Arashi

no, its not strange for a male to buy a photobook of a male group.
A -straight- male fan actually WROTE a book about Arashi. He even mentions Aiba is the personification of the word KAWAI (cute). Its totally fine Charlie. I got a male Arashi fan friend of mine who bought 1 magazine because Arashi is on the cover. He buys their DVD too. And he is straight (too bad he's taken :pout:)

I love reading your post on Arashi Charlie :woot:
Sorry, can't help in clarifying the figures. I think it'll be tough to break 600thousand mark within this month for "truth" sales but I'm betting it'll be the best selling single in Japan for year 2008. The sales count for this year will end in November and I don't think other artiste can catch up. Not sure about Southern All Stars sales though.. I think the highest figure for them will be around 500k but "truth" can definitely beat that.

I'm saving my money for their concert DVD (still waiting for DreamAlive). Too bad I can't go to their lives *sigh*. I want their Kokuritsu con DVD now! From the reports its the best concert they had ever performed thus far.

thanks for the support, If I'm lucky my aunt will buy me one of those Ohno's art works :fingerscrossed:

I want their Kokuritsu con DVD now! From the reports its the best concert they had ever performed thus far.

yeah I'm excited to see that concert, and I also can see is bigger than Tokyo Dome

I also want a DAL DVD concert ,I know most of the fans didn't like the concert or the album but I would do anything for see "Flashback", "Gimmick Game" (because Nino sung Niji in AAA 2008 con) , "Once Again" in live

they should perform a song in their weekly shows, kind like SMAPxSMAP, because Arashi have enough songs, and they can perform live (I heard Jun's voice in Green *rip from live DAL concert* and I was :shocked:
maybe they will sung another songs in the other AAA 2008 concerts, I hope more DAL songs

I think the album in which One Love/Truth/KnoMe are going to be included is going to be their best album, I only hope they don't include in a best album, like hitomi/hero I allways though One could be a better album with hitomi/hero included :D

another fan was saying, what can they do now, after an awesome 2008
I think an international debut or an all english album

I remember backstreet boys or N'sync released a song in spanish and then their fame increased (of course I'm not comparing them to Arashi, but for a closer idea)

I want an Nino original song for his drama :shamefulcry:

sorry for the long post, this isn't against rules, right?

I have another idea for their new album "The Gathering Storm" or an album called "Arashi" "Just Arashi" or "Arashi Around Asia" (I allways wanted an album of theirs called Arashi Around Asia)

Sorry for the late update, I was waiting for the yearly rankings to be updated~! I just came back from work and I'm very tired, so I'll just post the sales updates and I'll reply your post tomorrow Charlie!
truth sales update

Week 1: #01 - 467,288 copies
Week 2: #03 - 63,535 copies
Week 3: #04 - 29,143 copies

Total: 559,966 copies

One Love sales update

Week 01: #01 - 313,976 copies
Week 02: #03 - 52,013 copies
Week 03: #05 - 26,749 copies
Week 04: #07 - 15,647 copies
Week 05: #10 - 12,317 copies
Week 06: #14 - 7,846 copies
Week 07: #05 - 33,015 copies
Week 08: #09 - 17,016 copie
Week 09: #09 - 13,374 copies
Week 10: #22 - 8,087 copies
Week 11: #21 - 5,565 copies

Total: 505,605 copies

Oricon 2008 Yearly Ranking update (Singles)

*1 *,559,966 *29,143 truth/Kaze no Mukou E - Arashi 08/08/20
*2 *,505,605 **5,565 One Love - Arashi 08/06/25
*3 *,499,110 *10,505 I AM YOUR SINGER - Southern All Stars 08/08/06
*4 *,461,687 **2,906 Kiseki - GReeeeN 08/05/28
*5 *,453,850 **2,321 Shuuchishin - Shuuchishin 08/04/09
*6 *,452,735 ***,535 Soba ni Iru ne - Thelma Aoyama feat.Soulja 08/01/23
*7 *,447,229 ***,*** DON'T U EVER STOP / KAT-TUN 08/05/14
*8 *,421,902 ***,*** LIPS / KAT-TUN 08/02/06
*9 *,374,449 ***,*** Step and Go / Arashi 08/02/20
10 *,327,247 **1,422 Nakanaide - Shuuchishin 08/06/25[/list:u]

Hikaru Sakurai wrote:Sorry for the late update, I was waiting for the yearly rankings to be updated~! I just came back from work and I'm very tired, so I'll just post the sales updates and I'll reply your post tomorrow Charlie!
truth sales update

Week 1: #01 - 467,288 copies
Week 2: #03 - 63,535 copies
Week 3: #04 - 29,143 copies

Total: 559,966 copies

Yayyy for Truth :woot: :woot: :woot:

daily update

#10 - Truth
#21 - One Love (must be at #21 because I didn't see One Love today in oricon rankings)

One Love we need you...

