It is the end of the year again, just like many Chinese audiences are accustomed to watching the CCTV Spring Festival Gala on Chinese New Year's Eve night, on the last day of each year, Japanese audiences also have a year-end program to watch together, that is, NHK TV's "Red and White Song Club".
The NHK Song Festival has been held for the 71st year, and it is broadcast on December 31 (Japan's Chinese New Year's Eve Night) every year, which can be understood as the Spring Festival Gala of Japan (the Japanese media introduced the CCTV Spring Festival Gala is also called "Chinese Red and White").
Although the ratings have deteriorated over the years due to the impact of the Internet, outdoor activities and other entertainment methods, "Red and White Song Club" is still the most watched TV show in Japan (except for special years such as the World Cup and the Olympic Games).
For a singer, it is a great honor to be able to appear on the stage of the Red and White Song Club.
Every year, NHK invites about 40 groups of artists to perform, and there are three major criteria for selection: this year's activity, social approval rate, and matching of purpose planning.
It can be said that all the singers who can be selected are the most popular singers this year.
Today, NHK officially released the list of singers who appeared in this year's "Red and White Song Club"
The above is the list of appearances, not the order of appearances, and the numbers in parentheses represent the number of appearances including this time.
There are familiar national singers such as Arashi, Ishikawa Koyuri, Masaharu Fukuyama, Hiroshi Goki, and Kiyoshi Higami.
In addition, one of the highlights of the annual Red and White Song Festival is who debuts, and this year there are a total of 10 groups, and The Ministry house Jun introduces them one by one.
Sakurasaka 46
Sony Music's girl group Sakurasaka 46 is not strictly speaking, it is not the first appearance, the predecessor is Misaka 46, after former center member Hirai Tomoru Anduna and others left the group, this year chose to use a new name, change the style, and start again.
JUJU
Born in Hiroshima Prefecture and celebrating 16 years of debut, singer-songwriter JUJU is a frequent guest on major music programs, and this time she finally made her first appearance in red and white.
JUJU has a lot of popular songs, but also covered the famous songs of other singers, Budiya Jun's deepest impression is "Hello, Again ~ Former からある Place ~", the MV of this song is too touching, as a Sony micro single advertising song, it was particularly popular that year, starring Someya Shota and Ai Hashimoto.
NiziU
NiziU is a Japanese K-pop girl group jointly launched by Sony Music and South Korean JYP Entertainment, and 9 of them were selected through the talent show.
NiziU had a high popularity in the second half of the year and was shortlisted for The Japanese Buzzword of the Year.
The dance in the NiziU song "Make you happy" was so popular that many artists imitated and danced.
Tokyo Incident
Last year, Shiina Hayashibana appeared as a solo artist, and this year, the super popular band She sang as the lead singer, the Tokyo Incident, reopened after 8 years of activities and will debut in red and white for the first time.
This year, the Tokyo Incident became the theatrical version of "Detective Conan" and the Japanese drama "We Are a Little Wrong" sang the theme song and held a concert, with a high degree of activity.
BABYMETAL
BABYMETAL has long been popular all over the world with the unique style of "heavy metal + Lolita", and the world tour venues opened in the United States and Europe are full, and it will finally debut in red and white after 10 years of debut, but unfortunately, now there are two people.
Miletus
Sony's singer Mile debuted last year and sang the theme song for "Scandal Lawyer" starring Yuko Takeuchi and "Disguise Is Not Lun" starring Apricot
Mirei not only sings well, is very explosive, looks very sweet, look at a few photos of her at the red and white conference!
Yingren
Yingren's song "Perfume" was very popular on tiktok (Japanese TikTok), and it existed like a divine comedy, so she was invited to participate in this year's Red and White.
SixTONES
Snow Man
The two groups of newcomers who debuted this year, both groups sold millions of records (produced by Sony and Ai Hui respectively), which is the first time in the history of Janis that two new groups have participated in red and white at the same time.
GReeeen
GReeeen, who has never shown her face, is finally going to appear in red and white, this time in a special planning session.
This year, they sang the theme song of NHK Morning Drama", "Star Shadow のエール", they should still not show their faces, they will perform in the form of a three-dimensional silhouette of the members, and they sang this song in the special program of "Help" in August.
According to previous years, NHK will also invite big celebrities to star at the last minute (the former Namie Amuro and Genshi Yonezu were invited at the last minute)
In addition to congratulating the singers selected for the red and white list, many regular or highly vocal singers have been selected, and #红白落选 and unsuccessful singers have also become a hot topic on the rise.
Since 2009, AKB48, which has appeared for 11 consecutive years, has failed, which can be said to be both unexpected and reasonable, the accident is because of the idol who has watched for so many years, suddenly broken, and it is reasonable because AKB is indeed not as hot as before.
AKB48 first appeared in 2007, when AKB, which was still an underground girl group, did not appear alone, but as a group in the special performance of "Akihabara Culture".
After AKB became popular in 2009, he appeared as a national idol for 11 consecutive times.
On the red and white stage in the past, AKB also left a lot of topics and classic performances, such as the early hermeography arrangement, one-second dressup, and the surprise appearance of Atsuko Maeda and Yuko Oshima on the 10th anniversary.
The lack of appearance this time made many fans regret, AKB48 active general supervisor to Inoji Meiyin tweeted apologies and reluctance, she said that she can no longer rely on the past history, in the future will strive to pass on the new baton, please continue to protect AKB.
At that time, the good morning girl group also broke off after many years of red and white, which made people sigh, and now AKB is also broken, which is the end of another idol era.
To The surprise of Keiya Jun, the popular band King Gnu in the past two years did not appear for the second consecutive year.
It may be that they did not have many works this year, and only released a new song this month, as the theme song of the Japanese drama "35-year-old girl", the new song "Sanwen Novel" Buya Jun especially liked.
Previously, there was also the girl music group YOASOBI, the treasure band that Jun Buya had recently fallen in love with.
Just a year after his debut, he is a very good-looking newcomer, and the song "夜に駆ける" has been played more than 200 million times and youtube has been played 100 million times, making it one of the hottest songs in Japan this year.
There are also disparities such as DISH, IZONE, aiko, etc. that Japanese netizens regret.
In addition, this year's red and white host lineup is: Mitsuyoshi Uchimura & Makoto Kuwako, red group nijido Tomimi, and white group Ozumi Yang.
Nobugo Murakami, who had aspired to host Red and White in the show and deliberately went to pray for another failure, also reported his failure to host in the show. (Next year by certain)
This year's "Red and White Song Festival" is still broadcast live from 19:30 to 23:45 (Japan time) on December 31