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And here we are… finally its time
for the Tokushu Anime 2002 J-Pop Music Awards! As we wait for all the
stars to file into their assigned seats I just want to take the time to
thank all of you for voting and support our site! Continue to purchase
your J-Pop through our yesasia link to help us keep our charts running.
Well without much further ado let’s get on to our first award. The
presenter for this award will be the very talented and beautiful Kyoko
Fukada…
The
nominees for Best Pop Group are:
Chemistry
Kinki Kids
Morning Musume
The Gospellers
V6
W-inds
And the winner is… Morning Musume
A very very close race between the gals of Momusu and Chemistry but down
to the wee bit hours Morning Musume pulled out the award… just barely
though! It has been great years for both these groups and a sort of
changing of the guard for Morning Musume with new members added and others
leaving but I guess fans still view them the same way ^_^
The
nominees for Best Rock Group are:
Arashi
B’z
Glay
Mr. Children
Porno Graffiti
Road of Major
Tokio
Zone
And the winner is… Mr. Children
Wow what another close race to start off the awards! It’s the age old
question of “who is better?” Mr. Children or Glay? Even though there
are like 8 nominees we all know it’s either going to be one of those 2.
This year it’s Mr. Children! Congrats to them!
The
nominees for Best Rap Group are:
Dragon Ash
Rip Slyme
Kick the Can Crew
King Gidra
And the winner is… Rip Slyme
Major congrats to Rip Slyme on their victory! In their second year on the
J-Pop scene they have already taken the “Best Rap Group” of the year
by upsetting the early favorite Dragon Ash. Too bad DA didn’t do much
for the 2nd half of the year so this award nearly fell into the
hands of Rip Slyme.
The
nominees for Best Pop Artist are:
Ayumi Hamasaki
Hirai Ken
Hitomi Shimatani
Mai Kuraki
Rina
Aiuchi
Utada Hikaru
And the winner is… Utada Hikaru
With very good years coming out of all the contestants I think it was
really a 2 woman race. Yea you guessed it… Hikki Vs Ayu again. This time
Hikki came out on top. It might just be because of the quality of the
singles over the quantity.
The
nominees for Best New Artist are:
Hajime Chitose
Mach 25
Miki Fujimoto
Minmi
Road of Major
Yellow Generation
And
the winner is… Hajime Chitose
The race became a lot closer than we first
anticipated but the outcome was no different. Hajime Chitose behind her
record breaking 16 weeks on the countdown takes home the “Best New
Artist” award for 2002. Who knows how many more awards she will be
receiving in the future!
The
nominees for Best Breakout Artist are:
Aya Matsuura
BoA
Hiro
Hitomi
Shimatani
Mika Nakashima
Rip Slyme
Zone
And the winner is… BoA
Last years “Best New Artist” winner Zone was running high in this
competition as well as Hitomi Shimatani who made the 10 week club on the
countdown but to many people’s surprise BoA came out the winner. This
chick came from barely making Oricon at the beginning of the year to
holding down a number 2 spot on our charts! Good job BoA!
Well it’s a general intermission
now so hurry up and buy your pop corn before we resume… in the meantime
enjoy the live performance by Do As Infinity :P
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2002 Awards--->
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