NHK has announced the artist lineup for the 63rd Kouhaku Uta Gassen. This year will have a total of 50 artists performing, 25 for each of the Red and White Teams. 12 artists are making their first appearances - 6 from the Red Team and 6 from the White Team.

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Aside from mobile music download site Recochoku, Oricon also recently published the results of a survey that asked 900 people to choose their favorite song for the summer.

Moreover, Oricon decided to split the result into three different rankings, showing the different tastes of those in their teens, twenties and thirties. However, there is one song ( Read more... )

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