:shamefulcry: if I had some money with me, I'll go to one of Arashi concerts, the first concert in China its going to be Legendary

:woot: today, I saw the Arashi poster again, in my university's library, I'm happy to see that there are lot of Arashi fans ...the poster said join us for Jun's birthday, so it must be a recent poster, hhehehe, I'm bad for birthdays

I only remember Aiba's birthday, because he is a xmas miracle

:bow: ARASHI, WE LOVE YOU
(to make my post longer, I don't like one-liners, hehehe)

I WANT DREAM A-LIVE CONCERT DVD
when will they be releasing it? :puppydog:
Gimmick Game... Take Me Faraway... Hip Hop boogie.. Once Again..

Hikaru Sakurai wrote:
Oricon 2008 Yearly Ranking update (Singles)

*1 *,559,966 *29,143 truth/Kaze no Mukou E - Arashi 08/08/20
*2 *,505,605 **5,565 One Love - Arashi 08/06/25
*3 *,499,110 *10,505 I AM YOUR SINGER - Southern All Stars 08/08/06
*4 *,461,687 **2,906 Kiseki - GReeeeN 08/05/28
*5 *,453,850 **2,321 Shuuchishin - Shuuchishin 08/04/09
*6 *,452,735 ***,535 Soba ni Iru ne - Thelma Aoyama feat.Soulja 08/01/23
*7 *,447,229 ***,*** DON'T U EVER STOP / KAT-TUN 08/05/14
*8 *,421,902 ***,*** LIPS / KAT-TUN 08/02/06
*9 *,374,449 ***,*** Step and Go / Arashi 08/02/20
10 *,327,247 **1,422 Nakanaide - Shuuchishin 08/06/25

whao hold on they are hold on boys :mrgreen:

:woot: Happy 9th Anniversary Arashi!! :dancing:

Happy 9th Anniversary Arashi!
:mrgreen:

oh its today
happy 9th anniversary Arashi :applaud:

it's today..then

HAPPY 9TH ANNIVERSARY ARASHI-CHAN[/b]

HAPPY 9th ANNIVERSARY ARASHI!!!! Next Year will be the 10th!!!! YEAH!!! :dancing: :dancing:

truth sales update

Week 1: #01 - 467,288 copies
Week 2: #03 - 63,535 copies
Week 3: #04 - 29,143 copies
Week 4: #08 - 17,272 copies

Total: 577,238 copies

One Love sales update

Week 01: #01 - 313,976 copies
Week 02: #03 - 52,013 copies
Week 03: #05 - 26,749 copies
Week 04: #07 - 15,647 copies
Week 05: #10 - 12,317 copies
Week 06: #14 - 7,846 copies
Week 07: #05 - 33,015 copies
Week 08: #09 - 17,016 copie
Week 09: #09 - 13,374 copies
Week 10: #22 - 8,087 copies
Week 11: #21 - 5,565 copies
Week 12: #31 - 3,511 copies

Total: 509,116 copies[/list:u]I'll post the yearly ranking as soon as I find it updated with last week's numbers ^^

pam pam pam

daily ranking update

Truth #3
One Love #20

both in TOP 20 (yesterday "Truth" was #2 and OL wasn't charting)
happy to see both in top 20, a bit scared because tomorrow with the new releases, but I'm sure we will be seeing Truth until October or November

the Arashi people starting to talk about next year greatness, some believe a best album will include some concert

remember Arashi Around Asia (the first one) included the Taiwan concert in the limited edtition

start saving, what if kokuritsu concert is included in Arashi 1999->2009 Limited Edition

start saving money!!
:bow: thank god for the credit cards

any news about Nino's drama theme song??
people say NewS's new song is horrible, so I hope Arashi sung a new song for Nino's drama

Yatterman need an Arashi song too!!!

