Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ
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| Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Variety show |
| Presented by | Hitoshi Matsumoto Masatoshi Hamada |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 745 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 54 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Fuji Television |
| Release | October 17, 1994 – December 17, 2012 |
Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ was a Japanese music variety show on
Many famous singers such as
On September 18, 2012, Fuji TV announced that "Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ" would end its run after eighteen years. The series finale aired on December 17, 2012.
Segments
Music mixture
In this quiz game segment, four or five teams of one or more individuals try to guess songs as they are played four at a time. (As each song is correctly guessed, they are eliminated from the mixture.) Each song has a descending point value, from 40 for the first song guessed to 10 for the last.
The game is played in four rounds, with the final round determining the winner in one of two ways through a random draw. The "NG" variation has one of the four songs in the final rounds taking away 100 points from the individual/team who guessed it. The "Lucky" variation is exactly the reverse: one of the final round songs gives 100 points to the individual/team who guessed it.
Telephone box
In this interview segment, guests are interviewed over a telephone in an English-style phone box.
Rainichi-In
This interview segment focuses on non-Japanese artists that have a loyal following in Japan, such as Ne-Yo and Britney Spears.
Hoshi no resutoran (The Star restaurant)
This segment is a combination interview/cooking show: a chef from a restaurant selected by the guest(s) as his/her/their favorite restaurant cooks for that guest and Downtown.
One notable example of this is when
Other competitions
Miscellaneous competition segments have also occurred over the show's run, many of which started rivalries between Downtown and guests. One such example is a 1999
See also
References
- ^ "Iron Chef Collection » Beyond Kitchen Stadium » Beyond Kitchen Stadium - Sakai TV 2". Filehouse.ironcheffans.info. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
- ^ "Iron Chef Collection » Beyond Kitchen Stadium » Beyond Kitchen Stadium - Iron Chef on Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ". Filehouse.ironcheffans.info. 1999-12-27. Retrieved 2012-03-24.
External links
- Official website (in Japanese)