[INFO] 51st Japan Record Awards

51st Japan Record Awards announced

On Tuesday, most of the winners of the 51st Japan Record Awards were announced. On December 30, when the awards show is broadcast live, one of the 11 Best Song winners will be given the grand prize (the Japan Record Award) and one of the four New Artist Award winners will be named Best New Artist.

Best Song:
* "Aki no Miyajima" - Kaori Mizumori
* "Infinity" - GIRL NEXT DOOR
* "YELL" - Ikimono Gakari
* "Omae wo Tsurete" - Daisuke Kitagawa
* "Someday" - EXILE
* "Stand by U" - TVXQ
* "Tegami ~Shinai Naru Kodomotachi e~" - Ryoichi Higuchi
* "Tokimeki no Rumba" - Kiyoshi Hikawa
* "Mata Kimi ni Koi Shiteru" - Fuyumi Sakamoto
* "Lick me" - Kumi Koda
* "Rain Is Fallin'" - w-inds. x G-DRAGON (BIG BANG)

New Artist:
* Maya Sakura
* SCANDAL
* BIG BANG
* Hilchryme

Album Award:
* "Ainowa" - Hanaregumi
* "Sayuri IV" - Sayuri Ishikawa
* "Shio, Kosho" - GReeeeN
* "Box Emotions" - Superfly
* "my Classics!" - Ayaka Hirahara

Best Album:
* "Shio, Kosho" - GReeeeN

Best Singer:
* Hiroshi Itsuki

Special Awards:
* Alice
* AKB48 / Yasushi Akimoto
* Nobuyuki Tsujii 

Source: Tokyograph (via Sankei Sports)

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TVXQ and Big Bang are nominees for the Japan Record Awards

It has been announced that both TVXQ and Big Bang have been nominated for awards at the upcoming '51st Japan Record Awards'.

TVXQ has been nominated for the 'Excellence' award (Daesang equivalent) and Big Bang has been nominated for the 'Rookie' award. Both groups have also been nominated for the 'Best Work' award.

Big Bang has been receiving much love in Japan for their song 'Rain is Fallin' with W-INDS, hence they have been nominated to receive the 'Best Work' award as. TVXQ has been nominated for both the 'Best Work' and 'Excellence' awards for their Japanese single, 'Stand By U.' This single has sold over 200,000 copies and has been acknowledged as a 'Gold Record' according to the Japanese Records Company.

The '51st Japan Record Awards' will be held on December 30th.

In related news, on November 26th, both TVXQ and Big Bang were nominated to receive the 'Gold Artist' award at the '2009 Best Hit Music' ceremony.

The two groups are also set to perform at the 'FNS Music Show', along with other Japanese artists.

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Tonight's that FNS Music Show at 19:00 Korean time. So that means 18:00 in our time. We do not have any Japanese channel here, but you can watch livestream if you want. I want to watch but I am too lazy to download and install whatever. Hahaha I still have time so let me think.