[2] When Oricon Style published the results of the national survey of "Music programs that I would like to see revived" in May 2010, The Best Ten achieved first place.

[4] The surveyors answered the reason behind revival for "excitement of the weekly new charts, its original ranking system, entertaining presenters and memorable outdoor performances".

[6][5] According to the article published on news website Sponichi in 2020, one of the reasons for the re-broadcast decision was for the younger generation having interest in kayōkyoku music, referring to the Japanese phenomenon "Shōwa Kayo Boom" (昭和歌謡ブーム).

[7] "The Best Ten Theme" was performed during the 62nd Japan Record Awards to commemorate and show respect for the original composer of the song, Katsuhisa Hattori, who died earlier that year.

Many Japanese musical acts made their television performance debut on The Best Ten, but the show has also hosted many artists from all around the world.

In 2016, in magazine "Pen", the producer and the director of the program Shuji Yamada revealed, that board construction and idea comes from airport's tables of departures and arrival.

[1] The guests always came through the shiny wall panel, to greet with presenters and have a one-two minute short interview about song or recent events before the stage performance.

[9] Inspired by the Yoru no Hit studio, for the solo artist, they were always accompanied by TBS television's orchestral band, who played on live, prior up until 1985, when the necessarity of the live band to perform for the artist has been reduced and as result replaced by karaoke background sound.

[9] Sometimes before the start of artist's performance, the presenters read very quickly one of them randomly chosen postcard letter within the time span during intro.

Prior from the 2009 until present, a numerous of special CDs, DVD-box sets were released by the high demand of the artist fans.

[14][15][16][17] The discs include full footage of the performances, however in some occasions before-performance talks were completely cut off and not showed at all.