No, Kouhaku is LIVE. I dun think there's even one year prerecorded.

Kouhaku is a VERY VERY important music show in Japan. New year's eve is a national holiday and many people usually stay at home (although I think nowadays more and more people celebrate outside), so lots of people watch this show. Although the viewer's rating keeps declining (like... around ~35% last year), back then (~9 - 10 yrs ago) the ratings were over 50%.

^Wasn't last year's show the lowest ratings in the show's history? I slighty remember people saying she got a low rating and Kuu got a higher rating then her. Not sure if I'm correct on that tho.

yay ayu!!

10x :)

wow the red team are full with my fav artist! i hope i can watch this performance

YAY, alan!! :D I'm not surprised that Leah's not performing at Kohaku! XDD

Yes the girls form the red team and guys form the white team. The wins have been around 50-50 until the past 3 years where the guys have swept it. If the guys win again this year, it will be the first time a team has won for 4 consecutive years so i'm really hoping the gals take it this year.

It's on the 31/12 and a lead up to the New Year countdown. It's very prestigious and NEVER pre-recorded haha... Live show.

Can someone tell me about this thing?
Is it something to do with sports activities for the AVEX artists or what?:yconfused

WOOOO!! NAMIE!! ALAN!! AYU!!! AHHA

this year's seem like there's a lot of recent singers...lesser enka right?
o man im sooo gonna watch this years

It'll be interesting to see what she sings this year :)
I pray she doesn't sing MW. >.<

Woho! Congrats to Ayu and alan! ^^

SolarAngel, thanks! now i understand

Am I the only one who doesn't know what this is? Some kind of celeb sports?

^Same here. :[

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dhaku_Uta_Gassen

NHK year end music show

no, this is a very important showin japan and it's NEVER EVER prerecord.

It's something like a performance competition between both teams

Yes, last year's show was the lowest rating in the history.
And yes, ayu got a lower rating than kuu, which is logical. Kuu has only been on the show twice, and kuu was still quite popular last year (that was before she said silly things). Usually when a very popular artist appeared on kouhaku on the first time or so, he/she will have the highest rating of the night. e.g., when CHEMISTRY debuted on kouhaku they got the highest (or the 2nd highest) rating of the night.


It has nothing to do with AVEX. It's sorta like a music show. Male and female artists are separated into 2 teams (red team and white team respectively). One team's singer performs a song, then another team's singer performs. Who performs better will get a vote from the judge and the audience. So it's like each male vs. each female. You dunno who against who until probly a few days before the show...

So here goes what ayu sang each year and who she against:

1999 （50th) Boys & Girls ... vs. 野猿
2000 （51st) SEASONS ... vs. L'Arc〜en〜Ciel
2001 （52nd) Dearest ... vs. ゴスペラーズ (The Gospellers, a R&B group)
2002 （53rd) Voyage ... vs. ポルノグラフィティ (Porno Graffitti)
2003 （54th) No way to say ... vs. 森山直太朗
2004 （55th) Moments ... vs. ゴスペラーズ
2005 （56th) fairyland ... vs. 氷川きよし (the enka singer who got the Grand Pix in 2006 Nihon Record Taisho)
2006 （57th) JEWEL ... vs. スキマスイッチ
2007 （58th) Together When... ... vs. 槇原敬之

Ayu, Ai, Alan, Ayaka, Amuro, Kuu.. wooow...

Go GIRLS

So many new people are attending! Aoyama Thelma and Superfly! <3

Anyway let's hope Ayu's not going to sing Mirrorcle World again D:

probably she will sing Mirrorcle World.. XD