Arashi Takes the Top 4 Spots for Highest First Week Sales on the Oricon Charts

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Source: asianfanatic & japan_now
Currently celebrating their 10th anniversary, Johnny’s Entertainment group Arashi has seen their popularity skyrocket in the past year. It seems they have no intention of slowing down as they have been added to the lineup for NHK’s Red and White Singing Contest.
Their newest single ‘My Girl’ has also become [...]

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Oricon Charts: KinKi Kids, Michael Jackson, Arashi

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Credit : Tokyo Graph
Wed, November 4, 2009 (4:03am EST)
The latest KinKi Kids single, “Swan Song,” ranked #1 on the charts this past week with more than 160,000 in sales. This is their 29th consecutive number-one single, starting with their debut in 1997.
UVERworld’s newest song was #2 on the charts, followed by Nana Mizuki [...]

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Arashi’s Live Special Peaks at 29.8%

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This is really amazing.. i must say Arashi is amazing!! Take a look at the article below.
Website credit: Japan_Now
Japanese idol group Arashi held a three hour live special yesterday to celebrate their 10th anniversary. The special, which began at 7pm, was titled ‘Odoroki no Arashi! The Century’s Biggest Experiments! Impossible Feats [...]

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Oricon Charts 2009: Singles & Album Ranking

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How cool is Arashi really!!! haha! This is really amazing!!! Hopefully with their new single “My Girl”, they would be able to take top 3!!!
Single Top 150
*1 *,655,498 ***,*** Believe/曇りのち、快晴 / 嵐、矢野健太 starring Satoshi Ohno 09/03/04
*2 *,620,237 ***,*** 明日の記憶/Crazy Moon～キミ・ハ・ムテキ～ / 嵐 09/05/27
*4 *,418,623 ***,523 Everything / 嵐 09/07/01
Album Top 150
*1 1,307,760 [...]

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Arashi Celebrates 10th Anniversary! What Are the Fans’ Favorite Songs?

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Source: Music Japan
2009-09-16
On September 15th 2009, Arashi celebrated their 10th anniversary!
Even after 10 years, they continue to have an avid fan base, and there are no signs of their popularity diminishing.
Along with their careers as singers, they’re riding high on their successes as actors and newscasters as well.
10 years ago on [...]

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Arashi breaking records!!!

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YEAH!!! Arashi’s amazing really!! Check out this news.
Source: Tokyograph
Charts: Arashi, Kiyoshi Hikawa set records
Wed, August 26, 2009 (2:46am EDT)
As expected, the boy band Arashi dominated the charts this past week with their collection “All the BEST! 1999-2009.” The album sold 753,000 copies, setting their own personal record for first-week sales.
The album [...]

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VS Arashi is going GOLDEN!!!

wow!!! Arashi sugei na! I cant believe VS Arashi is going golden as well as instead of 30mins, it’ll be an hour long!!! This is super cool!
Source: Tokyograph
“VS Arashi” goes golden
Sat, July 25, 2009 (7:21pm EDT)
Fans of popular boy band Arashi will now be able to watch the group every week during golden time. [...]

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Arashi’s new PV: Everything

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I am completely in love with this song!!! I reali reali love this song esp the part where Ohno sings his solo part. That part gets me! haha.. Also i tink the video is awesome.. nice sunset view!

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Door to Door SP

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I muz say how impressed i was by Nino’s acting skills in this special. He plays a 22 year old cerebral palsy. Juz graduated from vocal school, he’s trying to land a job as a salesman juz like his late father. His mother is wif him every step of the way taking care [...]

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Ninomiya Kazunari in new drama SP

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Nino has been on a roll.. this is goin to be his 2nd SP this year.. I still have not watch “Door to Door” yet but i know he reali gave an extrodianary performance. This is some news of his new drama SP.
Source: Tokyograph
Kazunari Ninomiya, Mao Inoue play couple in drama [...]

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Charts: Arashi sells half a million

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Source: Tokyograph
Arashi’s latest single, “Believe / Kumori Nochi, Kaisei,” dominated the charts this past week. With roughly 502,000 copies sold, it has become the best-selling single of 2009 so far. It is also the first to break half a million in its opening week since KAT-TUN’s “Real Face” (754,000) in April [...]

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Himitsu no Arashi-chan [2008.07.10] Episode 14

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I really love all the Childminders episode. I wonder if they’re ever goin to do it again since now they have changed the format of the show.
For this episode, Nino and Matsujun went to take care of a toddler boy. I dunt rem wat was the boy’s celebrity mum called BUT [...]

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VS Arashi [2008.11.29] Episode 33

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This VS arashi was a blast!!!!! Their junior Tegoshi Yuya from NEWS came on the program. And there was a new game too!!!
Lots of pics.
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Gifs credit: brandedwhite@livejournal

Matsujun getting mad at Ohno for calling his outfit cute. hahaha

Poor Leader!! haha

The attack of the DOS!!!

Dunt reali noe wat this guest’s name was but [...]

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VS Arashi Episode 29

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This is juz getting so so so funny… haha.. usually Ohno nevers messes up.. but lately maybe 2 or three times, he keeps failing at this game “Rolling Coin Tower”.. haha.. It’s so funny to watch. And everybody, including Sakurai was expecting Sakurai to fail.. haha… Leader is juz adorable.. [...]

