^ YIKES!!! What's the matter with the textbook? (Nah, I live in the U.S. - why do I really need to worry about that when what I have to matter about is some Washington State history?!)

i'd rather learn from an arashi textbook than a math textbook (or any school textbook) anyday :innocent it's amazing how in demand this book is! but seeing that, i'm surprised JE wants it to be donated. won't they worry about losing money? :laugh

haha there're many ways for JStorm to make $ , you know Lisa

other than physical CD sales , there's revenue you can get from touring & let alone the concert goods being sold outside of tour stands

the prices are crazy but you still see people buying them as it's ARASHI :O

haha, i should have known! one way or the other, JStorm will get their money :shakehead i shouldn't forget that, lol.

anyway, just to update on the album: the packaging is so amazing. i'm afraid to touch it so much cause it's too pretty to mess up, LOL. the songs still aren't getting old to me despite me playing the songs, at least, over 100 plays on the computer! :tipsy

Top 40 Best Selling Japanese Acts

These are the Top 40 Japanese Artists according to MUSIC STATION. The rankings are based on sales. The previous ranking refers to the last ranking they did back in 2005.

CD総売上【2010/09/10 Mステスペシャル】

今回（前回）　売上（単位：万枚）
*1位（*1位）　7938　B'z
*2位（*2位）　5420　Mr.Children
*3位（*4位）　4901　浜崎あゆみ (Ayumi Hamasaki)　　　　
*4位（*3位）　4783　サザンオールスターズ (Southern All Stars)
*5位（*5位）　4301　DREAMS COME TRUE
*6位（*6位）　3830　松任谷由実 (Yumi Matsutoya)
*7位（*7位）　3749　GLAY
*8位（*8位）　3745　ZARD
*9位（*9位）　3572　宇多田ヒカル (Utada Hikaru)
10位（11位） 3178　SMAP
11位（10位） 3140　CHAGE&ASKA
12位（14位） 2974　安室奈美恵 (Namie Amuro)
13位（12位） 2951　松田聖子 (Matsuda Seiko)
14位（13位） 2870　globe
15位（15位） 2849　L'Arc～en～Ciel
16位（16位） 2534　中森明菜 (Nakamori Akina)
17位（18位） 2467　KinKi Kids
18位（17位） 2441　TUBE
19位（19位） 2259　大黒摩季 (Ohguro Maki)
20位（20位） 2258　Every Little Thing
21位（22位） 2178　中島みゆき (Nakajima Miyuki)
22位（21位） 2169　TRF
23位（23位） 2112　長渕剛 (Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi)
24位（24位） 2070　槙原敬之 (Noriyuki Makihara)
25位（25位） 2038　スピッツ (Spitz)
26位（27位） 2018　福山雅治 (Fukuyama Masaharu)
27位（26位） 1950　SPEED
28位（29位） 1865　米米CLUB (Koma Kome Club)
29位（--位）　1786　EXILE
30位（30位）　1777　Misia
31位（32位）　1664　モーニング娘。 (Morning Musume)
32位（31位）　1621　山口百恵 (Yamaguchi Momoe)
33位（--位）　1619　嵐 (Arashi)
34位（33位）　1611　氷室京介 (Himuro Kyosuke)
35位（34位）　1579　井上陽水 (Yosui Inoue)
36位（36位）　1576　郷ひろみ (Go Hiromi)
37位（35位）　1570　沢田研二 (Sawada Kenji)
38位（42位）　1553　倉木麻衣 (Mai Kuraki)
39位（38位）　1538　チェッカーズ (CHECKERS)
40位（39位）　1527　今井美樹 (Imai Miki)

http://community.livejournal.com/ara...t/1183452.html

I highlighted EXILE & ARASHI in bold because they're new entries x)

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Yeah I really like the packaging for Boku no Miteiru Fukei a great deal . I'm surprised at 5music's end , the 1st press edition has not been sold out yet xD

I guess avex Taiwan made quite a fair significant amount of 1st press copies , unlike for All the BEST ! where it's impossible to find the 3CDs LE edition anymore , be it whether for Japan or Taiwan press :O

it goes to show how arashi aren't completely perfect with all of japan's sales. their still getting there and i really respect them for it! :D

