[ARASHI] The 33rd thread ~ 45th single Sakura (25.2)

[Beauty4123]

the sales for "LOVE" are so amazing! i'm so happy for arashi!

[Bigtop]

Almost 500,000 - and should be crossing that point on the next day! Maybe can we try to reach 750,000?

[KarenPang]

Arashi tops the annual 'favourite artists' ranking 4 years in a row

On October 25, entertainment magazine 'Ori★Suta' revealed their 10th annual "favorite artist" ranking.

First place for this year's ranking went to none other than Arashi. With this, they have become the first artist to take first place for this ranking 4 years in a row. They have also surpassed Utada Hikaru who held the #1 title a total of 3 times.

Arashi has hosted the 'Kohaku Uta Gassen' for 4 consecutive years and held a live at the National Olympic Stadium for 6 consecutive years. The members have also been successful with their solo careers, starring in various dramas, CMs, variety programs, and movies.

The full ranking can be seen below.
1. Arashi
2. Ikimonogakari
3. Mr.Children
4. Fukuyama Masaharu
5. Yuzu
6. Utada Hikaru
7. B'z
8. Southern All Stars
9. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
10. Kobukuro
11. Amuro Namie
12. Spitz
13. Porno Graffitti
14. Momoiro Clover Z
15. Perfume
16. YUI
17. aiko
18. Kuwata Keisuke
19. EXILE
20. BUMP OF CHICKEN

http://www.tokyohive.com/article/201...years-in-a-row

[KarenPang]

LOVE 3rd day sales - 70,410

Total 3 day sales - 327,985 + 150,370 + 70,410 = 548,765

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2013-10-24/

Congrats to LOVE for crossing 1/2 a million copies within 3 days

[KarenPang]

LOVE 4th day sales - 44,061

Total 4 day sales - 327,985 + 150,370 + 70,410 + 44,061 = 592,826

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2013-10-25/more/1/

[Bigtop]

Okay, that's backing me off from 750,000 - but we'll just have to see...

[KarenPang]

LOVE 5th day sales - 38,137

Total 5 day sales - 327,985 + 150,370 + 70,410 + 44,061 + 38,137 = 630,963

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2013-10-26/

[KarenPang]

LOVE 6th day sales - 28,755

Total 6 day sales - 327,985 + 150,370 + 70,410 + 44,061 + 38,137 + 28,755= 659,718

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/2013-10-27/

[inspire_rmx]

their sales are amazing!

[Bigtop]

700,000 please!!!

[KarenPang]

アイドルグループ、嵐の１２作目のオリジナルアルバム「ＬＯＶＥ」が１１月４日付けオリコン週間アルバムラ ンキングで初登場首位を獲得した。初週売上は６７.０万枚。

　４ｔｈオリジナルアルバム「いざッ、Ｎｏｗ」から１１作連続通算１２作目。アルバム首位獲得年数は２００ ４年から１０年連続となり、グループ並びに男性アーティストとしてはＥＸＩＬＥ（２００３～１３年。１１年 連続）以来、史上２組目の大台到達の快挙となった。

As the japanese text says, LOVE has taken first spot at album ranking on its first week, selling around 670K.

Since their 4th original album "Iza, Now" their albums have been taking the first place on first week on album ranking. This is, 10 consecutive years, making them the 2nd male artist (EXILE 2003~13, 11 consecutive years) achieving this record.

