Don't know why I didn't post about this before, I've been home sick for 3 days, but Arashi officially broke a million with All the Best a few days ago, I'm so freakin happy for them! I might have cried a little when I found out XD
At the rate they're going, I wouldn't be surprised if they take the top spot for the year. I was pretty skeptical of it before, because I didn't want to get my hopes up for it, but the sales for this album have gone beyond all of my expectations. They're easily going to get 100k+ sales for the third week, which is pretty crazy to me. And they were number 1 on the GLOBAL charts for the second week in a row. I really have to give props to the fans for buying all of those CDs, Arashi really has an amazing fan base.
Speaking of the CD, I'm still waiting for my copy. Hoping it will be here soon, lol. I'm thinking I will not be using SAL again, expensive as the other types may be - I'd rather pay a small fortune for shipping than wait forever. I was surprised today though, I got a package in the mail and it was not my CD, but my copy of Arashi Kessei 10-shunen Kinen Gentei Hozon Ban Arashi no 10-nen (which I also used SAL for). Not sure why that got here first, as it was released a week after the CD (so it only took about 9 days? faster than I expected), but I'm really happy. It's my first piece of Arashi merchandise ever - or any Japanese group for that matter, the CD was my first time buying anything like that. It's so pretty <3
And the pictures...so cute! I especially love the chibi pics and the concert pics (really makes me wish they'd done a Dream "A" Live concert DVD). Oh-chan especially has some cute ones, and Aiba is as pretty as always. I'm really glad I bought it. ^^
Hoping the order I made the other day will be here tomorrow or whatever the following business day is (I paid for EMS on this one - I'm thinking next time I'll try out Air Mail, to see what the difference in time is). I will be back to fangirl over that - I got the Aiba and Nino Otakara Photobooks, a copy of Crazy Moon/Ashita no Kioku, and the LE of Morning Musume's newest CD Platinum 9 Disc. Until then, ja~
EDIT: Word is, Yamapi and Nishikido are better, yay! <3
Oh! And best wishes to Yamapi and Ryo - I hope you guys get better soon <3