OMG my poor baby :weep i gotta go DL that ASAP. thankss karen!

I finished watching it earlier on , my 3rd SCP that I downloaded from http://newshfan.livejournal.com/ (The 1st 2 being KAT-TUN's Tanaka & Ueda's) & great stuff

was a real eyeopener for me to see Shige tell his side of the story with regards to NEWS & etc

didn't realise that he was so unmodest back then & lol at the Kato Kingdom comment :laugh

awww poor Shige! :(

actually, i've never really thought of him as an unpopular member, but somewhat in the middle. however, when it comes to individual activities, he doesn't really have much, doesn't he? Koyama has Shounen Club, there's TegoMass, Ryo's part of 2 groups, & YamaPi is YamaPi, haha.

i love SCP. it really shows the other side of being a Johnny.

me too T_T

hopefully stock for it will come in due time

^ jealous :grumpy

anyway I'm happy for you Jia Rong after you have 'forced' yourself not to download the album

& ok set I'm going to get the limited edition since I managed to convert Towairo no Koi to 48kpbs & wma earlier on :D

agree with Ai Nante > Kesanai as I still think Ai Nante's a standout track on pacific

I still think Muraisato's something that Kanjani8 might come out with as it's so crazy & psycho :laugh

I've given in and downloaded Color...although..haven't throughully given in yet because I daren't unzip. ;_;

wow! good sales!!
i hope they get the #1 weekly! 'couse the album is awesome (i'm addicted to Snow express, ordinary, kesenai n Stardust!!)

not bad for a 1st day sales

comparison :

First day sale for pacific: 52,108
First day sale for color: 47,852


lol I'm quite sure that color will get no.1 , you know Johnny .... :innocent

& YAY the local HMV has stock on both editions of color already , I probably will get the LE tomorrow or Fri but argh it's expensive :dead2

& to think at 1st I wanted to get both editions T_____T

that will be the ... 2nd most expensive I paid for an album + it's Japan press too booooo

good sales :D i'm satisfied.

I can't wait to get my copy of color! my friend is sending it to me today!!! ^^ w00t!

ouuu, i agree! :D
i'm having a hard time picking between "code" & "ordinary". :3

but maybe "code" for personal reasons. xD
it made me notice Ryo, LOL.

Agree with all but the first two, for which I declare:

code > ordinary
Gomen ne Juliet < MOLA

I generally have an aversion to songs with long names for some reason, but I'm currently in loOove with Minna ga iru sekai...

On first listen, I thought this album was kind of meh, but it's all really grown on me. NEWS can do no wrong! (Because I don't acknowledge Happy Birthday's existence :) )

heh Irene :laugh

2nd day sales of color so far from http://community.livejournal.com/news_jpop/ :

Second day sale for Color: 25,497
Second day sale for Pacific: 32,729

Total Sales of color as of 19/11: 83,741+ 25,497x1.75= 128,360

ok lah not so bad & YAY it's in my hands now ::

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...n/IMG_0287.jpg

:D :D :D :D

it's surprisingly heavy when I hold it up

must be due to the thickness of the booklet :laugh

i'm glad the sales are still good! your copy looks so nice, karen :weep

thanks Lisa & yes the physical copy's even better when it's upclose & personal :laugh

:weep I DON'T HAVE MY COPY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :scry




omg I laughd so much when listening to Koyama's and Shige's song XD
love it ~
and I found two dance moves (old dance moves XDDD) that just fit perfectly with the chorus XDDDDD

I still don't have my copy!!! >.< maybe it'll come in tomorrow...
i gave into temptation and listened to MOLA today. not all of it. i just skipped around.
sounds cool but not as good as LOVE JUICE.
*shrugs*
I WANT MY CD!!!!! >.<

me too it's so funny & I was :roflmao when that came on

mag scans updates

scans of the guys at the latest Dec Duet magazine - http://daffytan.livejournal.com/7242...175690#t175690

lol why Koyama's the only one wearing a hat :laugh

Tegoshi , Yamapi & Masuda in PINKY - http://watchful21.livejournal.com/101151.html#cutid1

