i'm satisfied with that list! SMAP sold quite alot, though! :P

Scans - Oct issue of MORE

http://saobang2211.livejournal.com/207380.html

NEOBK-844427
Wanibooks / Kazunari Ninomiya/+act.2010 November Issue [Front Cover & Feature] Kazunari Ninomiya BOOK
933 yen US$11/85.34 Release Date:2010/09/27
Description:Cover & Feature: Kazunari Ninomiya
URL - http://cdjapan.jp/d.html?KEY=NEOBK-844427

freeter, ie wo kau 15 sec. teaser :D
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjA0NTE4MTMy.html

WEEKLY
Single
*1　56,622　V6 dreaming 1st week
*5　23,822　関ジャニ LIFE (total: 280,067)
26　*3,556　SMAP This is Love ´total: 342,191)
50　*1,686　嵐 To Be Free (total: 508,487)
56　*1,412　TOKIO NaNaNa (Total: 36,735)
59　*1,368　山下 One in A Million (total: 200,400)
69　*1,070　関ジャニ Wonderful W (Total: 270,575)
76　**,910　怪物くん (total: 192,734)
89　**,711　嵐 Monster (total: 692,230)
91　**,690　ROAD TO PLAYZONE (11,939)

Album
*2　140,040　光一 BPM 1st week
*4　*18,448　嵐 BNMF (total: 955,354)
27　**3,195　嵐 All The BEST (total: 1,743,939)
24　**2,961　SMAP We Are Smap (total: 261,864)

2010/09/13付　Music DVD Weekly 30位
*3　*4　**4,846　745,265　*22　嵐 「ARASHI Anniversary Tour 5×10」 (10/4/7)
*5　14　**2,413　796,972　*45　嵐 「5×10 All the BEST! CLIPS 1999-2009」 (09/10/28)
*8　13　**1,653　115,415　**4　KinKi Kids 「KinKi Kids concert tour J」 (10/8/11)
11　19　**1,500　499,214　*76　嵐 「ARASHI AROUND ASIA 2008 in TOKYO」 (09/3/25)
13　21　***,992　331,973　125　嵐 「SUMMER TOUR 2007 FINAL Time－コトバノチカラ－」 (08/4/16)
19　28　***,722　165,527　161　嵐 「2004 嵐! いざッ、Now Tour!!」 (05/1/1)
26　--　***,658　119,454　129　嵐 「How's it going? SUMMER CONCERT 2003」 (03/12/17)

===

Sakurai Sho and Horikita Maki dating!?

This past January Sakurai Sho and Horikita Maki played as rivals in the TBS drama 'Tokujo Kabachi!!'. It seems that their relationship has gone beyond than just being co-stars in a drama.

According to a restaurant manager in Shinjuku, "I don't have the slightest idea why, but somehow Sakurai-kun and Maki-chan have been appearing frequently at a gay bar, and it's also curious that Endo Kenichi is also with them. It's just a combination that's unheard of. With bodies touching, Sakurai-kun and Maki-chan seemed like a pair of lovers. Looking over them from a distant was Kenichi-san, it's like he was their guardian."

Sakurai and Horikita are around the same age, enthusiastic about their jobs and also serious, perhaps these factors make them understand each other well. While filming for Tokujo Kabachi!!, Horikita said "Keeping in mind that we're rivals at loggerheads, I always try to hate him even when there's no filming." Sakurai countered this, replying, "That doesn't happen at all, the smiles actually never stop!"

Of course, Johnny's are fussy about relationships. Sakurai might be using a third person to avoid media scrutiny. Up till now, he hasn't been involved in any big scandals with the ladies. He must be really good at being discreet.

With Arashi's popularity now going beyond SMAP's, it's natural that Sakurai would be careful regarding his relations with women. Being with both an intimate friend and a drinking mate at the same time seems like a sensible method for crisis management. If this relationship turns into love, perhaps Endo will be known as the Cupid with a gentle heart.

http://unleashthegeek.blogspot.com/2...ki-dating.html

http://www.cyzowoman.com/2010/09/post_2330.html

I know about this rumour surrounding brother in law for quite a while so :innocent

Go go BNMF get the magical million!!!

I hope they can get the million sometime this month, or not, maybe next month! But Sakurai?! Eeeh!!!

Freeter, Ie wo Kau cast

Take Seiji : Ninomiya Kazunari
Chiba Manami: Karina (yay Katrina <3)
Take Sumiko (Seiji's mom) : Asano Atsuko
Take Seiichi (Seiji's dad): Naoto Takenaka
Ayako: Igawa Haruka
Toyokawa Teppei: Maruyama Ryuhei (Kanjani∞)
Tejima Shinji: Inoue Masahiro
Hoshino Akari: Okamoto Rei
西本和彦 (not sure about the correct reading): Wataru Yokoo (KisMyFt2)
島田彰子: Hyunri
Ooetsu Sadao : Ootomo Kouhei
永田則子: Washio Machiko
Yamaga Ryosuke: Hidekazu Mashima
北山雅彦: Kojima Kazuya
Okano Tadashi: Tanaka Soutarou
塚本学: Yamamoto Ryuji
真田勝也: Shima Daisuke
西本幸子: Sakaguchi Ryoko

Løve Rainbow's so far early mid day sales -> 50,753

1st day no.s for Løve Rainbow might be a bit higher if not lower than what Monster attained on the 1st day (not counting To be free in as it was only released in a CD + DVD edition)

^Thanks for the cast list. At least there is no one I actually despise in this drama. *cough*ryuuseinokizuna*cough* Hey, this might be the first Nino drama I'm going to wholeheartedly enjoy. *_* Even though I love Nino, think he is a great actor and all this, every drama of his so far, I didn't like for some reason.

