Broadcasting live weekly on TV Asahi since October 24, 1986, it currently airs from 9PM-10PM on Fridays.

The program has been aired internationally on Animax's networks in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other regions from March 2007.

After TV Asahi restructured its prime time slot, Music Station has been broadcast from 21:00–21:54 JST since October 18, 2019.

Music Station has been hosted by famed Japanese TV-comedian Tamori since April 3, 1987.

In 2021, he was certified as holding the Guinness World Record for "Longest running live TV music show hosted by the same presenter".

Young Guns is a segment on Music Station that has been done sporadically since it began on February 18, 2005.

The segment normally involves a VTR (video presentation) before giving a small interview and performing their first song.

Many of the highest selling artists would perform on Music Station if their single happened to break a certain personal or nationwide record.

Since July 2005, this segment has gone on hiatus due to lack of questions submitted, and thus there are now only regular talks with the week's performers.

(ミニステ, Mini Sute) for short, was broadcast weekly from October 18, 2002, to September 13, 2019, from 19:54–20:00 JST.

Music Station Super Live is held late December normally occurring just before or just after Christmas, as a Christmas/year-end celebration concert.

The 2006 edition of Super Live was also later aired worldwide by Animax across its network in Southeast Asia, premiering on February 17, 2007.

In 2019, in honor of the network's 60th anniversary, the Music Station Ultra Fes (a special version of the show that aired regularly around fall), and the Super Live was combined to make Music Station Ultra Super Live, a show that ran for over 11 hours (12:00 P.M. JST ~ 11:10 P.M. JST) and was attended by 49 acts.

[9] Music Station Super Live was held at Tokyo Bay NK Hall in Chiba from 1992 to 2003.