Oricon's year-end sales rankings for 2009 are out.
And the results confirm that:
Arashi is the top selling Artist of the Year.
They had the No.1 Single, No.1 Album, No.1 Music DVD and
No.1 for the first time in Artist total sales.
In the 42 years of Oricon's history, no one else has topped all four categories in the same year.
[20091219] Zoom in Saturday - Oricon 2009 ranking
Arashi grossed a total of more than 14.46 billion yen.
Arashi were the first to have four of the top five,
as well as the first to hold the top two spots in back-to-back years (last year they occupy the No.1 and No.2 spot)
Single sales:
No.1 - "Believe / Kumori Nochi, Kaisei" (657,676 copies sold)
No.2 - "Ashita no Kioku/ Crazy Moon ~Kimi wa Muteki~" (620,557)
No.3 - "My Girl" (513,186)
No.5 - "Everything" (423,004)
Album Sales:
No.1 - "All the BEST! 1999-2009" album sold over 1.43 million copies.
In DVD sales:
No.1 - "5x10 All the BEST! CLIPS 1999-2009" (591,000)
No.2 - "ARASHI AROUND ASIA 2008 in TOKYO" (428,000)
Congratulations Arashi!
Source: Oricon
video credit: nasfeel
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