,utawi populer kaliyan cèkakan  inggih punika acara musik malem taun engal ingkang dipunproduksi NHK Jepang. Acara punika dipunlangusnungaken setahun sapisan ing malèm 31 Dhésèmber, lan dipunsiarakèn kanthi langsung ngèlampahi televisi lan radio ing Jepang, sarta jaringan internasional NHK lan televisi kabel. Acara punika kawiwitan dipunwontènakèn taun 1951, lan berlokasi ing Aula NHK, Tokyo ngantos taun 1973.
Artis musik ingkang tampil kapérang dados kalih tim dhedhasar jinis kelamin: tim merah (akagumi) lan tim putih (shirogumi). Anggota tim abrit inggih punika penyanyi wanita utawi grup musik kaliyan vokalis wanita, nanging anggota tim putih kapèrang saking penyanyi priya utawi grup musik kaliyan vokalis priya. Duo campuran priya lan wanita limrahipun dipunlèbètakèn ing salebèting tim merah, nanging penyanyi waria limrahipun dipunlebetaken ing salebeting tim putih.
Penyanyi wanita ingkang dipuntingalaken paling pungkasan déning tim merah dipunsebat tori. Sebaliknya, penyanyi priya ingkang dipuntingalaken dados bintang ing pungkasan acara dipunsebat ō-tori. Dewan juri ingkang kapérang saking selebritas lan penonton ing studio milih tim ingkang mereka angga]ep ingkang saé piyambak. Pemungutan swanten ugi saged dipundereaken pemirsa televisi digital, nglampahi telepon genggam, lan televisi 1seg. Tim ingkang menang berhak nyimpen panji-panji kemenangan ngantos taun salajengipun. Acara berakhir pukul 23.45 (ngantos taun 1962) kanggé dipun-gantos giyaran langsung pemukulan genta saking kuil-kuil Buda ngantos pergantian taun.

Media lan jam tayang

Luar nagari 
 NHK World Premium
Siaran langsung, 31 Dhésèmber (19.20-23:45 JST)
Siaran ulang, 1 Januari (07.15-11.45 JST)
 NHK World Radio Japan
Asia Tenggara, 31 Dhésèmber (19.20-23.45　11815kHz)
Daratan Asia, 31 Dhésèmber (19.20-23.45 9750kHz)

Jepang 
 NHK General TV
 NHK G (digital)
 NHK BS-2 (Satellite-2)
 NHK BS-hi (Digital Hi-Vision)
 Radio 1

