Gold Award for voyage???
 

I was surfing ayu's web site when i saw this information saying that voyage has won the GOLD prize at the 44th records awards.
Does anyone has more information on this???
Thanks!

she's been nominated for a Gold Award at the 44th Japanese RECORD Awards for her song VOYAGE. The list of nominees (and in some cases winners) came out on December 3rd and the award ceremony will be held on December 31st. I've been trying to decypher the kanji in the article posted at this website: Mainichi Interactive

Here's the list of nominees (and some winners)!

Gold Award:
-W-inds "Because of You"
-Every Little Thing "Kiwoku"
-Kawanaka Miyuki "Kibune no Yado"
-Shimatani Hitomi "Amairo no kami no otome"
-Tagawa Sumi "??" (I'm not sure about the title so I didn't post it)
-Natsukawa Rimi "Nada Sou-Sou"
-Hamasaki Ayumi "Voyage"
-Harada Yuri "Onna ban"
-Hikawa Kiyoshi "Kiyoshi no Zundokobushi"
-hiro "Eternal Place"
-BoA "Listen to my Heart"
-Moriyama Ryouko "Satoukibi batake"

New Artist Award:
-Shiina Sachiko
-Day after Tomorrow
-Nakashima Mika
-Lead

Best Album Award:
-Hajime Chitose "Hainu Mikaze"

Yoshida ?? (the first name could be: Akira/Masa/Hajime/Makoto--I checked on search engines but came up with nothing) Award:
-Mizumori Ado

Composer Award:
-Hijirikawa Yu

Arrangement Award:
-HAL

Lyricist Award:
-Moriyama Ryouko

Special Award:
-Ozawa Seiji
-"Hello Project"

Project (Planning) Award:
-"Etenraku no subete" (all of Japanese Court music composition) *note* don't know what that means... but it's the name of a winner!
-Hirai Ken "Okina furudokei"
-Goki Takao + Hello Project seikatai (seikatai=choir) "Ai no Merikurisumasu"

Merit Award:
-Hashi Yukio
-Funaki Ichio
-Nishigou Teruhiko

Special Merit Award:
-Kikuchi Akiko
-Saitou Mo
-Takahashi Keizou
-Murata Eio
-Yamamoto Naozumi

thanks t0 :hamasaki republic....

but i extracted this at ayunite-sg!

Babyayumi : Thanks !! :wave :wave

CONGRATS TO OUR DEAR AYU !!!!!! :thumbsup :thumbsup Voyage is really a nice song ... :D :D

i love voyage.... i was attracted to it the first time i heard it

Ayu is going up against some good artists for the Gold Award. Like usual, we should all support her no matter if she wins or not.

thanks so much babyayumi!!

Needless to say, I hope she wins.

Didn't she win the past two years as well?

Ashley

thanks for the info!!! woow thats great! hope ayu win!!!

i hope she wins...
but is Voyage really good enough to win??
it's not 1 of my fave songs from Ayu...
she's up againts some really tough contenders...

Thanks for the info, wennie :)

Not sure if you got the PM, but if you'd like, you can post an intro topic about yourself so others here can get to know you ;)

Geeze that's some tought competition! I wonder why she wasn't nominated for Best Album for "I Am" ?

:thumbsup ......thumbs up ....Voyage..

wow, cograts to Ayumi..even tho Voyage isnt my favorite song. I would've much rather seen July 1st get some stuuf. THATS AN AWESOME SONG!

i thought that a lot of people will love voyage?

in fact i like ayu's old songs more...all those before A best i like very much...evolution and M i also like....but starting with some songs I am album..i dun like that much...don't know why

Hmm .. in her old soNgx .. her voice very cute cute .. :roflmao :roflmao But i guess tat ayu's voice has indeed changed mature !! :thumbsup

We'll have to support her in everyway we can !! Guess she did put in alot of effort in every album !! ;)

she oredi won the award....

i wasn't so attracted to it.... the more i listen den i am attracted~ hEeeeeee :D :D

she always put in effort in her album.... or wadever things she does!! :thumbsup :thumbsup

:colors YEP ! :colors And the results she produced is AMAZING !!!!! :spazzed Ayu's hardwork has indeed inspire many many people !!! :thumbsup :thumbsup

ayu is a very hard worker and deserves this! here is an example: The american metal band KORN has released 6 albums in about 10 years.
Ayumi has released 5 in 4 years!
GO AYU!!!!