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.