The evening's Record Awards kicked off with the announcement of the shortlist for this year's Newcomer Award.
Bando Eiji and Kusuda Eriko, the two hosts, took the roll call in turn, and the singers selected for the Newcomer Award filed on stage. Shinichi Iwahashi sat under the stage, looking at the newcomers on stage.
This year, two bands launched by GENZO, ZARD and Bo LAN, were not shortlisted. To be precise, the company did not register the two bands for the Newcomer Award.
Iwahashi Shinichi doesn’t pay much attention to the Newcomer Awards. There are various Newcomer Awards established by various TV stations. Because the selection criteria are different, and the power of the agency and record company behind the singer must be taken into consideration, strange newcomers are often selected. Let’s talk about debuting.
There are countless newcomers who make people shine, but then disappear. The value of the newcomer award is not high.
Especially for a band that still needs to work steadily and aims for long-term development, it doesn't matter whether they win the Newcomer Award when they debut or not.
He asked ZARD to win the Newcomer Award at the FNS Gayo Festival because the band debuted by singing the theme song of the Moon Nine TV series. Rather than asking the band to receive the Newcomer Award, it was better to take this opportunity to show goodwill to Fuji TV.
Make your debut by singing the theme song of Fuji TV's TV series, win Fuji TV's Newcomer Award, and ask for Fuji TV's support in the future - that's what it means.
Since ZARD won the Newcomer Award at the FNS Music Festival, they will not be given the Newcomer Award at the Grand Prize. As for LAN, the sales of the band's debut single were quite good, so it is not impossible for them to be shortlisted for the Newcomer Award. However, this result
It's definitely not qualified to win the Best Newcomer Award, so it's meaningless.
That's right, among the newcomer awards of the Daesang, the most important thing is to select the "Best Newcomer Award" from among the newcomer award candidates.
This year’s Best Newcomer Award has been booked for Brazilian-Japanese female singer Maya.
Iwahashi Shinichi was quite impressed with her, because like Sakamoto Fuyumi, she was a disciple of Inamata Kosho. After Sakamoto Fuyumi debuted, the girl who was responsible for carrying Inomata Kosho's bags and driving was replaced by Maya.
After all, the relationship between the two is pretty good. Even if you look closely at Maya's features, you can see that she has a subtle resemblance to Sakamoto Fuyumi. Inomata Kanzaki prefers this look.
However, Maya is not an enka singer, she sings ballads. As a disciple, her debut song was also arranged by her teacher Inomata Kanzaki. The debut song sold more than 1,000 copies in the first week, and it was solid from January to November.
After selling for a year, the number of copies reached 180,000 at the end of the annual list.
The first-week sales of enka and ballad songs are often not very good, but they are durable. As long as the quality of the song is excellent, it can be sold from one thousand to one million. This is a trend that is rare for pop songs.
The newcomer who sold 180,000 copies of her debut song is also a disciple of Inomata Kosho. Naturally, she is the winner of the Best Newcomer Award.
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The Record Awards at the Budokan here is about to start, and the Red and White Song Concert at the NHK Hall over there is about to start.
The distance from the NHK Hall in Shibuya to the Budokan in Chiyoda District is not short. Considering the traffic conditions, the singers who traveled between the two places that night were indeed very hard.
There is also good communication between the two shows in advance, and when arranging the performance sequence, the singers are given time to run around.
DREAMS E T's appearance order was arranged in the second half. She could have directly participated in the live broadcast of the Record Awards. However, considering that she had to leave time to connect with Shinichi Iwahashi in the middle, she deliberately waited until the start of the live broadcast of the Awards. Miwa-chan and Nakamura
Brother, I was just about to leave for the Martial Arts Hall.
By the time they passed by, Shinichi Iwahashi had almost finished receiving his prize and came out. At that time, the two parties met in the parking lot.
This year's Red and White Song Festival was opened by the red group, and the singer who served as the opening singer was Shigeko Ori, a veteran singer from the Showa era. This singer became famous in the 1950s and is an out-and-out senior.
That night, the song "Kun no Name" (Your Name) she sang sold more than two million copies. When this song was released, the CD medium would not appear for another thirty years. Now O-Day
I don’t even know where it is on the list yet.
Therefore, although the industry insiders present were a big shot who bowed to her when they met her, to the audience sitting in front of the TV, they probably knew who she was, and they were probably all elderly men and women.
