The Best Ten

The Best Ten was a weekly 54 minutes (in later years 55 minutes) music program. The music chart program was successor of the previous music program , which broadcast in years 1965-1967 and in general music program . Many Japanese musical acts made their television performance debut on The Best Ten, but the show has also hosted many artists from all around the world. In the span of 11 years, over 630 episodes were broadcast and more than 400 artists performed. The show was always notable for the ranking boards clattering away before the announcement by presenter, as they went up to show The Best Ten's top 10 singles of the week. In the case if the artist could not appear, they would jump immediately to announce the next chart position. For the rankings from 11 to 20, they were given 5 seconds screen time for video-sound introduction with the chart performance for the last 4 weeks. In the case if it was the first week, only the one position would be displayed. In 2016, in magazine "Pen", the producer and the director of the program Shuji Yamada revealed, that board construction and idea comes from airport's tables of departures and arrival. The guests always came through the shiny wall panel, to greet with presenters and have a one-two minute short interview about song or recent events before the stage performance. ==Ranking system==

The Best Best includes its own music ranking chart, which was equally recognized to the music industry and music association. The point system has been based on the four important factors: • record sales (using rankings from three companies: Oricon, Music Lab, and Music Research) • cable broadcast requests (using data from the national cable music broadcasting association) • radio broadcast request charts (using the rankings of 25 radio stations for this program) • postcard requests by the fans The scoring point ratio at the start of the program were: "30 points for record", "10 points for cable", "20 points for radio" and "40 points for postcard". During the time, the postcards had the highest points. However, in February 1979, TBS announced that the scoring ratio would be changed from 20 points to 30 points for radio'' and from 40 to 30 points for postcards (record points and cable points remained unchanged). The reason for the change was, that "many postcards with clearly the same handwriting but different names were found, borrowed other people's names without permission.'' The scoring ratio was subsequently revised, and from 1981 it became: "45 points for records", "10 points for cable", "21 points for radio" and "23 points for postcard", and from 1986 until the end, it became "60 points for records", "10 points for cable", "10 points for radio" and "20 points for postcards". By the end of a year, special has been published and by the order from 10 to 1. The artists, who've charted performed on the year's final broadcast. ==Presenters==

The Best Teen has been hosted during its entire history of broadcast in total by 4 male presenters and 1 female presenters, marking Tetsuko Kuroyanagi the longest among the all presents in span of 11 years. In October 2023, the first presenter Kume has published his books about his 17 years of experience and emotions during hosting the program. == Revival Specials ==

Since the end of program in 1989, between years 1991 and 2019 various special programs were broadcast. These can range from the regular broadcast time from 2 to 3 hours in length. There were also be various specials with no actual artists performances, these were often be the current hosts discussing the history of the shows and playing some of the more notable performances from archived videotape recorder (known in Japanese as VTR). • "Omoide no Best Ten" - 1 April 1991 – 8 March 1992 • "Konya Dake! Gohonka Fukkatsu The Best Ten Special" - 3 October 1991 • "The Best Ten 1991 Nenmatsu Special" - 28 December 1991 • "The Best Ten Dousoukai" - 26 December 1993 • "The Best Ten Dousoukai II" - 29 March 1994 • "The Best Ten Fukkatsu Ban" - 4 April 1995 • "The Best Ten Konya Dake no Goukaban '97" - 28 December 1997 • "The Best Ten Fukkouban Special" - 2000–2004 • annual broadcast, which always aired on 31 December • "Fukkatsu! The Best Ten" - 12 July 2019 ==Releases==

Prior from the 2009 until present, a numerous of special CDs, DVD-box sets were released by the high demand of the artist fans. The discs include full footage of the performances, however in some occasions before-performance talks were completely cut off and not showed at all. Albums Compilation albums DVD set-boxes Other DVD set-boxes Home video DVD Other home video DVD ==Publications==

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