When is this year's Japan Record Taishou?

[elvis810]

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

[ImpactBreaker]

Originally Posted by ayu_fan929

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

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 Yume no Uta has average/mediocre, almost bad vocals. Way to go on how technical and professional we can see these judges are!

[ayu_fan929]

^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.

Originally Posted by elvis810

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

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...

[ayu_fan929]

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

[DA1SUK1DAY01691]

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.

[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




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)...

Originally Posted by ImpactBreaker

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 Yume no Uta has average/mediocre, almost bad vocals. Way to go on how technical and professional we can see these judges are!

[ayu_fan929]

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?

[OoxchocolatexmarblexoO]

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!

[namiie]

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".