They also just had to add another 2 Johnnys there. :rolleyes

Løve Rainbow's 1st day sales - 232,679　

Higher than Monster but slightly lower than Troublemaker's 1st day sales of 232,893

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/d/

No signs of them slowing down yet. They recovered from Everything's slump and it's the same now with To be Free (even though the latter was a lot more popular than the former XD). GO ARASHI!

first day sales for the last 4 singles inclusive of Løve Rainbow

火　53,949（4.32）　232,893　嵐 (Troublemaker)
火　51,992（4.46）　232,045　嵐 (Monster)
火　40,639（4.42）　179,779　嵐（To be free）
火　50,753（4.58）　232,679　嵐（Løve Rainbow）

I didn't want to drag To be free in because it was only released in a CD + DVD edition but scratch that xD

Why are they breaking open again?! They're really too popular - and too hot - to handle!

【嵐】　　　LoveR(2　TBF(1　Monster（2 Troub（2　MG (2　Every(2　Ashita(3
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
月 　　　　　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---
火 　　　　　232,679　179,779　232,045　232,893　177,725　135,053　230 ,022
水 　　　　　***,***　108,021　131,299　144,343　*99,226　*86,4 62　130,905
木 　　　　　***,***　*47,663　*59,854　*60,356　*61,235　*42,5 75　*45,413
金 　　　　　***,***　*32,598　*38,175　*39,274　*29,133　*21,9 48　*24,544
土 　　　　　***,***　*25,478　*32,011　*31,967　*26,279　*22,7 50　*30,694
日 　　　　　***,***　*23,376　*27,246　*22,348　*25,815　*21,1 81　*27,203
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
推定売上　 232,679　416,915　520,630　531,181　419,413　329,969　48 8,781
週間枚数　 ***,***　425,978　543,269　542,334　431,685　342,070　50 2,487
週間－推　 ***,***　**9,063　*22,639　*11,153　*12,272　*12,101　*1 3,706

ahh, awesome sales! :D

i'm surprised a johnny junior is with nino and maru, too. although i think Kiss-My-Ft2 has debuted already, so maybe i'm wrong :dead2 still, we have a total of 3 jonnys then! :laugh

oh, and about the sho and maki thing, i don't mind if their actually dating (although i doubt it) :P they went to a gay bar, though, LOL. that's the funniest part of this rumor :mini

Kis My Ft 2 are SO long overdue to debut as a group & that goes for other awesome ones like ABCZ , Question ? , FiVe & many others ;__;

I'm very sure you will get Boku no Miteiru Fukei later on today at your end , Lisa , I really hope so as it's about damn time you get & feel the physical copy sooner or later LOL

oh yeah before I forget , here's the tracking no. for your parcel , like finally ~_~

RA510332859TW

track it @ www.usps.com to check the status of your parcel

At least it's somewhere in US currently xD

That Sakurai rumour is really stale , I wonder why they brought it up again , it's so boring ~_~

thanks for that, karen! :D thank god it's not in some other country, LOL.

we don't really get to hear about much sho rumors, so by reading this current rumor, it's just funny to me :P

Scans - Oct's Popolo with the guys on the cover

http://saobang2211.livejournal.com/209426.html

~_~ , do they have to put the ugly tag on MatsuJun's face xD

http://a.imageshack.us/img835/9350/004yy.jpg

Brother in law still looks good he hasn't lost to EXILE's TAKAHIRO yet lmao

http://a.imageshack.us/img829/8586/006kv.jpg

(◕ܫ◕)

ugh watermarks really make me mad sometimes! ESPECIALLY when they're on matsujun's face :eviltongu his hair looks pretty light, though. hopefully it's just the mag scan and his hair is still black at the moment :P

sho's lookin' mighty fine, though :lech

LOL you always can get someone to remove the ugly text if it really bothers you that much you know , Lisa xD

but yeah I find it a bit o_O they chose to put it over MatsuJun's face , I actually find it hilarious LOL

I guess when my younger sister will see that Sakurai pic in due time , she wouldn't be ranking EXILE's TAKAHIRO higher than Sakurai anytime soon :innocent

i could if i wanted to use the scan, lol. thankfully i got other (and better) pics of matsujun to...keep me busy :innocent LOL! so it's alright!

i just found a CM for Love Rainbow:

i love how that guy in the dwango.jp CM says Arashi :mini

i still haven't received my album...:weep but onto happier news...

nanao253 @ LJ has emailed a european magazine, Neotokyo, about getting arashi to europe. here's their response:

http://community.livejournal.com/arashi_on/3265279.html

i'm happy they show interest in getting arashi to europe, but...i don't live in europe, lol. i'd ultimately prefer arashi to come to north america one day. :yes but i'm glad this mag took the time to reply to the suggestion and who knows what could happen one day.

