Asian music "what's on your mind" thread III

[Corvina]

Congrats to Arashi for setting a new record with selling 729k copies of their best album on the first day!

[KarenPang]

Originally Posted by Corvina

Congrats to Arashi for setting a new record with selling 729k copies of their best album on the first day!

Yeah they basically broke their own record by outselling the 1st day sales of their Japonism album by nearly 2x the amount

Hard to believe a decade ago All the BEST! 1999-2009 1st day sales was only about 261K copies but only 2 versions were put out so it's not fair to compare in a way especially since this time round a lot more content has been added to their new best album , be it songs and/or DVD footages + packaging as well

That said , looking forward to see 5x20 All the BEST!! 1999-2019 cross the magic million mark in the next few days & for JStorm to restock the best album for the 2nd time , not really surprised on how well 5x20 All the BEST!! 1999-2019 has sold just on the 1st day alone

[Corvina]

Aaaand congrats again to Arashi for achieving the highest selling first week sales in the 2010's for an album.
Selling 1,3 million, beating Namie's Finally with 1,1 million.

https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2138999/full/

Maybe 3 million will be possible in the long run, cause the limited edition sold out very fast and they produce more, but those copies are only to be shipped out in August.