HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR ARASHIAN!!!!

I like to wish all my blog visitor a Happy New Year 2012~~
I wish all of ur wish for 2011 come true n i also wish 4 ur future wish will be true~~

Well...i leave u all with this..

Sakurai Sho to show live piano performance on Kohaku

NHK announced that Arashi who will be the host for the white team on this year’s ‘Kohaku Uta Gassen‘.  The group will also be the presenters for a corner to support Tohoku region.

The corner is titled ‘Ashita wo Utaou. ~Nippon no Arashi ‘Furusato’~’.  Arashi member, Sakurai Sho will show his live piano performance to “Furusato” which is the image song for this year’s Kohaku.  With Sakurai’s piano performance, other Arashi members and the artists who will participate in Kohaku will sing in the chorus.

The piano Sakurai will be playing was being used at a junior high school in Fukushima prefecture for a long time. However, on March 11th, when they were having a graduation ceremony, it was damaged due to the Tsunami from the Tohoku earthquake.  After the earthquake, a local piano tuner spent six months fixing the piano.  It has now become it became a symbol of recovery.

Sakurai commented, “The piano that has recovered after half a year.  It still has many scars on it, but, rings out the pure timbres. With the thoughts of the piano tuner, Endo-san and the children in Fukushima, I would like to perform ‘Furusato’.”

Source: Sanspo + NHK

Image: MANTAN WEB

Do you own any Arashi albums?

Arashi has been placed 1st on the 2011 album rankings, making this their 3rd year in a row! For male artists, this kind of achievement would be a first. With this said, do you own any of their albums? Check out the top 8 Goo Ranking results to see various voters’ responses as well as which album was popular out of all!

01. All albums – 9255 votes
02. None – 7817 votes
03. All the BEST! 1999–2009 – 3159 votes
04. I’ve rented their albums – 2760 votes
05. 2 out of all – 2342 votes
06. Boku no Miteiru Fuukei – 568 votes
07. Beautiful World – 554 votes
08. Other – 527 votes

Source: Goo Ranking

Favorite dramas starring Matsumoto Jun?

Matsumoto Jun will be starring in the drama, “Lucky Seven” starting January next year. Both talented in singing and acting, he’s appeared in countless dramas. Which one was your favorite out all of them? Look down below to see the top 10 dramas Goo Ranking has recorded from their poll!

01. Hana Yori Dango – 16157 votes
02. Kimi wa Pet – 2211 votes
03. Gokusen – 1538 votes
04. Bambi~no! – 887 votes
05. Natsu no Koi wa Nijiiro ni Kagayaku – 796 votes
06. Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo – 307 votes
07. Smile – 297 votes
08. Mew no Ashi Papa ni Ageru – 216 votes
09. V no Arashi – 188 votes
10. Wagaya no Rekishi – 128 votes

Source: Goo Ranking

Arashi tops Oricon yearly album ranking & music DVD ranking for 3 consecutive years

It was announced that Arashi dominated both Oricon yearly album ranking and Music DVD ranking for 2011.

The No.1 selling album in 2011 is Arashi’s “Beautiful World” which was released in July and sold 908,000 total copies.  This is the third consecutive year that Arashi has topped the Oricon yearly album chart (“All the BEST! 1999-2009” in 2009, “Boku no Miteiru Fukei” in 2010).

In addition, they are the second artist who achieved 3 consecutive yearly #1 albums in 20 years afterMatsutoya Yumi made the record during 1989 ~ 1991.  For a male artist, Inoue Yosui previously made the record for toping Oricon’s yearly album chart for 2 consecutive years (in 1974 ~ 1975).  However, this year, Arashi beat Inoue’s record with their 3 consecutive years #1s.

Not only the album chart, but Arashi also topped the Music DVD chart for 3 consecutive years with their live DVD “ARASHI 10-11 TOUR ‘Scene’ ~Kimi to Boku no Miteiru Fukei~ STADIUM“, released back in January (“5×10 All the BEST! CLIPS 1999-2009” in 2009, “ARASHI Anniversary Tour 5×10” in 2010).  Moreover, “ARASHI 10-11 TOUR ‘Scene’ ~Kimi to Boku no Miteiru Fukei~ STADIUM” sold 793,000 copies making it the best selling music DVD ever for Oricon’s DVD ranking history, which started in 1999.  The No.2 best selling music DVD  is also Arashi’s, their “ARASHI 10-11 TOUR ‘Scene’ ~Kimi to Boku no Miteiru Fukei~ DOME+”  DVD (released in June) sold 673,000 copies.

The sum of Arashi’s sales for music DVDs was 10,170,000,000 yen leading to a #1 ranking in the music DVD sales category as well.  In total, the group topped 4 categories this year.

Source & Image: Oricon

More info about Fuku Arashi programs

It was previously announced that Arashi would be collaborating with Fuji TV for their Fuku Arashi campaign. Some programs were announced as part of this campaign (such as Kotatsu DE Arashi) but few-to-no details were given.

Recently the Fuku Arashi campaign site launched giving more details about their various shows.

Kotatsu DE Arashi will air on Jan 3 from 13:00-14:30. Celebrating 10 years of Arashi programming on Fuji TV, the show will have Arashi sitting under kotatsu looking at a chronology of events from their debut to present, choosing from Karuta containing keywords from past episodes, and talking about nostalgic videos from their past, among other things.

The set will not only include the chronological table but nostalgic photos, costumes and items they used at past locations shoots. For Arashi fans it will be a 90 minutes full of laughter and tears. Their relaxed talk as they sit reversed under the kotatsu is not to be missed!

Their other planned program, a late-night show to air from December 27-January 2 will only be 5 mins long (24:55-25:00) and will feature talk segments and secret clips from their upcoming shows (there will be no episode on December 31).