Arashi ranked 1st in "fav artist 2010" survey

嵐、好きなアーティストランキングで１位
人気グループの嵐が、８日に発表された、音楽ファン２万人が選んだ「好きなアーティストランキング２０１０ 」で初の１位に輝いた。
　エンターテインメント誌「オリ★スタ」が０４年から毎年行っているもので、嵐は昨年、初めてトップ１０に ランクイン（４位）。今回、晴れて頂点へと上りつめた。

　調査は同誌の読者及びオリコン・モニター・リサーチ会員計２万人（１０代～４０代の男女各２５００人）へ のアンケート結果を集計。嵐は、総合１位のほか、性別、世代別など１４部門のうち７部門で１位を獲得、幅広 い層から支持を得ていることを証明した。

　寄せられた回答の多くが、「歌、ダンス、トークすべて完璧なバランス力」「５人の仲の良さ」「５人５様の 個性的なキャラ」を理由に挙げていた。

　 嵐は昨年、ＣＤ＆ミュージックＤＶＤ総売上金額が最も高かったアーティストトータルセールスを初めて受賞。 今年発売したシングル「Ｍｏｎｓｔｅｒ」では、 デビュー曲から３０作連続トップ３入りと史上初の快挙を達成した。また、８月１６日付アルバム週間ランキン グで初登場１位となった「僕の見ている風景」で は初動売り上げ７３・１万枚で、第１週にして２０１０年年間トップに躍り出るなど快進撃を続けている。なお 、ベスト１０は別表の通り。

Brief summary::

Popular group Arashi has been chosen as favorite artist 2010 in a survey done by 20,000 music fans.

Just last year was the first time since Ori star do this survey that Arashi was ranked within top 10 (at 4th position)

The survey was carried out in the magazine Ori star and also people w/ membership in Oricon monitor research (2500 women and men between 10~40 years old).

Arashi was ranked 1st in 7 out of 14 categories (gender, generation, ...), that proves the great support they have.

Some of the replies given were "Singing, dancing, talk, there is a perfect balance" "Their relationship is good" ...

Then it talks about the oricon yearly ranking for last year and also about this year.

Ps: there will be news about this in ZoomIn and Sukkiri

translated by matsubunny@LJ

aww, congrats to them!! :yatta

2nd day sales for Løve Rainbow

*1　121,773　嵐

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/d/

it should crack the 400K mark by tomorrow & I should note that they will be on MUSIC STATION tomorrow as well

【嵐】　　　LoveR (2　free(1　Monster（2 Troubl（2　MG (2　Everyt(2　Ashita(3
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
月 　　　　　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---
火 　　　　　232,679　179,779　232,045　232,893　177,725　135,0 53　230,022
水 　　　　　121,773　108,021　131,299　144,343　*99,226　*86,4 62　130,905
木 　　　　　***,***　*47,663　*59,854　*60,356　*61,235　*42,5 75　*45,413
金 　　　　　***,***　*32,598　*38,175　*39,274　*29,133　*21,9 48　*24,544
土 　　　　　***,***　*25,478　*32,011　*31,967　*26,279　*22,7 50　*30,694
日 　　　　　***,***　*23,376　*27,246　*22,348　*25,815　*21,1 81　*27,203
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
推定売上　354,452　416,915　520,630　531,181　419,413　329,969　488 ,781
週間枚数　***,***　425,978　543,269　542,334　431,685　342,0 70　502,487
週間−推　***,***　**9,063　*22,639　*11,153　*12,272　*12,1 01　*13,706

craaazy sales! :tipsy i'm so happy for arashi!

by the time Lisa comes back with Boku no Miteiru Fukei , she'll be able to see these lovely scans of MatsuJun 8D

Taken from Oct's GYAO as part of Natsu Niji promo

http://tegoshi-tei.livejournal.com/14576.html

:luv2 at those scans.
but :curse at NOT being able to get the album. read my twitter, karen, cause i've lost my energy, lol.

don't worry Lisa , you will FINALLY get Boku no Miteiru Fukei later at your end :yes

Løve Rainbow's 3rd day sales - 59,256

【嵐】　　　LoveR (2　free(1　Monster（2　Troubl（2 MG (2　Everyt(2　Ashita(3
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
月 　　　　　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---
火 　　　　　232,679　179,779　232,045　232,893　177,725　135,0 53　230,022
水 　　　　　121,773　108,021　131,299　144,343　*99,226　*86,4 62　130,905
木 　　　　　*59,256　*47,663　*59,854　*60,356　*61,235　*42,5 75　*45,413
金 　　　　　***,***　*32,598　*38,175　*39,274　*29,133　*21,9 48　*24,544
土 　　　　　***,***　*25,478　*32,011　*31,967　*26,279　*22,7 50　*30,694
日 　　　　　***,***　*23,376　*27,246　*22,348　*25,815　*21,1 81　*27,203
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
推定売上　413,708　416,915　520,630　531,181　419,413　329,969　488 ,781
週間枚数　***,***　425,978　543,269　542,334　431,685　342,0 70　502,487
週間−推　***,***　**9,063　*22,639　*11,153　*12,272　*12,1 01　*13,706

From 2ch

they will be on MUSIC STATION in a few hours's time performing Løve Rainbow

I hope the Music Station performance boosts it a lot!!!

