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2025 Music Awards Japan

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2025 Music Awards Japan
DateMay 21–22, 2025 (2025-05-21 – 2025-05-22)
VenueRohm Theatre Kyoto
CountryJapan
Hosted by
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Websitemusicawardsjapan.com
Television/radio coverage
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The 2025 Music Awards Japan, part of the Music Awards Japan series, is the inaugural award ceremony to be held at Rohm Theatre in Kyoto on May 21–22, 2025. It is organized by the Japan Culture and Entertainment Industry Promotion Association (CEIPA), an organization founded by five major Japanese music associations. Japanese broadcaster NHK announced it would broadcast the second day of the awards show, while both days would be live streamed on YouTube. Hiroe Igeta, Kasumi Mori [ja], and Atsushi Yanaka hosted the first day of the ceremony,[1] and Masaki Suda hosted the second day.[2]

Singer-songwriter Fujii Kaze received 17 nominations followed by hip-hop duo Creepy Nuts (16), pop duo Yoasobi (14) and the pop-rock band Mrs. Green Apple (13).[3] Creepy Nuts became the most winning artist with nine awards.

Showcases and MAJ Music Week

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At the of January 2025, CEIPA announced a concert featuring Japanese singer Ado, girl group Atarashii Gakko! and pop duo Yoasobi which took place at Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, California on March 16, 2025. It was the first showcase to be held prior the award ceremony.[4]

Between May 17 and 23, 2025, the MAJ Music Week will be held. This event which will take place in the week of the award show contains out of conferences, seminars and concerts. The second day of the award ceremony will be broadcast on NHK General TV, while both days will be livestreamed on YouTube globally.[5]

Nomination process

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An automatic system will create a pool of eligible works and artists based on metrics by Oricon, Billboard Japan, GfK Japan, Luminate, Usen, Daiichi Kosho Company, JASRAC and others. To be eligible for a nomination an artist has to at least released a work between January 29, 2024 to January 26, 2025.[5]

From this generated pool, a panel of persons from the Japanese music industry selects up to five nominees per category.[6] Once the nominations are announced, an international panel will select the winner of each category.[7] The nominees and winners in the categories Best of Listeners' Choice: Japanese Song and Best of Listeners' Choice: International Song are determined entirely through a public vote via Spotify.[8]

During voting process, each eligible voting member are allowed to vote for five songs, artists or albums. It is also allowed to vote once for a work the voting member was directly involved. In the second voting round, only those voting members who participated in the first voting are eligible to vote alongside the international panel members.[9]

On April 21, 2025 the organisators withdrew the nomination of the song "Show" by Ado in the Best Anime Song category for not meeting the nomination criteria of being a song used as opening or ending theme or an insert song in an anime production and issued apology. It was also announced that a re-vote will take place among the four nominated works.[10]

Winners and nominees

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The nominees for 50 categories were announced on April 17, 2025.[11] The nominations for Karaoke of the Year were announced separately.[12] The Best Enka/Kayōkyoku award was announced on May 19, ahead of the ceremony dates.[13] Sub categories and main awards' winners were announced on May 21 and 22.[14][15]

Main categories

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List of winners and nominees for the main awards
Album of the Year Artist of the Year
Song of the Year New Artist of the Year
Top Global Hit from Japan Best Song Asia

