Awards winners

• Japan Record Award: - "Someday"
  • Artist: Exile
  • Songwriter: ATSUSHI
  • Composer: miwa furuse
  • Arranger: H-Wonder
  • Record companies: Avex Entertainment
  • Productions: LDH
• Best Vocal Performance: Hiroshi Itsuki
  Hiroshi Itsuki
  is a Japanese male singer and composer. He sold 20 million records of singles and 4 million copies of LP albums by 1987.Itsuki is usually regarded as an enka singer, but he even covered Southern All Stars' J-pop song "Tsunami"....
  
  
• Best New Artist: Big Bang
• Best album: GReeeeN
  GReeeeN
  is a Japanese pop/rock/hip hop/breakbeat vocal group from Kōriyama city in Fukushima Prefecture, comprising the all-male four members Hide, Navi, 92, and Soh. They made their debut with Universal Music in 2007. Their logo image is of a mouthful of teeth, and the four Es indicate the number of members...
  
   for "Shio, Koshō
  Shio, Koshō
  is Japanese band Greeeen's third studio album released on June 10, 2009. There is a limited edition having DVD. There is another limited edition having bonus track "Kiseki"....
  
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Japan Record Awards

• Ikimono-gakari
  Ikimono-gakari
  is a Japanese pop rock band that debuted in 1998. They record on Sony Music Entertainment Japan's Epic Records label.The band was formed in Kanagawa Prefecture in February 1999 by Hotaka Yamashita and Yoshiki Mizuno, and was later joined by lead vocalist Kiyoe Yoshioka in December the same year...
  
   for "YELL"
• w-inds.
  W-inds.
  W-inds is a Japanese pop boy band that is managed by Vision Factory and has been signed to the Pony Canyon label since 2000. The group consists of the three individuals Ryohei Chiba, Keita Tachibana, and Ryuichi Ogata. They made their formal debut in 2001 and, to date, have released 30 singles...
  
   x G-Dragon
  G-Dragon
  Aside from Big Bang, G-Dragon also made several solo appearances. After helping produce Taeyang's debut album, he recorded his own version of the album's lead single "Only Look At Me" , titled as the part two version to the song. The single was released digitally...
  
   (Big Bang) for "Rain Is Fallin'
  Rain Is Fallin'/Hybrid Dream
  Rain Is Fallin'/Hybrid Dream is the 26th single by Japanese pop group W-inds.-Information:The single was produced by Swedish producer Jakob Oloffson, Magnus Lidehäll from Swedish hip hop crew Afasi & Filthy, and Japanese hip hop producer and artist Bachlogic, among others. W-inds also collaborated...
  
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• Exile for "Someday"
• Girl Next Door
  Girl Next Door (band)
  Girl Next Door is a Japanese pop musical trio that debuted in 2008 on the Avex Trax label. The band consists of vocalist Chisa, guitarist Yuji Inoue and Daisuke Suzuki on keyboard.-History:...
  
   for "Infinity
  Infinity (Girl Next Door song)
  "Infinity" is the fifth single by the band Girl Next Door and it was released on June 10, 2009. Infinity was used as the theme song of Japanese drama Atashinchi no Danshi.- CD Tracklisting :# Infinity# If# Jōnetsu no Daishō...
  
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• Daisuke Kitagawa for "Omae o Tsurete (おまえを連れて)"
• Kumi Koda
  Kumi Koda
  , better known by her stage name , is a Japanese singer and songwriter from Kyoto, known for her urban and R&B songs. Having debuted in 2000 with the single "Take Back", Koda gained fame for her seventh single, "Real Emotion/1000 no Kotoba", the songs of which were used as themes for the video game...
  
   for "Lick me♥"
• Fuyumi Sakamoto
  Fuyumi Sakamoto
  is a Japanese female enka singer under EMI Music Japan.-Career:On March 4, 1987, Sakamoto debuted as a recording singer with the single "Abare Daiko". In 1988, she took part in the 39th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen for the first time...
  
   for "Mata Kimi ni Koishiteru (また君に恋してる)"
• TVXQ
  TVXQ
  TVXQ, an acronym for Tong Vfang Xien Qi , is a South Korean pop group formed in 2003 under SM Entertainment. In South Korea they are known as Dong Bang Shin Ki , often abbreviated by international fans as DBSK; they were later introduced in Japan as Tohoshinki under the Avex sub-label Rhythm Zone...
  
   "Stand by U
  Stand by U
  "Stand by U" is South Korean pop group TVXQ's twenty-eighth Japanese language single. "Stand by U" was released on July 1, 2009 by their label Rhythm Zone and was released in two formats: CD and CD+DVD.-Background:...
  
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• Kiyoshi Hikawa
  Kiyoshi Hikawa
  is a Japanese enka singer who was born on September 6, 1977 in Minami-ku, Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. His real name is and he is known as "The Prince of Enka" due to his young age and popularity...
  
   for "Tokimeki no Rumba (ときめきのルンバ)"
• Ryoichi Higuchi for "Tegami: Shin'ai naru Kodomotachi e (手紙〜親愛なる子供たちへ〜)"
• Kaori Mizumori
  Kaori Mizumori
  ' is a Japanese female enka singer. Her real name is .Her songs are usually titled after Japanese landmarks and Japanese nature. Thus Kaori gained her popularity as an Enka singer in Japan.- External links :*...
  
   for "Aki no Miyajima (安芸の宮島)"

Best New Artist

• Maya Sakura
  Maya Sakura
  is an enka singer and child actress. In 2008, she made her debut with the single at the age of 10. In 2009, she received a "New Artist" award at the 51st Annual Japan Record Awards, becoming the youngest person to do so....
  
  
• Scandal
• Big Bang
• Hilcrhyme
  Hilcrhyme
  is a Japanese two member hip-hop group. They are best known for their 2009 hit song "Shunkashūtō," which has been certified for 1,000,000 cellphone digital downloads and 1,000,000 ringtone downloads separately...
  
  

Special awards

• Alice
• AKB48
  AKB48
  AKB48 is a Japanese female idol group produced by Yasushi Akimoto.The group has achieved enormous popularity in Japan. Its ten latest consecutive singles topped the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart...
  
   and Yasushi Akimoto
  Yasushi Akimoto
  is a Japanese television writer, lyricist, record producer, professor and vice president at Kyoto University of Art and Design. He also created some of Japan's top idol groups, Onyanko Club and the AKB48 franchise.- Career :...
  
  
• Nobuyuki Tsujii
  Nobuyuki Tsujii
  Nobuyuki Tsujii is a Japanese pianist and composer who shared the First Prize at the Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009 in a tie with co-winner Haochen Zhang of China.-Background:...
  
  
• Michael Jackson
  Michael Jackson
  Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...