[angela]

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!