The Japan Gold Disc Award is given annually by the Recording Industry Association of Japan. The band "The Beatles" has been selected for the third consecutive year, and has won the award for the ninth time, the most ever.
In addition, the nine-male idol group "Snow Man" won the Japanese music category for "Artist of the Year" for theThird consecutive year. The nine-member idol group sold 1,414,093 albums and 1,817,687 music videos.