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.

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