Hasil

Bintang penutup 
Angka ing salebeting kirang nedahaken jumlah penampilan ing Kōhaku Uta Gassen.
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!bgcolor=#cccccc|#||bgcolor=#ffeee|Tahun||bgcolor=#ffgggggg colspan="2"|Bintang tim merah||bgcolor=#ffffffff colspan="2"|Bintang tim putih
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|1||1951||Hamako Watanabe (1)||"San Francisco no Chinatown" ||Ichiro Fujiyama (1)||"Nagasaki no Kane"
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|2||1952||Hamako Watanabe (2) ||"Hi no Tori"||Ichiro Fujiyama (2)||Olympic no Uta
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|3||1953Januari||Shizuko Kasagi（2）||"Homerun Boogie"||Katsuhiko Haida (2)||"Yakyūkozō no Uta"
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|4||nowrap|1953Dhésèmber||Noriko Awaya (1)||"Adieu"||Ichiro Fujiyama（4）||"Oka wa Hanazakari"
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|5||1954||Hamako Watanabe (4)||"Tokyo no Bara"||Noboru Kirishima (3) ||"Ishikari Elegy"
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|6||1955||Akiko Futaba (6)||"Bara no Rumba"||Ichiro Fujiyama (6) ||"Nicolai no Kane"
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|7||1956||Shizuko Kasagi (4)||"Hey Hey Boogie"||Katsuhiko Haida (4)||"Hakugin no Yamagoya de"
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|8||1957||Hibari Misora (2)||"Nagasaki no Chōchō-san"||Michiya Mihashi (2)||"Ringo Hana Saku Furusato e"
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|9||1958||Hibari Misora (3)||"Shiroi Lunch de 14 knot"||Michiya Mihashi (3)||"Akai Yūhi no Furusato"
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|10||1959||Hibari Misora (4)||"Gozonji Bentenkozō"||Hachirō Kasuga (5)||"Tokyo no Ari"
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|11||1960||Chiyoko Shimakura (4)||"Takoku no Ame"||Michiya Mihashi (5)||"Tassha de na"
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|12||1961||Chiyoko Shimakura (5)||"Erimomisaki"||Haruo Minami (4)||"Bunza Takarabune"
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|13||1962||Chiyoko Shimakura (6)||"Sayonara to Sayonara"||Michiya Mihashi (7)||"Hoshikuzu no Machi"
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|14||1963||Hibari Misora (8)||"Aishū Debune"||Haruo Minami (6)||"Sado no Koiuta"
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|15||1964||Hibari Misora (9)||"Yawara"||Haruo Minami (7)||"Tawaraboshi Genba"
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|16||1965||Hibari Misora (10)||"Yawara"||Yukio Hashi（6）||"Ano Musume to Boku (Swim, Swim, Swim)
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|17||1966||Hibari Misora (11)||"Kanashii Sake"||Haruo Minami (8)||Kinokuniya Bunzaemon"
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|18||1967||Hibari Misora (12)||"Geidō Ichidai"||Haruo Minami (9)||Akagaki Genzō
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|19||1968||Hibari Misora (13)||"Inori" ||Yukio Hashi (9)||"Akai Yūhi no Sandogasa|-
|20||1969||Hibari Misora (14)||"Wakaretemo Arigatou"||Shinichi Mori (2)||"Minatomachi Blues"
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|21||1970||Hibari Misora (15)||"Jinsei Shōgi"||Shinichi Mori (3)||"Ginza no Onna"
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|22||1971||Hibari Misora (16)||"Kana Michi o Yuku"||Shinichi Mori (4)||"Ofukuro-san"
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|23||1972||Hibari Misora (17) ||"Aru Onna no Shi"||Saburō Kitajima (109||"Fuyu no Yado"
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|24||1973||Chiyoko Shimakura (17)||"Karatachi Nikki"||Saburō Kitajima (11)||"Kaeru kana"
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|25||1974||Chiyoko Shimakura (18)||"Erimomisaki"||Shinichi Mori (7)||"Erimomisaki"
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|26||1975||Chiyoko Shimakura (19)||"Kanashimi no Yado"||Hiroshi Itsuki (5)||"Chikumagawa"
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|27||1976||Harumi Miyako (12)||"Kita no Yado kara"||Hiroshi Itsuki (6) ||"Ai no Shihatsu"
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|28||1977||Aki Yashiro (5)||"Onna Minatomachi"||Hiroshi Itsuki (7)||"Akari ga Hoshii"
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|29||1978||Momoe Yamaguchi (5)||Playback Part 2||Kenji Sawada (6)||"Love Dakishimetai"
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|30||1979||Aki Yashiro (7)||"Funa Uta"||Hiroshi Itsuki (9)||"Omae to Futari"
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|31||1980||Aki Yashiro (8)||"Ame no Bojō"||Hiroshi Itsuki (10)||"Futari no Yoake"
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|32||1981||Masako Mori (9)||"Kanashimi Honsen Nihonkai"||Saburō Kitajima (19)||"Fūsetsu Nagare Tabi"
