lol dilemna you're in eh ?

if you have strong willpower I say wait til your copy comes . If you're like me who's a wimp , then download it

the album tracks are more or less even better than what I expected it to be

Ok post your reviews on the album... I'm not going to download... so to buy or not to buy depends on your reviews

I will do a proper album review after I come back from Genting

I think when I'm there , I will have enough time to listen to the album tracks more closely

I've done a review, but it's not the top of my favs list this year

it was quite a gd album but I wont hear it often...only for a breath of fresh air...
it CAN get quite repitive after a while

I have been stalking the website of avex taiwan for the past few days & there's so far no news of an OS press of the album :(

I really hope it will be announced real soon whether will that happened or not

i listened to the album today. it was VERY good! :D but i think their singles are more stronger and better compared to the album tracks :P

frankly the album's even better than what I expected because I thought the album tracks will suck but I like some of them like WINTER MIRAGE , Climber's high & Power of love

I decided to finally check them out, so I downloaded their album, and I like it so far. :)

they debuted at #4 today :( it's probbably because everything got released early due to some holiday in japan, lol. and from a user at JPM....

:D

^ awesome , a new single in the spring of 2009 ? nice !

just wondering , what're the months that constitute Spring ? cos there're no 4 seasons in S'pore so yeah

^Based on the sun, spring officially starts at the end of March, and goes till the end of June.

I'd say April-June.

thanks for that GRACE-y :D

March 21st is the first day of spring! :D no really, it is, lol. i learned it in school. :P

and it's also my birthday :innocent

oh really that's cool . I guess I learn something new everyday :laugh

& oh I just realise that their fanclub that's called Next Door was opened officially on Mon & it's also the same title as track 13 in their new album .

Can I just say that I love NEXT DOOR ? :love

& my album review is up & running now - http://karenpang.blogspot.com/2008/1...next-door.html

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I called the local HMV up & they already have stock on the Japan press / CD only of the album .

so expensive man , S$70 @_@

I want an OS press release like NOW

What are sales?

not sure but wikipedia said that they debuted at #2 on the daily chart ? :shrug

^ Yup :yes
Index - 14,516
It's about 24,677 copies

that's pretty good :yes

wouldn't be surprised if Mr.Children's still on top

^ Mr.Children is 4

I guess I will wait for OS version.

#2 is so much better than #4, lol. i'm glad :D

4->2->2
index - 13 205 (22,448 copies)

yeah Temmy I love Climber's high too :D

& the OS press of the CD + DVD of their album wouldn't be released in Taiwan til 6th Jan :( :( :( :( :( - http://www.avex.com.tw/4th/artist/ar...72776&cateid=2

BAH , so long T__T

but it's ok I don't mind waiting as I already told my Taiwanese friend to get a copy of it for me when it's out in due time yay

erm I just wonder has the special music version of the Winter Game PV been uploaded on the net yet ?

if so what's the difference between the normal & the special versions ?

I couldn't really tell for Jounetsu no Daishou :dead2

Climber's High is very nice!

Ok I think I going to hint to some of my friends for my birthday present

I haven't listened to the album yet :(
but I have a feeling that the songs are going to be amazing.

there is no such a thing for WINTER GAME

not sure if Warner Music will be importing it over here

I doubt it . Anyway I already requested my Taiwanese friend to buy it for me ala preorder alongside with KAT-TUN's QUEEN OF PIRATES DVD :D

oh yes the album tracks are really good :yes

there's not ?! @_@

That's odd , I thought I read it somewhere there's

ok never mind :dead2

I finished to listen to the debut album!

I think it's a great album! I really love Breath in the new track!

actually Breath's not a new song , it was 1st found as the 1st B-side in their debut single Guuzen no Kakuritsu

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ALBUMS
1->1->1->1->1->1 - Ikimono Gakari - 9,979 + 21,507 + 24,683 + 13,875 + 9,373 + 9,895 (x1.7) = 151,830
4->2->2->3->3->2 - GIRL NEXT DOOR - x + 14,516 + 13,205 + 7,559 + 5,415 + 9,575 (x1.7) = 85,459
2->3->3->2->2->4 - EXILE - 9,375 + 13,248 + 12,122 + 8,692 + 5,789 + x (x1.7) = 83,684

OO I didn't remind it!

I lost all musics I download before november. :(

I love Winter Garden too.

the album didn't break 100k yet? :(

Ok I will call warner tomorrow.
Otherwise I think I go see MJ if they import

not yet hopefully soon

I think it's quite pointless to call Warner because they probably have no info about this & I really doubt that they will import the OS press over from Taiwan .