Ori Shigeko has been out of the spotlight for many years, but now she appears again, naturally because the Showa era is over. As a representative singer of the Showa era, she received an invitation to come out again.
In the Kohaku Utakai of the first year of Heisei, considerable space was reserved for the representative stars of the Showa era.
This year’s Red and White Song Concert performance lineup includes popular singers, evergreens in the music industry, former big stars who have made limited comebacks, old timers who were popular in the 1950s... local singers have it all.
In addition, there are also Zhao Yongbi, Gye Eunsook and Jin Lianzi from South Korea.
And Tan Yonglin from Xiangjiang.
Zhao Yongbi and Gui Yinshu are both singers who have appeared in the Red and White Song Festival more than once. On the other hand, Tan Yonglin, although he has gained a lot of experience in Hong Kong, is completely new to the Japanese, and he has no famous songs in Japan this year.
The reason why he was invited is because NHK TV station originally planned to cancel the Red and White Song Festival from this year and change the program to the "Asia Song Festival", so naturally, it turned its attention to Tan Yonglin, Hong Kong's top star.
However, there was originally a lot of opposition to the idea of the "Asia Song Festival" within the station. Later, due to personnel changes in the station, the top executives who advocated restructuring were transferred out, and the matter was abandoned.
Having said that, the idea of broadcasting the "Asia Song Festival" on my own New Year's Eve shows that the Japanese people today have become extremely swollen.
The opening singer in the red group was senior Shigeko Orii, and Saburo Kitajima was a figure who always bowed when she saw him. Naturally, no one among the juniors dared to compete with her. Those who competed against her were either peers or seniors.
So, after singing "Your Name", which was already unfamiliar to the younger people, the white group member was followed by a seventy-year-old man who had been in the industry for fifty years and was older than Orii Shigeko.
Yoshio Tabata is a veteran but still a stranger.
The production team of the Kohaku Utakai Festival was complacent and thought they were well prepared. However, when they saw the unfamiliar face of Shigeko Ori at the beginning and listened to her singing outdated songs, the audience already felt bored.
what is this?
By the time the gray-haired Yoshio Tabata stood up, the audience had lost their patience and started changing channels.
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"Let's watch this year's Record Awards first."
There was a family of four sitting in front of the TV, with the husband urging his wife to change the channel quickly. The couple were both middle-aged, and their children were in adolescence. No one was interested in those clichéd characters.
People in the industry have to bow to their predecessors and make way for them, but the public never does that.
"It's so boring, so boring." The daughter also complained again and again, "Who wants to watch such a boring program."
The wife and son, who did not speak, were thinking the same thing.
Something that has been outdated for a long time and is almost from another world should be put into a museum instead of being moved to TV for everyone to watch such an outdated program on New Year's Eve.
Switching to the TBS TV station, the screen was showing a performance by the popular female idol Shizuka Kudo. On one side was an outdated and boring program, and on the other side was a fashionable idol performing. It was obvious which one had the upper hand.
The husband and son both showed great interest in Shizuka Kudo on the TV, and the daughter also looked admiring for her.
It's only a wife who doesn't like Shizuka Kudo, a female who has been famous since the Kitty Club era, and is a bit disappointed. She looked at her husband and son, then looked at her daughter, and quietly thought, fortunately, her daughter Yoshiko is a good girl.
Kudo Shizuka narrowly lost to Nagabuchi Tsuyoshi last year and failed to win the Grand Prize. This year, although her momentum is still the same as last year, her hit singles still entered the top ten of the year's list, and she was also selected for the Grand Prize's gold medal. However, the most important thing is
It was obvious that she had no chance of receiving the big prize.
After the chic and gorgeous stage performance, Shizuka Kudo walked off the stage and hurriedly left the stage under the guidance of the staff, preparing to go to the NHK Hall.
Then, the two hosts, a man and a woman, stood in the middle of the stage again.
"The next thing to be awarded is this year's Planning Award." Host Eiji Bando announced.
The wife who was sitting in front of the TV felt something in her heart. The feeling of disappointment she had felt just now was forgotten. When she heard about the project award, a name immediately appeared in her mind.
...It must be Iwahashi SAMA!!
"The show just now should be over, right? Let's switch back to NHK." The husband was not interested in this kind of award given to people behind the scenes, so he directed his wife to change the channel.
But the wife held the remote control tightly and said, "It doesn't hurt to take a look."
"What's so interesting about this?" The husband felt bored and stared at the TV carelessly.
