Arashi “Hijacks” Omotesando Station

30 Dec 200903 Mar 2010 by Fiona

[The] Arashi’s posters, which are for promotion of the new drama “Saigo no Yakusoku/最後の約束 (lit. The Last Promise)”, are hijacking Omotesando station from December 28th. The drama will be aired from January 9th and it has been 10 years since all five members play the lead roles in one drama together.

Big images of five members are shown on the posters, with their mouths taped up and tied according to the story. These posters are put up on ten pillars in the station, and at the same time, tied up with real ropes! In addition, there is one special large-size poster with 5.8m in width and 2m in height. “We are held hostages in the drama, but we will hijack the Omotesando station at the beginning of the New Year! Please don’t untie the rope.” said Jun Matsumoto. The posters will be displayed until January 3rd. You should better go and check it out!

From Music Japan

CM for Saigo no Yakusoku and Sho-kun’s docudrama

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68uRNxq780c

I’m getting more and more existing after seeing the trailer, love the suspense aspect. Jun-kun was so darn cute with his comment, Please don’t untie the rope. He is such a masochist at heart! I would love to see the pillars, who wouldn’t want to see half-naked Arashi, ne. :glassy:

UPDATE:
Kyaa~~~ Look what I’d found. Thanks to fybabe, the pictures of these smoking hot, noseblooding posters can be found at Flickr. XO

My mind went blank after seeing these, really wish I was in Japan to see them up-close and personal. This was such an awesome PR move and definitely draws attention. I’m sure massive fangirls are swamping the station now…hehe.

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Arashi to be MC @ 2009-2010 Johnny’s Countdown

28 Dec 200904 Mar 2010 by Fiona

Our boys will be the MC again for the countdown! Ehh!! I’d of thought a sempai group would be doing this and let Arashi be at Kouhaku a bit longer, which is a much grander stage. They certainly deserve it after working so hard to get there. They are going to mecha busy — rushing to the Tokyo Dome after their performance at NHK.

Though, I’m happy and excited, I’m still worried about the boys’ health. I truly hope that they have a good rest afterward.

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Arashi – First artist to dominate yearly sales in 4 categories

18 Dec 200903 Mar 2010 by Fiona

Oricon’s year-end sales rankings for 2009 are out, and the results confirm that Arashi is the top selling artist of the year. They had the #1 single, the #1 album, the #1 music DVD, and were #1 for the first time in artist total sales. In the 42 years of Oricon’s history, no one else has topped all four categories in the same year.

Counting sales of singles, albums, music DVDs, and music Blu-ray Discs, Arashi grossed a total of more than 14.46 billion yen. At #2 this year was EXILE, who topped the list in 2008 with 19.58 billion yen in total sales.

In single sales, Arashi had the #1, #2, #3, and #5 releases, with “Believe / Kumori Nochi, Kaisei” in front at nearly 657,000 units sold. The only other artists to occupy the top three spots were Pink Lady in 1978 and Hikaru Genji in 1988. Arashi are the first to have four of the top five, as well as the first to hold the top two spots in back-to-back years.

Their “All the BEST! 1999-2009” album sold over 1.43 million copies. In DVD sales, they were #1 and #2 with “5×10 All the BEST! CLIPS 1999-2009” (591,000) and “ARASHI AROUND ASIA 2008 in TOKYO” (428,000).

More complete ranking lists are available on the Oricon website.

Source: Tokyograph and Oricon

Press Conference:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD99veUMpKc

OMEDETOU ARASHI!!!!

*throws confetti and cheers like a maniac*

So damn proud of the boys and certainly well deserved! I’m truly happy for them and never get bored of wonderful news like this.

With this merit, they should be entitled a vacation paid by the Jimusho. Our boys qualified for good well-rested one :up: , they have been working non-stop for so long now. Maybe they can go to Hawaii for a PV or something and then stay there for a holiday. Just my two cents.

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