59th Japan Record Awards

59th Japan Record Awards
Date30 December 2017
LocationNew National Theatre Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Hosted byYūki Amami, Shinichiro Azumi
Websitehttp://www.tbs.co.jp/recordaward/ Edit this on Wikidata
Television/radio coverage
NetworkTBS
Viewership14.4%[1]
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The 59th Japan Record Awards was held on 30 December 2017. The Tokyo Broadcasting System Television network televised the show live from the New National Theatre Tokyo in Tokyo. Radio broadcast was through TBS Radio. The broadcast ran from 18:30 (JST) to 22:00 (JST). Yūki Amami and Shinichiro Azumi hosted the ceremony for the second time.[2] The nominations and award winners were announced by TBS on 16 November 2017.[3][4]

The 59th Japan Record Award went to idol group Nogizaka46 for their song "Influencer". This was the second consecutive win for an artist under the Sony Music Entertainment Japan label (after Kana Nishino in 2016).[5] Tsubaki Factory won the Best New Artist Award.[5]

The average audience rating for the second part (19:00 to 22:00) was 14.4%, down 0.1% from the previous year's broadcast.[1]

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  3. ^ "第59回 輝く！日本レコード大賞" (in Japanese). Tokyo Broadcasting System Television. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  4. ^ "レコ大各賞発表　ＡＫＢ５年ぶり大賞狙う　乃木坂＆欅坂が初ノミネート". Sponichi Annex (in Japanese). Sports Nippon. 16 November 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  5. ^ a b "『レコ大』乃木坂46が初の大賞 キャプテン桜井「関わってくれたすべての皆さんのおかげ」". Oricon News (in Japanese). Oricon. 30 December 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2018.