 Amuro at the 2005 MTV Asia Awards in Bangkok | ||||||||
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| Wins | 89 | |||||||
| Nominations | 114 | |||||||
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Japanese recording artist Namie Amuro has won numerous awards throughout her career, including 18 Japan Gold Disc Awards, 10 Japan Record Awards, 14 MTV Video Music Awards Japan and 6 Space Shower Music Awards.
| Award ceremony | Year | Category | Nominee(s) / Work(s) | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Japan Cable Broadcasting Awards | 1999 | Yoshida Tadashi Award | "Something 'Bout The Kiss" | Won | [1] |
| 2000 | Grand Millennium Special Award | "Never End" | Won | [2] | |
| Asia Association Music Prize Awards | 2005 | Album of the Year | Queen of Hip-Pop | Nominated | |
| 2007 | Play | Nominated | |||
| 2010 | Past Future | Nominated | |||
| Association of Media in Digital Awards | 2018 | Excellence Award | Finally | Won | [3] |
| Best Dresser Awards | 1996 | Female Category Musician | Namie Amuro | Won | [4] |
| Billboard Japan Music Awards | 2012 | Top Pop Artist | Won | ||
| CD Shop Awards | 2018 | Special Prize | Finally | Won | [5] |
| 2019 | Namie Amuro Final Tour 2018 ~Finally~ | Won | [6] | ||
| Design Awards Asia | 2015 | DOTD | "Anything" | Won | [7] |
| DOTM | "Golden Touch" | Won | [8] | ||
| FWA Design Awards | Design Award | "Anything" | Won | [9] | |
| Golden Arrow Awards | 1996 | Best Music Award | Namie Amuro | Won | [10] |
| Japan Blu-ray Awards | 2019 | Grand Prix | Namie Amuro Final Tour 2018 ~Finally~ | Won | [11] |
| Music Award | Won | ||||
| Japan Cable Awards | 1995 | Best Request Award | "Try Me (Watashi o Shinjite)" | Won | [12] |
| 1996 | Yomiuri Shimbun TV Special Award | "Don't Wanna Cry" | Won | [13] | |
| "Sweet 19 Blues" | Won | [14] | |||
| Japan Gold Disc Awards | 1997 | Artist of the Year | Namie Amuro | Won | [15] |
| Best 5 Artists | Won | ||||
| Best 5 Songs | "Don't Wanna Cry" | Won | |||
| Best Music Video | First Anniversary Live 1996 in Marine Stadium | Won | |||
| 1998 | Song of the Year | "Can You Celebrate?" | Won | [16] | |
| Pop Album of the Year | Concentration 20 | Won | |||
| 1999 | Pop Album of the Year | 181920 | Won | [17] | |
| 2009 | Best 10 Albums | Best Fiction | Won | ||
| 2013 | Song of the Year by Download (Asia) | "Love Story" | Won | [18] | |
| Best 5 Songs by Download | Won | ||||
| 2014 | Best Music Video | 5 Major Domes Tour 2012 ~20th Anniversary Best~ | Won | [19] | |
| 2015 | Best 5 Albums | Ballada | Won | ||
| 2017 | Best 5 Songs by Download | "Hero" | Won | [20] | |
| 2018 | Artist of the Year | Namie Amuro | Won | [21] | |
| Album of the Year | Finally | Won | |||
| Best 5 Albums | Won | ||||
| 2019 | Artist of the Year | Namie Amuro | Won | [22] | |
| Best Music Video | Namie Amuro Final Tour 2018 ~Finally~ | Won | |||
| Japan Jewelry Best Dresser Awards | 2000 | Female Award | Namie Amuro | Won | [23] |
| Japan Record Awards | 1995 | Excellence Award | "Try Me (Watashi o Shinjite)" | Won | [24] |
| 1996 | Grand Prize | "Don't Wanna Cry" | Won | [25] | |
| Excellence Award | Won | ||||
| Best Album Award | Sweet 19 Blues | Won | |||
| 1997 | Grand Prize | "Can You Celebrate?" | Won | [26] | |
| Excellence Award | Won | ||||
| 2000 | Special Award | "Never End" | Won | [2] | |
| 2008 | Excellence Award | Best Fiction | Won | ||
| Best Album Award | Won | ||||
| 2017 | Special Award | Namie Amuro | Won | [27] | |
| Japan Wired Awards | 1995 | Excellence Award | "Try Me (Watashi o Shinjite)" | Won | [28] |
| 1996 | "Sweet 19 Blues" | Won | [29] | ||
| JASRAC Awards | 2019 | Best 10 Domestic Works | "Can You Celebrate?" | Won | [30] |
| "Never End" | Won | ||||
| "Hero" | Won | ||||
| Gold Award | Won | ||||
| MTV Student Voice Awards | 2007 | Student Voice Respect Award | Namie Amuro | Won | [31] |
| MTV Video Music Awards Japan | 2002 | Inspiration Award Japan | Won | ||
