[ARASHI] The 37th thread ~ 57th single BRAVE (11.09.19)

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J-pop boyband Arashi trend on Twitter after finally putting music on YouTube

SINGAPORE - The 20-year-old J-pop boyband Arashi have finally made their way onto YouTube, creating an official channel on Wednesday (Oct 9) with five music videos of their popular songs.

This is the first time Arashi have made any of their music - which spans 16 studio albums and 57 singles - legal to stream online.

The five songs on YouTube are their debut single A.RA.SHI (1999), Happiness (2007), truth (2009), Monster (2010) and Love so sweet (2007), the theme song to popular Japanese idol drama Boys Over Flowers Returns. The music videos are available internationally.

As of 2pm on Thursday, Arashi's channel has over 920,000 subscribers and all five videos have surpassed one million views.

The songs are also available on music streaming services Spotify and Apple Music in Japan.

The move has caused Arashi to trend on Twitter in several countries around the region, including Singapore, on Wednesday, with many fans expressing delight and disbelief.

Even as the Western pop and K-pop scenes have increasingly embraced the Internet as a way to promote artists, Johnny's and Associates - Arashi's agency and a company that has a monopoly on Japan's boybands - is notorious for shutting down online streams of their artists' music and shunning social media for their talents.

Arashi, which are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year, is the agency's first major act to create an official YouTube channel. Previously, YouTube channels were created only for its trainee idols.

The famously tight-lipped agency has not released any statement on Arashi's foray into YouTube. It is as yet unclear whether more music of the band will be made available online legally.

Arashi, made up of members Ohno Satoshi , Sakurai Sho , Aiba Masaki , Ninomiya Kazunari and Matsumoto Jun , are well-known as Japan's national idol group.

The five men, who are all in their late 30s, have remained consistently popular, with releases breaking records and topping charts regularly. They also work actively as hosts and actors.

Arashi were recently announced as one of the acts to perform at a festival in November to celebrate the enthronement of Emperor Naruhito, who ascended to the Chrysanthemum Throne of Japan in May this year.

In January this year, the group shocked fans around the world when they announced an indefinite hiatus which will begin from 2021, after leader Ohno confessed his desire to take a break from the entertainment industry to pursue other interests.

https://www.straitstimes.com/lifesty...tting-music-on

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Streaming of last night's Arashi ni Shiyagare

https://www.bilibili.com/video/av71017873

Guest was Ikuta Toma

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Voice actor Kamiya Hiroshi, who was part of the Ii Koe opponent team, talked about his experience in VS Arashi on his radio show he co hosted with voice actor Ono Daisuke







https://twitter.com/hatenaistorm/sta...56678038290432

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Kimura Takuya & Sawamura Ikki will be featured as guests on tomorrow's Sakurai ・Ariyoshi THE Yakai



https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2146666/full/

This should be interesting 8D

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Trailer of tomorrow's Sakurai ・Ariyoshi THE Yakai with Kimura Takuya & Sawamura Ikki as guests

https://twitter.com/theyakai/status/1184389862390038531

Haha Sakurai is nervous being around Kimura Takuya , like duh

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Another photo of Kimura Takuya with Sakurai that he will be featured in tonight's Sakurai ・Ariyoshi THE Yakai



https://twitter.com/theyakai/status/1184665398899142656

:p

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嵐公式YouTubeチャンネル誕生



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqIO8GLQgvA

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This year's red & white teams moderators for Kouhaku has been announced

Red - Sakurai
White - Ayase Haruka

While the general moderator will be comedian Uchimura Teruyoshi which he has done so for the last 3 years

https://twitter.com/nhk_kouhaku/stat...22376602939392
https://natalie.mu/music/news/351929

Frankly I'm surprised NHK did not ask ARASHI to host Kouhaku again

But yay for Sakurai being the red team mod & somemore it's his team's colour in Arashi too woo

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Streaming of last night's Sakurai ・Ariyoshi THE Yakai

https://www.bilibili.com/video/av71555929

Guests - Kimura Takuya & Sawamura Ikki

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Streaming of last night's VS ARASHI

https://www.bilibili.com/video/av71542411

Plus One guests - actor Yoshizawa Ryo & comedian Yamamoto Hiroshi

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Ayase Haruka and Sakurai Sho to host this year's 'Kohaku Uta Gassen'

The hosts for the '70th NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen' have been announced.

The main host for this year's program is Uchimura Teruyoshi for his third consecutive year. In addition, the host for the red team will be actress Ayase Haruka, while the white team's host will be Arashi's Sakurai Sho.

On being the host for the first Kohaku of the Reiwa Era, Ayase commented, "I want to make it a Kohaku Uta Gassen that will give people energy." Similarly, Sakurai stated, "I hope the three of us will deliver a program that would be a fanfare for the new era and 2020."

https://www.tokyohive.com/article/20...aku-uta-gassen

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CM that Ohno did for McDonalds's McCafe

https://twitter.com/sandysatoshi/sta...78768526041088

x)

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Streaming of last night's Arashi ni Shiyagare

https://www.bilibili.com/video/av71804227

Guests - King & Prince's Takahashi Kaito & Sexy Zone's Sato Shori

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The first episode of Hana Yori Dango aired 14 years ago today, 21st October 2005

https://twitter.com/unleashthegeek/s...87644821393408

Mind blown

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In Harajuku



https://twitter.com/YouTubeJapan/sta...05488670748672

Damn

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A・RA・SHI [Official Live Video] 「ARASHI BLAST in Hawaii」(2014)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih1id9f6p-M









https://twitter.com/unleashthegeek/s...71565997023232

I always remember the 1 infamous line Aiba said when they made their debut in Hawaii 20 years ago xD

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Matsuoka Masahiro: "Sho, for example, is active in a completely different world."

Okada Junichi can't call Sakurai Sho "Bambi" anymore since he deserves respect.

Kokubun Taichi thinks Sakurai Sho lives in a different dimension.

Sakamoto Masayuki said he respects Sakurai Sho even though he's his Kouhai.

Nakai Masahiro feels threatened by Sakurai Sho's position.

Higashiyama Noriyuki learned news casting from watching Sakurai Sho.

Kimura Takuya thinks it's nice to see Sakurai Sho return to being "Sho" sometimes.

Inohara Yoshihiko wants to date Sakurai Sho.

https://www.facebook.com/sunrisenipp...Xruo&__tn__=-R



Kinda ironic that Matsu-ni & Taichi have the same thoughts on Sakurai , lmao

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Love so sweet [Official Live Video] 「ARASHI AROUND ASIA 2008 in TOKYO」(2008)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVEcvk3fwtE

My what memories & it's long overdue for ARASHI to perform in Asia again as the last time they did so was ARASHI Marks ARASHI AROUND ASIA 2008 , @_@

Even if that will happen , I'm sure tickets will be hard if not downright impossible to get

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Streaming of last night's VS ARASHI

https://www.bilibili.com/video/av73296146

Plus One Guest - actress Sugisaki Hana

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Streaming of last night's Sakurai ・Ariyoshi THE Yakai

https://www.bilibili.com/video/av73287005

Guests - Kimura Takuya , Sawamura Ikki , Kimura Saori , Degawa Tetsuro & Tsuchiya Honoka