Boku no Miteiru Fukei has become the year's 1st album to get certified Million by RIAJ for shipment of a million copies in Japan

http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/gold/201008.html

I'm quite sure it will cross the physical million mark reflected on Oricon's website in due time , they're just about 45K copies or so away from the target mark

Other than Arashi acting all embarassed (hiding their eyes, so cute...) when A*RA*SHI was playing, it was a pretty boring MS episode....;_;

dear Aiba , what were you wearing during the mini MUSIC STATION suite ?! ~_~

LQ streaming of Løve Rainbow performance @ MUSIC STATION

LOL i actually thought aiba's outfit was okay! but his pants are too baggy, i think. :tipsy but anyway, the performance was SO LOVELY! :heart i love the dancing & those "orchestra" moves jun was making. you know when the leader of an orchestra moves their arms to make the people play? to me that's what jun was doing :laugh he looked so gorgeous, UGH. his smiles always gets me :P everyone else looked great, too, of course. but sho's outfit wasn't really the best :( i think aiba's was better than his, lol.

and last but not least.......I FINALLY HAVE BOKU NO MITEIRU FUUKEI IN MY HANDS!! :weep after going through 3 weeks of hell and making a complete fool of myself at the post office, the mailman gave me the package!! i signed for it and everything. but when i told him my whole "i didn't bring my ID" story, he was just laughing at me, LOL. :roflmao i fail, i really do fail. but thank god i got the album. i'm gonna put it on repeat all afternoon! sorry neighbors :mischief

Aiba was asked some questions by the staff of Oshareism regarding KinKi Kids's Domoto Koichi

Question: What would you like Koichi to stop doing?
Aiba, "I wish he would stop sending me nonsensical texts with poo and penis as the content."


http://community.livejournal.com/arashi_on/3272419.html

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :roflmao :roflmao :roflmao

I never thought Koichi's this type of person to begin with :rofl

then again I'm not surprised *points to Bad Desire :innocent

【嵐】　　　LoveR (2　TBF(1　Monster（2　Troubl（2　MGﾞ(2　Everyt(2　Ashita( 3
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
月 　　　　　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---
火 　　　　　232,679　179,779　232,045　232,893　177,725　135,0 53　230,022
水 　　　　　121,773　108,021　131,299　144,343　*99,226　*86,4 62　130,905
木 　　　　　*59,256　*47,663　*59,854　*60,356　*61,235　*42,5 75　*45,413
金 　　　　　*37,057　*32,598　*38,175　*39,274　*29,133　*21,948　*24 ,544
土 　　　　　***,***　*25,478　*32,011　*31,967　*26,279　*22,7 50　*30,694
日 　　　　　***,***　*23,376　*27,246　*22,348　*25,815　*21,1 81　*27,203
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
推定売上　 450,765　416,915　520,630　531,181　419,413　329,969　488 ,781
週間枚数　 ***,***　425,978　543,269　542,334　431,685　342,070　50 2,487
週間−推　 ***,***　**9,063　*22,639　*11,153　*12,272　*12,101　*1 3,706

【嵐】　　　rainbow(2　Monster(2　Troubl(2　
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
月 　　　　　---,---　---,---　---,---　
火 　　　　　232,679　232,045　232,893　
水 　　　　　121,773　131,299　144,343　
木 　　　　　*59,256　*59,854　*60,356　
金 　　　　　*37,057　*38,175　*39,274
土 　　　　　***,***　***,***　***,***　
日 　　　　　***,***　***,***　***,***　
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
推定売上　 450,756　461,373　476,866 　
週間枚数　 ***,***　543,269　542,334　
週間−推　 ***,***　*22,639　*11,153　

From 2ch

:roflmao that comment aiba made is priceless! i don't know much about koichi, but that's just hilarious, lol.

and yay for today's sales! :D

:roflmao

I was shocked & stunned when I saw that lmao D:

I always have the impression that Koichi is not the sorta person that sms hentai stuff but what Aiba said about him , made me go o_O

I think Koichi's deprived of something xD , if not why he kept on 'harressing' Aiba with such text messages ~_~

Aiba is wearing outfits only he can wear! ;)


"Love Rainbow" is really growing on me. I didn't like the previews, but now I think it's a really nice song.
This shows us - once again - that you should NEVER EVER judge a song/PV because of previews! :yes

And the "making of" is soooooo sweet.
It has the cutest Juntoshi-scene EVER! :heart

Overwhelming number of fans wanting Arashi textbook

More than 100 calls a day from fans wanting a copy of Arashi textbooks have been overwhelming office staff at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, it was revealed yesterday, reports Daily Sports.

“ニッポンの嵐 (Nippon no Arashi)” is an A4 sized, 200 colour page textbook that has been distributed over all of Japan’s primary, junior, and high schools.

Inside, photos of Arashi members are splashed everywhere as they visit different locations within the country, introducing the local culture.

The book was originally planned to be released publicly, but after the group was named as tourism navigators in April, plans were changed into making it a free school textbook. On September 1, two copies of the book were donated to each of the country’s 40,000 or so schools, totaling more than 80,000 books.

Since then, the Ministry’s office staff have been flooded with calls from fans trying to get a copy of the book. Enough that the Ministry had to send a press release to media outlets outlining the book’s details.

Arashi’s Satoshi Ohno (29) had commented about what he and the group hope the book would become.

“We were thinking that if would be great if everyone could read this in their school library in the years to come, but now we have been motivated to donate the book.

