The artists and songs to appear on the music special "66th Shining! Japan Record Awards," which will be broadcast live on TBS from 5:30 pm on December 30th, have been announced. GLAY and Ayumi Hamasaki, winners of the "Special Award," have been confirmed to appear and will perform their hit songs.
GLAY, who are celebrating their 30th anniversary since their debut, will perform three songs, "Winter, Again," "Kuchibiru," and "Sayonara wa Yasashiku." Hamasaki will sing "Voyage" and "Born To Be...." Other songs that will be featured this year include "Tomorrow x Together" performing "One Oath (We'll Never Change)," and "Creepy Nuts" performing "Bling-Bang-Bang-Born" and "Otonoke."
The winners of the Special International Music Award, Atarashii Gakko!, will perform "Tokyo Calling." LE SSERAFIM will perform "CRAZY -Japanese ver." Matsumoto Takahiro, winner of the Planning Award, will perform "Roppongi Shinju" with LiSA, and milet, winner of the Best Vocal Award, will sing "hanataba."
The program will be broadcast live for four and a half hours from the New National Theatre in Shibuya, Tokyo, and will be hosted by TBS announcer Shinichiro Yasuzumi and actor Haruna Kawaguchi.
◇ Award winners and winning songs (all in alphabetical order, titles omitted)
[Excellent Work Award (in alphabetical order of song titles)] Da-iCE "I wonder"▽Omoinotake "Ikuoku Kounen"▽Yamauchi Keisuke "Kurenai no Cho"▽NewJeans "Supernatural"▽FRUITS ZIPPER "NEW KAWAII"▽Creepy Nuts "Bling-Bang-Bang-Born"▽BE:FIRST "Masterplan"▽Junretsu "Yumemita Kajitsu"▽ Mrs. Green Apple "Lilac" ▽JO1 "Love seeker"
[Best Vocalist] milet
[Newcomer Award] ILLIT▽Umedani Kokoa▽ Kocchi no Kento ▽Koyama Yudai▽ME:I
[Special Award] Creepy Nuts▽GLAY▽tuki.▽TOMORROW X TOGETHER▽Number_i▽Ayumi Hamasaki
[Special Album Award] Utada Hikaru "SCIENCE FICTION"
[Special International Music Award] Atarashii Gakko! ▽LE SSERAFIM
[Best Composition Award] George Tokoro "I'll Give You Everything" (Leon Shinhama)
[Lyricist Award] Koresawa "The cutest!" (Super Tokimeki♡Publicity Department)
[Arrangement Award] Mitsuo Hagita "Maria in the Labyrinth" (Yuto Tatsumi)
[Planning Award] Ayumu Imazu "Obsessed" ▽ Takahiro Matsumoto "THE HIT PARADE Ⅱ"
[Japan Composer's Association Award] Hiroshi Itsuki
[Japan Composer's Association Masterpiece Award] Kyu Sakamoto "Ue o Muite Arukō" (Lyrics: Rokusuke Nagai, Music: Hachidai Nakamura)
[Special Achievement Award] Elton Nagata ▽ Eiji Matsushita
[Special Achievement Award] Seiji Ozawa▽Taro Kida▽Mari Sono▽Shuntaro Tanikawa▽Miki Nakasone▽Miho Nakayama▽Toshiyuki Nishida▽Shigeki Mashima▽Aki Yashiro▽Yukio Yamakita