Oh I should mention that the CD+DVD/OS press wouldn't be out til next Tue according to avex taiwan's website :dead2

so you probably want to save your time & effort in not doing both of them at all

I just discovered them (O_O)

I just love their songs ! (*-*)
I'm gonna dowload their singles
I downloaded the album first~~~

I really love 情熱の代償 <3

glad you like them, too, minna! :D

lol good for you , it's about time you discover their music :laugh

@ apple-pi - I'm still jealous over the fact that you already have the album :grumpy

:D

oh thanks for explaining about this & yes it was said on mu-mo that there were 12 different editions of Guuzen no Kakuritsu @_@

at least now I understand what's that all about , I was going ?!?!?! when that came about

I wonder whether anyone will upload that in due time or not

& oh according to CDJapan , both editions of the album that're 1st press are sold out & the CD + DVD had an external bonus which was a poster :thud

i want to see the poster :(

lisa ~ :D

karen ~ :grumpy why are you laughing at me eh? ....



wanna see the poster!

So those are just that old promotion clips! There were on YT few monts ago (I don't know about now) and there was a torrent posted on JPS with all of them in September - I think

yeah it probably must be beautiful itself T_T

:yes

so glad that they included in the album :D

lol sorry if I offended you accidentally

:laugh I was kidding karen :P


I really love winter game (*-*)
just love the intro - soooooo gooood

DVD is on JPS if someone wants

as in all 4 PVs are all up on JPS ?

cool ! I wonder whether someone can upload all of them on here soon

if not I just wait til next Tue to order the OS press / CD + DVD & then when I receive it , I just rip the PVs for myself

have you seen this?
http://www.mediatraffic.de/albums.htm

GND is #32 with sales 112 000

^They are doing worse than what I expected. Seems like all those tie-ins are not very productive! I mean, it´s good but it should be great such huge promotion.

considering that every year physical CD sales have been declining , for GND to debut with about 100K in the 1st week sales for albums , it's quite good I guess although like what hpg23 mentioned , it could have been better especially since all their songs are used in tie in for dramas , CM & what's not

& oh yay 2 more days before the OS press release of the album in Taiwan :D

OMG this pic of Chisa is just beautiful :

http://amaiwana.files.wordpress.com/...pg?w=495&h=433

:love

wow, really nice! :love

really pretty pic !

is that for the album promotion?

I think so , should be since the setting & etc are the same ones as what you see in the album cover

:yes I know damn

you can download their performance of Guuzen no Kakuritsu that they did at Kouhaku Utagassen (Dec 31st 08)
via http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showth...12#post1768712

amazing photo!!!

no problem Temmy & yes that performance that they put up was good

although er I don't understand why Chisa's hair was like that :dead2 but at least her outfit's nice

it's a bit strange that in PVs she's dressed so nicely & all but yet in live performances it's a whole different thing altogether

:roflmao :hi5 to you on that one

I love the outfits she wore in Jounetsu no Daishou (the 1st one which she wore in the PV) & the victorian inspired like ones in the Guuzen no Kakuritsu PV

2009年01月12日 付 Album weekly

1 Ｍｙ　ｓｏｎｇ　Ｙｏｕｒ　ｓｏｎｇ いきものがかり 242691

2 ＥＸＩＬＥ　ＢＡＬＬＡＤ　ＢＥＳＴ ＥＸＩＬＥ 190213

3 ＧＩＲＬ　ＮＥＸＴ　ＤＯＯＲ ＧＩＲＬ　ＮＥＸＴ　ＤＯＯＲ 171165

not bad for the combined 1st/2nd week sales , I'm quite satisfied with it

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http://never-ending-music-power.blogspot.com/

OMG :O Chisa will be starring in Uta no Oniisan as Ohno's ex girlfriend ? interesting ....

maybe GND will be doing a song to promote the drama ? :shrug

OMFG CHISA? :thud

arashi has "away" right? and GND's next single said it would for a drama! OMG INSERT SONG! :thud maybe they'll sing the insert song? i totally would love that, haha.

yup ARASHI is singing away for the opening theme

I wouldn't be surprised if it's GND that might contribute an insert song to the drama & yes I was like ehhhhhhhhh when I saw Chisa's name

CHISA :love

http://girlnextdoor.jp/information/images/090107.jpg

she looks gorgeous for the drama! i'm so excited!

OMG :thud

seriously if I'm a guy , I will kill to date Chisa :lech :luv2 :love

The 3rd pic of her is gorgeous

she looks gorgeous in the drama!

I love her hair (O_O) how they did those kind of curls, it never works when I try :grumpy

She looks great! :D

I wonder if her acting is as flat as her singing =D?

I still need to download the album, I'm so behind on GND ;_;

it wasn't really worth it ..

and i agree Chisa just isn't really that pretty (imo) and her singing isn't that good, either.

the thing that makes GND good is their arrangement.