【嵐】　　　LoveR(2　free(1　Monster（2　Troubl（2　MG (2　Everyt(2　AnK(3
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
月 　　　　　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---
火 　　　　　232,679　179,779　232,045　232,893　177,725　135,0 53　230,022
水 　　　　　121,773　108,021　131,299　144,343　*99,226　*86,4 62　130,905
木 　　　　　*59,256　*47,663　*59,854　*60,356　*61,235　*42,5 75　*45,413
金 　　　　　*37,057　*32,598　*38,175　*39,274　*29,133　*21,9 48　*24,544
土 　　　　　*31,495　*25,478　*32,011　*31,967　*26,279　*22,750　*30 ,694
日 　　　　　***,***　*23,376　*27,246　*22,348　*25,815　*21,1 81　*27,203
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
推定売上　482,260　416,915　520,630　531,181　419,413　329,969　488 ,781
週間枚数　***,***　425,978　543,269　542,334　431,685　342,0 70　502,487
週間−推　***,***　**9,063　*22,639　*11,153　*12,272　*12,1 01　*13,706
From 2ch

Løve Rainbow is following the same path as Troublemaker (~20k less) and Monster (~10k less)

so can we have another 500k+ first week, then? :tipsy

I don't know if they could... Just looking at the sales figures above does not seem to be likely, maybe unfortunately...

Aren't we the pessimist, as always.

There's one more day of sales left AND the secret numbers added on the end of the week. I'm pretty sure they will be above 500k.

I hope so, because this is the weekend...

They're LESS THAN 18k away from 500k.

Monster and Troublemaker sold OVER 20k on the last day, and that's still EXCLUDING the extra numbers.

I don't know how there could even be as much as a doubt in your mind that they'll cross over 500k XD

【嵐】　　　Love R(2　free(1　Monster(2　Troubl（2　MG(2　Everyt(2　ANK (3
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
月 　　　　　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---
火 　　　　　232,679　179,779　232,045　232,893　177,725　135,0 53　230,022
水 　　　　　121,773　108,021　131,299　144,343　*99,226　*86,4 62　130,905
木 　　　　　*59,256　*47,663　*59,854　*60,356　*61,235　*42,5 75　*45,413
金 　　　　　*37,057　*32,598　*38,175　*39,274　*29,133　*21,9 48　*24,544
土 　　　　　*31,495　*25,478　*32,011　*31,967　*26,279　*22,7 50　*30,694
日 　　　　　*28,630　*23,376　*27,246　*22,348　*25,815　*21,181　*27 ,203
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
推定売上　510,890　416,915　520,630　531,181　419,413　329,969　488 ,781
週間枚数　***,***　425,978　543,269　542,334　431,685　342,0 70　502,487
週間−推　***,***　**9,063　*22,639　*11,153　*12,272　*12,1 01　*13,706

Now's to wait for Oricon to adjust & finalised the 1st week sales for Løve Rainbow

Ooh!!! This is going to be really interesting!!!

It's really funny. A lot of people seem to focusing on the competition from AKB48 (which, I agree, is serious) that they forgot all about Arashi's own succes. Single-wise, they've already beaten last year by a long shot!

Believe : 660k
Ashita no Kioku : 620k
Everything : 420k
My Girl : 550k

Compare that to this year :

Troublemaker : 700k
Monster : 700k
To be Free : 530k
Love Rainbow : 510~k in the first week alone.

They're still growing and growing and I'm so proud of them!

Some scans

Casa BRUTUS magazine featuring Sakurai on the cover

LOL my younger sister kept on fialing earlier on . I made her pissed over something on MSN but her anger subsided after seeing those scans of my brother in law xD

13 pages of goodness lmao

My Girl shop photos

Monster Shop Photos

For Lisa 8D :innocent

http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5...monster012.jpg

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LOL i love when jun smiles :smitten

i knew they would pass 500k! i'm so proud of the boys! :yatta

news on oricon website about Løve Rainbow weekly sales : 529K + !

人気グループ・嵐の 32ndシングル「Løve Rainbow」（8日発売）が発売初週に52.9万枚 を売り上げ、9/20付週間シングルランキング首位に初登場した。嵐のシングル首位は、 「PIKA★★NCHI DOUBLE」（2004年2月発売）以来21作連続、通算28作目。初週売上50万枚突破は、今年発売し たシングル4作中、 「Troublemaker」（3月発売）、「Monster」（5月発売）に続き3作目とな った。

今作「Løve Rainbow」は、メンバーの松本潤が主演するフジテレビ系月9ドラマ『夏の恋は虹色に輝く』主題歌。初 回限定盤に同梱されたDVDには同曲のミュージックビデオとメイキングが収録されている。

It basically says that Løve Rainbow sold 529k in its first week, landing at the top spot and being the 21st consecutive number 1 single for Arashi (28 overall). Also the third single this year after Troublemaker and Monster to surpass 500k in the first week.

It further add on that Løve Rainbow is the theme song for Matsumoto's Natsuniji drama and that the limited edition comes with a dvd with the pv and making.

Translated by glos10@LJ

YAY! :D the sales are only 200 less than Troublemaker's first week sales, i think?

LOL you mean 2,000 copies + less than Troublemaker's 1st week sales of 531,181 , Lisa ;p