The ceremony for the JASRAC Award 2014 was held at Koga Masao Museum of Music in Tokyo on May 21, and the background music for the popular TV anime Naruto Shippuden composed by Yasuharu Takanashi received the International Award for second straight year.
JASRAC (Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers) annually presents the JASRAC Awards to the copyright holders whose musical works represent a large share of the royalty distribution. The International Award is given to the work that earned the largest amount of royalties from foreign copyright societies. The Naruto Shippuden music earned royalties from 11 countries, mainly from Europe including France and Italy. The composer Takanashi's Fairy Tail music is also ranked in a 8th in the top 10 foreign income works.
Takanashi, who started his professional musician career as the keyboardist for Japanese symphonic metal
band Hellen in 1980s, is well-known for his musical contributions for the four PreCure series: Fresh! PreCure
(2009-2010), Heartcatch PreCure! (2010-2011), Suite PreCure♪ (2011-2012), and Smile PreCure! (2012-2013).
His PreCure background music influenced by Hard Rock/Heavy Metal are often called "Cure Metal" among
the fans.
Takanashi at the ceremony (photo via JASRAC)
The JASRAC Awards 2014 Top 10 Foreign Income Works
1. "Naruto Shippuden Background Music" (Yasuharu Takanashi/TV Tokyo Music Inc)
2. "One Piece" (Kouhei Tanaka/Fujipacific Music Inc)
3. "GTO" (Yuusuke Honma/Fujipacific Music Inc)
4. "One Piece" (Shirou Hamaguchi/Fujipacific Music Inc)
5. "Sailor Moon" (Takanori Arisuma/TV Asahi Music Co Ltd)
6. "Incredible Zorori" (Kouhei Tanaka/Sunrise Music Publishing Co Ltd)
7. "Dragon Ball Z" (Shunsuke Kikuchi/Fujipacific Music Inc)
8. "Fairy Tail" (Yasuharu Takanashi/TV Tokyo Music Inc)
9. "Hunter x Hunter" (Toshihiko Sahashi/Fujipacific Music Inc)
10. "Pokémon" (Shinji Miyazaki/TV Tokyo Music Inc)
via: Animate. TV
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