Music Station: The highest number of appearances by an artist
 

I just watched Music Station's 1,000th episode and they listed which artists have been on the show the most. The years are to show how many years it has taken the artist to get that many appearances. I mostly just wanted to post these totals because of the insane number of appearances by Hikaru Genji - I basically spit out my drink while watching! lol.

Women Top 10:

10. Dreams Come True - 43 (1988 - 2008)
tie - Matsuda Seiko - 43 (1987 - 2002)
9. Aiko - 44 (1999 - 2009)
7. Oginome Yoko - 46 (1986 - 1993)
tie - Every Little Thing - 46 (1996 - 2009)
6. Nakamori Akina - 54 (1986 - 1996)
5. Morning Musume - 60 (1997 -2009)
4. Amuro Namie - 63 (1995 - 2007)
3. Kudo Shizuka - 73 (1988 - 2005)
2. Hamasaki Ayumi - 76 (1998 - 2009)
1. Moritaka Chisato - 78 (1988 - 1999)

Ayumi will soon have the most times on Music Station for women.

Men Top 10:

10. L'arc en Ciel - 48 (1995 - 2009)
9. Shonentai - 53 (1986 - 1990)
8. Kondo Masahiko - 59 (1986 - 1998)
7. GLAY - 66 (1994 - 2009)
6. Arashi - 75 (1999 - 2009)
5. Kinki Kids - 93 (1997 - 2009)
3. V6 - 105 (1995 - 2009)
Tie. SMAP - 105 (1991 - 2009)
2. TOKIO - 116 (1994 - 2009)
1. Hikaru Genji - 233 (1987 - 1995)

lol. 233 times in 8 years. Don't see that getting passed. :)

Strangely they didn't list number 8 for women or number 4 for men. Not sure why. At first I thought number 8 might be Noriko Sakai, but I'm not sure who on the mens list would get left out.

Wow! Hikaru Genji appeared 233 times? Amazing!

Go Ayu!!!

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks!
wow.. 233 times??
o well.. he started on 1987..

I will quote myself...

Hikaru GENJI were regulars on the show. E.g. in 1988, they appeared on 46 out of 49 episodes.
Johnny's Entertainment "controls" the show anyway, eight of the the top ten male acts above are or were part of JE.

wow~ 233 times in 8 years... tsk tsk tsk...

wooow.. the gap between male and female are areally huge

Didn't know you had already posted it somewhere Zemus - would have saved me lots of trouble! :)

ayu will take over it soon...yay!!!

Is it possible they didn't want to show Noriko because of that drug tragedy?>< gosh...

Sakai Noriko / 18 times

No, they simply didn't show Noriko because she didn't appear on MSta often enough. :) As for "missing" ranking positions, that is not the case, because there are two tied at number seven. There was no need to list the eight now.

#7
#7
#9

if number seven wouldn't be tied, then...

#7
#8
#9

It's OK, I usually spam the Music Station thread in the Japan section of AHS. :laugh

233 times in 8 years...

So, If I count it, in a year he could perform around 29 times? o_0

wahh!!! 233!!! Times I'm surprised people didn't get sick of them!!! Now that's what I call overexposure!!

Yay for Ayu!!!

I thought it was because of the ties too, but it seemed weird because both number 10 and number 7 were tied - shouldn't that mean that number 9 and number 6 get skipped? Or they just do their ties really weirdly, haha.

Some people count like that on rankings... if there is a tie, there are 2 on the same place (or more) and the next spot is left like the tied names took it^^

^ Yeah, I realized that, but the way they did the ties looks strange. The omissions are because of the ties, just the way they did the ties is confusing.

Just noticed... besides Glay and L'arc, everyone on males' list is Johnny's xD

^ There are lots of non-Johnny's in 25-11. But yeah, even I wasn't expecting anyone to have over 100 appearances. Just shows how crazy the Johnny's boys are always working. I don't know if Johnny's ent has a special relationship with Mstay or if just simply Johnny demands more work from the people in his company than other companies do.

^I was happy that the first place for males (and overall) was a solo guy, searched for him on wikipedia and discovered it's another boyband... how naive of me xD

^lol. Yes, Hikaru Genji is one of the most well known Johnny's groups of all time in Japan.