16 November 2018, TBS telah mengumumkan pemenang 'Dai 60-kai Kagayaku! Nihon Record Taisho [第60回輝く!日本レコード大賞]' atau 'The 60th Japan Record Awards'.
Selain mengumumkan pemenang tahun ini, nominasi untuk kategori "Song of the Year" dan "New Artists of the Year" juga diumumkan.
Idol group AKB48, Nogizaka46 dan Keyakizaka46 kembali masuk menjadi nomine "Song of the Year" sedangkan idol group STU48 masuk menjadi nomine "New Artists of the Year".
'The 60th Japan Record Awards' akan ditayangkan live dari New National Theatre, Tokyo oleh TBS pada 30 Desember 2018 pukul 17:30~23:00 JST atau 15:30~21:00 WIB.
The 60th Japan Record Awards
Nominasi "Song of the Year"
- Ambivalent - Keyakizaka46
- Be Myself - Miura Daichi
- Bedtime Story - Nishino Kana
- Igosso Damashii - Miyama Hiroshi
- Sazanka - SEKAI NO OWARI
- Shobu no Hanamichi - Hikawa Kiyoshi
- Synchronicity - Nogizaka46
- Teacher Teacher - AKB48
- U.S.A. - DA PUMP
- Wake Me Up - TWICE
Nominasi "New Artists of the Year"
- BiSH
- Chuning Candy
- STU48
- Tatsumi Yuto
Best Vocal Performance Award
- MISIA
Special Achievment Award
- DA PUMP
- Komuro Tetsuya
- Southern All Stars
- Yonezu Kenshi
Best Album of the Year Award
- BOOTLEG - Yonezu Kenshi
Album of the Year Award
- EXITENTIALIST A XIE XIE - THE BEATNIKS
- Hatsukoi - Utada Hikaru
- Otonoe - Wagakki Band
- SHINOBU avec PIAF - Otake Shinobu
Best Composition Award
- Marutani Manabu <Sekai wa Anata ni Waraikaketeiru - Little Glee Monster>
Best Lyrics Award
- Matsui Goro <Koi Machi Counter - Takeshima Hiroshi & Sarase Fuyu no Arashi - Yamauchi Keisuke>
Best Music Arrangement Award
- Jazzin'park Kubota Shingo <Moshi Kimi wo Yurusetara - Ieiri Leo>
Music Projects of the Year
- Ai wo Ganbatte - Wada Akiko with BOYS AND MEN Kenkyuusei
- Ame ni Nurete Futari - Ichikawa Yukino & Yokoyama Ken (Crazy Ken Band)
- Brother – Kitajima Brothers (Kitayama Takeshi & Ooe Yutaka)
- Deserie - Doo Wop Nuggets Vol. 1 | Your Tender Lips - Doo Wop Nuggets Vol. 2 | That's My Desire - Doo Wop Nuggets Vol. 3 – Yamashita Tatsuro
- I – JUJU
- Maekawa Kiyoshi Dai Jiten - Maekawa Kiyoshi
- SINGER5 – Shimazu Aya
- Suki No Hanataba ~Love Song Selection~ - Sukima Switch
- Utai Tsuzukete 60 Nen, Furi Kaereba Beautiful Memory -85 Sai no Watashi Kara Anata e- - Sugawara Youichi
Japan Composer's Association Recommend
- Jyunretsu
Lifetime Achievement Award
- Matsushima Akira
- Sano Hiromi
- Shirane Kazuo
Special Lifetime Achievement Award
- Inoue Takayuki
- Kiki Kirin
- Morioka Ken'ichiro
- Oda Yuichiro
- Saijo Hideki
via Anakamirikarutenani.blogspot.com