Count Down TV

Count Down TV
Title sequence as of 2009
Also known asCDTV
カウントダウン・ティーヴィー
Presented by
Country of originJapan
Original languageJapanese
Production
Producers
  • Shinji Suzuki
  • Takayuki Ishibashi
  • Kō Serata
  • Shintarō Ōki
Running time30–60 minutes
Original release
NetworkTokyo Broadcasting System
Release7 April 1993 (1993-04-07) –
present

Count Down TV (カウントダウン・ティーヴィー, Kauntodaun Tīvī) (also known as CDTV) is a Japanese late-night music television program, broadcast on TBS since 1993. The program is shown weekly, and features a Japanese music video hit chart countdown, live performances from musicians and music information. It is presented by three animated hosts.

History

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The show was created after the gap left by the cessation of the long-running TBS countdown show The Best Ten (1978–1989).[1] A top 100 music countdown show called Totsuzen Baraetī Sokuhō!! Count Down 100 (突然バラエティー速報!!COUNT DOWN100, Sudden Variety Show Report!! Count Down 100) (presented by Kuniko Tamada and Masayuki Watanabe) begun airing on TBS networks from October 1992, however received low ratings in its targeted youth market (due to its early airing time, 8pm, and the at average 10pm returning home time of the target audience). The show finished airing in March 1993.

The show was rebranded, becoming Count Down TV and airing from April 1993 onwards. Some of the rebranding changes were later broadcast times, CGI hosts and imagery, along with only airing the top 40 chart rank-ins. The format has remained basically the same over the years. Some changes have been extending the broadcast from 30 minutes to 40 (and extending the charts from top 40 to top 50) and introducing album/ringtone chart countdowns.

Since April 2020, Count Down TV was split into 2 different programs: CDTV! Saturday (Sundays 12:58am) and CDTV! LIVE LIVE (Mondays 9pm; Mondays 10pm from March 30, 2020 - March 29, 2021). The same CGI hosts presented the Saturday edition while TBS announcer Ai Eto presented the Monday edition.[2][3] The Saturday edition ended on March 21, 2021.[4][5] The ranking segment which has been part of the Saturday (original) edition was then carried over to the Monday edition.[6]

Main Segments

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The show is split up into several chart segments, based around weekly or monthly sales. Weekly singles rankings are split into last week's top 10, #30-#21, #20-#11, #10-#4, and sequential sections for singles ranking #3, #2 and #1. The top 10 albums' chart is briefly broadcast (from April 2009, non-domestic albums also feature), along with the top 10/20 ringtones. Other than these charts, between 1-3 musical guests perform in weekly segments (generally songs popular on the charts at the time), along with an older clip from the 'CDTV library' and fortune telling for the week.

The monthly segments include Shinkyoku Express (新曲EXPRESS, New Song Express) (generally shown in the first week), CDTV History/Album Library (previous #1 singles/albums from that month in history), the top 10 songs performed at karaoke for that month, the top albums/DVDs. The CDTV Award for the top single/album/ringtone/DVD that month is also announced.

Other segments include information segments for hyped music videos/film tie-up songs/dorama theme songs (potentially with sample clips from these music videos), and user submission polls for such questions as 'Which artist do you want as a lover?', 'What song do you want for your Wedding?', etc.

CDTV Top 100

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Count Down TV ranks its music video countdown on the CDTV Top 100 chart. The chart is tallied by a combination of Oricon's singles chart and cable broadcast requests. Due to this, songs not officially released as singles (such as album tracks, B-sides, digital download singles, or the single before its official release) occasionally rank in, if the song has a music video that has been submitted to the station. As of December 2009, only these 13 tracks have achieved this:

As the charts are formulated from only Japanese domestic artists, it is rare for an overseas artist to rank on the charts (usually this is done when a collaboration single with a Japanese artist is released). The non-Japanese artists to rank on the CDTV charts (non-domestically) are:

Count Down TV also ranks albums and ringtone downloads, but uses the raw data from Oricon and Recochoku, respectively.