| 2003 | Best Collaboration | "Good Life" (as part of Suite Chic) | Won | ||
| 2004 | Best R&B Video | "Put 'Em Up" | Won | ||
| Best Buzz Asia from Japan | Won | ||||
| 2005 | Video of the Year | "Girl Talk" | Nominated | ||
| Best R&B Video | Won | ||||
| Most Impressive Performing Asian Artist | Namie Amuro | Won | |||
| 2006 | Best Female Video | "WoWa" | Nominated | ||
| 2008 | Best R&B Video | "Hide and Seek" | Won | ||
| 2009 | Video of the Year | "New Look" | Nominated | ||
| Best Female Video | Won | ||||
| Best R&B Video | "Sexy Girl" | Won | |||
| 2010 | Best Female Video | "Fast Car" | Won | ||
| Video of the Year | Nominated | ||||
| Album of the Year | Past < Future | Nominated | |||
| 2012 | Best Female Video | "Love Story" | Won | ||
| Best Collaboration Video | "Make It Happen" (featuring After School) | Won | |||
| Best Pop Video | "Naked" | Nominated | |||
| 2013 | Video of the Year | "In The Spotlight (Tokyo)" | Nominated | ||
| Best R&B Video | Nominated | ||||
| 2014 | Video of the Year | "Ballerina" | Nominated | ||
| Best Female Video | Nominated | ||||
| 2015 | Video of the Year | "Birthday" | Nominated | ||
| Best Female Video – Japan | Won | ||||
| Best Creativity | Namie Amuro | Won | |||
| 2016 | Best Female Video | "Mint" | Nominated | ||
| NexTone Awards | 2019 | Gold Award | "In Two" | Won | [32] |
| RTHK International Pop Poll Awards | 2010 | Top Japanese Gold Songs | "Fast Car" | Bronze | [33] |
| Top Japanese Artist / Group | Namie Amuro | Silver | |||
| 2015 | Top Japanese Gold Songs | "Grotesque" | Silver | [34] | |
| Top Japanese Artist / Group | Namie Amuro | Bronze | |||
| 2016 | Top Japanese Gold Songs | "Golden Touch" | Silver | [35] | |
| Top Japanese Artist / Group | Namie Amuro | Bronze | |||
| 2017 | Top Japanese Gold Songs | "Hero" | Bronze | [36] | |
| Top Japanese Artist / Group | Namie Amuro | Silver | |||
| 2018 | Best Selling Album | Finally | Won | [37] | |
| Top Japanese Gold Songs | "Finally" | Silver | |||
| Top Japanese Artist / Group | Namie Amuro | Gold | |||
| 2019 | Top Japanese Gold Songs | "Showtime" | Bronze | [38] | |
| Top Japanese Artist / Group | Namie Amuro | Silver | |||
| Space Shower Music Awards | 2004 | Best R&B Video | "Put 'Em Up" | Nominated | |
| Best Your Choice | Nominated | ||||
| 2008 | Best Female Video | "Hide and Seek" | Won | [39] | |
| 2009 | Best Artist | Namie Amuro | Won | ||
| Best Female Video | "New Look" | Won | |||
| 2010 | Best Video of the Year | "Fast Car" | Won | ||
| Best Art Direction | Won | ||||
| 2016 | Best Female Artist | Namie Amuro | Nominated | ||
| 2018 | Won | [40] | |||
| Spike Asia Awards | 2015 | Best Innovative Integration Bronze Award | "Anything" | Won | [41] |
| World Music Awards | 1997 | Best Selling Japanese Artist of the Year | Namie Amuro | Won | [42] |
| 2010 | Best Asian Artist | Won | |||
| 2012 | World's Best Album | Uncontrolled | Nominated | ||
| World's Best Female Artist | Namie Amuro | Nominated | |||
| World's Best Video | "In The Spotlight (Tokyo)" | Nominated | |||
| 2014 | World's Best Album | Feel | Nominated | ||
| World's Best Song | "Big Boys Cry" | Nominated | |||
| World's Best Video | Nominated | ||||
| World's Best Female Artist | Namie Amuro | Nominated | |||
| World's Best Entertainer | Nominated | ||||
| World's Best Live Act | Nominated |
| Country | Year | Honor | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 2000 | Naha City Honorary Citizen Award | [1] |
| 2018 | Okinawa Prefecture's National Honor Award | [43] |
Namie Amuro is a retired Japanese singer. She rose to prominence as a teen idol, and transitioned into a leading pop artist due to her versatility across music styles and visual presentation. Due to her career reinventions and longevity, she is known as an icon across Japan and Asia. She has been referred to as the "Queen of Japanese Pop", and her influence domestically has drawn equivalent comparisons to artists such as Janet Jackson and Madonna in Western pop culture.
