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The boys are on a roll this year, another single will be released in October. That makes 5 singles for 2010, I wouldn’t be surprise if there will be another for Nino’s new drama. My poor wallet, I bet Johnny-san is laughing hysterically somewhere in his mansion. Arashi equals endless of flow of cash LOL. Nevertheless, I am very interested in hearing this new ballad.

Dear Snow[w/ DVD, Limited Edition] | $12.89 US
Description:*Since this product is extremely limited, only one copy may be purchased by a customer. Single release from Arashi featuring a love ballade song which is theme song to the film “Ohoku” starring Nino. Limited edition includes a bonus DVD with music video of “Dear Snow.” Features alternate jacket. *Unless otherwise indicated, DVDs are region-2 encoded (Japan, Europe, and Middle East), and carry no subtitles.

Dear Snow[Regular Edition] | $11.15 US
Description:Single release from Arashi featuring a love ballade song which is theme song to the film “Ohoku” starring Nino. Regular edition includes a bonus track which is not included in limited edition. Features alternate jacket.

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Descriptions via CDJapan:
Love Rainbow [w/ DVD, Limited Edition] | US$ 16.34
Arashi featuring the theme to TV series “Natsu no Koi wa Nijiiro ni Kagayaku” starring Jun Matsumoto. Limited edition includes a bonus DVD with video clip of “Love Rainbow” and making-of. *Unless otherwise indicated, DVDs are region-2 encoded (Japan, Europe, and Middle East), and carry no subtitles.
1. [CD] Love Rainbow
2. [CD] over
3. [DVD] Love Rainbow (Video Clip) + Making

Love Rainbow [Regular Edition] | US$ 11.11
Thirty-second single release from Arashi featuring the theme to TV series “Natsu no Koi wa Nijiiro ni Kagayaku” starring Jun Matsumoto. Regular edition includes original karaoke tracks.
1. Love Rainbow
2. over
3. Love Rainbow (Original Karaoke)
4. over (Original Karaoke)

The covers are is so out of my expectation, had thought something along the lines of a rainbow theme. However, they are still very awesome and have a mature feel to them. I cannot wait to see the PV, the boys will add another #1 to their list.

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On August 22nd, NTV will broadcast a special episode of their Music Lovers show. The episode, featuring Arashi, will be called “Music Lovers 200 Kai Kinnen Manatsu no Arashi special.”

It will be a special fifty minute long episode that will act as the 200th anniversary episode for Music Lovers. The Johnny’s Entertainment stars are already well known for their hits “Happiness,” Believe,” and “Troublemaker.” For the television special, they will be unveiling performances from their new album “Boku no Miteiru Fuukei.” For this special live event they will also be restricting it to only male fans of ARASHI. The show also conducted a poll of Arashi fans before the special and will show the results during the episode.

In addition to Arashi, Music Lovers will also host Yashima Norito and Meisa Kuroki as guests.

From Tokyohive

This is such a treat, cannot wait to see the performance of the new songs. A male only audience, eh!? It is will be certainly interesting to watch compared to the usual fangirl squeals. I wonder if they are all fanclub member? Nevertheless, we’re going to have loads of fun ne. XD

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Arashi’s popular variety show “Himitsu no Arashi-chan,” was broadcasted on the 12th. This week’s episode was an editorial of “VIP ROOM” which showed 42 previous guests and included some unseen footage.

In the corner, “VIP ROOM,” the guest (usually female) picks her “favorite Arashi” member. In this episode, they announced “the best of ‘favorite Arashi’, which revealed who has been picked the most. The winner was Ohno Satoshi, the leader of Arashi. Satoshi was chosen by 11 female celebrities, including Shibasaki Koh, Kuroki Meisa, and Karina.

From Tokyohive

Hehe…that’s our Riida, the real womanizer! I’m not a bit surprised as he is a constantly picked as a favorite during the HnA VIP Room. Though, I love them all, Jun-kun will always be my ichiban followed closely by Oh-chan. He is extremely modest and knows when to be serious or CHO hilarious. Everyone knows that he is such a bad boy at heart. LOL

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In the magazine “TV LIFE” (17th vol.), the results of “My ‘Arashi uta’ ranking”, in which fans voted for their favorite Arashi songs, were revealed. The poll was held through the TV LIFE website from July 1st to 14th.

