King and Prince wins big at Japan Golden Disc Awards!

The thirty-third Japan Golden Disc Awards ceremony happened this past week and none other than Johnny’s new group King & Prince took home the gold, becoming 2018’s New Artist. 

There were certainly other points of interest from the award show. For the second year in a row, Amuro Namie became Artist of the Year for domestic side—with this being her third time winning the award overall. While not surprising, with their hit movie taking Japan, the band Queen took Artist of the Year for the western side—it has been fourteen years since they have last done so. Korean group BTS also won the award for Best Asian Artist while—also not surprising—Kiyoshi Hikawa won Best Enka Singer of the Year.

Check out a full breakdown of the winners below!

▽Winners of the 33rd Annual Japan Golden Disc Awards
■Artist of the year
【Domestic】Amuro Namie（Second year consecutively, third time overall ）
【Western】Queen（Fourteen years since last won and second overall） 

■Best Asian Artist of the year
【Asia】BTS

■Best Enka or Traditional Artist of the year
Kiyoshi Hikawa

■New Artist of the year
【Domestic 】King ＆ Prince
【Western】Alan Walker
【Asia】SEVENTEEN 

■Album of the year
【Domestic】『Umi no Oh, Yeah!!』（Southern All-Stars）
【Western】『Bohemian Rhapsody: The Original Soundtrack』（Queen）
【Asian】『FACE YOURSELF』（BTS） 

■Single of the Year
「Teacher Teacher」（AKB48）

■Song of the year/ Most popular downloaded
【Domestic】「Lemon」（Kenshi Yonezu）
【Western】「The Middle」（Zedd, Maren Morris, Grey）
【Asia】「Candy Pop」（TWICE） 

■Best Music Video
【Domestic】『namie amuro Final Tour 2018 ～Finally～』（Amuro Namie）
【Domestic】『ARASHI LIVE TOUR 2017-2018 「untitled」』（Arashi）
【Domestic】『Hey! Say! JUMP I/Oth Anniversary Tour 2017-2018』（Hey! Say! JUMP）
【Western】『From From The Vault: No Security - San Jose 1999』（The Rolling Stones）
【Asia】『2017 BTS LIVE TRILOGY EPISODE III THE WINGS TOURIN JAPAN ～SPECIAL EDITION～ at KYOCERA DO』（BTS） 

■Special Award
「U.S.A.」DA PUMP