Queen of Hip-Pop is the seventh studio album by Japanese recording artist Namie Amuro. It was released on July 13, 2005, by Avex Trax. The album's lyrical content, composing and arrangement was handled by multiple music collaborators, such as Nao'ymt, SUGI-V, Michico, Tricky Stewart, T.Kura, among many others. It is her second full length urban contemporary record, and is made up of hip-hop and R&B songs as well as one power ballad. The term "Hip-Pop" has been coined to the describe the music on the album because of her image as a pop music icon and her transition to R&B/Hip-Hop music. Three different formats were released to promote the album: a standalone CD, a limited edition Playbutton, and a digital download.
Genius 2000 is the fourth studio album by Japanese recording artist Namie Amuro, released on January 26, 2000, through Avex Trax. The album was released three years after her last album, Concentration 20 (1997), and was produced by Tetsuya Komuro and Dallas Austin, marking her first collaboration with an American producer, the album spawned four singles: "I Have Never Seen", "Respect the Power of Love", "Something 'bout the Kiss" and "Love 2000".
Sweet 19 Blues is the second studio album by Japanese recording artist Namie Amuro. The album was released in four different slipcases, with the first three cases limited to 1,000,000 copies each—were put on sale on July 20, 1996, throughout Japan, and were distributed two days later to the rest of Asia by Avex Trax. The album was primarily handled by Japanese producer Tetsuya Komuro, with the assistance of Cozy Kubo, Akio Togashi, Takahiro Maeda, M.C.A.T. and Randy Waldman, it is her debut solo album to date since the spilt of Super Monkey's.
"Toi et Moi" is Namie Amuro's 13th single under the Avex Trax label, released on July 7, 1999.
Play is the eighth studio album by Japanese recording artist Namie Amuro. It was released on June 27, 2007, by Avex Trax and was available in physical and digital formats. Following the success of her previous album, Queen of Hip-Pop (2005), Amuro enlisted long-time collaborators Nao'ymt and T. Kura to produce the album. Play, like its predecessor, is a R&B-influenced record with elements of pop music, rock, dance-pop, and hip-hop. Lyrically, the record explore themes of love, frustration, and relationships.
Best Fiction is the greatest hits album by Japanese singer Namie Amuro. Avex Trax released it in a variety of formats on July 30, 2008, and it has since been distributed in several Asian countries. It is Amuro's third compilation album, and features seventeen singles released in the 2000s. The compilation also included five new songs, three of which were released as a triple A-side single called "60s 70s 80s". Furthermore, the album tracks "Do Me More" and "Sexy Girl" experienced success in the Japanese market.
"Wild" is a song by Japanese recording artist Namie Amuro from her ninth studio album Past<Future (2009). The song was released as the album's lead single on March 18, 2009, featuring the b-side "Dr." "Wild" was written and produced by Michio and T. Kura, while the latter track was written and produced by long-time collaborator Nao'ymt. The songs are electropop tracks, which features instrumentation from synthesizers and keyboards. "Wild" and "Dr." appeared as the advertising theme songs for Coca-Cola Zero and a Vidal Sassoon commercial.
"Sit! Stay! Wait! Down! / Love Story" is an extended play by Japanese recording artist Namie Amuro from her tenth studio album and debut bilingual album Uncontrolled (2012). The EP contains the songs "Sit! Stay! Wait! Down!" and "Love Story" from the parent album and two new tracks "Higher" and "Arigatou". The EP was produced by Michico, T. Kura, Miriam Nervo, Olivia Nervo, T-SK, Tesung Kim, and Nao'ymt, and is divided into two dance-pop songs and two pop ballads.
Uncontrolled is the 10th studio album by Japanese pop and R&B musician Namie Amuro, released on June 27, 2012. The album was released before her 20th anniversary concerts — one in Okinawa in September, and seven across Japan in November and December 2012. The album consists mostly of songs sung in Japanese, however this was the first album of Amuro's to feature several songs sung entirely in English. The album met favorable reception by music critics, and was nominated the Album of the Year by the Asia Association Music Awards.
