AKB48 61st Kouhaku Special Medley

The music spectacular Kouhaku is nearing its final stretch in Japan right now as we’re coming closer to 2011. Earlier on, AKB48 performed a special medley of their songs and were joined by SKE48 and NMB48. It truly was a fantastic performance by all of them which closed with them spelling out the words AKB48 – RED – V (as in victory for the Red team). The members have been popping up every now and then on the show after their medley including a wonderful collaboration on an anime song with Nana Mizuki. I think this year’s show has been amazing. Apart from AKB48, I thought Kana Uemura did a moving rendition of her song Toire no Kami Sama which nearly brought tears to my eyes.

Anyway, here’s a video of their performance below:

EDIT: The original video has been taken down so here’s another one. Not sure how long this will stay up though!

Happy New Year!

I probably won’t do any more postings now until 2011 so may I wish everybody a very happy and prosperous New Year.

Kouhaku 2010 Performance Order

New Year’s Eve is already here and that means tonight the annual music spectacular that is Kouhaku is on from 7.30pm on NHK. The performance order is below. Ayu is first up with AKB48 the 3rd on stage (I’m really looking forward to seeing them). SMAP has the honour of performing last.

1. Ayumi Hamasaki – Virgin Road
2. EXILE – I Wish For You
3. AKB48 – Kouhaku 2010 AKB48 Kamikyoku SP
4. NYC – Yoku Asobi Yoku Manabe 100% NYC
5. Angela Aki – Kagayaku Hito
6. AAA – Aitai Riyuu
7. Mitsuko Nakamura – Kawachi Otoko Bushi
8. flumpool – Kimi ni Todoke
9. Ayaka Hirahara – Voyagers
10. Yusuke – Hito
11. Natsuko Godai – Hitori Zake
12. Takashi Hosokawa – Naniwabushi da yo Jinsei wa
13. Porno Graffitti – Kimi wa 100%
14. Kana Nishino – Best Friend
15. FUNKY MONKEY BABYS – Ato Hitotsu
16. Miyuki Kawanaka – Nirinkusa
17. HY – Toki wo Koe
18. Kumiko – INORI
19. Kaori Mizumori – Matsushima Kikou
20. Hideaki Tokunaga – Toki no Nagare ni Mi wo Makase
21. Nana Mizuki – PHANTOM MINDS
22. L’Arc~en~Ciel – BLESS
23. Yoshimi Tendo – Jinsei Michizure
24. Shinichi Mori – Erimo Misaki
25. Hiromi Go – GO!GO!Year Kouhaku Special Medley
26. aiko – Mukai Awase
27. Perfume – Nee
28. TOKIO – advance
29. Kumi Koda – KODA KUMI 2010 Special Medley
30. Hiroshi Itsuki – Oshiroi Hana
31. Akiko Wada – AKKOii! Kouhaku 2010 Special
32. Yuzo Kayama – Wakadaisho 50 Nen Special Medley
33. Masaharu Fukuyama – Michishirube
34. Sachiko Kobayashi – Kaachan no Hitorigoto
35. Kobukuro – Ryusei
36. Kana Uemura – Toilet no Kamisama
37. Arashi – 2010 Kouhaku Original Medley
38. Ikimono Gakari – Arigatou
39. Sayuri Ishikawa – Amagi Goe
40. Saburo Kitajima – Fusetsu Nagare Tabi
41. Fuyumi Sakamoto – Mata Kimi ni Koishiteru
42. Kiyoshi Hikawa – Nijiiro no Bayon
43. DREAMS COME TRUE – Ikite Yuku no Desu feat. The Kouhaku Special Brass Band
44. SMAP – This is love ’10 SP Medley

Enjoy the show!