Japan Record Taishou 4th year???

[bluegie]

it's about the problem between the ex-avex president and Max (they had different opinions) and rumor said Max would leave avex because of that. Then, ayu said that (i forgot if she did announce it tho) if Max's leaving, she'll be leaving as well. There were also rumors floating around the net that a few artists would leave as well. As a result, the stock of avex went down immediately, and that avex president resigned in a few days. Max became the president in the end...

The thing is that ayu announced sometime later that she would not accept any award later on because of that incident. (like... INSPIRE was popular because of that). We never know tho whether she declined the award secretly or what...

Btw.. I remember that when she after she announced to decline any award, one or two days later the organization of nihon taishou (japanese record award??) said that they've never offered the award to ayu.. but then later on they changed their words again saying that ayu did refuse them beforehand... no one really knows which rumor is true...

[PrincessAyu]

"Ayumi has also won the golden prize on the Japan Record Taishou (the most important award in Japanese music) three times in a row, in 2001, 2002 and 2003. She would also win it in 2004, but she rejected the award saying she doesn't want her song INSPIRE to win an award."

from English wikipedia... but why did she reject? Or is this false info?

[immel]

The info is true, there's been some speculations on why and someone else than me can probably give you a better answer.

From what I've read it's due to the fact that the song is made purely for her fans, and not something she want to accept an award for. This has been discussed before, I don't remember if it's got its own thread somewhere.

[ayu_fan929]

I don't see why another thread had to be created, a person asked the exact same question and the thread is still on the 1st page:
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45402

[norain]

Originally Posted by ayu_fan929

I don't see why another thread had to be created, a person asked the exact same question and the thread is still on the 1st page:
http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45402

but the thing is, it's the same thread...

[immel]

Originally Posted by norain

but the thing is, it's the same thread...

The threads was merged right after that was posted.

[realize_!]

I was just reading her wikipedia page and I saw this

Ayumi has also won the golden prize on the Japan Record Taishou (the most important award in Japanese music) three times in a row, in 2001, 2002 and 2003. She would have also won it in 2004, but she rejected the award saying she didn't want her song INSPIRE to win an award, also Ayumi no longer accepts awards.

I usually skim through her wiki page when I'm bored, and that was never there before. So does she no longer accept awards?

[terra]

Well some syas that

'You shouldn't believe Wikipedia easily', though if' it is true it's kinda surprissing....

[IYFreak]

it is true after the feud in Avex Trax in 2004 Ayu made that descion even though the feud doesn't have to do with AYu and accepting awards *sad* I wish she still got awards

[ayu_fan929]

There's a whole thread about it HERE

[realize_!]

oh Thank you!!

[marca]

i wasnt very sure about this too and i am still not too sure even after through all the posts... all i know for sure is that she will not accept any more awards and the reason behind it got to do with the power struggle in avex in 2004... but i just cant see where the link between these two events is... can some1 fill me in on this?

[norain]

Originally Posted by ayu_fan929

There's a whole thread about it HERE

They were merged...a while back

[ayu_fan929]

Originally Posted by norain

They were merged...a while back

huh? my post was inreference to realize_!'s post because s/he created another thread yesterday, and now the mods merged it.