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|33||1982||Harumi Miyako (18)||"Namida no Renrakusen"||Mori Shinichi (15)||"Kage o Shitaite"
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|34||1983||Kiyoko Suizenji (19)||"Asakusa Managatari"||Takashi Hosokawa (9)||"Yagiri no Watashi"
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|35||1984||Harumi Miyako (20)||"Meotozaka"||Mori Shinichi (17)||"Kita no Hotaru"
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|36||1985||Masako Mori (13)||"Ai Kizu Uta"||Mori Shinichi (18)||"Onna moyō"
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|37||1986||Sayuri Ishikawa (9)||"Amagigoe"||Mori Shinichi (19)||"Yūsuge no Koi"
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|38||1987||Akiko Wada (11)||"Hōyō"||Hiroshi Itsuki (17)||"Tsuioku"
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|39||1988||Sachiko Kobayashi (10)||"Yuki Tsubaki"||Saburō Kitajima (25)||"Nenrin"
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|40||1989||Sayuri Ishikawa (12)||"Kaze no Bon Koi Uta"||Saburō Kitajima (26)||"Yogisha"
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|41||1990||Harumi Miyako (22)||"Sennen no Koto"||Shinichi Mori (23)||"Ofukuro-san"
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|42||1991||Akiko Wada (15)||"Ano Kane o Narasu no wa Anata"||Shinji Tanimura (5)||"Subaru"
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|43||1992||Saori Yuki (13)||"Aka Tombo"-"Dokoka e Kaerō"||Saburō Kitajima (29)||Kaero kana
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|44||1993||Sayuri Ishikawa (16)||"Tsugaru Kaikyō-Fuyugeshiki"||Saburō Kitajima (30)||"Matsuri"
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|45||1994||Harumi Miyako (26)||"Koto Shōgū"||Itsuki Hiroshi (24)||"Kibue"
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|46||1995||Akiko Wada (19)||"Mō Ichido Futari de Utaitai"||Takashi Hosokawa (21)||"Bōkyō Jongara"
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|47||1996||Fuyumi Sakamoto (9)||"Yozakura Oshichi"||Saburō Kitajima (33)||"Fūsetsu Nagare Tabi"
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|48||1997||Namie Amuro (3)||"Can You Celebrate?"||Itsuki Hiroshi (27)||"Chikumagawa"　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
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|49||1998||Akiko Wada (22)||"Ima Anata ni Utaitai"||Hiroshi Itsuki (28)||"Sake Hitori"
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|50||1999||Akiko Wada (23)||Ano Kane o Narasu no wa Anata||Saburō Kitajima (36)||Matsuri
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|51||2000||Yoshimi Tendō (5)||"Dotombori Jinjō"||Hiroshi Itsuki (30)||Sanga
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|52||2001||Akiko Wada (25)||"Yume"||Saburō Kitajima (38)||"Yama"
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|53||2002||Sayuri Ishikawa (25)||Amagigoe||Hiroshi Itsuki (32)||"Ofukuro no Komori Uta"
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|54||2003||Yoshimi Tendō (8)||"Utsukushii Mukashi"||SMAP(12)||"Sekai ni Hitotsu dake no Hana"
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|55||2004||Sachiko Kobayashi (26)||Fuyu Tsubaki||Hiroshi Itsuki (34)||"Yuki Moete"
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|56||2005||Yoshimi Tendō (10)||"Kawa no Nagare no yōni"||SMAP (13)||"Triangle"
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|57||2006||Miyuki Kawanaka (19)||"Futarizake"||Saburō Kitajima (43)||"Matsuri"
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|58||2007||Sayuri Ishikawa (30)||"Tsugaru Kaikyō/Fuyugeshiki"||Hiroshi Itsuki (37)||"Chigiri"
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|59||2008||Akiko Wada (32)||"Yume"||Kiyoshi Hikawa (9)||"Kiyoshi no Zundoko Bushi"
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|60||2009||Dreams Come True (13)||"Middle of Nowhere", "Sana Saki e||Saburō Kitajima (46)||Matsuri
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|61||2010||Dreams Come True (14)||"Ikiteyukunodesu"||SMAP (18)||"This is love", "Triangle"
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|62||2011||Sayuri Ishikawa (34)||"Tsugaru Kaikyō/Fuyugeshiki"||SMAP (19)||"SMAP AID Kōhaku SP|}

 Cathetan suku 

 NHK weekly stellar rinji zōkan "Kōhaku 50-kai-eikō to kandō no zenkiroku-". NHK Service Center, 2000.
 Gōda Michito. Kaibutsu bangumi kōhaku uta gassen no shinjitsu''. Tokyo: Gentosha, 2004. ISBN 4-344-00702-6

Pranala njaba 
  Situs resmi acara NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen
  Situs data Kōhaku Uta Gassen (rating pemirsa dan sebagainya)
  Sejarah Kōhaku Uta Gassen
  Data rating pemirsa NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen  di situs Video Research Ltd (semua rating sejak penyelenggaraan kaping 13 taun 1962)

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