:smitten at the 1st pic of Yamapi

last but not least , Myojo & Popolo - http://community.livejournal.com/new...93.html#cutid1

x->1->1->1 - NEWS - 47,852 + 25,497 + 11,584 (x1.7) = 144,386

:D

pretty a-ok figures so far for color

it's doing OK~ JE albums never sell well anyway. :P

thanks for the scans, Karen! :)

BTW;; in "MOLA", is that...Jin? saying "feel the vibe" in the beginning? it doesn't sound like Pi.

yup that's kuu! :P

isn't PINKY a girl's magazine? :P

...i see. xD

ugh, such pervs...:eviltongu

haha

I realise that there's another song that we didn't compare against MOLA aside from LOVEJUICE , Irene which's Tanaka's Make U Wet :innocent

but naturally comparisons were only done between MOLA & LOVEJUICE cos it's in full Eng unlike Make U Wet but still :roflmao

lmao

surprisingly Masuda looks hot in that pic :O

-- -- -- *1 *1 *1＼*3　NEWS 「color」

omg..they dropped to #3 already? it's not even a week since it's release.

x->1->1->1->3->3->3 - NEWS - 47,852 + 25,497 + 11,584 + 5,912 + 5,820 + 5,652 (x1.7) = 173,939

anyway, shige mag scans: http://community.livejournal.com/new...88.html#cutid1 :smitten

Thanks Lisa

color should have gotten much higher sales in the 1st week :(

people should buy more copies of the LE :laugh

today's sales:

3 - NEWS - 2,944 (x1.7) = 5,005

first week sales:

**1 180,380 NEWS

not very good =/ That album kicks asses and only 180k?! com'on è_é
But I'm glad they're 1st <33

hmmm. those are. OK? LOL idk.
even though i know JE album sales aren't spectacular, it's still like O_O seeing them in comparison to their 1st week single sales.

i hope i can get a copy soon.

my thoughts exactly Utena

that's quite low :(

Those sales aren't too bad...good enough to be certified platinum in the long run. I'm kinda happy that flumpool was able to knock NEWS out the top spot for a few days..
-runs-

Color 1st week sales: 180,380
Pacific 1st week sales: 195,788
Touch 1st week sales: 164,016

info credits : http://community.livejournal.com/news_jpop/

I GOT MY color CD!!! MOLA IS NOW MY JAM!!! (but i don't think itz better than LOVE JUICE... >.<) "feel the vibe" does sound kind of like Jin...

btw, the w/e page booklet you get with the CD w/out Towairo no Koi is SO not worth it >.< (in my opinion...)

haha I still think LOVEJUICE & Make U Wet takes the cake

& yeah the last 2 pages in the limited edition of the album's reductant much

Really? =/

Well, I could get the RE sometime later. Maybe. ^^;

aww, i think color should have gotten higher first week sales instead of pacific :P

^ why do you have such a hot nino set, kaori luff :weep

:laugh you didn't get your copy yet?

My Color album arrived two days agooooo.... I haven't put it off *__*

Although I have to say I prefer code over ordinary but ordinary is nice. The only song I skip/skipped is Happy Birthday but after some accidental listens it's starting to finally grow on me. I LOVE Massu's lead vocal song, it reminds me of Hadashi no Cinderella Boy. XD

i agree. i think "color" as an album is better than "pacific" though "pacific" had more stand-out tracks. (...i think i posted this earlier, LOL).

i still need to get "color". maybe over xmas break since i'm poor. i saw it today at Mitsuwa, but i bought a Wink Up magazine with NEWS on the cover instead. (it had a KANJANI8 poster anyway. x3)

don't you guys feel that Minna ga Iru Sekai wo Hitotsu ni Ai wo Motto Give & Take Shimashou sounds quite simliar to TEPPEN ?

the opening I mean

From http://never-ending-music-power.blogspot.com/ :

"Johnny's net has updated with some information about NEWS' Koyama Keiichi's solo butai next year. It's titled コール which translates to Call, and will be a stage play based off the movie Phone Booth. The dates have it begin January 30th and end on March 1st and there is at least one show scheduled for most of those days between those dates. From January 30th to February 22nd the butai will be at the Tokyo Globe-za and from February 26th to March 1st it will be at the Osaka Sankei Breeze."

