On November 18th, the list of nominees and winners for the annual music awards show, “The 53rd Japan Record Awards” were announced. The winners for the grand prize, “Japan Record Award”, will be chosen from the winners of the “Best Song” category, and “Best New Artist” will be chosen from the winners in the “New Artist” category. The winners of both awards will be announced during ”The 53rd Kagayaku! Japan Record Award” show which will air live on December 30th at 6:30 pm on TBS.
Check out the winners below!
[Best Album ]• “Do-mo” – Oda Kazumasa
[Great Album]
• “Sugao~Aisubeki Onnatachi~” – Sekiguchi Yuki
• “DISCOVER JAPAN” – Suzuki Masayuki
• “HoSoNoVa” – Hosono Haruomi
• “MUSICMAN” – Kuwata Keisuke
[Best Vocal Performance]
• Sakamoto Fuyumi
[Best Composer]
• Wakakusa Kei (“Futari no Funauta” – Tendo Yoshimi)
[Best Songwriter]
• Yamagami Michio (“Ikutabi no Sakura” – Fukui Mai)
[Best Arranger]
• Watanabe Toshiyuki (Ohisama~Taisetsu na Anata e” – Hirahara Ayaka)
[Project Award]
• “Akiramenaide” – Sano Yumi (Teichiku Entertainment)
• “1969″ – Yuki Saori & Pink Martini (EMI Music Japan)
• “TRIBUTE Sandai Sakka Tribute Album~Ishimoto Miyuki, Hoshino Tetsuro, Yoshioka Osamu ni Sasagu~” – Itsuki Hiroshi (Fives Entertainment)
• “Hibari Senya Ichiya” – Misora Hibari (Nippon Columbia)
• ”Revive”, “Kono Hana ga Saitara” – Erika (Universal Music)
[Special Award]
• “Maru•Maru•Mori•Mori!” – Kaoru to Tomoki, Tamani Mook
[ Achievement Award]
• Aoyama Kazuko
• Ei Rokusuke
• Terauchi Takeshi
• Hashimoto Jun
• Hatakeyama Midori
[Special Achievement Award]
• Ohmachi Masato
• Takamizawa Hiromu
• Yanagi George
• Ryu Tetsuya
[Encouragement Award – By Japan Composer’s Association]
• Miyama Hiroshi
[Music Culture Award]
source, Nominees for Best Song and Best New Artist