Ballada is the sixth compilation by Japanese recording artist Namie Amuro. It was released by Dimension Point on June 4, 2014 in three physical formats, and for digital consumption. It works as a concept album that compiles ballads released during her time with Avex Trax, including three re-worked tracks. Additionally, the album features its only single "Tsuki". Upon its release, Ballada received positive reviews from music critics, most whom praised Amuro's maturity and vocals, alongside the re-worked tracks.
"Contrail" is a song by Japanese recording artist Namie Amuro, taken from her eleventh studio and second Japanese–English bilingual album Feel (2013). The singer was approached by the Tokyo Broadcasting System team to record the official theme song for their television series Flying Public Relations Office, which resulted into the process of "Contrail". The track was written, composed, arranged and produced entirely by long-time collaborator Nao'ymt, and recorded at Daimonion Studios in Shibuya, Tokyo. Musically, "Contrail" is a dance number that includes instrumentation of synthesizers, keyboards and a drum machine. A self-empowerment anthem, the title derives from the literal term, and is delivered as a metaphor for confidence and hope.
Genic is the twelfth and final studio album and final bilingual (English–Japanese) album by Japanese recording artist Namie Amuro. It was released on June 10, 2015 in three physical formats, and for digital consumption; additionally, it serves as the singer's final studio record since her retirement announcement for September 2018. The album was handled by Western producers, including David Guetta, Bardur Haberg, Joacim "Twin" Persson, Sophie, amongst others. Stylistically, Genic divides its sound between electronic dance music and R&B, and focuses on themes of self-empowerment, having fun, glamour and fashion.
"Birthday" is a song recorded by Japanese recording artist Namie Amuro for her twelfth studio and third English album, Genic (2015). It was written by Emyli, composed by Andreas Carlsson, Gabrielle Symons, Michael Lerios, Demitri Lerios, Svante Halldin and Jakob Hazell, whilst production was handled by Halldin and Hazell. The promotional recording premiered on May 11, 2015, and served as the first promotional single from the album. Musically, "Birthday" is dance-pop song, influenced by pop and bubblegum pop. Lyrically, it celebrates Amuro's birthday.
"Red Carpet" is a song recorded by Japanese singer Namie Amuro. It was released on December 2, 2015 via Avex Trax and her label Dimension Point as the singer's third consecutive non-album single, being supported by B-side track "Black Make-Up". "Red Carpet" was distributed in two physical formats—a standard CD, and a CD and DVD bundle—and was made available for digital consumption. The recording was written and composed by Matthew Tishler, Paula Winger, Stephanie Lewis and Tiger, whilst production was handled by Tishler. Musically, the track features guitars, synthesizers, keyboards and drums as instrumentation. Lyrically, the songwriting focuses on themes of self-confidence, empowerment and narcissism, and uses the title as a metaphor for life experiences.
"Hero" is a song by Japanese recording artist Namie Amuro. It was released as a stand-alone single on July 27, 2016 by Avex Trax and Amuro’s own label Dimension Point; it was distributed physically in Japan and Taiwan, and digitally worldwide. The song was written by Ryosuke Imai and Sunny Boy, whilst production and composing was handled by the latter collaborator. Originally slated to appear as a B-side track to her previous single "Mint", it served as the official Japanese theme song to the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, broadcast by the NHK. Alongside this, a B-side track titled "Show Me What You’ve Got" appeared on the release of "Hero".
"Dear Diary" is a song by Japanese recording artist Namie Amuro, released as a double A-side single with her track "Fighter". It was released on October 26, 2016 via Dimension Point and Avex Trax as Amuro's seventh consecutive non-album single, and is the theme song to the Japanese drama–horror film, Death Note: Light Up the New World (2016). It was distributed with "Dear Diary" in two physical formats—standard CD and CD/DVD bundle. "Dear Diary" was written, composed and produced by Matthew Tishler, Felicia Barton, Aaron Benward, and frequent collaborator Tiger. Musically, the recording is a pop ballad that lyrically focuses on the films title and recurring theme; furthermore, it delves into themes of empowerment and rising from pain and sorrow.
"Fighter" is a song recorded by Japanese singer Namie Amuro, released as a double A-side single with "Dear Diary". It was released on October 26, 2016 via Dimension Point and Avex Trax in two CD formats, and a DVD package; a digital release was made available for consumption on November 16. The single serves as the insert song to the Japanese drama–horror film Death Note: Light Up the New World, and the theme song to its accompanying spin-off series Death Note: New Generation (2016). "Fighter" was written, composed and produced by Japanese vocalist Emyli, with additional production credits to Reason.
Finally is the seventh and final compilation album by Japanese singer Namie Amuro. It was released on November 8, 2017, by Dimension Point in three physical formats, alongside limited edition goods. Additionally, Finally is also Amuro's final musical release before she retired from the music industry on September 16, 2018.
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