined. I'm sure last year she could've won with HEAVEN too, but yeah...she doesn't like to accept the award anymore. I think that in itself attributes a little to her sales decline...

^Well for 2004, I think "Sign" was much better than "Moments" and I think Mr. Children deserved it more than Ayu. As for 2005, it could've gone to HEAVEN though.

^ For 2005, I think most of the songs that were listed on the gold prize should've gotten the grand prize rather than Koda's Butterfly >.>. Not saying Koda's bad, but I think maybe another song of her's should've been nominated e.g. Promise or Star which were both better than butterly in my opinion. Planetarium was awesome...I was pretty disappointed to see that Butterfly was song of the year instead of Planetarium.

I agree. If Kuu was to win, I think it should've been with "Promise" and not "Butterfly". Ai's "Planetarium" wouldn't have been a bad choice either.

I've never seen anything spectacular in Butterfly either, but I was listening to it and my uncle, who is a respected musician, said "awesome arrangement".

Anyway, I think Kobokuro will win.

Record Taishou goes to Kiyoshi Hikawa "Ikken"
Best Vocals prize goes to Koda Kumi's "Yume no Uta"
Best New Artist goes to ayaka

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20...000514-yom-ent

^ Whoa! The results already! Man...I checked my local cable listings and nobody's showing it...V__V

I'm glad that Kiyoshi-san won the award...I've heard he's been nominated a bunch of times since his debut but he's never won. He really deserves it for rejuvinating the Enka style in Japan. He was really great in Kouhaku, too.

I think the newspaper article said it was the 1st time in 13 years that an enka song won.

Yeah...I'm glad he won, though. There were some really great candidates this year overall, in my opinion. Winter Love, Renai Shashin and Yume no Uta were all really great -- Kobukuro and Hikawa Kiyoshi-san, too...Next year, I hope Mr. Children wins for "shirushi" -- that song is A M A Z I N G !!!!

I think even Kumi said once that she didn't like Butterfly. :laugh But Yume no Uta did have great vocals. I'm glad it won.

Koda Kumi cried when she heard she lost the Grand Prize, that's bad~~!

ayaka should have won the 2 prizes instead (best new artist and best vocals). ayaka's vocals crush koda's any day. It seems like they were really pitiful for Koda so they have to give her a consolation prize anyway, even if it mean doing something completely nonsense and random, honestly :laugh Yume no Uta has average/mediocre, almost bad vocals. Way to go on how technical and professional we can see these judges are!:sarclap :sarclap :sarclap :sarclap :sarclap :sarclap :sarclap :sarclap :sarclap :sarclap :sarclap :sarclap

^The best vocals award is also directly linked to the 10 songs nominated for the Grand Prize. Since Mikazuki wasn't part of the 10, ayaka couldn't win it, although if it was nominated I would have wanted ayaka to win it.

I watched the video when they announced Hikawa Kiyoshi was the winner and it didn't look like she was crying... (Although I saw her for like 2 seconds). I doubt she would cry over it though...

This year's Grand Record Taishou had an average audience of 17% up 7% from last year.

http://www.sanspo.com/geino/top/gt20...007010304.html

it's like the susan lucci curse. be nominated countless times until you win like... a long time later. hahahaha. nice he finally won though. BoA really should have won... but that's ok.

i gotta agree with impactbreaker re: koda, her award seemed like a very obvious consolation prize... nearly all the winners of the best vocals prize in the past years were enka singers/traditional singers, never popular artists (winners of the past three years: kiyoshi hikawa, rimi natsukawa, kaori mizumori)... it seems a bit strange that this is the first time in a while they gave best vocals to a pop singer...

still i am VERY VERY VERY happy kiyoshi hikawa won... well-deserved!!!!! :D

ayufan, best vocals isn't always linked to the 10 nominees for the grand prize... especially before 2001... I think that trend only started 2001 onwards... someone else should have won! like yoshimi tendo or something :)




edit: whoops, yoshimi tendo already won best vocals... okay, at least chitose hajime or, if they wanted to award a pop singer, hitoto yo, ken hirai, so many more deserving than koda (no offense to fans)...

The only reason I said that because I saw it on the Japanese wiki site, you maybe write, or they might have changed the rules after 2001. http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%...A4%A7%E8%B3%9E
And there's the betting site betting who would win the vocal prize, only the 10 songs were listed as odds. http://ebet.jp/user/bet/solebet/result.php?BetCD=189889

And maybe they wanted to split it => an enka song gets top prize, then a jpop song will get the vocal prize and vice versa?

Congrats to Kiyoshi!^^ He's been nominated several times, but he never won the grand award. It's good to know that all that 13 years of hard work finally paid off!!^o^

>>Aw..In a way, I feel bad for Kuu because I'm sure everyone(even herself) expected her to win..:( But there's always next year Kuu!

I really think Ai Otsuka should've won best vocals with "Renai Shashin". Her voice is absolutely divine in that song! "Yume no Uta" is not bad, but I don't think it's as good as "Renai Shashin".