Source = http://www.johnnys-net.jp/j/artists/...nsta.html#call

koyama is hilarious, so i wonder how this stageplay will be, lol.

oh cool! i love Koyama's personality. haha.

much success to him & his butai! :)

is it okay to post this here or in the kanjani8 thread? :shrug

from LJ.

and here's clips of koyama's stageplay and tegoshi with his shabake drama, lol. i forgot he's on VS arashi tonight! :P

http://community.livejournal.com/new...17.html#cutid2

koyama actually looks really good :innocent

btw, tegoshi will also be in a movie with maki horikita?

from JPM, lol.

YAY UCHI APPEARANCE ON SHOUNEN CLUB! :heart

probably should've posted it in the K8 thread, but that's okay, Uchi was part of NEWS too! ^^

& that movie sounds good! I LOOOOOVE Horikita Maki & Matsuyama Kenichi (i loved him as L in the Death Note trilogy).

lol i knew it should have been in the KJ8 thread, but it's not as active as this thread, sooo..yea :tipsy

so ordinary has grown on me but... i still love code WAY more.

and I freakin ADORE minna ga iru blah blah blah GIVE & TAKE shimashou lol

and i can jam to MOLA anytime anywhere! I listen to it at work and i have to be careful to not start dancing in the office lol

AND... BIG NEWS (for me) lol...

(i don't know why i put that in a spoiler lol)

lucky raye!!!! :grumpy hope you have fun, lol.

so lucky T_T

I want to go for a NEWS concert in the future too

omg, i would sell a limb to see a Johnny's concert. T_T

especially at Tokyo Dome too! you're so lucky, Raye-chan!

:roflmao

if NEWS can go to Taiwan to perform , I don't see why they cannot do so for other parts of the world

please come to S'pore , please !!

my friend i'm gonna stay with in Tokyo got us tickets to go! ^^ I hope they r good seats! I will die if one of the boys waves at me! >.< my first Johnny's concert! ^^ (hopefully the first of many lol)

Tegoshi will be appearing in this week's VS ARASHI , I hope it will be uploaded soon :D

it dosen't air until about 30 minutes :P too bad i need to sleep soon. i'll just catch it tomorrow.

AH! I WANNA WATCH THAT!!! i bet Tego-nyan will be so funny and competitive w/ Arashi! ^^

the guys's new calendar is up for preorder via http://track.webgains.com/click.html...0-en/info.html

$35 for a calendar?!? >.<

I hit for New Year's Eve! I'll be in Tokyo from the 28th to Jan 2, so lemme know if you want to meet up~ :P I was hoping to hit for the Dec 30 show, too, but didn't. Might end up going if my friend Chris wants to go. I'm also seeing one of the Osaka shows. :luv2

^ cool! I'll PM you! ^^

rayeeeeeeeeeeeeee ! lucky you !
ehrm :rolleyes....I'm sure you still have place in your luggage for me right:eyes:D

so tegoshi's new movie is officially confirmed :D

http://www.sponichi.co.jp/entertainm.../11/30/03.html

Tegoshi looks weird in that PJ & sweater like outfit in VS ARASHI but other than that he looks good !

good for you kaori! :D btw, they performed on FNS today, right? lol.

NEWS AND HSJ AT FNS!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on42oRzF-o4

omg at massu's hair :dead2 but OMFG HOT SHIGE :smitten

YamaPi's gonna be in Tackey's solo single for the B-side "Home Party!!".

Yokoyama Yuu & Hina from KANJANI8 are gonna be in it also.

ANYTHING WITH YOKOYAMA YUU IS AN INSTANT WIN, JSYK. xD

very curious to hear this song, lol. what a combination of voices :tipsy

I got my copy last week and I like it. ^^
But I don't get the deal about "SNOW EXPRESS". It's probably the song I like the least on "color". Though it might grow on me.

