■ 『Announcement! The Most Listened Songs of the Year Annual Music Awards will be broadcast live for 4 hours from 7pm on December 28th!
Nippon Television’s year-end music festival “Announcement! The Songs I Listened to Most This Year Annual Music Awards” will be broadcast live for 4 hours from 7pm on December 28th.
Luxurious artists will gather at Hotel New Otani Makuhari to deliver “the songs you listened to the most this year.” The second cast of performers has now been announced.
■Artists who dominated the streaming charts this year appear one after another!
“Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” released this year is on the Billboard JAPAN chart
The cumulative number of streaming views exceeded 500 million. In addition, Creepy Nuts, who topped a total of 12 charts in 2024, including “JAPAN Hot 100” and “Streaming Songs,” was named the most played artist in Japan on Spotify Japan, “Top Artists of 2024 Japan.” Mrs. GREEN is currently the most listened to and sung artist with 21 songs that have been streamed over 100 million times, the most in Japan. New Jeans, a global girl group that has been streamed over 5 billion times on APPLE and Spotify, will appear.
Creepy Nuts
Mrs. GREEN APPLE
New Jeans
This year, BE:FIRST, a big dance and vocal group that won the weekly No. 1 spot on the Billboard JAPAN general song chart “JAPAN Hot 100” with three songs, debuted on January 1st, and their debut single “GOAT” has been in the top spot for over 40 weeks. Consecutive Billboard Number_i, which has continued to rank within the top 100 on JAPAN’s “Streaming Song Chart,” debuted in March, and her debut song ranked as the best foreign female artist in history on the “Oricon Weekly Streaming Ranking” (dated April 29). ILLIT, which made a new history by surpassing the weekly play count, will also appear.
BE:FIRST
Number_i
ILLIT
The lineup includes artists who have become a hot topic in Japan and abroad this year, such as Omoinotake, NiziU, SPYAIR, BOYNEXTDOOR, and KATSEYE. YOSHIKI-produced band and boy group XY, which newly joined Yuya Tegoshi in October, will perform for the first time on TV with 14 members. Shigeru Matsuzaki, who sang his signature song “Memory of Love” on a popular Korean music program in July and became a hot topic when the video exceeded 1 million streaming views, will also appear.
Omoinotake
NiziU
SPYAIR
BOYNEXTDOOR
KATSEYE
XY
Shigeru Matsuzaki
■[Special project]MC Mone Kamishiraishi will sing songs by Seiko Matsuda and Elaiza Ikeda to Akina Nakamori!
We have announced the top three songs of Seiko Matsuda, whom MC Kamishiraishi respects, and Akina Nakamori, who Ikeda respects, based on Spotify’s streaming ranking data of the most listened to songs this year.
In addition, as special performances for one night only, Mone Kamishiraishi will perform a special cover of Seiko Matsuda’s “Anata ni Aitakute~Missing You~” and Elaiza Ikeda will perform a special cover of Akina Nakamori’s “Kazari janenai no Yo Namida wa.” .
■Mone Kamishiraishi, Eliza Ikeda comments
・Charm of Seiko Matsuda
Kamishiraishi:First, there’s the voice. While it’s sparkling, it’s a little husky, or the sound is very bright and lively, but the vibrato is very mature.
I feel that her singing voice is full of gaps within one voice. I really like the way she shows both her professional side as a singer who completes her work and her strength as a woman.・About the singing song “Anata ni Aitakute~Missing You~”
Kamishiraishi:Seiko Matsuda wrote the lyrics herself.
Seiko-san, who has sung the lyrics of famous people, has written songs with her own words that are truly life-sized and sparkling, and I love them, so I want to sing Seiko-san’s words.・Charm of Akina Nakamori
Ikeda:The moment you start singing, the atmosphere suddenly changes and you are drawn into the story. Many of the songs have a bit of a concept in the lyrics, and the characters are well-defined and have a smart image, so you can listen to them and feel like you want to be like this kind of woman, or like me too.
It’s hard to describe in words, but her singing voice was different from what I expected from her cute appearance. I was really impressed by it, including the gap.・About the singing song “Kazari janenai no yo tears”
Ikeda:I couldn’t have written those lyrics myself, and I think it was the result of Yosui (Inoue)’s skillful choice of words and the soft, strong yet strangely soft and warm arrangement of the words. I would like to sing with a little help.
Program information
Nippon Television“announcement! The best song I listened to this year ~Annual Music Awards 2024~”
12/28 (Sat) 19:00-22:54 *Live broadcast
MC: Mone Kamishiraishi, Eliza Ikeda
Performing artists: ILLIT, XY, Omoinotake, KATSEYE, King & Prince, Creepy Nuts, SPYAIR, Travis Japan, Naniwa Danshi, Number_i, NiziU, NewJeans, BE:FIRST, BOYNEXTDOOR, Shigeru Matsuzaki, Mrs. GREEN APPLE
(As of 5:00 on December 13th *In alphabetical order)
“announcement! Songs I Listened to Most This Year ~Annual Music Awards 2024~” program site
https://www.ntv.co.jp/music-award/