“The books you read as a child in your library will stay inside of you forever. From the bottom of our hearts, we hope that many children in this generation and the next will read and enjoy this textbook,” he said.

There is no doubt that this school-library-only book will be the center of attention in many schools across the country.

http://community.livejournal.com/ara...t/1181319.html

===

it's scary but there're a LOT of fangirls out there who wants to buy the textbook :O

It's a bit dumb for JStorm to limit this release as so ~_~ . Don't they see another $ gold mine investment thingy for this ? tsk

^ YIKES!!! What's the matter with the textbook? (Nah, I live in the U.S. - why do I really need to worry about that when what I have to matter about is some Washington State history?!)

i'd rather learn from an arashi textbook than a math textbook (or any school textbook) anyday :innocent it's amazing how in demand this book is! but seeing that, i'm surprised JE wants it to be donated. won't they worry about losing money? :laugh

haha there're many ways for JStorm to make $ , you know Lisa

other than physical CD sales , there's revenue you can get from touring & let alone the concert goods being sold outside of tour stands

the prices are crazy but you still see people buying them as it's ARASHI :O

haha, i should have known! one way or the other, JStorm will get their money :shakehead i shouldn't forget that, lol.

anyway, just to update on the album: the packaging is so amazing. i'm afraid to touch it so much cause it's too pretty to mess up, LOL. the songs still aren't getting old to me despite me playing the songs, at least, over 100 plays on the computer! :tipsy

Top 40 Best Selling Japanese Acts

These are the Top 40 Japanese Artists according to MUSIC STATION. The rankings are based on sales. The previous ranking refers to the last ranking they did back in 2005.

CD総売上【2010/09/10 Mステスペシャル】

今回（前回）　売上（単位：万枚）
*1位（*1位）　7938　B'z
*2位（*2位）　5420　Mr.Children
*3位（*4位）　4901　浜崎あゆみ (Ayumi Hamasaki)　　　　
*4位（*3位）　4783　サザンオールスターズ (Southern All Stars)
*5位（*5位）　4301　DREAMS COME TRUE
*6位（*6位）　3830　松任谷由実 (Yumi Matsutoya)
*7位（*7位）　3749　GLAY
*8位（*8位）　3745　ZARD
*9位（*9位）　3572　宇多田ヒカル (Utada Hikaru)
10位（11位） 3178　SMAP
11位（10位） 3140　CHAGE&ASKA
12位（14位） 2974　安室奈美恵 (Namie Amuro)
13位（12位） 2951　松田聖子 (Matsuda Seiko)
14位（13位） 2870　globe
15位（15位） 2849　L'Arc～en～Ciel
16位（16位） 2534　中森明菜 (Nakamori Akina)
17位（18位） 2467　KinKi Kids
18位（17位） 2441　TUBE
19位（19位） 2259　大黒摩季 (Ohguro Maki)
20位（20位） 2258　Every Little Thing
21位（22位） 2178　中島みゆき (Nakajima Miyuki)
22位（21位） 2169　TRF
23位（23位） 2112　長渕剛 (Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi)
24位（24位） 2070　槙原敬之 (Noriyuki Makihara)
25位（25位） 2038　スピッツ (Spitz)
26位（27位） 2018　福山雅治 (Fukuyama Masaharu)
27位（26位） 1950　SPEED
28位（29位） 1865　米米CLUB (Koma Kome Club)
29位（--位）　1786　EXILE
30位（30位）　1777　Misia
31位（32位）　1664　モーニング娘。 (Morning Musume)
32位（31位）　1621　山口百恵 (Yamaguchi Momoe)
33位（--位）　1619　嵐 (Arashi)
34位（33位）　1611　氷室京介 (Himuro Kyosuke)
35位（34位）　1579　井上陽水 (Yosui Inoue)
36位（36位）　1576　郷ひろみ (Go Hiromi)
37位（35位）　1570　沢田研二 (Sawada Kenji)
38位（42位）　1553　倉木麻衣 (Mai Kuraki)
39位（38位）　1538　チェッカーズ (CHECKERS)
40位（39位）　1527　今井美樹 (Imai Miki)

http://community.livejournal.com/ara...t/1183452.html

I highlighted EXILE & ARASHI in bold because they're new entries x)

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Yeah I really like the packaging for Boku no Miteiru Fukei a great deal . I'm surprised at 5music's end , the 1st press edition has not been sold out yet xD

I guess avex Taiwan made quite a fair significant amount of 1st press copies , unlike for All the BEST ! where it's impossible to find the 3CDs LE edition anymore , be it whether for Japan or Taiwan press :O

it goes to show how arashi aren't completely perfect with all of japan's sales. their still getting there and i really respect them for it! :D

【嵐】　　　LoveR(2　free(1　Monster（2　Troubl（2　MG (2　Everyt(2　AnK(3
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
月 　　　　　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---
火 　　　　　232,679　179,779　232,045　232,893　177,725　135,0 53　230,022
水 　　　　　121,773　108,021　131,299　144,343　*99,226　*86,4 62　130,905
木 　　　　　*59,256　*47,663　*59,854　*60,356　*61,235　*42,5 75　*45,413
金 　　　　　*37,057　*32,598　*38,175　*39,274　*29,133　*21,9 48　*24,544
土 　　　　　*31,495　*25,478　*32,011　*31,967　*26,279　*22,750　*30 ,694
日 　　　　　***,***　*23,376　*27,246　*22,348　*25,815　*21,1 81　*27,203
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
推定売上　482,260　416,915　520,630　531,181　419,413　329,969　488 ,781
週間枚数　***,***　425,978　543,269　542,334　431,685　342,0 70　502,487
週間−推　***,***　**9,063　*22,639　*11,153　*12,272　*12,1 01　*13,706
From 2ch

Løve Rainbow is following the same path as Troublemaker (~20k less) and Monster (~10k less)

so can we have another 500k+ first week, then? :tipsy

I don't know if they could... Just looking at the sales figures above does not seem to be likely, maybe unfortunately...

