(I'm NOT going to act out seriously here - I know I expected this and I don't want another argument between them, AKB48 and miwa...)

Quite good first day sales here. I do feel that Arashi's peak are behind us today...

what's this peak you're talking about ? ~_~ :rolleyes

compare their sales some 5-6 years years ago which were downright crap , they're already doing very well at this day & age . Don't you know just how difficult it was for them to sell 200K + in the 1st week for their older singles ?

& now they're able to do it within a day & not a week , isn't it saying something ?

word :rolleyes

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Some Lotus shop photos 8D

http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/...70747d826g.jpg

http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/...e2231a806g.jpg

http://www.mediafire.com/imgbnc.php/...790034266g.jpg

The rest can be viewed here

Well, I could say they're somewhere around 95-99% of last year's peak...

slightly lower than hatenai sora, but still amazing & high! :P yay arashi! i didn't expect any less, lol.

ok the B-sides from Lotus have grown on me quite a fair bit :p but if you compare against the ones that're found in Hatenai Sora , they're still considerably weaker

still , the songs are quite listener friendly at the end of the day

haha i'm glad the b-sides have grown on you, karen! :P

btw, those Lotus shop photos are adorable! :smitten arashi in white suits are love! arashi in any type of suit is just love for me, lol. :P

【嵐】　　　Lotus(2　　HS(2　　snow(2　rainbow(2　free(1　Monst er（2　Troubl（2
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
火 　　　　　241,173　248,828　228,415　232,679　179,779　232,0 45　232,893
水 　　　　　126,046　143,649　117,694　121,773　108,021　131,2 99　144,343
木 　　　　　***,***　*62,418　*54,381　*59,256　*47,663　*59,8 54　*60,356
金 　　　　　***,***　*38,157　*34,295　*37,057　*32,598　*38,1 75　*39,274
土 　　　　　***,***　*31,527　*24,596　*31,495　*25,478　*32,0 11　*31,967
日 　　　　　***,***　*23,115　*22,789　*28,630　*23,376　*27,2 46　*22,348
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
推定売上　367,219　547,694　482,170　510,890　416,915　520,630　531 ,181
週間枚数　***,***　572,050　500,730　528,844　425,978　543,2 69　542,334
週間−推　***,***　*24,356　*18,560　*17,954　**9,063　*22,6 39　*11,153

& I received Eye Ai today !

http://img541.imageshack.us/img541/9945/img3677k.jpg

it's the same person that mailed your copy of Eye Ai & she has 2 spare copies so she was so kind to mail it to me :D

I told her that I'm fine with soft copy scans but see , ARASHI fans are nice , like really nice xD

your copy looks amazing, karen!! :heart enjoy it!

good sales for today, too!

Lotus has grown on me so much! I originally only listened to hear to hear Nino and Ohno's "ah ah ah ah~"s lol
man, Arashi is so crazy successful now! Lately, I am totes smitten by Nino lol

it will cross 400K by today which's a good thing & of course they will performing at MUSIC STATION in about 12 hours later or so

since TV asahi/youtube has been blocking MS performances since the beginning of this year, i really hope someone will upload arashi's performance on youtube! i need to see it! :weep even if it's mirrored, i don't care! lol. i'm so desperate. :laugh

I know TV Asahi has a YouTube account, and eventually those blocked MS performances get deleted from the server, then the uploaders get suspended...

Wahhhh~~, I can't wait for their "Music Station" performance today. I watched the "Lotus" PV again yesterday and I'm still not tired of it (:D), so I'm really looking forward to see them performing the song "live".
I can't wait to see them dancing!! :luv2

@Beauty4123: There are always a lot of people, who upload Arashi's performances and share them at lj. If you want, I can post a link later. Or do you have problems with downloading stuff (because I think I remember you saying once, that you can't download things!).

Arashi's "Music Station" performance has been posted on "YouTube".



I haven't watched it yet, because I want to download it in good quality, but the outfits look quite interesting - seems like suddenly they all turned into Bartenders (ahhh, I want to visit this bar!!! :D)!!

【嵐】　　　　Lotus(2　　HS(2　 snow(2　rainbow(2　free(1　Monster（2　Troubl（2
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
火 　　　　　241,173　248,828　228,415　232,679　179,779　232,0 45　232,893
水 　　　　　126,046　143,649　117,694　121,773　108,021　131,2 99　144,343
木 　　　　　*55,687　*62,418　*54,381　*59,256　*47,663　*59,8 54　*60,356
金 　　　　　***,***　*38,157　*34,295　*37,057　*32,598　*38,1 75　*39,274
土 　　　　　***,***　*31,527　*24,596　*31,495　*25,478　*32,0 11　*31,967
日 　　　　　***,***　*23,115　*22,789　*28,630　*23,376　*27,2 46　*22,348
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
推定売上　422,906　547,694　482,170　510,890　416,915　520,630　531 ,181
週間枚数　***,***　572,050　500,730　528,844　425,978　543,2 69　542,334
週間−推　***,***　*24,356　*18,560　*17,954　**9,063　*22,6 39　*11,153

And the talk:




And people, who already watched the performance said that they were singing live! :heart

Bad news: Not only I do not like terahata on jpopsuki (because profile hidden and no freeleech there), the YouTube videos are BLOCKED (subject to removal). Nice try.

I sure hope this YouTube performance of Lotus will be still on the net for a while :O



oh my god those outfits LMAO , it's so Bartender inspired , what can I say ? :p

OMFG thank you for that YT link, karen! i can't believe it hasn't been deleted yet! :weep

off to watch now. :D and yay! they passed 400k! :yatta

edit: LOL! i feel bad for laughing just a tiny bit when the performance began. those outfits! :roflmao arashi look so cute in them, haha! i wish they had a better stage setting, though. but they danced well! and it was a just a great performance over all. nino's new hairstyle is looking good, btw! :lech :laugh

sorry to double post, but i just saw your post, Midori-chan. :) i appreciate the help, but yup, unfortunately i'm not downloading anything at the moment. my computer doesn't have much space anyway, lol. so really, the easiest way for me to stream something would be having it uploaded on youtube. thank you so much for offering to help, though! :shughug i was in class during the time you made that post, so i apologize for not answering. stupid college! :grumpy :laugh

anyway, i just found yesterday's VIP room from HnA, and ViVi model hasegawa jun was the guest! and since she's fluent in english, arashi spoke some english with her! PRICELESS! :roflmao it starts at 2:53.


sho's english & jun's english were really good! i love when matsujun's face when he said "character'. ADORABLE! :smitten aiba's was complete FAIL, LOL. but in a good way! i love how casual he is, with the "what's up?", haha. of course, nino was totally being himself. "i'm good-looking guy" :roflmao love it! and ohno's the "fishing leader". :P arashi should speak english so much more! they speak it perfectly, in a fun/crazy way, lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoUD7Tw98CQ
the second part is also really funny! sho's little conversation with hasegawa jun is hilarious, lol. and arashi's walking. especially matsujun = :blove fierce!