THAT is pretty awesome *Guuzen no Kakuritsu & Jounetsu no Daisho* <3333

^ oh yes, those 2 songs are amazing :D but i've liked all 3 singles from GND so far. but those 2 just stand out the most for me.

personally I still think that outta the 3 singles that GND put out , Guuzen no Kakuritsu is the best hands down

Am I the only person in the world who's favorite GND song is ESCAPE =P?

lol :laugh I like it too although like what cloud_honey pointed out before , it sounded like a mix mash up of their songs but I like it

Oricon 2009

Album Top 20:

*1 1,051,439 166,095 SUPERMARKET FANTASY / Mr.Children 08/12/10
*2 *,595,427 190,213 EXILE BALLAD BEST / EXILE 08/12/03 累計1,539,328
*3 *,242,691 242,691 My song Your song / いきものがかり 08/12/24
*4 *,171,165 171,165 GIRL NEXT DOOR / GIRL NEXT DOOR 08/12/24
*5 *,149,782 *45,550 LOVE LETTER / 大塚 愛 08/12/17
*6 *,107,913 *55,048 アイのうた２ / Various Artists 08/11/26 累計198,531
*7 *,*91,792 *34,784 VOICE / 中島美嘉 08/11/26 累計308,343
*8 *,*87,838 *35,003 BLEACH BEST TUNES / Various Artists 08/12/17
*9 *,*64,193 *36,528 Path of Independence / 平原綾香 08/12/03 累計81,893
10 *,*54,415 *18,435 マクロスＦ(フロンティア)VOCAL COLLECTION 娘たま♀ / 菅野よう子 08/12/03 累計140,865
11 *,*51,234 *23,410 スタジオジブリの歌 / Various Artists 08/11/26 累計93,946
12 *,*48,681 *13,353 Folie A Deux / Fall Out Boy 08/12/10
13 *,*48,460 *18,488 Circus / Britney Spears 08/12/03 累計78,800
14 *,*46,089 *19,687 Road To Revorution:Live At Milton Keynes / Linkin Park 08/12/17(輸08/11/25) 累計53,668
15 *,*43,220 *16,514 BEST BALLADE / 井上陽水 08/12/10
16 *,*42,302 *19,043 雪と氷の旋律(And Winter Come...) / Enya 08/11/12 累計129,388
17 *,*41,857 **6,044 演歌名曲コレクション9～哀愁の湖～ / 氷川きよし 08/12/10
18 *,*37,595 *17,740 Expressions / 竹内まりや 08/10/01 累計769,556
19 *,*37,208 *15,196 HeartY / HY 08/04/16 累計329,429
20 *,*36,432 *11,954 MR.ボーカリスト / Eric Martin 08/11/26 累計52,506

that's really great!
congrat's to them :D


:grumpy they made a mistake in Folie A Deux (dunno who. oricon or fall out boy)
it should be À...with an accent...duh...

sorry XD


I love Escape ! just the PV that at first I founded ...weird? XD
kinda reminded me of... (please don't hit me !) Baby one more time of B. Spears, the clip

NO! i love ESCAPE too :smitten i really do, haha. it's grown on me alot since the first time i ever heard it. it does sound like their past singles all mixed together though, lol.

@ minna - actually ESCAPE didn't get a PV of its own :(

their 2nd & 3rd singles which were both double a sides , the 2nd a-side didn't have their own PVs

:thud
mistake. mistake. I was talking about the PV of Drive Away

but I love ESCAPE anyway XD just made a mistake here...lol

lol it's ok but yeah the PV for Drive away's a-ok but not as weird as Jounetsu no Daishou .

The 1st time I saw it , I was like eh ? & the part where Chisa flipped out when she saw that weird 'thing' with a big goat head , that was freaky :dead2

Jounetsu no Daishou (PV) is weird but I find it so cool
I just love it~


and how can she run with those heels ? (O_O) XD
they are really beautiful though.

I know that their 1st 2 PVs were flimed in US , not sure for Jounetsu no Daishou , it probably took place in UK ? :shrug

haha :laugh

yeah I love Chisa's shoes in the beg of the PV , in fact I think the 1st outfit she wore in there looks great

the 2nd one was OK but the 3rd one is well you know :innocent

The final outfit that she wore before the end of the PV just made her looked old :dead2 , the hairdo ain't helping matters too

chisa looked the best in jounetsu no daisho's PV :D especially in the beginning scenes of the video.

oh yes & very hot too :love

the whole outfit that she wore in the beg of the video is perfect

i think chisa's acting in "uta no onii-san" so far is pretty good! here's some clips:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xihMV_qBabQ
part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H9ly3PZ-EI

she's so gorgeous :love i envy her beauty, lol. :weep

^ yeah it's not fair that she's so pretty :grumpy

I know!! I wish I knew what her real name was so I can look her up! XDDD

well, her's name's "Chisa". but i wonder why they never revealed her last name. :shrug guess her stage name is just her first name. like "YUI", for example.

yeah me too

yeah that might be a good valid point Lisa

less than 10 posts before a new thread's needed , can I make it if no 1 volunteers :innocent

CD only scans of the trio's album , photobook included - http://community.livejournal.com/7music/20317.html

a bit disappointed with the photobook scans but album wise , I like #4 & #5 :love

yesh!
I was searching for the scans to make icons :P
thanks karen (^_^)

sure karen, go right ahead! :D

:D

I probably will scan up my copy of the CD + DVD edition once I receive it from my friend Cliff

thanks :D

I hope you'll receive it soon :P
XD

thanks a lot karen, that's really nice of you :D

isnt this time for a 2nd thread already ;)
:D

I probably might receive it by Sat , hopefully

ok I get right to it now