Sub categories

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List of winners and nominees for the main awards
Best Japanese Song Top Japanese Song in Asia
Top Japanese Song in Europe Top Japanese Song in Latin America
Top Japanese Song in North America Best J-Rock Song
Best Japanese Hip Hop/Rap Song Best Japanese R&B/Contemporary Song
Best Japanese Dance Pop Song Best Japanese Alternative Song
  • Hitsujibungaku – "More Than Words"
    • Hitsujibungaku – "Burning"
    • Tomoo – "Present"
    • Rikon Densetsu – "Love Is More Mellow"
    • Rikon Densetsu – "Honjitsu no Osusume"
    • Mega Shinnosuke – "Ai to U"
    • Jo0ji – "Worksong"
Best Japanese Singer-Songwriter Song Best Enka/Kayōkyoku
  • Keisuke Yamauchi – "Kurenai no Chō"'
    • Leon Shinhama – "Subete Ageyō"
    • Show-Wa – "Kimi no Ōji-sama"
    • Junretsu – "Yume Mita Kajitsu"
    • Matsuri – "Aventure Naka Meguro"
Best Anime Song Best Idol Culture Song
Best Revival Hit Song Best Cross-Border Collaboration Song
Best Instrumental Song Best Vocaloid Culture Song
Best Music Video Best Dance Performance
Best Viral Song Best Dance/Electronic Song
Best Jazz Album Best Classical Album
Best DJ Best Japanese Song Artist
  • DJ Nobu
    • Dazzle Drums
    • DJ Koco
    • Okadada
    • Yōsuke Yukimatsu
Best J-Rock Artist Best Japanese Hip Hop/Rap Artist
Best Japanese R&B/Contemporary Artist Best Japanese Dance Pop Artist
Best Japanese Alternative Artist Best Idol Artist/Group
Best Japanese Singer-Songwriter
Best International Rock Song in Japan Best International Alternative Song in Japan
Best International Hip Hop/Rap Song in Japan Best International R&B/Contemporary Song in Japan
Best International Pop Song in Japan Best K-Pop Song in Japan
Special Award: Chinese Popular Music Special Award: Indonesian Popular Music
Special Award: Korean Popular Music Special Award: Philippine Popular Music
Special Award: Thai Popular Music Special Award: Vietnamese Popular Music
Karaoke of the Year: J-Pop[12] Karaoke of the Year: Enka/Kayōkyoku[12]
  • Yoshimi Tendo – "Shōwa Katagi"
    • Kosui Iwamoto – "Taki no Renka"
    • Natsumi Kawano – "Kita no Renjōka"
    • Naoki Sanada – "246"
    • Junko Akimoto – "Hitorigoto"
Special Award: Oshi-Katsu Request Artist of the Year Special Award: Radio Best Radio-Break Song
  • Rikon Densetsu – "Love Is More Mellow"
Song of the Year for Creators Honorary Award in Music-Technology
Largest Live Audience MAJ Timeless Echo[16]
Grand Prix Engineer
  • Katsutoshi Kitamura and Eiji Uchinuma – Mixer's Lab Sound Series Vol.4's "Chiisana Hana" by Kenichi Tsunoda Big Band
    • Toshiyasu Shiozawa and Hiroshi Satō – The Second Movement of Symphony No. 5 by Andrea Pattistoni and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
    • Hidekazu Sakai and Hideyuki Matsuhashi – "Sweetest Tune" by Travis Japan
    • Kōji Suzuki – Music of the Sphere - Immersive Classics's "Metamorphosis I - For Two Pianos" by Yoshitake Hasegawa and Yukari Gotō
    • Toshirō Kai – Anniversary EP's "Boku Note (For 20th Anniversary with Orchestra)" by Sukima Switch
Best of Listeners' Choice: Japanese Song Best of Listeners' Choice: International Song

Performers

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May 21: Opening ceremony

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List of performers at the opening ceremony[17]
Artist(s) Song(s)
The Spellbound "Kick It Out"
Leo "Thousand Knives"
Show-Go Beat boxing performance
Kōhei Ueno "Uno Ueno"

May 22: Grand ceremony

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List of performers at the grand ceremony[18]
Artist(s) Song(s)
Various artists[A] "Rydeen Reoot"
Yoasobi "Players"
Creepy Nuts "Bling-Bang-Bang-Born"
Chanmina "Harenchi"
"King"
"Bijin"
"Work Hard"
Hikaru Utada "Electricity" (pre-recorded)
Eikichi Yazawa "It's Up to You!"
"Tomaranai Ha-Ha"
"Yes My Love"
Fujii Kaze "Michiteyuku"
Ai
Awich 		"Not So Different" (remix)
Awich "Butcher Shop"
Awich
Ai
Nene
Mari 		"Bad Bitch Bigaku" (remix)
Mrs. Green Apple "Darling"

Notes

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  1. ^ List of performers:

References

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