actually hor,from i observe,they(5music) don't really sell JP press.they accept pre-orders for JP press for certain period.after the pre-orders are closed,they will not import more than the pre-orders quantity.this is what i observe from their site.so,i would say they are act like middleman for people who can't purchase from japanese site

So, here's how it goes for September:

1st - V6, miwa, Sayuri Sugawara
8th - ARASHI, Angela Aki
15th - EXILE, Rina Aiuchi (retiring!)
22nd - Ayu, Kuu
29th - Ayu's 50th single!!!

3rd day sales for Boku no Miteiru Fukei - 109,659

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

total 3 day sales - 568,261

【嵐】　　　　風景　Best　Dream　Time
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
月 　　　　　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---
火 　　　　　275,081　261,076　100,985　*80,187
水 　　　　　183,521　171,046　*56,859　*53,381
木 　　　　　109,659　120,568　*19,183　*20,365
金 　　　　　***,***　*74,411　*15,111　*11,571
土 　　　　　***,***　*65,443　*14,824　*11,531
日 　　　　　***,***　*50,223　*13,760　*13,835
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
1st week sales　tbc　742,767　220,722　190,870

lol by tomorrow , they will already more or less have the best selling album this year in Oricon & let alone so far highest 1st week sales for an album too in comparison with Namie's PAST < FUTURE (571,135)

you don't need to release x no. of versions for Boku no Miteiru Fukei , just 1 & BANG enough xD

YesAsia description of Lφve Rainbow

Continuing another successful year, Johnny's pop group Arashi releases Lφve Rainbow, their fourth single of the year. A cheerful summer dance song, Lφve Rainbow serves as the theme song for the summer 2010 Fuji TV drama Natsu no Koi wa Niji Iro ni Kagayaku, starring Arashi member Matsumoto Jun and Takeuchi Yuko.

This is the first time Arashi is providing a theme song for a drama at the extremely popular Monday night 9pm timeslot, solidifying the group's true popularity in the Japanese entertainment world.

lol honestly I didn't know about this til earlier on D:

how it sold over 500k in just 3 days...just amazing :weep i didn't think they'd surpass the 3rd day sales of ALL THE BEST, but the drop wasn't as hard as expected, so i'm satisfied with today's sales! :yes i think the album is getting sold out very quickly in stores, so maybe that's why. they better restock :laugh

:cool

wow! the album is selling like crazy :shakehead

Scans - Sept issue of Wink Up

http://aoisoradesu.livejournal.com/39927.html

I usually don't like Wink Up (I prefer Potato & Popolo's layout) but these ones are good

those scans look so cute!! :heart

a Singaporean like me posted a piece of news yesterday that locally at HMV , the 1st press of Boku no Miteiru Fukei is made available in stores

http://community.livejournal.com/arashi_on/3157420.html

S$76.95 :thud :dead2

thanks but NO thanks :no

oh yea, i saw that on arashi_on, too, lol. i was like :o! would anyone even pay almost 100 dollars just for an album?! :irked

yeah it's CRAZY :dead2

I don't understand why some people must insist to have everything Japan press , is it really worth it ?

I just sit back , wait for the Taiwan press to be out & I still get the same thing but at 2/3 of the cost which I save

I think people doesn't know about this until you really dive right into the belly of the beast xD

These boys never age do they!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
:O
The scans are great!

DEM SALES. wow. i really wasn't expecting something this huge! maybe for the first week, not the first couple of days, haha. but huge congratulations. :cool

i have yet to listen to the album. :weep people keep pushing me out of the house. :laugh

4th day sales for Boku no Miteiru Fukei - 54,727

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

total 4 day sales - 622,988

【嵐】　　　　風景　Best　Dream　Time
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
月 　　　　　---,---　---,---　---,---　---,---
火 　　　　　275,081　261,076　100,985　*80,187
水 　　　　　183,521　171,046　*56,859　*53,381
木 　　　　　109,659　120,568　*19,183　*20,365
金 　　　　　54,727　*74,411　*15,111　*11,571
土 　　　　　***,***　*65,443　*14,824　*11,531
日 　　　　　***,***　*50,223　*13,760　*13,835
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
1st week sales　tbc　742,767　220,722　190,870

I don't think Boku no Miteiru Fukei will suppress the 1st week sales of ALL THE BEST ! from the look of things

but still it has done really well & unofficially they have the best selling album in their discography & also this year on Oricon already within 4 days which's unbelievable D: :thud

& oh yeah , I have write up a LONG album review on Boku no Miteiru Fukei via my music blog here

it took me forever :thud & I think it's safe to say it's probably 1 of the longest album reviews I have written myself lmao xD but I'm satisfied in what I wrote about Boku no Miteiru Fukei :)

Wah!! Highest selling album!! Wheeee~

Oh great review Karen :D It makes me so excited to hear the album!!

lol I guess you haven't heard Boku no Miteiru Fukei , Caroline x)

but yeah it's tough not to be bias when I write reviews on singles/albums in my music blog especially when I really really like so & so in particular

but so far I manage to balance things out in a way or 2 ;p

it's doing more or less the same as ALL THE BEST, though. at least for the 3rd and 4th days. but i gotta stop comparing the two cause they're both different, lol. i just like seeing an album outsell a previous album :laugh but overall, the sales are AMAZING right now and i couldn't ask for more! :yes well done, araaaashi! now i wanna know how the first week sales will look like. maybe eventually the album could get the million?

oh, and irene, PLEASE listen to the album as soon as you can! i'm anxious to hear what you think about it! :P

well their selling power in recent times have strengthen a lot

I'm very sure Boku no Miteiru Fukei's chances of crossing that magical million mark is very high since it already sold 622,988 in 4 days

I still remembered last time Step and Go was #1 in the 1st week & it dropped all the way to #9 on the 2nd week X_X

from One Love onwards , their charting performance on Oricon has improved greatly & at least now , their releases don't swing & go haywire like a rollercoaster if you know what I mean

yea, i totally see what you mean, karen! so i guess i shouldn't worry then, lol. but wow, i was a fan at the time of Step and Go but i don't think i remember following it on oricon. #9 in the 2nd week? :dead it's amazing to see how far arashi has come since then.

yeah their selling/charting power was really terrible

I still remembered that time when they released Step and Go , OMG I was SO pissed that they were #1 because I was so Ken Hirai baited that time & I was hoping that his 1st double A-side single would get #1

but nooo it didn't & instead ARASHI took it & I WAS SO ANGRY :roflmao

Looking back , I now find that incident HILARIOUS :laugh & I couldn't help but laugh at it now xD

I find it quite hard to believe that I already listen to them & also Johnny's in particular for already close to 2 years now :thud

haha, that's hilarious! :laugh are you still a ken hirai fan? :P

i became a "real" fan during the summer of 2008, but i was following arashi ever since the day the step and go PV came out (it was in february 2008, i think). i remember ayaka's te wo tsunagou PV also came out on that day. such memories :weep