The #1 Arashi song is… “Still…“, which was the follow up song from their 20th single, “Happiness” (released in September 2007). The runner up was the song, “5×10“. The complete top 40 ranking is available only through the magazine.

What is your favorite Arashi song?

From Toykohive

Still is a lovely song, however, I’m a bit surprised that it was voted as #1 as poll-takers usually select a title song such as Truth or Believe. For me, it’s extremely hard to pick just one, Arashi has too many wonderful songs. Like voters, Still and 5×10 are among my favorites along with Kansha Kangeki Ame Arashi, Tomadoinagara, We can make it!, Boku ga Boku no Subete, Cry for me and Once Again. How about yours?

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Popular music show “Music Station”, which airs on TV Asahi, has announced the lineup for their August 13th show. Music Station will have three popular Johnny’s Entertainment groups, SMAP, TOKIO, and ARASHI, performing all on the same day.

Music Station is a long-running Japanese music television program which began broadcasting on October 24, 1986. It has been 12 years since three groups from Johnny’s Entertainment performed together on Music Station on the same date. On the show, SMAP will be performing their new single titled “This is love”, which was released on August 4th. TOKIO will be performing “NaNaNa (Taiyounante Irane)”, which will be released on August 11th, and ARASHI will be performing two songs, one titled “movin’on” and one called “Troublemaker” from their new album, “Boku no Miteiru Fukei.” Other artists who will perform at the show include Fukuyama Masaharu, FUNKY MONKEY BABYS, and perfume. Music Station airs every Friday from 8:00PM ~ 8:54pm on TV Asahi.

From Tokyohive

Kyaa~~three of my favorite JE groups are going to be together on MS! Me thinks this will be one epic and “chaotic” episode. LOL

I cannot wait to see how SMAP is going to fanboy over Arashi like they did over the La La La performance many years ago. Maybe there will also be a Nakai-Ohno war, that would be truly awesome. _{**Boy I really miss Utaban!} TOKIO is going crazy and wild as ever, those dorky sempais! LOL

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Boy band Arashi released a new album on Wednesday, titled “Boku no Miteiru Fuukei.” In its first day of sales, fans bought 275,000 copies, setting a new personal record for the group. Last year, their “All the BEST! 1999-2009″ collection set their previous record with 261,000 copies in its first day. That album went on to sell 753,000 copies within the first week, so many are hoping to see “Boku no Miteiru Fuukei” break that record as well.

Arashi’s last original album was “Dream A live” in 2008. Since then, they have released several hit singles, including “Monster” and “Troublemaker,” which both sold more than half a million copies in their first weeks.

From Toykograph

Sugoiiii!! I cannot believe the sales are so good and even had surpassed the first day for All the BEST! It’s probably going to be a quintuple crown this year?! Omedetou to those dorky five!!

I had an opportunity to preview the album last night and it was such a hit for me. I absolutely ♥♥ Mada Ue Wo, Refrain and Kagero, love the variety of melodies and mature lyrics. This certainly displays how Arashi has grown and how versatile they have become. Though, their solos have not been listened to, there is a feeling that Ohno’s will be loved. His gorgeous vocals always seems to amaze me.

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Arashi will release their 32nd single “Lφve Rainbow” on September 8th, which is also the theme song of Matsumoto Jun’s drama “Natsu no koi wa nijiiro ni kagayaku“.

The details of the track list have not been revealed yet, but the limited edition will come with a DVD of the “Lφve Rainbow” PV and the follow up song will be a totally different type of song from “Lφve Rainbow”.

CDJapan is taking preorders now:
Love Rainbow [w/ DVD, Limited Edition] -- US$ 15.97
Love Rainbow [Regular Edition] -- US$ 10.86

From Tokyohive

I’m always happy when the boys’ release something new, especially this cute song. However, this is going to leave a dent in my wallet since some purchases were just placed at CDJapan.

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