Aren't we the pessimist, as always.

There's one more day of sales left AND the secret numbers added on the end of the week. I'm pretty sure they will be above 500k.

I hope so, because this is the weekend...

They're LESS THAN 18k away from 500k.

Monster and Troublemaker sold OVER 20k on the last day, and that's still EXCLUDING the extra numbers.

I don't know how there could even be as much as a doubt in your mind that they'll cross over 500k XD

【嵐】　　　Love R(2　free(1　Monster(2　Troubl（2　MG(2　Everyt(2　ANK (3
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
月 　　　　　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---
火 　　　　　232,679　179,779　232,045　232,893　177,725　135,0 53　230,022
水 　　　　　121,773　108,021　131,299　144,343　*99,226　*86,4 62　130,905
木 　　　　　*59,256　*47,663　*59,854　*60,356　*61,235　*42,5 75　*45,413
金 　　　　　*37,057　*32,598　*38,175　*39,274　*29,133　*21,9 48　*24,544
土 　　　　　*31,495　*25,478　*32,011　*31,967　*26,279　*22,7 50　*30,694
日 　　　　　*28,630　*23,376　*27,246　*22,348　*25,815　*21,181　*27 ,203
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
推定売上　510,890　416,915　520,630　531,181　419,413　329,969　488 ,781
週間枚数　***,***　425,978　543,269　542,334　431,685　342,0 70　502,487
週間−推　***,***　**9,063　*22,639　*11,153　*12,272　*12,1 01　*13,706

Now's to wait for Oricon to adjust & finalised the 1st week sales for Løve Rainbow

Ooh!!! This is going to be really interesting!!!

It's really funny. A lot of people seem to focusing on the competition from AKB48 (which, I agree, is serious) that they forgot all about Arashi's own succes. Single-wise, they've already beaten last year by a long shot!

Believe : 660k
Ashita no Kioku : 620k
Everything : 420k
My Girl : 550k

Compare that to this year :

Troublemaker : 700k
Monster : 700k
To be Free : 530k
Love Rainbow : 510~k in the first week alone.

They're still growing and growing and I'm so proud of them!

Some scans

Casa BRUTUS magazine featuring Sakurai on the cover

LOL my younger sister kept on fialing earlier on . I made her pissed over something on MSN but her anger subsided after seeing those scans of my brother in law xD

13 pages of goodness lmao

My Girl shop photos

Monster Shop Photos

For Lisa 8D :innocent

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5...monster012.jpg

(◕ܫ◕)

LOL i love when jun smiles :smitten

i knew they would pass 500k! i'm so proud of the boys! :yatta

news on oricon website about Løve Rainbow weekly sales : 529K + !

人気グループ・嵐の 32ndシングル「Løve Rainbow」（8日発売）が発売初週に52.9万枚 を売り上げ、9/20付週間シングルランキング首位に初登場した。嵐のシングル首位は、 「PIKA★★NCHI DOUBLE」（2004年2月発売）以来21作連続、通算28作目。初週売上50万枚突破は、今年発売し たシングル4作中、 「Troublemaker」（3月発売）、「Monster」（5月発売）に続き3作目とな った。

今作「Løve Rainbow」は、メンバーの松本潤が主演するフジテレビ系月9ドラマ『夏の恋は虹色に輝く』主題歌。初 回限定盤に同梱されたDVDには同曲のミュージックビデオとメイキングが収録されている。

It basically says that Løve Rainbow sold 529k in its first week, landing at the top spot and being the 21st consecutive number 1 single for Arashi (28 overall). Also the third single this year after Troublemaker and Monster to surpass 500k in the first week.

It further add on that Løve Rainbow is the theme song for Matsumoto's Natsuniji drama and that the limited edition comes with a dvd with the pv and making.

Translated by glos10@LJ

YAY! :D the sales are only 200 less than Troublemaker's first week sales, i think?

