Arashi�s newest album, �Beautiful World�, which went on sale on July 6th, has now sold over 631,000 copies for its first week and topped Oricon�s weekly album ranking for the 18th.

This is their third consecutive album which sold over 500,000 copies in its first week with the first album being their best album, �All the BEST! 1999-2009� (released on August 2009, 753,000 copies) and their previous album, �Boku no Miteiru Fukei� (released on August 2010, 731,000).

Since the release of Mr.Children�s album, �HOME� (released March 2007, 693,000), this accomplishment has not been broken by any other artist than Arashi in a period of four years and four months.

Arashi has been topping Oricon's album chart for nine consecutive albums, and �Beautiful World� has the best first week sales among all the albums that were released this year.

This latest album is their first album since �Boku no Miteiru Fukei� (sold total of 1,116,000 copies as of now) and includes a total of 18 songs such as �Lotus�, �Hatenai Sora�, and �Dear Snow�. It also includes one solo track for each member like Ohno Satoshi�s �Hung up on� and Aiba Masaki�s �Janakute�.

Congratulations, Arashi for this accomplishment!

Source: Oricon News