Charlie wrote:Truth #3
One Love #20

both in TOP 20 (yesterday "Truth" was #2 and OL wasn't charting)
happy to see both in top 20, a bit scared because tomorrow with the new releases, but I'm sure we will be seeing Truth until October or November

Just because it's out of the TOP20 doesn't mean it stopped charting~ it just dropped out of the TOP20 XDDD

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16 33 31 29 26 27^24@—’ uOne Lovev

Charlie wrote:
any news about Nino's drama theme song??
people say NewS's new song is horrible, so I hope Arashi sung a new song for Nino's drama

eh??NEWS' new song is horrible??actually it's a catchy and good cute song..(a lot of people actually love the song since it means a lot because they are dedicating it to the people they love including their FANS who are having their birthday..)and since it's title is 'HAPPY BIRTHDAY' i think it is impossible to be the theme for ryuseii no kizuna... :sweat: :sweat: ne??

well, im so excited for their drama...

and excited for dal con!!yatta!!! :woot: :woot:

I don't like NEWS new song too :sweat:
And I'm all for Arashi song for Yatterman theme with lots of SakuRAP

Oricon 2008 Yearly Ranking update

ALBUMS
*1 1,460,185 ***,610 EXILE LOVE / EXILE
*2 1,390,702 **1,123 5296 / Kobukuro
*3 1,341,740 *43,608 BEST FICTION / Namie Amuro
*4 1,193,034 **1,649 EXILE CATCHY BEST / EXILE
*5 *,986,406 **1,014 HEART STATION / Hikaru Utada
...
25 *,299,350 **1,007 Dream"A"live / Arashi

SINGLES
*1 *,577,238 *17,272 truth/Kaze no Mukou e / Arashi
*2 *,509,116 **3,511 One Love / Arashi
*3 *,505,201 **6,091 I AM YOUR SINGER / Southern All Stars
*4 *,464,122 **2,435 Kiseki / GReeeeN
*5 *,455,661 **1,811 Shuuchishin / Shuuchishin
*6 *,453,307 ***,572 Soba ni Iru ne / Thelma Aoyama feat.Soulja
*7 *,447,229 ***,*** DON'T U EVER STOP / KAT-TUN
*8 *,421,902 ***,*** LIPS / KAT-TUN
*9 *,374,449 ***,*** Step and Go / Arashi
10 *,344,458 *84,262 HANABI / Mr.Children 08/09/03

[/list:u]

I've also found the Top10 Music-DVD Yearly 2008 from last week:

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*2@221,488@150,846@SUMMER TOUR 2007 FINAL Time|ƒRƒgƒoƒmƒ`ƒJƒ‰|@—’@@2008/4/16
*3@192,427@115,035@ŒK“c‚³‚ñ‚Ì‚¨ŽdŽ–@07/08 `–£˜f‚ÌAVƒ}ƒŠƒA[ƒWƒ…`@ŒK“c‰À—S@@2008/3/12
*4@169,508@141,593@NEWS CONCERT TOUR pacific 2007 2008-THE FIRST TOKYO DOME CONCERT- @NEWS@@2008/8/13
*5@148,340@102,603@Mr.Children "HOME" TOUR 2007`in the field`@Mr.Children@@2008/8/6
*6@134,706@111,945@We are ƒ³n' 39!! and U? KinKi Kids Live in DOME 07-08@KinKi Kids@@2008/6/18
*7@129,764@*82,617@B'z LIVE in@‚È‚ñ‚΁@B'z@@2008/2/20
*8@124,519@*68,289@ŽjãÅ‹­‚̈ړ®—V‰€’n@DREAMS COME TRUE WONDERLAND 2007@DREAMS COME TRUE@@2008/2/27
*9@124,407@*60,370@NAMIE AMURO PLAY TOUR 2007@ˆÀŽº“Þ”üŒb@@2008/2/27
10@105,397@*58,923@KODA KUMI LIVE TOUR 2007`Black Cherry`SPECIAL FINAL in TOKYO DOME@Œô“c˜Ò–¢@@2008/3/31

The first set of numbers are the current sales, the second set of numbers are the first week's sales.

Arashi also has 5 DVDs charting at the same time~

*4@*7@**3,141@224,629@ 22@SUMMER TOUR 2007 FINAL Time -Kotoba no Chikara-
11@11@**1,606@219,248@ 47@ARASHI AROUND ASIA + in DOME
21@27@***,684@102,292@ 61@2004 Arashi! IzaANow Tour !!
22@**@***,651@136,613@ 30@ARASHI AROUND ASIA
27@29@***,586@*64,648@ 33@How's it going? SUMMER CONCERT 2003

(# - Last week's # - Weekly sales - Total sales - # of weeks it's been charting)