▼ YOASOBI released a lot of English versions of their songs this year, like their huge smash hit ‘Monster’.
Millennium parade × Belle (Kaho Nakamura)
In total, 43 acts will be participating in the contest this year, which will take place on December 31. In a year that seemed to lack any overwhelmingly successful pop hits, people have been speculating who will make up the 2021 line-up this year, and the participating artists in both teams were released earlier this week. The artists competing are all well-known artists - many of them being artists who have had popular songs over the past year - and for Japanese musicians, getting to perform on the programme is when you know you’ve really made it. After all artists have performed, studio celebrity judges and the public vote, and a winning team is announced just before the new year begins. These chicken pox bumps gradually grow bigger in size and start causing more pain and irritation. This clear fluid, called vesicles, turns cloudy as the second stage of chicken pox progresses. The singers are split into two teams - the Red Team, consisting of female vocalists/groups, and the White Team, made up of male vocalists/male-lead groups. The 2nd stage of chicken pox starts when each bump of the chicken pox rash begins to form a thin-walled, clear fluid-filled blister. The show, which has aired every year since its debut in 1951, showcases the best of Japanese music as popular artists are invited onto the show to battle it out.
The New Years’ television special announced the cast for this year’s battle.Īs the end of the year fast approaches, people in Japan are already starting to get ready for one of the biggest television events of the year - the New Years television special Kohaku Uta Gassen, or the Kohaku Song Battle.