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Originally Posted by shadow*puppet
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!!!!! 
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  |
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?