| Japan Lyricist Awards | |
| Awarded For: | Awarded to lyricists (mainly enka, kayokyoku) |
| Sponsor: | Japan Lyricists' Association |
| Location: | TV Tokyo, First Studio |
| Country: | Japan |
| Year: | 1968 |
is an annual set of awards sponsored by the Japan Lyricists' Association. Awarded since 1968.[1] Over the years the award ceremony has been produced by NHK and NTV and now, since the 27th Awards, by TV Tokyo.[2]
This is a list of songs that have won the Grand Prix. For details on awards in other categories, visit the official website of the Japan Lyricists' Association. The audience share data are from Video Research, for Kanto area.
| No. | Date | Song title | Lyricist | Singer | Broadcasting station | TV rating | Notes | |
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| 10 | First successive Grand Prix win | |||||||
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| 15 | 23.4% | Yū Aku registers second successive win | ||||||
| 16 | 20.8% | |||||||
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| 18 | 19.1% | |||||||
| 19 | 19.3% | |||||||
| 20 | 20.3% | Second person to achieve a successive win | ||||||
| 21 | 17.2% | |||||||
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| 29 | 9.7% | |||||||
| 30 | 10.7% | |||||||
| 31 | 10.8% | |||||||
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| 33 | First ever Grand Prix for a debut song | |||||||
| 34 | 10.2% | |||||||
| 35 | 8.2% | |||||||
| 36 | 10.7% | |||||||
| 37 | 12.1% | |||||||
| 38 | 9.8% | |||||||
| 39 | 7.4% | |||||||
| 40th | 9.5% | |||||||
| 41 | 10.0% | Second time a debut song wins the Grand Prix | ||||||
| 42 | 5.1% | |||||||
| 43 | 7.8% | Third person to achieve a successful Grand Prix win | ||||||
| 44 | 6.9% | |||||||
| 45 | 11.1% | |||||||
| 46 | 7.7% | Special TV Tokyo Award goes to Yoshio Tabata | ||||||
| 47 | December 4, 2014 | 6.3% | ||||||
| 48 | December 3, 2015 | 8.1% | ||||||
| 49 | December 1, 2016 | 4.5% | ||||||
| 50 | December 3, 2017 | 5.7% | ||||||
| 51 | December 8, 2018 | BS TV Tokyo |