Press Release
May 22, 2025
Xing Inc.
DAIICHIKOSHO CO., LTD.
Final Results Announced! International Music Award "MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN 2025"
Karaoke Special Award "Karaoke of the Year" Grand Prize Winner Announced
J-Pop Category: Mrs. GREEN APPLE "Lilac"
Enka & Kayokyoku Category: Yoshimi Tendo "Showa Katagi"
XING INC. (hereinafter, XING) and DAIICHIKOSHO CO., LTD. (hereinafter, DAIICHIKOSHO) are pleased to announce the final results of the Karaoke Special Award "Karaoke of the Year powered by DAM & JOYSOUND" in the "Co-Creation Category" of the jointly held "MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN 2025".
■J-Pop section
Aggregation Period: March 13, 2025 – May 12, 2025
Song Title | Artist Name | |
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Best work | lilac | Mrs. GREEN APPLE |
2nd place | Que sera sera | Mrs. GREEN APPLE |
3rd place | The Dinner Song | tuki. |
■ Enka and Popular Songs Section
Aggregation Period: March 13, 2025 – May 12, 2025
Song Title | Artist Name | |
---|---|---|
Best work | Showa era | Yoshimi Tendo |
2nd place | Waterfall Love Song | Iwamoto Kosui |
3rd place | Northern Love Ballad | Kawano Natsumi |
This award is not only recognized and familiar to many people, but also has the characteristic that "the number of times karaoke fans visit the store and sing is the key to determining the best work," so it is believed that the support was a great force. This trend was evident in the Enka and Kayo Song categories, and there were some works whose rankings fluctuated significantly from the singing rankings (unpublished) at the time of selection of entries or the rankings at the time of interim announcements. In addition, in the J-Pop category, the best work "Lilac" showed overwhelming strength, and continued to dominate the first place from the beginning of the entry.
Unlike the sales trends of music software and music distribution, we consider that we were able to present the uniqueness of this award in the music market as one of the indicators for enjoying singing rather than enjoying the work.
The MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN 2025, an award sponsored by the Culture and Entertainment Industry Promotion Association, has a total of 62 categories, including a wide variety of categories, in addition to the main categories such as "Best Music Award" and "Best Artist Award."
XING and DAIICHIKOSHO jointly presented the Karaoke Special Award "Karaoke of the Year powered by DAM & JOYSOUND" in the "Co-Creation Category," selecting the best works in both the J-Pop and Enka & Kayokyoku categories. Through this award, XING and DAIICHIKOSHO hope to continue sharing the joy of karaoke with many people.

■How the Best Work Will Be Determined
During the aggregation period from March 13 ~ May 12, 2025, the most sung song by "DAM" and "JOYSOUND" from among the entries (30 songs each in the J-Pop category and the Enka/Kayo Song category) was selected as the best work in each category.
■ Special Karaoke Award: Karaoke of the Year powered by DAM & JOYSOUND
J-Pop Final Results
Aggregation Period: March 13, 2025 – May 12, 2025
Ranking | Song Title | Artist Name |
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1 | lilac | Mrs. GREEN APPLE |
2 | Que sera sera | Mrs. GREEN APPLE |
3 | The Dinner Song | tuki. |
4 | Bling-Bang-Bang-Born | Creepy Nuts |
5 | Billions of light years | Omoinotake |
6 | Soranji | Mrs. GREEN APPLE |
7 | Idol | YOASOBI |
8 | Yes, please | This side |
9 | My Cutest Feature | FRUITS ZIPPER |
10 | I wonder | Da-iCE |
11 | Dance Hall | Mrs. GREEN APPLE |
12 | Becoming a flower | Green and Yellow Society |
13 | Billionaire | Yuri |
14 | I am the strongest (Uta from ONE PIECE FILM RED) | Ado |
15 | Drunkard-free | Kanaria |
16 | Mixed nuts | Official HIGE DANdism |
17 | Sunny | Yorushika |
18 | Sorry for being cute | HoneyWorks feat. Kapi |
19 | Sing | Ado |
20 | Beautiful fins | Spitz |
21 | New Era (Uta from ONE PIECE FILM RED) | Ado |
22 | KICK BACK | Kenshi Yonezu |
23 | Vivideva | Star Town Suisei |
24 | Blue Home | Kitani Tatsuya |
25 | Leo | Yuri |
26 | Subtitle | Official HIGE DANdism |
27 | orange | SPYAIR |
28 | Demon's Feast | Tomonari Sky |
29 | Time Paradox | Vaundy |
30 | Rendezvous | Shaytorp |
■ Special Karaoke Award: Karaoke of the Year powered by DAM & JOYSOUND
Enka / Kayo Song Division Final Result
Aggregation Period: March 13, 2025 – May 12, 2025
Ranking | Song Title | Artist Name |
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1 | Showa era | Yoshimi Tendo |
2 | Waterfall Love Song | Iwamoto Kosui |
3 | Northern Love Ballad | Kawano Natsumi |
4 | 246 | Naoki Sanada |
5 | Soliloquy | Junko Akimoto |
6 | The Woman's Path | Yuko Nagai |
7 | The city of horses | Hiroshi Itsuki |
8 | Evening Mist Harbor | Konomi Mori |
9 | Love Crying Sparrow | Hiroshi Kadokawa |
10 | Love... Passion | Hiroshi Miyama |
11 | Being a woman is hard | Aoyama Arata |
12 | Tipsy Full Moon | Fuyumi Sakamoto |
13 | To Each Their Own | Mitsuko Nakamura |
14 | Wild Bloom | Tetsuji Kimura |
15 | Longing for Southern Roads | Yudai Koyama |
16 | Reunion Tavern | Fuyumi Sakamoto |
17 | Sanriku Elegy | Kaori Mizumori |
18 | Life's Good Day | Miyuki Kawanaka |
19 | To the point of getting drunk | Iwamoto Kosui |
20 | Tear Habit | Yuji Kitagawa |
21 | Woman's Life: Flowers of Asakusa | Machiko Kitano |
22 | Merciful Rain | Shimazu Etsuko |
23 | The Cat in the Back Window | Kawano Natsumi |
24 | Tears | Green Hill |
25 | Shonai Shigure Sake | Kohei Fukuda |
26 | Spring Cicada | Iwamoto Kosui |
27 | Hydrangea | Yubuko Maki (Yuko Maki) |
28 | Nakasendo | Yuri Harada |
29 | A Woman's Warm Sake Night | Kozue Takemura |
30 | Takayama woman | Oe Yutaka |
■ Related Sites
・Campaign page on the DAM official website: https://www.clubdam.com/campaign/collaboration/cp202503_musicawardsjapan.html
・Campaign page on the official JOYSOUND website: https://www.joysound.com/web/s/campaign/maj2025/
・MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN 2025 Official Website: https://www.musicawardsjapan.com/ja/