【嵐】　　　　LOVE(2　Popcorn(2 World（1　風景（1　Best（2　Dream（2　Time（2
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
火 　　　　　327,985　302,605　269,854　275,081　261,076　100,9 85　*80,187
水 　　　　　150,370　166,826　145,895　183,521　171,046　*56,8 59　*53,381
木 　　　　　*70,410　*77,738　*73,337　109,659　120,568　*19,1 83　*20,365
金 　　　　　*44,061　*46,398　*51,161　*54,727　*74,411　*15,1 11　*11,571
土 　　　　　*38,137　*46,847　*38,213　*42,160　*65,443　*14,8 24　*11,531
日 　　　　　*28,755　*33,715　*32,619　*41,130　*50,223　*13,7 60　*13,835
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
推定売上　659,718　674,129　611,079　706,278　742,767　220,7 22　190,870
週間枚数　***,***　701,260　630,951　730,851　753,430　220,7 22　190,870
週間－推　***,***　*27,131　*19,872　*24,573　*10,663

http://arashi-no-jidai.livejournal.com/686668.html

[Bigtop]

Aww... No 700k

670,000's still good though

[Beauty4123]

the first week sales for "LOVE" are totally amazing! i'm very happy to see that the album is selling so well!

[KarenPang]

MatsuJun will star in the live-action drama of manga "Shitsuren Chocolatier". This drama will be broadcast in FujiTV on January next year

The adaptation was announced at the end of last month

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...ve-action-show

[KarenPang]

Arashi tops Oricon weekly album chart 2 weeks in a row

Arashi's 12th original album "LOVE" (released on October 23) sold 62,000 copies in the second week (732,000 copies in total), and it once again topped Oricon's weekly album chart for the 2nd week in a row.

This is the first time in 3 years and 3 months for a group's album to top the weekly chart for 2 consecutive weeks. Arashi was the last to achieve this with their 9th original album "Boku no Miteiru Fukei" (relased in August 2010).

"LOVE" is also the first album in 2013 that sold over 700,000 copies.

http://www.tokyohive.com/article/201...weeks-in-a-row

'Shitsuren Chocolatier' to get a live-action drama adaptation starring Matsumoto Jun

Arashi member Matsumoto Jun will star in Fuji TV's next 'Getsu 9' drama "Shitsuren Chocolatier" which will begin airing in January. This will be the third time that Matsumoto is starring in a 'Getsu 9' drama after "Natsu no Koi wa Nijiiro ni Kagayaku" (2010) and "Lucky Seven"(2012).

"Shitsuren Chocolatier" is a live-action drama adaptation of Mizushiro Setona's popular manga of the same name, which was awarded the '36th Kodansha Manga Award' (Shoujo category).

In the drama, Matsumoto will be playing a Chocolatier who gives his heart to a woman.

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The protagonist "Koyurugi Sota" (Matsumoto) is a student at a confectionary school. He has been in love with a girl one year older than him, named "Saeko", who Sota fell in love at first sight with when he was in high school.

Right before Christmas, Sota and Saeko begin dating. Since Saeko loves chocolates, Sota made chocolate for her and gave it to her on the day before Valentine's day. However, Saeko refused to take it and told him that she was never his girlfriend in the first place. Even so, Sota still can't give up on Saeko. In order to gain her attention, he decided to improve his chocolate-making skills and go over to France to become a first-class chocolatier....

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Matsumoto commented, "Though it's a love story, its theme is a broken heart. I would try to express not only the delight of love, but also the pain of it carefully. I want to make it a 'sweet and fun time' when the viewers would want to support Sota's love while enjoying the chocolates appear in the drama."

http://www.tokyohive.com/article/201...-matsumoto-jun

[KarenPang]

LOVE is certified Triple Platinum for shipment of 750K copies

http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/gold/201310.html

[KarenPang]

Sakurai Sho has been confirmed to be part of "Lupin III" live action. Filming has started in Bangkok and will continue in other locations.

https://twitter.com/JEinternational/...98822408126464

[KarenPang]

ARASHI will appear/perform on the 29th Nov episode of MUSIC STATION

2013/11/29

1. ARASHI
2. AKB48
3. EXILE
4. KAT-TUN
5. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu
6. Porno Graffitti
7. Yuzu×JUJU
8. Lady Gaga

http://natalie.mu/music/news/103701

[Bigtop]

Wait...a three-hour special? What is it?

[KarenPang]

MatsuJun's Heartbroken Chocolatier drama has its own website now

http://www.fujitv.co.jp/chocolatier/