2004 MTV Video Music Awards Japan explained

2004 MTV Video Music Awards Japan
Date:	23 May 2004
Location:	Tokyo Bay NK Hall, Urayasu, Chiba, Japan
Host:	Tomomitsu Yamaguchi
Website:	mtvjapan.com/mvaj
Network:	MTV Japan
Previous:	2003
Next:	2005

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.^[1]

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"

Notes and References

1. Web site: VIDEOS 歴代VMAJアーカイブ 2004年│MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS JAPAN 2007. 19 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074432/http://www.mtvjapan.com/vmaj/2007/videos/2004.html. 4 March 2016. dead.