Big Bang and SNSD Won Awards for 52nd Japan Record Awards!

Japan Record Awards is a major music awards show held annually for outstanding achievements. It is presented by the Japan Composer's Association. This year will mark the 52nd awards show. Big Bang and Girls' Generation both made it on the list of winners of awards alongside Japanese artists. Along with ICONIQ, they are the only Korean artists that have made it onto the list.





On November 20th, the ‘52nd Japan Record Awards’ announced their list of nominees and award winners. It’s odd to see that the winners for most of the categories have been selected already, but maybe that’s just for brevity’s sake.



The winners from the ‘Best Song‘ and ‘New Artist’ categories will progress respectively to compete for the ‘Japan Record Award’ and ‘Best New Artist‘ awards. The panel will select their choice in who should be awarded the ‘Japan Record Award‘ from the ‘Best Song’ pool, while the winner for the ‘Best New Artist‘ will be chosen from the ‘New Artist’ list.

The winners of these two categories will be announced during the broadcast of the show on December 30th at 6:30 PM (JST).

Check out the list below!



"New Artist Award"

• ICONIQ

• Kikuchi Madoka

• Shoujo Jidai (Girls' Generation)

• S/mileage

"Best New Artist"

• ICONIQ

• Kikuchi Madoka

• Shoujo Jidai (Girls' Generation)

• S/mileage

"Best Song"

• "I Wish For You" - EXILE

• "Aitai Riyuu" - AAA

• "Arigatou" - Ikimono Gakari

• "Tell Me Goodbye" - BIG BANG

• "Toilet no Kamisama" - Kana Uemura

• "Nijiiro no Bayon" - Kiyoshi Hikawa

• "New World" - w-inds.

• "Beginner" - AKB48

• "Matsushima Kikou" - Kaori Mizumori

• "Ready to be a lady" - GIRL NEXT DOOR

Note: The position of the artists are not ranked. In other words, the order does not matter as they have all won the same award.

Big Bang was chosen alongside 9 other artists for "Best Song Award" for their single, "Tell Me Goodbye". Girls' Generation was chosen as 1 of the 4 recipients for "Newcomer's Award".

The highest award for the music show is the "Japan Record Award" and it will be chosen from 1 of the 10 winners of the "Best Song Award". "Best Newcomer's Award" has also yet to be chosen and it will be chosen from 1 of the 4 "New Artist's Award" recipients. At last year's Japan Record Awards (51st), Big Bang won the "Best Newcomer's Award" and the year before that at the 50th Japan Record Awards, their sunbae DBSK was a recipient of "Best Song Award" for their single, "Why Did I Fall in Love with You?".

Just to clarify, both Big Bang and Girl's Generation have actually won their respective awards, not just nominated. There is just the possibility that they may each win an additional award if selected for the above mentioned awards that have yet to be decided.

Source: Oricon Style
Credits: Tokyohive