“I am very happy to receive this meaningful award.”
Source: Ador
[The Fact | Reporter Jeong Byeong Geun] New Jeans won two awards at the most prestigious music awards ceremony in Japan and completed the performance with 3 songs.
New Jeans (Minzy, Hani, Daniel Hae Rin, Hye In) dispersed on the 65th TBS Japan broadcast live at 5:30 pm (KST) December 30. At the Japan Record Awards, the group won the "Excellent Work" and "Special Award" awards.
'Excellent Work Award' is an award given to songs that are very popular with the public among the songs released that year. In this category, New Jeans was also nominated for a Daesang on this day when "Ditto" became the first foreign song to win this award. New Jeans is the first foreign artist named on the list of Daesang Award candidates at this awards ceremony, since 1959.
A 'special award' is an award given to an artist or song that has become a hot topic that year. New Jeans is the only foreign artist to win this category this year.
New Jeans said through their management company Adore: "We are truly happy and grateful to receive such a meaningful award and even be nominated for a Daesang. We always remember those stages we performed in Japan this year, including 'Summer Sonic'. We hope to work harder and develop more in the future." “We will show you. We are always grateful to Bunnies (fandom name).”
When receiving the award, New Jeans was the only artist nominated for a Daesang and was able to perform three complete songs. It's surprising that the group, a foreign artist who hasn't officially debuted in Japan, was given this opportunity on a stage where many of the artists performed their best throughout this year.
The group made local fans crazy with their overwhelming stage as expected. The group revealed their personalities in school uniform style, stirred up the atmosphere with their adorable performance of 'Ditto', and then performed 'ETA', one of the three theme songs of their second mini album. two 'Get Up' released in July this year, and heated up the stage with the b-side song 'New Jeans'.
The group also participated as special guest singers at Japan's largest year-end song festival 'Kohaku Uta Gassen' at 7:20 on the 31st to close out 2023.