The artists who will be performing on the '72nd NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen' have been announced.

This year, there will be a total of 44 artists with 22 on the red team, 21 on the white team, and one artist for the special corner. First time performers include Awesome City Club, Kamishiraishi Mone, BiSH, and millennium parade×Belle (Nakamura Kaho) on the red team, and KAT-TUN, Snow Man, DISH//, Hirai Dai, Hotei Tomoyasu, and Mafumafu on the white team.

This year’s program will broadcast live with an audience from Tokyo International Forum Hall A. It will be hosted by Oizumi Yo, Kawaguchi Haruna, and NHK announcer Wakuda Mayuko.

The 'Kohaku Uta Gassen' will air on December 31 from 7:30 pm. Check out the full list of artists below!

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Red Team

AI (4)

Aimyon (3)
Ishikawa Sayuri (44)

Awesome City Club (First)

Kamishiraishi Mone (First)
Sakamoto Fuyumi (33)
Sakurazaka46 (2)
Tendo Yoshimi (26)
Tokyo Jihen (2)
NiziU (2)
Nogizaka46 (7)
Perfume (14)

BiSH (First)
Hinatazaka46 (3)
Matsuda Seiko (25)
MISIA (6)
Mizumori Kaori (19)
milet (2)

millennium parade×Belle (Nakamura Kaho) (First)

Yakushimaru Hiroko (2)

YOASOBI (2)
LiSA (3)

White Team

KAT-TUN (First)
Kanjani8 (10)
King & Prince (4)
Go Hiromi (34)
GENERATIONS from EXILE TRIBE (3)
Junretsu (4)

Suzuki Masayuki (4)
SixTONES (2)
Snow Man (First)

DISH// (First)

BUMP OF CHICKEN (2)
Hikawa Kiyoshi (22)

Hirai Dai (First)
Fukuyama Masaharu (14)
Hoshino Gen (7)

Hotei Tomoyasu (First)

Mafumafu (First)
Miyama Hiroshi (7)

Miyamoto Hiroji (2)
Yamauchi Keisuke (7)
Yuzu (12)

Special Corner

Matsudaira Ken - “Matsu Ken Samba II”