LOL you mean 2,000 copies + less than Troublemaker's 1st week sales of 531,181 , Lisa ;p

It's really unbelievable! ARASHI'S WAY TOO HOT TO HANDLE!!!

ahh yes, lol. i knew it was 2 but i didn't know if it was 200 or 2,000 :tipsy better go practice my math & stop procrastinating! :laugh

xD

there's a big difference between 200 & 2,000 copies you know haha but anyway sorry for being sadistic on this 8D

I hope you can receive your copy of Løve Rainbow from YesAsia soon & this time round , I don't think you will encounter any problems or so since it's shipped by normal airmail

haha, i fail, i know! don't rub it in, karen! :scry :roflmao

i told the mailman that if there's a package for me, he should leave it in my mailbox since it'll fit, so there definately should be no problem receiving it! :D once i get it, i'll take pics of it & the album together!

your copy of Løve Rainbow was sent out by YesAsia last Tue at my end

so I'm very sure you will get the single somewhere this week , depending on how fast if not slow YesAsia is ~_~

I find it a bit odd that on http://www.johnnys-net.jp/j/artists/...co_single.html , they haven't updated any info for Dear Snow yet o_O , seeing that it will be released on 6th Oct

But I think it will happen sooner or later

From 2ch::

★嵐がニューシングル発売！彼ら史上屈指のラブバラード完成★　

9／8にシングル『Lφve Rainbow』を発売し、今週のシングルランキングで初登場1位を獲得した嵐。

そんな彼らが早くもニューシングル『Dear Snow』を10／6にシングル発売する。

通算33枚目となる今作は、二宮和也主演映画『大奥』（10／1公開）の主題歌。哀しみと痛み 、

儚さと切なさのなかにも凛とした力強さをたたえた、嵐史上屈指のラブバラードとなっている。

初回限定盤には、同曲のビデオクリップ（メイキングフォトver）やメイキングフォトギャラリーを含んだD VDが、

通常盤には、カップリング曲『タイムカプセル』が収録される。

It says that Dear Snow will have a PV(making photo ver) and making photo gallery (wth?) which're included in the DVD contents

Then the CD only edition will have the B-side no. which's titled "Time Capsule" & is not included in the CD + DVD

making photo gallery ? o_O

but LOL @ Time Capsule as the B-side title xD

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Sales update for all of their material

Single
*1 -　528,844　嵐 「Løve Rainbow」
47 50　**1,958 510,445 嵐 「To be Free」
74 89 　*,985 693,215　嵐 「Monster」

Album
*7 *4　16,634 971,988　嵐 「BNMF」
31 27　*3,759 1,747,698　嵐 All The BEST

2010/09/20付　Music DVD Weekly 30位
*4　*3　**5,667　750,932　*23　嵐 「ARASHI Anniversary Tour 5×10」 (10/4/7)
*7　15　**2,721　799,693　*46　嵐 「5×10 All the BEST! CLIPS 1999-2009」 (09/10/28)
*9　11　**1,571　500,785　*77　嵐 「ARASHI AROUND ASIA 2008 in TOKYO」 (09/3/25)
11　13　**1,209　338,182　126　嵐 「SUMMER TOUR 2007 FINAL Time－コトバノチカラ－」 (08/4/16)
14　19　***,968　166,495　162　嵐 「2004 嵐! いざッ、Now Tour!!」 (05/1/1)
15　26　***,893　120,347　130　嵐 「How's it going? SUMMER CONCERT 2003」 (03/12/17)
18　--　***,799　289,780　150　嵐 「ARASHI AROUND ASIA + in DOME」 (07/10/17)
24　--　***,592　169,559　102　嵐 「ARASHI AROUND ASIA」 (07/5/23)

Yearly Single Ranking
*1 696,670 ***,550 嵐 Troublemaker 2010/03/03
*2 693,215 ***,985 嵐 Monster 2010/05/19
*5 528,844 528,844 嵐 Lφve Rainbow 2010/09/08
*6 510,445 **1,958 嵐 To be free 2010/07/07

i LOVE that title - Time Capsule :cool

so the PV is gonna be photo-themed..or something? :shrug

A making photo gallery is just a gallery of pictures from the making of the PV, so it will be like a slide show. I've seen other artists with things like that.
And I guess it also just has the PV and the making of? That or it will just be a montage of photos, perhaps?
I like Time Capsule, sounds nice~

yeah just like what Caroline said , haha

I don't know if their other singles had something like that . If not , this will be a 1st for ARASHI

well then, i really look forward to something different from this release! :D when should covers be out? next week would be 2 weeks before the release.

ohh, my KinKi Kids H Album has a photo gallery on the DVD, but i haven't seen it yet. i assume it's a slide show like teddbear55 said. :)

BNMF is so close to a million!!

I think soon ?

since the covers for their stuff are usually out like 3 weeks + before its release date

it's funny that Dear Snow's single details are not updated on http://www.fujitv.co.jp/b_hp/umaouji/index.html yet o_O

Someone probably forgot to do it x)

the album just needs about 20-30K to cross the magical million mark

even though it's already their 1st album to be certified million by RIAJ

When did they certified it?

Finally , Dear Snow has been updated on Johnny's Net

初回限定盤 収録楽曲

[CD]
01 Dear Snow
　作詞：IORI / ISHU
　作曲：Kohsuke Ohshima
　編曲：宮野幸子 / 吉岡たく

[DVD]
Dear Snow
ビデオ・クリップ (Video clip)
+ビデオ・クリップ（メイキング・フォトver.）(+ Video clip Photo Making ver.)
+メイキング・フォト ギャラリー (+ Making Photo Gallery)

通常盤 収録楽曲

[CD]
01 Dear Snow
　作詞：IORI / ISHU
　作曲：Kohsuke Ohshima
　編曲：宮野幸子 / 吉岡たく

02 タイムカプセル (Time Capsule)
　作詞・作曲・編曲：SIX

03 Dear Snow（オリジナル・カラオケ） (Original Karaoke)

04 タイムカプセル（オリジナル・カラオケ）(Original Karaoke)

Uhh...why do they NOT include the B-side on the CD+DVD version?!

