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2025 Music Awards Japan
2025 music awards ceremony From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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, 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.
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Showcases and MAJ Music Week
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]
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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]
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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]
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Performers
May 21: Opening ceremony
May 22: Grand ceremony
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