The fifth annual "Best Hit Kayosai (Best Hit Pop Song Festival)" will be broadcast live Monday night at 9 p.m. on the Yomiuri Television network (Nihon TV in Tokyo) from the Osaka Festival Hall.

Formerly known as the "Zen-Nihon Usen Taisho (All Japan Cable Radio Awards)," the ceremony recognizes the most popular Japanese songs and artists of the year based on requests from listeners of the Usen cable radio service, karaoke rankings, and record sales.

Among this year's recipients of the Gold Artist Award for record sales are the tenor Masafumi Akikawa for the single "A Thousand Winds," which has shifted more than a million units since it was released in the fall of 2005, and the South Korean boy-band Toho Shinki, who sing in Japanese. The likely winner of the newcomer award is American pinup-turned-singer Leah Dizon. Another song that will be honored is "Oshiri-kajiri Mushi," a novelty tune sung by the titular "Bottom-biting Bug" in a popular animated short that originally appeared on NHK and has since become an international hit on YouTube.