Oricon reveals their yearly music DVD ranking for 2012

Oricon has revealed their yearly music DVD ranking for 2012. Check out the top 50 below!

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01 – “ARASHI LIVE TOUR Beautiful World” – Arashi : (714,125)
02 – “EXILE LIVE TOUR 2011 TOWER OF WISH ~Negai no Tou~” – EXILE : (398,402)
03 – “EXILE TRIBE LIVE TOUR 2012 TOWER OF WISH” – EXILE : (198,658)
04 – “KANJANI8 5Dai …


Oricon weekly charts for 7/9 ~ 7/15

Check out the result of Oricon weekly charts for July 9th to July 15th below!

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<Single Weekly Ranking>

1. “ANDROID” – Tohoshinki : 7/11 (152,412)

2. “Taiyou Scandalous” – SCANDAL : 7/11 (31,583)

3. “Because…I am” – flumpool : 7/11 (28,128)

4. “LOVE LOVE Summer” – Ketsumeishi : 7/11 (20,746)

5. “LOVE CHASE” – Yamashita Tomohisa : 7/4 (11,951)

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Oricon reveals first half rankings for 2012!

Oricon has revealed the results / rankings for the first half year of 2012!  Check out the Top 10 in the various categories below.

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<Singles>

1. “Manatsu no Sounds good!” – AKB48 : (1,780,949)
2. “GIVE ME FIVE!” – AKB48 : (1,434,398)
3. “Wild At Heart” – Arashi : (644,899)
4. “Face Down” – Arashi : (601,467)
5. “Kataomoi Finally” – SKE48 : (592,681)
6. “Ai Shite Love …


Oricon reveals weekly charts for the week of June 18th

Oricon has released its latest weekly charts! Below are the results of Oricon’s weekly charts for the week of June 18th.

Check to see if your favorite artists made it to the top!

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<Single Weekly Ranking>

1. “Your Eyes” – Arashi : 6/6 (477,820)

2. “Beautiful” – 2PM : 6/6 (141,236)

3. “TIME SPACE EP (METRO BAROQUE/PARTY! PARTY!/JIKU SAPPHIRE/ONE)” – Mizuki Nana : 6/6 …


RIAJ reveals hard copy sales certifications for May 2012

The Recording Industry Association of Japan (or ‘RIAJ’) has just released their hard copy sales certifications for the month of May. This certification is based off the total numbers of CDs and DVDs sold to retailers.

You can check out all of the certifications handed out in May after the cut!


Arashi surpasses 6,000,000 mark for total sales of their DVDs

Arashi released their latest DVD ‘ARASHI LIVE TOUR Beautiful World‘ on May 23rd, and topped the Oricon Weekly DVD Ranking Chart for the week of June 4th by selling 572,000 copies in its first week of sales.

With this latest DVD, Arashi has sold a total of 6,144,000 copies of DVDs in their career. With this, they broke their own record of …


Oricon reveals weekly charts for the week of June 4th

Oricon has released its latest weekly charts! Below are the results of Oricon’s weekly charts for the week of June 4th.

Check to see if your favorite artists made it to the top!

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<Single Weekly Ranking>

1. “Manatsu no Sounds good!” – AKB48 : 5/23 (1,616,795)

2. “Haina!” – NYC : 5/25 (91,082)

3. “Bible” – GLAY : 5/23 (49,323)

4. “Ai Shite …


Check out the preview and CM for Arashi’s upcoming live DVD ”ARASHI LIVE TOUR Beautiful World”

Last month, Arashi revealed the jacket covers and details of their upcoming live DVD ‘ARASHI LIVE TOUR Beautiful World‘, and now a CM for the DVD has been released by J-storm. The DVD will be released on May 23rd.

This live DVD covers their 2-day concert at National Olympic stadium on September 3-4. Although the live concert started in …


More details + jacket covers of Arashi’s upcoming live DVD revealed!

Back in March, tokyohive reported that Arashi will be releasing their live DVD, ‘ARASHI LIVE TOUR Beautiful World’, on May 23rd. To add to this exciting news, the group has now revealed more details on the upcoming DVD as well as its album jacket covers.

Check out the updated playlist and jackets for both editions of this live DVD …


Arashi to release a new single & live DVD in May!

It was announced that Arashi’s 38th single titled “Face Down” is scheduled to be released on May 9th!  Reportedly, the new single expresses the agony of facing your “other self inside of you” with the theme of “Who you really are?“, and there will be two different editions for the single.

Not only the single, but Arashi will also be releasing …


Arashi successfully holds live concert in a storm with 70,000 fans

On September 3rd, Arashi held a concert at the National Stadium in Tokyo amidst violent rain and strong winds.

For the opening performance, the members had planned to fly on wires approximately 50 meters high. However, this was inevitably cancelled out of consideration for the members’ safety. Consequently, the boys appeared from underneath the stage in front of …