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You must be wondering why we're blogging about Anugerah Juara Lagu (loosely translated: Best Song Awards). A brief background: AJL as it is popularly known is an annual awards/competition in Malaysia between the songs that garner the most public votes on Muzik Muzik, a very popular Malaysian music variety show. AJL is one to note as it has, in the past, shown much love to the independent scene.

The past two winners of this coveted award belonged to Meet Uncle Hussain (for 'Lagu Untukmu') and Estranged (for 'Itu Kamu'). This proved to be a departure from your standard winner which, before, consisted of more mainstream (by Malaysian standards) artistes and music. The full list of past winners can be found here.

This year, we're hoping the best for some of Junk's favourites. Yuna's been nominated for 'Dan Sebenarnya', and so has pop-punk princes Bunkface for 'Situasi'. Past winner Estranged is in the running again with 'Aurora' and indie rock heroes Hujan gets a nod for 'Aku Scandal'.

OK, we may be speaking on a biased standpoint, but we're really hoping one of them walks home with the grand prize of RM35,000 in cash. First runner-up will receive RM12,000 and second runner-up, RM10,000. So as you can see, it's a MAJOR prize. Witnessing how hard they've worked from day one to get here, we can't help but wish them all the best!

Here's the songs they were nominated with. My personal pick? Kinda hard to say but I'll go with Yuna for the win on this one. Yours?