2004 MTV Video Music Awards Japan

The MTV Video Music Awards Japan 2004 were hosted by entertainer and singer Tomomitsu Yamaguchi at Tokyo Bay NK Hall in Urayasu, Chiba.

Awards

Winners are in bold text.

Video of the Year

Missy Elliott — "Pass That Dutch"

• Mr. Children — "Kurumi"
• Mika Nakashima — "Seppun"
• Outkast — "Hey Ya!"
• Radiohead — "There There"

Album of the Year

Outkast — Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

• Missy Elliott — This Is Not a Test!
• Exile — Exile Entertainment
• Linkin Park — Meteora
• Mika Nakashima — Love

Best Male Video

Pharrell featuring Jay-Z — "Frontin'"

• Ken Hirai — "Style"
• Sean Paul — "Get Busy"
• Justin Timberlake — "Rock Your Body"
• Zeebra — "Touch The Sky"

Best Female Video

Ayumi Hamasaki — "Because of You"

• Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z — "Crazy in Love"
• BoA — "Double"
• Mika Nakashima — "Yuki no Hana"
• Britney Spears featuring Madonna — "Me Against the Music"

Best Group Video

Kick The Can Crew — "Saga Continue"

• The Black Eyed Peas — "Where Is the Love?"
• Blue — "Guilty"
• Dragon Ash — "Morrow"
• Rip Slyme — "Joint"

Best New Artist

Orange Range — "Shanghai Honey"

• Evanescence — "Bring Me to Life"
• Good Charlotte — "The Anthem"
• Halcali — "Strawberry Chips"
• Stacie Orrico — "Stuck"

Best Rock Video

Good Charlotte — "The Anthem"

• 175R — "Sora ni Utaeba"
• Dragon Ash — "Morrow"
• Linkin Park — "Somewhere I Belong"
• Metallica — "St. Anger"

Best Pop Video

Ayumi Hamasaki — "No Way to Say"

• Blue — "Guilty"
• Ketsumeishi — "Natsu no Omoide"
• Orange Range — "Shanghai Honey"
• Outkast — "Hey Ya!"

Best R&B Video

Namie Amuro — "Put 'Em Up"

• Mary J. Blige featuring Method Man — "Love @ 1st Sight"
• Double — "Destiny"
• Crystal Kay — "Candy"
• Alicia Keys — "You Don't Know My Name"

Best Hip-Hop Video

Zeebra — "Touch The Sky"

• 50 Cent — "21 Questions"
• Missy Elliott — "Pass That Dutch"
• Jay-Z featuring Pharrell — "Change Clothes"
• Rhymester — "The Great Amateurism"

Best Dance Video

BoA — "Double"

• Fire Ball — "Da Bala"
• Kylie Minogue — "Slow"
• Shinichi Osawa featuring Kj — "Shinin"
• Sean Paul — "Get Busy"

Breakthrough Video

Mika Nakashima — "Love Addict"

• The Black Eyed Peas — "Where Is the Love?"
• Halcali — "Giri Giri Surf Rider"
• Orange Range — "Shanghai Honey"
• Sean Paul — "Get Busy"

Best Video from a film

Pink featuring William Orbit — "Feel Good Time" (from ')

• Evanescence — "Bring Me to Life" (from Daredevil)
• Korn — "Did My Time" (from ')
• Nelly, P. Diddy and Murphy Lee — "Shake Ya Tailfeather" (from Bad Boys 2)
• Quruli — "Highway" (from Josee, the Tiger and the Fish)

Best Collaboration

Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z — "Crazy in Love"

• Ken Hirai and Kyu Sakamoto — "Miagete Goran Yoru no Hoshi o"
• M-Flo Loves Crystal Kay — "Reeewind!"
• Crystal Kay Loves M-Flo — "I Like It"
• Britney Spears featuring Madonna — "Me Against the Music"
• Voice of Love Posse — "Voice of Love"

Best Live Performance

Ayumi Hamasaki

• Mary J. Blige
• Missy Elliott
• Good Charlotte
• M-Flo

Best buzz ASIA

Japan

Namie Amuro — "Put 'Em Up"

• Ai — "After the Rain"
• Chemistry — "Ashita e Kaeru"
• Ken Hirai — "Style"
• Hyde — "Horizon"
• Crystal Kay — "Can't be Stopped"
• Kick the Can Crew — "Vacation"
• Rip Slyme — "Joint"
• Hitomi Yaida — "Hitori Jenga"

South Korea

M — "Just One Night"

• Bada — "Music"
• Drunken Tiger — "Thumb"
• Eugene — "The Best"
• Jaurim — "Hey Guyz"
• Koo Jun Yup — "Escape"
• Wheesung — "With Me"
• Yoon Band — "I Will Forget"
• Yoon Gun — "By Chance"

Taiwan

Leehom Wang — "Last Night"

• 5566 — "Waiting"
• A-Mei — "Brave"
• Jay Chou — "In Name of Father"
• Elva Hsiao — "Password to Love"
• Vivian Hsu — "Mask"
• Mayday — "God of Gambling"
• David Tao — "Black Orange"
• Faye Wong — "Will Be Loving"

Special awards

Best Director

The White Stripes — "The Hardest Button To Button" (directed by Michael Gondry)

Best Special Effects

The Chemical Brothers — "Get Yourself High" (Special Effects: Joseph Kahn)

Best style

Mika Nakashima — "Kissing"

Best Website

Kick the Can Crew (www.kickthecancrew.com)

Most Impressive Performance

Mary J. Blige

Inspiration Award

Janet Jackson

Legend Award

Ozzy Osbourne

Live performances

• Ayumi Hamasaki — "Because of You"
• The Darkness — "I Believe in a Thing Called Love"
• Good Charlotte — "Walk Away"
• Janet Jackson — "All Nite (Don't Stop)"
• Mika Nakashima
• Missy Elliott — "Pass That Dutch"
• Namie Amuro — "Alarm"
• N.E.R.D — "She Wants to Move"
• Outkast
• Orange Range
• Zeebra — "Touch the sky"

References