And LOL at "MURARISUTO". While "CHIRARIZUMU" is about sneaking under a girls skirt, "MURARISUTO" is about looking at a girls cleavage. Does that mean the next album will get a "parental advisory" sign on it? xD Or maybe they should have a song with that title. xD

^"SNOW EXPRESS" is OK. I don't understand what's THAT great about it, really.

I see "MURARISUTO" as a playful, boyish song. Same for "CHIRARIZUMU". With the music and the singing it's difficult to label it as 100% perverted. I mean the lyrics are cute, in one way or another.

:O i actually think "SNOW EXPRESS" is one of NEWS' better songs. but we each have our opinions! ^^

[RUMOR] OH HAY KUSANO RETURNING?

this is a rumor. this is a rumor. this is a rumor.
but i will give my opinions, nevertheless. xD

I know I'm gonna get slapped for this but prior to the album version of SNOW EXPRESS , I didn't even bothered to watch/hear the live performances that the guys did in their tour DVDs *sheepishly* but that changed after that so yup

I agree that if Kusano returns to NEWS then Uchi should, too. Though I'd prefer NEWS to stay as a six member group and have Uchi back to Kanjani8. But, is a return even possible now? Didn't like both groups release 2 albums without them already? If they'd come back now, what would they sing during concerts despite those old and new songs with the drunk divas? Akanishi was on a half year self-hiatus, yet KAT-TUNs future and Akanishis future in KAT-TUN was still kinda unsure, so what can be said after 2+ years?

For NEWS I prefer the post-hiatus music over the "touch" days. I didn't really listen to "touch" so far, but I'm not really interested, to be honest. Also with six members, solo parts in songs can be distributed equally. Koyashige seemed almost not present during the "touch" days.

umm actually I'm netural about this especially since I came onboard the NEWS music wagon after Uchi & Kusano were suspended

but I guess for the fans who followed NEWS since NEWS NIPPON , naturally they want both guys to be back ?

EDIT some NEWS related stuff & this centres on Tackey & Tsubasa's Tackey who's dropping his solo single Ai Kakumei next month :

from http://never-ending-music-power.blogspot.com/ :

"The second track is called WITH LOVE, and will have a PV that will be on the second LE edition of the single. The bonus track only on the RE cd in called Home Party!! and will have guest vocalists, Yamapi (NEWS) , Yoko and Hina (both Kanjani8)."

wow I have to hear Home Party !! man in due time

I hope Home Party !! will sound good

i don't want kusano (or uchi) back :grumpy i like my 6 group NEWS, lol.

^ me too. no one should return! >.<

when i saw massu's new hair, i was kind shocked lol

Shige does look super fine tho! ^^

I watched the FNS performance just now on my mp3player & god , Masuda looks like a man to me now !

I always thought he looked like a little boy to me til he cut his hair :thud & seriously for a moment , he looked like my ex close friend a bit :S

ANYWAY ...

scans of the guys in the latest Jan issue of Wink Up , Duet & Potato - http://je-for8ver.livejournal.com/22...833509#t833509

I like the Potato shots the most outta the 3

ehhhhh the video link doesn't work anymore :grumpy
it looks like what (massu's new hair)?

here you go - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0kuTP1GwsY

I honestly like Masuda's new hairdo

I don't know for the rest of you guys

woooo (O_O)

that is...

nope I don't like his new hair :no

lol

then I'm probably the only 1 that likes it ? :shrug

cos way before that , I always see him as a little boy but after the FNS performance , phoar :thud

i like his hair, it' not as bad as i imagined it to be. but i'm still used to his previous hairstyle.

he's probably the only one that didn't change his hairstyle as much as the rest of the guys , except hair colour wise

it's a nice change for Masuda imo

or it's probably has to due with his upcoming new drama with Nakamaru (even though he looked like a dweeb now while Masuda looks fly now)

what does yamamoto yusuke look like, kaori? :lech

lol

so this means that I'm the only 1 that like Masuda's new hair :dead2

& erm who will be creating the new NEWS thread ? *wonders what fancy new title for a new thread* :innocent