Japan Record Taishou 4th year???

Originally Posted by ayu_fan929

Yeah. Gold Disc and The Japan Record Taishou are 2 completely different awards. The Record Taishou are the biggest I believe. And I don't think it was supposed to be INSPIRE that was supposed to win, butit was supposed to be for 'Moments'.

I also read in a some Japanese article that they were thinking of awarding Ayu's song HEAVEN, but it never happened.

Originally Posted by ~angel*ayumi~

As I heard Ayu didn´t want to attend and recive the award because 2004 was the year with the rumors that Max Matsuura leaving avex and so on...
Ayu said she don´t want to win the award only because the attention was on the rumors, she wantet to win because of her singing...so she rejected.
And as I know if you do that you can never win again.

Yeah I heard about that too. It's sort of an unwritten rule that makes you get blacklisted from winning any awards.

Kind of like when Ami Suzuki was blacklisted when her parents sued her company & no one would give her a contract anymore (until Max Matsuura picked her up)