Annual Song Rank No.1

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Year Song Artist
2000 Tsunami* Southern All Stars
2001 Can You Keep a Secret? Hikaru Utada
2002 Wadatsumi Tree Chitose Hajime
2003 Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana SMAP
2004 Hitomi o Tojite Ken Hirai
2005 Youth Amigo Shūji to Akira
2006 Real Face KAT-TUN
2007 Sen no Kaze ni Natte Masafumi Akikawa
2008 Truth / Kaze no Mukō e Arashi
2009 Believe / Kumorinochi, Kaisei Arashi/Satoshi Ohno
2010 Beginner AKB48**
2011 Flying Get*
2012 Manatsu no Sounds Good!*
2013 Sayonara Crawl
2014 Labrador Retriever
2015 Bokutachi wa Tatakawanai
2016 Tsubasa wa Iranai
2017 Koi Gen Hoshino
2018 Lemon Kenshi Yonezu
2019
2020 Yoru ni Kakeru Yoasobi

* These songs also won the Grand Prix of Japan Record Award.

** AKB48 keeps the record for the most No.1 of the year (7 times).[7]

*** The bold font indicates these songs are also the No.1 in Hot 100 of the year of Billboard Japan.

Specials

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In addition to the main episodes, Count Down TV has aired various specials during its run including the year-end special New Year's Eve Premier Live.

Presenters

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Presenters Abī-kun, Kikuchi-kun and Mākī

The presenters of the show are computer-rendered animated characters. There are always three presenters: two (Abī-kun (アビー君), voiced by Hiromi Ishikawa and Kikuchi-kun (菊池君), voiced by Masami Kikuchi) have been constant, while the third changed over time. The third is generally a famous program announcer on other TBS television shows. The six third animated announcers are:

  • Fumie (フミエ) (voiced by Yumi Takada)
  • Demiko (デミコ) (voiced by Yumi Takada)
  • Mika-chan (ミカちゃん) (voiced by Mika Horii)
  • Iku-chan (イクちゃん) (voiced by Ikumi Kimura)
  • Chī-chan (チーちゃん) (voiced by Chisato Kaiho)
  • Mākī (マーキー) (voiced by Maki Arai)

Theme Songs

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Since the show's inception in June 1993, two popular music songs have been used as the show's opening and ending theme songs, changing monthly. For a complete list of these songs, see the list on the Japanese Wikipedia.

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  • The TV Tokyo popular anime "Gin Tama" episode's 2009 "Start the Countdown" featured a CD Gin Tama segment, in which all of the greatest quotes from the show were listed. A guest live was even included, in the form of Hitomi Takahashi (whose song "Wo Ai Ni" was the ending theme song at the time). A Gin Tama-styled animated Takahashi even gave a brief comment before her performance. The CD Gin Tama segment was repeated again in the episode "Screw Popularity Polls."
  • The Fuji TV variety show "Mecha-Mecha Iketeru!" features a segment called ICDTV (Iketeru Count Down TV), in which two songs are picked by members, and the one voted on most is chosen to be parodied.
  • The Dame Dame Boys (ダメダメボーイズ) segment of the Fuji TV variety show "Akashiya Mansion Monogatari" (明石家マンション物語) featured a countdown of their most popular moments on the show called CDDD (Count Down Dame Dame).

References

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  1. ^ Ichiro, Fukuda (11 December 1971). "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. p. 20. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  2. ^ "「CDTV」が月曜22:00に進出、生放送の新音楽番組スタート". 音楽ナタリー (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  3. ^ "中居正広も司会！4月改編「TBS『CDTV』月22時進出」も激ヤバ懸念!! | 概要 | 日刊大衆 | イケメン | ニュース". 日刊大衆 (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  4. ^ "『CDTVサタデー』放送終了 深夜の『CDTV』、28年間の歴史に幕". Real Sound｜リアルサウンド (in Japanese). 21 March 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  5. ^ "「CDTVサタデー」が3月に終了 土曜深夜の放送は28年で幕 「ライブ！ライブ！」は月曜9時枠へ移行 - スポニチ Sponichi Annex 芸能". スポニチ Sponichi Annex (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  6. ^ CDTV Official Twitter (20 March 2021). "Thank You Very Much!". Twitter (in Japanese). Retrieved 28 August 2021. {{cite web}}: |author1= has generic name (help)
  7. ^ "CDTV 2017年 年間総合ランキング - JPOP無料視聴PV". cd100.net. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
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