Things to look forward to include them looking back at well-known scenes from VS Arashi and introducing the scaled-up versions of their current games which are planned for the VS Arashi Spring special; an introduction to Ohno's spring special drama 『Mou Yuukai Nante Shinai』and Matsumoto Jun's 『Lucky Seven』drama, as well as them dropping in on the set locations; and much much more!

Source

Which celebrity would you want to exchange New Year’s cards with?

AKB48 will be releasing official New Year greeting cards of their members in a first press limited edition set that will cost 30,000 yen (~385 USD). This got the folks over at goo curious, so they decided to ask their users which celebrity they would want to exchange New Year’s greeting cards with.

Check out the results below and let us know who you would want to exchange cards with!

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[Which Female Celebrity Would You Want A New Year’s Card From?]

1. Becky – 4337 votes

2. The members of AKB48 – 2631 votes

3. Ayase Haruka – 1872 votes

4. Kitagawa Keiko – 1651 votes

5. Matsushima Nanako – 970 votes

6. Inoue Mao – 871 votes

7. Yoshitaka Yuriko – 857 votes

8. Karina – 851 votes

9. Miyazaki Aoi – 759 votes

10. Kanno Miho – 580 votes

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[Which Male Celebrity Would You Want A New Year’s Card From?]

1. Sakurai Sho – 3232 votes

2. Ohno Satoshi – 2628 votes

3. Fukuyama Masaharu – 1798 votes

4. Aiba Masaki – 1645 votes

5. Mukai Osamu – 1288 votes

6. Suzuki Fuku – 1198 votes

7. Matsumoto Jun – 1185 votes

8. Ninomiya Kazunari – 1100 votes

9. Takenouchi Yutaka – 817 votes

10. Ikuta Toma – 752 votes

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Source: goo 1 & >2

Ideal brother-like actor?

The new drama, “Saikou no Jinsei no Owarikata” has Yamashita Tomohisa appearing as the second son and Sorimachi Takashi as the eldest son of the family. Speaking of brothers, which actor do you think would be the ideal brother? 

Check out the top 10 Goo Ranking results below to see what the Japanese population thought about this topic!

01. Sakurai Sho – 6162 votes
02. Takenouchi Yutaka – 3747 votes
03. Fukuyama Masaharu – 3556 votes
04. Mukai Osamu – 3047 votes
05. Eguchi Yousuke – 2498 votes
06. Kiritani Kenta – 1766 votes
07. Ohno Satoshi – 1718 votes
08. Ninomiya Kazunari – 1432 votes
09. Nishijima Hidetoshi – 1276 votes
10. Tsutsumi Shinichi – 1242 votes

 Source: Goo Ranking

Artist lineup for “MUSIC STATION SUPER LIVE 2011″ announced + Music Station Live CM

The artist lineup for TV Asahi’s year-end music special, “MUSIC STATION SUPER LIVE” has been announced! This year, the program will broadcast live from Chiba Makuhari Messe on December 23rd from 7:00 – 11:10 PM.

The 30 artists who will perform on the show are:

• Lady Gaga
• ayaka
• SMAP
• Arashi
• Fukuyama Masaharu
• AKB48
• EXILE
• Shoujo Jidai
• Nishino Kana
• Perfume
• Kinki Kids
• Yuzu
• Ikimonogakari
• aiko
• JUJU
• Porno Graffitti
• Kimura Kaela
• V6
• YUI
• KAT-TUN
• Kuraki Mai
• Tohoshinki
• KARA
• Kanjani 8
• TOKIO
• Koda Kumi
• Saito Kazuyoshi
• L’Arc~en~Ciel
• Hey! Say! JUMP
• Kis-My-Ft2

TV Asahi is currently holding a campaign to give away 5 pairs of tickets to the event. They are accepting applications online and by phone until December 11th at 12:00 pm.

enjoy the CM for this show :

Source: natalie and MUSIC STATION Official Website

Sound Equipment Failure Reveals Japanese Boy Band’s (Arashi) Atrocious Singing

A few days ago, Fuji TV aired a 2011 music special that included live performances of some of the year’s most popular songs. When boy band Arashi took the stage, there was some kind of technical trouble. Instead of the CD-like quality of the other groups’ performances, audiences were given a taste of some raw audio.



A sloppy machine translation of a J-Cast article about the incident:

Arashi singing performance of 2011 FNS song gest is topical as too bad, this has theory that is sound trouble. Fuji TV twitter erupted by Arashi fans.[from beginning, no voice, singing voice come to dissonance> Arashi performed Labyrinth Love Song with violinist, Taro Hakase, Emiri Miyamoto-san. this came to bad. from start no voice at all, and pitch was not stable. and chorus part also brink of collapse, from start to end singing voice come to dissonance. it seemed members embarrassed too. Kazunari Ninomiya-san who start sing begging part makes embarrassed face. Sho Sakurai-san also makes bitter smile.

Arashi fans have denied that the incident reflects the actual singing ability of the group.
Some internet conspiracy theorists have pointed out the lack of technical trouble during K-pop performances as proof of Fuji TV’s devious plot to promote Korean culture. They believe that Fuji TV intentionally screwed up Arashi’s microphones, while allowing the Korean artists to lip sync…


***i can't provide video for this but i have the link for the video....here it is...Arashi FNS 2011


Source: japanprobe





****p/s...as a fan, i'm so proud for them..they prove to all Arashian that they r the best group ever!!!! but pls Arashian...calm down with this situation...dont keep blaming FujiTV for this incident..they apologize already and admitted their fault. Arashi also calm about this matter...we should also follow them...thats all from me...by the way Arashi...KEEP STORMING THE WORLD!!!!!