On the TV screen, the female host Eriko Kusuda announced the winner of this year's planning award, "... Iwahashi Shinichi-san!"
As the host's voice fell, the camera turned to the audience and focused on a certain location. A young man stood up from his seat, shook hands with the person sitting next to him, talked with him, and then walked towards the stage.
Tall, tall and straight, with a straight and strong face, capable and neat in his movements.
"Finally I see you!" My wife could not help but cheer in a low voice.
This Iwabashi producer, who even refused to appear in the special program "THE BEST TEN" prepared for his project, finally came to the stage.
The real person turns out to be so young, and is more attractive than the photos on the show and in magazines.
The husband rolled his eyes and was a little speechless. He usually just chased actors, but now it has reached the point where he has to pursue even a slightly decent music producer?
No wonder she has become more enthusiastic about buying records recently than before.
He looked at the Iwahashi producer who came up on stage with some boredom. He looked away and looked at his daughter with an expression that had nothing to do with her. His son probably also had an impatient expression...
Not like that.
As a son, I looked at the TV with a face of admiration.
He is both liked by his wife and admired by his son. Generally speaking, the star-chasing tastes of sons and mothers should be exactly opposite, right?
When the husband coughed, "Who is this Iwahashi producer?"
Unexpectedly, the person who answered him was not his wife who cheered enthusiastically, but his son. The teenage boy said seriously, "He is a very great person."
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Iwahashi Shinichi came to receive the planning award as a producer, and the people sitting next to him were all the people behind the scenes in the industry. Everyone knew that he was here to receive the award, and the staff arranged for him a seat next to the aisle.
It is not only convenient to go on stage to receive the award, but also convenient to run away directly after receiving the award.
On the stage, the female host announced his name. Iwahashi Shinichi stood up, shook hands with the person sitting next to him, accepted the compliment of "congratulations" and stepped forward.
This is Shin Iwahashi’s first public appearance on TV, and the first time he has accepted an award as a producer. In a sense, tonight’s Record Awards is also the stage for his “debut”.
He walked up to the stage and received the Planning Award certificate from composer Katsuhisa Hattori, a member of the Grand Prize Designating Association.
Katsuhisa Hattori comes from a musical family. His father is Hattori Ryoichi, the composer of "Suzhou Nocturne". His son Hattori Takayuki also made his debut as a musician last year. Hattori Takayuki himself also serves as the president of the Arranger Association.
Iwahashi Shinichi bowed his head and thanked him, "Thank you for coming to present me the award." After receiving the certificate, Hattori Katsuhisa left the stage and stood next to the host.
The male host Eiji Bando stretched out the microphone in front of him.
Although this is the first time that the man in black behind the scenes has made a public appearance on TV, after all, he does not need to show much in front of the stage. Shinichi Iwahashi and the host gently nodded their thanks and began his brief acceptance speech.
"It's an honor." Shinichi Iwahashi said. "Thanks to the support from all parties and the outstanding performance of the singers who participated in the project, I am able to receive this project award thanks to you. Please look after me in the future."
He finished his speech in one breath. Amidst the applause from the audience and the polite thank you from the host, he calmly walked off the stage. At this time, the camera had already left him, and the progress on the stage continued again. The composition award was awarded next.
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Shinichi Iwahashi was busy changing his waistcoat and did not pay attention to the awards ceremony in the venue. He left the venue directly under the guidance of the staff. The record company staff who accompanied him to receive the award were already waiting there to respond.
The staff received the person, Iwahashi Shinichi handed over the certificate, and the two walked to the parking lot together.
The Red and White Song Festival and the Record Awards will be held tonight at the same time. The participating singers are traveling between two places. It is normal to change clothes in the car. Therefore, the industry is united and communicates with the media. They are not allowed to be near the awards on this day.
Taking secret photos.
Iwahashi Shinichi and the staff got in the car first. The clothes that the giraffe man would wear later were prepared in the car, and he changed in the car. However, the headgear was on the side of Miwa-chan and Nakamura-san.
After a while, the staff's pager rang, and Shinichi Iwahashi went to meet his two teammates.
Then, Shinichi Iwahashi, the man in black behind the scenes who had just left the Budokan, mingled with DREAMS E and returned to the scene of the crime.
This time, he followed Miwa-chan and Nakamura-san and sat in the area where the singers were.
After the arrangement award was presented, it was DREAMS E's turn to take the stage and sing their gold medal song "Eyes to me" this year.
