"Research firm Video Research, Ltd. has official numbers for the instantaneous ratings of the 62nd NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen. The company has not publicly released the data, but newspapers have revealed a portion of it in news reports today. For the second year in a row, SMAP had the highest ratings out of any of the artist performances, at 48.2%.
"This is SMAP’s 19th appearance at Kouhaku, and they have been the highest-rated performer 7 times. Four of those were when SMAP served as the ootori (the final performer), including the past two years." - Tokyograph
Some people think that the final performer is expected to get the highest ratings. Not exactly. I will copy an explanation from a fan called noonew from LJ who cites a fact that, "...since 1998, there were only 5 times that the last performers received the highest ratings. And 4 times out of those 5 were when SMAP was the last performer."
SMAP rules!
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