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 after Matsutoya 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
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Sunday, December 18, 2011 Arashi tops Oricon yearly album ranking & music DVD ranking for 3 consecutive years
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