Music Station: The highest number of appearances by an artist

SunshineSlayer · #1 27th January 2010, 07:37 AM

I just watched Music Station's 1,000th episode and they listed which artists have been on the show the most. The years are to show how many years it has taken the artist to get that many appearances. I mostly just wanted to post these totals because of the insane number of appearances by Hikaru Genji - I basically spit out my drink while watching! lol.

Women Top 10:

10. Dreams Come True - 43 (1988 - 2008)
tie - Matsuda Seiko - 43 (1987 - 2002)
9. Aiko - 44 (1999 - 2009)
7. Oginome Yoko - 46 (1986 - 1993)
tie - Every Little Thing - 46 (1996 - 2009)
6. Nakamori Akina - 54 (1986 - 1996)
5. Morning Musume - 60 (1997 -2009)
4. Amuro Namie - 63 (1995 - 2007)
3. Kudo Shizuka - 73 (1988 - 2005)
2. Hamasaki Ayumi - 76 (1998 - 2009)
1. Moritaka Chisato - 78 (1988 - 1999)

Ayumi will soon have the most times on Music Station for women.

Men Top 10:

10. L'arc en Ciel - 48 (1995 - 2009)
9. Shonentai - 53 (1986 - 1990)
8. Kondo Masahiko - 59 (1986 - 1998)
7. GLAY - 66 (1994 - 2009)
6. Arashi - 75 (1999 - 2009)
5. Kinki Kids - 93 (1997 - 2009)
3. V6 - 105 (1995 - 2009)
Tie. SMAP - 105 (1991 - 2009)
2. TOKIO - 116 (1994 - 2009)
1. Hikaru Genji - 233 (1987 - 1995)

lol. 233 times in 8 years. Don't see that getting passed.

Strangely they didn't list number 8 for women or number 4 for men. Not sure why. At first I thought number 8 might be Noriko Sakai, but I'm not sure who on the mens list would get left out.

rusuke · #2 27th January 2010, 08:20 AM

Wow! Hikaru Genji appeared 233 times? Amazing!

Go Ayu!!!

Thanks for sharing!

Lee^ChaN · #3 27th January 2010, 08:50 AM

Thanks!
wow.. 233 times??
o well.. he started on 1987..

**Zemus** · #4 27th January 2010, 09:05 AM

I will quote myself...

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Originally Posted by Zemus

Male Top 25:

01 Hikaru GENJI / 233 times
02 TOKIO / 116 times
03 SMAP / 105 times
03 V6 / 105 times
05 KinKi Kids / 93 times
06 ARASHI / 73 times
07 GLAY / 66 times
08 Kondo Masahiko / 59 times
09 Shonentai / 53 times
10 L'Arc~en~Ciel / 48 times
11 B'z / 47 times
12 TUBE / 46 times
13 Porno Graffitti / 45 times
14 Masaharu Fukuyama / 44 times
15 Mr.Children / 39 times
16 The Checkers / 38 times
17 Hirai Ken / 37 times
18 CHAGE and ASKA / 36 times
19 KAT-TUN / 35 times
19 Sharam Q / 35 times
19 Tahara Toshihiko / 35 times
22 EXILE / 33 times
22 Southern All Stars / 33 times
24 Tackey & Tsubasa / 31 times
24 THE ALFEE / 31 times

Female Top 25:

01 Moritaka Chisato / 78 times
02 Hamasaki Ayumi / 76 times
03 Kudo Shizuka / 73 times
04 Amuro Namie / 63 times
05 Morning Musume. / 60 times
06 Nakamori Akina / 56 times
07 Every Little Thing / 46 times
07 Oginome Yoko / 46 times
09 aiko / 44 times
10 DREAMS COME TRUE / 43 times
10 Matsuda Seiko / 43 times
12 Nakayama Miho / 41 times
13 Nakashima Mika / 39 times
14 Koda Kumi / 36 times
15 MAX / 34 times
15 Kahala Tomomi / 34 times
15 Otsuka Ai / 33 times
18 BoA / 32 times
18 SPEED / 32 times
18 Asaka Yui / 32 times
22 Minamino Yoko / 28 times
22 Mizuki Alisa / 28 times
24 Honda Minako / 27 times
24 PUFFY / 27 times
24 Wink / 27 times

Hikaru GENJI were regulars on the show. E.g. in 1988, they appeared on 46 out of 49 episodes.
Johnny's Entertainment "controls" the show anyway, eight of the the top ten male acts above are or were part of JE.

