The Best Ten

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The Best Ten (ザ・ベストテン, Za Besuto Ten) was a Japanese music chart television program broadcast on TBS Television from 1978 to 1989. The weekly shows were broadcast live on Thursdays. During its broadcast history, the air time and day changed only once. Each episode had one male and one female presenter. From 1978 to 1989, there were a total of four male presenters. The female presenter was always Tetsuko Kuroyanagi. The program is also colloquially known as Best Ten (ベストテン, Besuto Ten). During its broadcast time since 1978, numerous other music television programs, including Fuji TV's music program Yoru no Hit Studio (夜のヒットスタジオ, Yoru no Hitto Sutajio), which was first broadcast ten years earlier in 1968, were already popular and well known all over Japan. The popularity and audience rating increased very quickly and reached 41.9%. When Oricon Style published the results of the national survey of "Music programs that I would like to see revived" in May 2010, The Best Ten achieved first place. When news website Shunkan Josei Prime published the same survey in November 2023, The Best Ten was again in first place, regaining the same place as in the 2010 survey charts. The surveyors answered the reason behind revival for "excitement of the weekly new charts, its original ranking system, entertaining presenters and memorable outdoor performances". The program has been re-broadcast on the cable television channel TBS Channel 2 in 2020 and 2022. The order of broadcasting was chosen based on the high view ranting and popularity. According to the article published on news website Sponichi in 2020, one of the reasons for the re-broadcast decision was for the younger generation having interest in kayōkyoku music, referring to the Japanese phenomenon "Shōwa Kayo Boom" (昭和歌謡ブーム). Partial reason was the Kayōkyoku special episode of Matsuko no Shiranai...