Popular group Arashi's 44th single "Dare mo Shiranai" (went on sale on May 28) sold 462,000 copies during the first week, and it topped Oricon's latest weekly single ranking.

This is the group's 33rd consecutive chart-topping single since "PIKA??NCHI DOUBLE" (released in February 2004), and it is also their 40th in total. 

With this single, Arashi became the 2nd artist (including both male/female, group/solo artists) to achieve 40 chart-topping singles, as only B'z has accomplished it before since Oricon started this ranking.

In addition, Arashi's live DVD "ARASHI ARAFES'13 NATIONAL STADIUM 2013" also topped this week's DVD ranking for the 2nd consecutive week. 

When including this week's sales which was 41,000 copies, the total sales for this DVD attained 519,000 copies, and it became the first DVD that sold over 500,000 copies in 2014.

Moreover, the cumulative sales of the group's music DVDs (15 DVDs in total) has now reached over 8 million copies which has never been done by any artist other than Arashi.

Source: Oricon
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