to me nothing still beats Inoue & MatsuJun together in HYD :smitten

oh yeah absolutely

they have come a long way since their debut 10 years ago :weep

some trouble brewing up in their upcoming concert , tickets wise

https://www.fc-member.johnnys-net.jp...ine/index.html

ames_909@LJ translated the above site as follows :

A notice regarding the illegal trade of tickets issued by the concert agency
08/21/2009

Those who have read the membership agreement and ticket sales agreement will already be aware of this.

Despite most members joining with the simple intention of supporting our talents, it appears that some of our members have been joining with the objective of illegal trading. Illegal trading, reselling, transferring, loaning of membership serials, applying by proxy as well as requesting to apply by proxy are all forbidden in the membership agreement.

Acts of scalping or internet auctioning, should they be discovered, will be dealt with severely. All tickets that have been obtained through any other act of buying and selling outside of the proper sales route will be evaluated for profit-making intentions. In cases where the ticket holder is not accompanied by the person whose name it was purchased under during admission and exiting, it is possible that time will be taken during both for examination, and requests made to leave the premises.

Again, unofficial sites that swindle under the title of a Johnny's fan, offer the services of buying tickets as well as collect the personal information of our esteemed fans have been increasing. Sites like these are sites that are using the services which Johnny's offer for profit-making intentions. Once again, they are extremely malignant sites that make use of the mentality of Johnny's fans by feigning appearances of "Being helpful to fans", "Mutual support between fans", and so on. We will inform you of examples of unlawful sites below. To our esteemed fans, please be extremely careful not to disclose your personal information readily.

【 Tickets issued by the concert agency that are printed with the following seating numbers are now invalid. 】


※ Those in possession of tickets with matching seating numbers with the above list must contact the concert agency by phone as soon as possible, or approach the concert agency counter before entering on the day of the the show. If you do not make a confirmation to the concert agency in advance, you will be asked to leave the premises when you reach your seat. Please understand that the seat will be given to someone else.

※ In order to confirm your identity at the venue, please bring official documents that can confirm your identity with you without fail.

※ Those who were not listed above may also be asked to confirm their seating on the day of the show. We ask for your cooperation.

◆ In the cases where we receive official queries with lawful basis from public institutions such as the court and the police, the concert agency may disclose personal information.

Once again, we will like to ask for everyone's understanding and cooperation.

Johnny's Family Club
Concert Agency

re: EXILE - ORICON charts stop charting for 2008-2009 at the 2nd half of December (...right?), so i would assume avex would schedule their album for the next chart, not the current one (this is how SUPAFAN is currently #1 despite it being a 2008 release).

re: Tickets - dang, JE's taking strong measures against scalping (i'm not surprised though). i hear tickets are near impossible to get even if you've been in the fanclub since day 1.

Oricon - I believe so Eirynne . Since SUPERMARKET FANTASY was released last Dec on 10th that week , Oricon counted that in the new year 2009 so maybe the 'cut off' point is 1st week of Dec :shrug

if not , it doesn't make sense for SF to be listed in 2009 instead of 2008's

yeah but the worst thing's that now it makes things even harder for non Japanese ARASHI fans to get hold of tickets now that Johnny & Associates are clamping down on this matter

it wouldn't hurt for Johnny to open fanclubs for all the bands & make it an international thing right ? :innocent

anyway sales for today's All the BEST ! are strangely not reflected on Oricon o_O - http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/

I think it's a public holiday today in Japan ?

holy moly! the sales are awesome! I hope they'll reach 700K this week! :yes
well, honestly, I pretty sure they'll reach 700k xD

x->1->1->1->1->1 -- 261,076 + 171,046 + 120,568 + 74,411 + 65,443 = 692,544

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

All the BEST ! will overtake Mr.Children's SUPERMARKET FANTASY's 1st week sales of 707,763 by tomorrow :thud :thud :thud , giving the guys the biggest 1st week sales of Oricon 2009 year soon when the official 1st week sales are released in a matter of time

omg omg omg omg omg omg O_O O_O

Looks like it's possible to attain million status if this keeps up :weep , I'm so excited ! & for them to be a shoo in triple threat this year in sweeping Oricon's top selling single , DVD & then now probably album , how sweet for a 10th anniversary pressie for them

:weep lisa's proud, lisa's proud. imagine their first for all 3 oricon charts (single, album, DVD) :tipsy 2009 is definately arashi's year. :yes

I know & I thought last year was massive & great for them & that they probably can't top things up with this year

guess I was so proven wrong on that

whoa, SUPAFAN had 707,763?! D:
but awesome, congrats to Arashi! :D

maybe they'll get 740-750k? since ORICON tends to add a little more to weeklies.

YES, 5×10 at #1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gracias Karen, for a 3rd time. It's AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

x->1->1->1->1->1->1 -- 261,076 + 171,046 + 120,568 + 74,411 + 65,443 + 50,223 = 742,767

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

It's official , All the BEST ! has overtaken Mr.Children's SUPERMARKET FANTASY's 1st week sales of 707,763 already :D :D :D :D

^ I have a feeling All the BEST ! will crack the Million mark! And it could be one of the top 10 of the year, if not #1! Let's just hope EXILE don't release something this year like EXILE BALLAD BEST. yawn.

yeah I'm quite sure by next week or so should sales should don't drop so drastically , it definitely can crack the magic million mark , giving the guys their very 1st million selling album :D

I am in absolute l:bloveve with A.RA.SHI

whenever I hear A.RA.SHI nowadays , I always always always remember the lyrics being screwed up on purpose by SMAP's Nakai & Utaban's Ichibashi :laugh

instead of ARASHI ARASHI FOR DREAM , they will sing it as either ARASHI ARASHI OH YEAH or ARASHI ARASHI WANT ME xD xD xD

YAY! those sales are so much more than what i expected for the first week. i'm speechless, lol.

I can't believe 700k already, congratulations to boys :D They're really so much popular :D