Tokio Hot 100

Tokio Hot 100 (トキオ・ホット・ワンハンドレッド, Tokio Hotto Wanhandoredo), also known as McDonald's Tokio Hot 100, is the official music chart program of J-Wave and also the flagship program of the Japan FM League's Hot 100 music chart series.

Tokio Hot 100
GenreMusic chart show, talk
Running timeApprox. 4 hrs. (including commercials)
Country of origin Japan
Home stationJ-Wave
Hosted byChris Peppler (main navigator, since 2006)
Maki Kotsugi (info navigator)
Created byJ-Wave
Original releaseOctober 2, 1988 (1988-10-02) – present
Websitehttp://www.j-wave.co.jp/original/tokiohot100/

History
  • October 2, 1988 (1988-10-02) - premiered as Pioneer Tokio Hot 100
  • October 7, 1989 (1989-10-07) - Prince's Batdance ruled for 10 weeks, one of the two songs to do so. (The other was Viva la Vida by Coldplay, which achieved it in 2008.)
  • 2005 (2005) - Def Tech's My Way became the first J-pop song of the year in the program.
  • April 5, 2009 (2009-04-05) - Nippon McDonald's became the official sponsor of the program.
  • August 29, 2014 (2014-08-29) - tokyo Olympic became the official sponsor of the program.

Segments
  • Last Week's Top 10, 13:00
  • Shukan Chrispaper - latest news in the country and entertainment, 13:30
  • Traffic Information, 14:02
  • Welcome to Tokio Hot 100
  • Flashback Star, 14:40
  • Headline News, 14:56
  • Mochikomi Recommen - song recommendations from a J-pop artist, 15:20
  • Mix Countdown, 15:40
  • Flashback Star, part 2, 15:50
  • Traffic Information, part 2, 16:00
  • This Week's Top 10 - the 10 most popular songs of the week, 16:04

TV Version

MTV Japan is the official TV partner of J-Wave for the program.[1]

Songs of the Year

Tokio Hot 100 Awards

This was started up in 1995 as a reward for most outstanding songs under the name J-Wave Awards, and individual performers since 1997.

(Note: Tokio Hot 100 Awards was cancelled in 2011 due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. A charity concert entitled TOKIO HOT 100 LIVE ～Heart to Heart～ was organized instead.)

1995

1996
  • Meja - "How Crazy Are You?"

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

References
  1. MTV×J-WAVE Tokio Hot 100
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