... Does it really need to be said?

Marketing tactics, of course. Now all the stupid fangirls (this is JE talking, not me) will buy both versions. : P

you obviously have 0 knowledge in the way things are being worked out in the Johnny's fandom :rolleyes , despite proclaiming that you listen to ARASHI since late 2007 :o

like what Nackar_91 said , it boils down to marketing at the end of the day

Covers for Dear Snow :D

CD

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/9669/dsne.jpg

CD + DVD

http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/1093/dsle.jpg

nice ones as always & oh wow MatsuJun wearing purple 8D

I prefer the CD only , it's nicer I feel

i prefer CD+DVD XD
jun look so standout as he's wearing different colour shirt than the others ;)

They're nice! Not very snowy, but I guess we should be glad they've managed to avoid that cliché XD

I guess the setting for the Dear Snow PV will be something like that as what they wear on the covers is like a teaser on what to expect in due time

it has been happening since Step and Go til now

I just saw the covers on lj and I like them A LOT. I really, really love the atmosphere of them.

I can't wait to hear the song and watch the PV. The title sounds so nice and i'm sure, it will be a beautiful song!! *.*

ARASHI will perform Dear Snow @ MUSIC STATION on Oct 1st aka Children's Day for me lol

http://i970.photobucket.com/albums/a..._luca/1-33.jpg

ooo nice with Perfume and Kana!

I like the covers they are pretty!!!

Scans - Nino in the Oct issue of FINEBOYS

http://arisa-draconis.livejournal.com/75563.html

jun stands out so much in purple! :laugh they are still really nice but simple covers!

and i'm so happy to see arashi & kanjani8 on october 1st! :D

Wait... I don't see Ayu there... But at least Arashi's going to be there!

covers are nice, but i think i prefer Love Rainbow's more. but lol yeah, Jun's purple jacket stand out. :P

i think the PV will have a modern traditional feel to it. (based off the covers)

LOL yeah it's funny because this time round , Dear Snow centres on Nino's movie & not MatsuJun

so I don't know was it intentional done or not xD

Anyway , my younger sister said the Dear Snow covers have a very Ohoku feeling which I'm not surprised , given the setting of how the movie's like

Taiwan press for both editions of Love Rainbow will be out next Fri

CD - http://www.5music.com.tw/CDList-C.asp?cdno=431465679056

CD + DVD - http://www.5music.com.tw/CDList-C.asp?cdno=431465679055

I hope you will receive your copy from YesAsia soon , Lisa

i hope so, too! :) of course i'll post when it comes, lol.

hmm..arashi is nominated in one of the categories for Billboard Music Japan Awards 2010?
http://www.hotexpress.co.jp/news/100916_billboardjapan/

aren't JE talents unable to participate in awards like this? :shrug

Nino to appear in the last episode of Natsu Niji

松潤“月９”最終回にニノら豪華ゲスト！

嵐の松本潤（２７）主演のフジテレビ系月９ドラマ「夏の恋は虹色に輝く」の最終回（２０日放送）に市村正親 （６１）、嵐のメンバー、二宮和也（２７）らがゲスト出演することが１６日、分かった。　二世俳優（松本） がシングルマザー（竹内結子）との恋の障害を乗り越え、俳優としても成長し大舞台「ハムレット」に挑む設定 で、市村はクローディアスを演じる舞台俳優役で登場。

０７年の日本テレビ系ドラマ「バンビ～ノ！」で松本と共演し親交のある市村は「仲良しの松本潤君のドラマを 笑ったり、泣いたりしていたら出演の話が来た」と大喜び。松本も「劇中劇のハムレットを最高の舞台にしたい 」と気合十分だ。

また、ニノは舞台の大道具さんの役でどんな場面で松本と絡むのか注目。ほかにハムレット役で北村有起哉（３ ６）、アシスタントプロデューサー役で深田恭子（２７）、歌手役で夏木マリ（５８）が出演し、最終話を彩る 。

Nino and Ichimura Masachika (Bambino), Fukada Kyoko and Natsuki Mari will be guests in Jun's drama last episode.

posted by matsubunny@LJ

WOW! i expected nino, but kyoko and those other guests?! :dead

cause of school, i couldn't watch episode 7 yet, lol. i gotta catch up! :P

edit: ohh i see jun's (or ban's) chef from bambino is in the guest list as well! what a nice little reunion! :tipsy

and nino will be the first arashi member to appear on bistro SMAP (SMAPxSMAP) on september 27th! :D

Shop photos of Everything for download

http://saobang2211.livejournal.com/219965.html

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/7...0cd37d1225.jpg

brother in law looks good (◕ܫ◕)

^ gooorgeous! :luv2

Nino has a new CM & this time round , it centres on Hitachi fridges xD

arashi_no_jidai@LJ uploaded a buncha of the CMs & also making that ripped from the Hitachi website

I'm not going to post any links as they're all locked anyway

lol hopefully it's uploaded on youtube! if i find it i'll post it :D

btw, since this thread is done (time went by really quickly this time! it's not even 2 months since i made this thread! :tipsy) i'm gonna make the new thread now! time to get my creative juices going by thinking up a title! :freak