Aditmi Krisnasaki ~II~ · #5 27th January 2010, 09:46 AM

wow~ 233 times in 8 years... tsk tsk tsk...

TITANIC · #6 27th January 2010, 11:15 AM

wooow.. the gap between male and female are areally huge

SunshineSlayer · #7 27th January 2010, 11:32 AM

Didn't know you had already posted it somewhere Zemus - would have saved me lots of trouble!

AyuGAME · #8 27th January 2010, 11:56 AM

ayu will take over it soon...yay!!!

Maemi · #9 27th January 2010, 12:41 PM

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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

Strangely they didn't list number 8 for women or number 4 for men. Not sure why. At first I thought number 8 might be Noriko Sakai, but I'm not sure who on the mens list would get left out.

Is it possible they didn't want to show Noriko because of that drug tragedy?>< gosh...

**Zemus** · #10 27th January 2010, 01:04 PM

Sakai Noriko / 18 times

No, they simply didn't show Noriko because she didn't appear on MSta often enough.

As for "missing" ranking positions, that is not the case, because there are two tied at number seven. There was no need to list the eight now.

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if number seven wouldn't be tied, then...

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Quote:

Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

Didn't know you had already posted it somewhere Zemus - would have saved me lots of trouble!

It's OK, I usually spam the Music Station thread in the Japan section of AHS.

mellody · #11 27th January 2010, 02:02 PM

233 times in 8 years...

So, If I count it, in a year he could perform around 29 times? o_0

dreamland2.0 · #12 27th January 2010, 08:12 PM

wahh!!! 233!!! Times I'm surprised people didn't get sick of them!!! Now that's what I call overexposure!!

Yay for Ayu!!!

SunshineSlayer · #13 27th January 2010, 09:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Zemus

Sakai Noriko / 18 times

No, they simply didn't show Noriko because she didn't appear on MSta often enough.

As for "missing" ranking positions, that is not the case, because there are two tied at number seven. There was no need to list the eight now.

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if number seven wouldn't be tied, then...

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I thought it was because of the ties too, but it seemed weird because both number 10 and number 7 were tied - shouldn't that mean that number 9 and number 6 get skipped? Or they just do their ties really weirdly, haha.

JackieRos · #14 27th January 2010, 10:01 PM

holy crap she must be popular

Andrenekoi · #15 28th January 2010, 12:54 AM

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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer

Strangely they didn't list number 8 for women or number 4 for men. Not sure why. At first I thought number 8 might be Noriko Sakai, but I'm not sure who on the mens list would get left out.

Some people count like that on rankings... if there is a tie, there are 2 on the same place (or more) and the next spot is left like the tied names took it^^

SunshineSlayer · #16 28th January 2010, 03:06 AM

^ Yeah, I realized that, but the way they did the ties looks strange. The omissions are because of the ties, just the way they did the ties is confusing.

Andrenekoi · #17 28th January 2010, 06:22 AM

Just noticed... besides Glay and L'arc, everyone on males' list is Johnny's xD

SunshineSlayer · #18 28th January 2010, 06:31 AM

^ There are lots of non-Johnny's in 25-11. But yeah, even I wasn't expecting anyone to have over 100 appearances. Just shows how crazy the Johnny's boys are always working. I don't know if Johnny's ent has a special relationship with Mstay or if just simply Johnny demands more work from the people in his company than other companies do.

Andrenekoi · #19 28th January 2010, 06:35 AM

^I was happy that the first place for males (and overall) was a solo guy, searched for him on wikipedia and discovered it's another boyband... how naive of me xD

SunshineSlayer · #20 28th January 2010, 06:37 AM

^lol. Yes, Hikaru Genji is one of the most well known Johnny's groups of all time in Japan.