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Arashi in ONE SHIRT.. haha

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This is really super cute.. This episode of himitsu no arashi chan was showing “fat” ppl. Den they got a shirt from the world’s fattest man, which he is in the Guiness World Record. Here u’ll c Nino, Aiba & Ohno in one shirt together.. haha DEN after that, Matsujun [...]

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Sakurai’s bad backflip!

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This is reali super funny. This episode of Arashi no Shukudai-kun was running on live. Nino decided to hynotise Sho into doin a backflip, as Sho juz cant do one at all so i guess it wld be funny if he were to do one. haha.. Sho den pretended not to wake [...]

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Silly Sakurai Sho moments on VS Arashi

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i juz had to include these two videos before sleeping.. haha.. sho-chan.. haha honestly how silly can u get… haha… u are reali the cutest thing on earth.. haha..

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Arashi on Haneru no Tobira (2008.09.24)

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oooooooo Arashi was juz sooooo funny.. haha.. i reali reali laughed my ass off.. oh Oh-chan y are u so so so so silly.. haha.. Ohno-man.. haha..
Here’s three subbed videos frm youtube..

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Arashi (Nov 08 Popolo translations)

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This is translated by the awesome change417@lj.

Q1. If you finish work early, will you…
hang out outside? (3) – Aiba, Jun, Sho
go home straight? (2) – Nino, Ohno
Aiba: If I don’t feel well, I’ll go straight home. But if I’m not tired, I’ll meet up with my friends. But sometimes it’s hard [...]

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Arashi is Alive Photobook

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YAHHHOOOOO.. haha went down to Bugis Kino today after work coz there was a 20% members sale.. Went to get like onli 2 mangas and also Oricon Style which had Kinki Kids on it. As i was paying for it, i saw right behind the cashier was the “Arashi is Alive” photobook… [...]

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Soon to come: Arashi on Hanetobi

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Kyyyaaaaaa….. i saw bits of the preview of Hanetobi which i tink will be showing on Sept 24th (wed) AND ARASHI IS ON IT!!! Yipeeee… haha… I see many many funny things that are going to happen. Haha.. esp Ohno doin his signature “Freestyle pose”.. haha..
Took some screencaps..

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Arashi no Shukudai-kun Episode 97 – [2008.08.18]

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Haha this episode is reali a Sakurai Sho episode… haha.. it got me laughing like mad.. haha.. Sho-chan was in a spaced mode.. haha… making silly comments.. haha always asking to go home by Nino.. letting Matsu Jun get mad at him.. haha.. oh Sho-chan wat else.. haha… even Ohno pushin [...]

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Arashi chart topping!!

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Oh wow wow.. how exciting.. haha
Credit: http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-3700
Charts: Arashi spreads “truth,” Amuro still on top
Wed, August 27, 2008 (1:56am EDT)
Arashi’s newest single, “truth / Kaze no Mukou e,” dominated the singles chart this past week at 467,000 in sales. This sets the new 2008 record for opening week sales, surpassing KAT-TUN’s “DON’T U EVER [...]

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Sho-chan… the cutest fool on Earth..

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haha… watching VS Arashi these couple of episodes has been freaking hilarious. Haha.. i mean reali funny.. firstly, as usual Sakurai Sho is juz reali bad at sports… so den when its time to play games, when he volunteers, he gets “ehhhhhhh…” from the audience.. haha… It’s sooo funny… And basically [...]

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Arashi no Shukudai-kun Episode 90 – [2008.06.30]

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Haha this has got me laughing like mad.. i love this episode. It’s Aiba’s segment called “Ai Land” where they play silly games sent in by the viewers. The scenes shown with the guests have been cut as they weren’t veri interesting, haha. So den they also try out some new games sent [...]

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Yamada Taro Monogatari Epi 10 (Finale)

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Aiyo soooo sad, ten episodes onli.. haha… But this is a touching episode. Yamada family has moved back into their old rundown house and Taro declined goin to America to study. He decides to enter an “Air Guitar” contest in order to win a JUMBO hamburger for his family. haha.. of coz he [...]

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Yamada Taro Monogatari Epi 9

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Episode 9 kinda talks abt how Taro is trying his hardest to adjust to “Rich” life coz he sees all his siblings enjoying themselves to the fullest. Mimura is also not really talking to Taro as he feels that Taro is lying to himself. But Ikegami comes to Taro’s rescue and pulls [...]

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Yamada Taro Monogatari Epi 8

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Episode 8 is abt how one of his classmates kinda having a weird crush on him and starts following him around and den he sees that Taro is poor AND starts spreading all kinds of gossip abt it. BUT den again, Taro’s father had inherited a HUGE house from one of his [...]

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Yamada Taro Monogatari Epi 7

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Loved this episode coz lots more SHO… haha.. This episode is abt whether Taro cld juz get away one day without thinking abt his family. Therefore, his family pushes him to go out and have fun, and so Taro joins his classmates out for a studying session at a temple.
BUT of coz, Taro [...]

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Yamada Taro Mongatari Epi 6

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This episode was pretty fun to watch… Taro and Ikegami get to act in an 40’s or was it 50’s kinda film. It was funny when Taro had a hard time saying that he cldnt live without Ikegami, but had some help from buddy Mimura… Lots of nice nice Sho screen time.. [...]

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