Shinjuku Music Festival

The Shinjuku Music Festival (新宿音楽祭, Shinjuku Ongaku-sai) was an annual music awards on the produced by Nippon Cultural Broadcasting.

Shinjuku Music Festival
Awarded for	Outstanding achievements in the New artist
Country	Japan
Presented by	Nippon Cultural Broadcasting
First awarded	1968
Last awarded	1994
Website	http://www.joqr.co.jp/

Hosts

• Iori Sato, Keiko Ochiai (1975)
• Monta Mino (1976-1979)
• Shigeru Kajiwara (1980-1991)
• Yasuo Takeuchi (1992-1994)

Gold Prize winners

• Hiroshi Itsuki, Saori Minami (1971)
• Megumi Asaoka, Masako Mori (1972)
• Aki Yashiro, Agnes Chan (1973)
• Mineko Nishikawa (1974)
• Hiromi Iwasaki, Takashi Hosokawa (1975)
• Kentaro Shimizu, Mizue Takada (1977)
• Mako Ishino (1978)
• Mariya Takeuchi (1979)
• Toshihiko Tahara, Seiko Matsuda (1980)
• Masahiko Kondō (1981)
• Shibugakitai, Kyōko Koizumi (1982)
• Kōji Kikkawa, Yukiko Okada (1984)
• Minako Honda (1985)
• Shonentai (1986)
• Noriko Sakai, Risa Tachibana (1987)
• Eriko Tamura (1989)
• Mi-Ke, Michiyo Nakajima (1991)

Silver Prize winners

• Junko Sakurada, Momoe Yamaguchi, Mari Natsuki (1973)
• Teresa Teng (1974)
• Hiromi Ōta, Nana Okada (1975)
• Pink Lady (1976)
• Yū Hayami, Iyo Matsumoto, Chiemi Hori (1982)
• Itsumi Osawa, Maiko Itō (1983)
• Yōko Oginome (1984)
• Miyuki Imori, Yōko Ishino (1985)
• BaBe, Hikari Ishida, Fuyumi Sakamoto (1987)
• Naomi Hosokawa (1989)
• Noriko Katō (1992)

Bronze Prize winners

• Eiko Segawa (1970)
• Goro Noguchi (1971)
• Naoko Ken (1972)
• Mayumi Asaka (1973)
• Jun Fubuki, Yūko Asano (1974)
• Yoshimi Ashikawa (1976)
• Mayo Kawasaki (1977)
• Southern All Stars, Lazy (1978)
• Hiroko Mita (1982)
• Yoko Minamino, Yui Asaka (1985)
• Anna Makino (1987)
• Kaori Kozai (1988)

• In 1988, all 20 prize winners were given the Bronze Award because the awards ceremony was cancelled due to the deteriorating health of Emperor Shōwa.

Venues

• 1968-1970s, 1990s-1994: Koseinenkin Hall
• 1970s-1980s: Nippon Budokan

See also

• Festival della canzone italiana

References

• 音楽・芸能賞事典 Nichigai Associates ISBN 4-8169-0923-0
• 音楽・芸能賞事典 Nichigai Associates 1990/95 ISBN 4-8169-1377-7