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- CHAIN REVIEW -

1. LOCK ON
I’d already listened to this track 800 times prior to my copy of the album even showing up. Oops? I guess it goes without saying that this song is amazing. They all sound their best here but I believe the star is Maru (中丸雄一). Without him I don’t thing it could have been carried off quite as well. Also, it definitely should have been a single. To top it off the PV is the best in a while.

2. ONE DAY
Superb opening, T-UN are killing me with how perfect…

No doubt 2010 has been a fantastic year for music. Well, at least for the bands and genres I follow. I'm the obsessive type when it comes to songs → yeah, not the people, the actual music. Don't you all hate the accusations that every major fan of foreign group X = 12 year old teenybopper just trying to jump on some internet fad because they can't fit in at school?

So, the following tracks are those that I've been over-playing and humming along to all year, much to the annoyance of everyone except my best friend. However, at one…

No doubt 2010 has been a fantastic year for music. Well, at least for the bands and genres I follow. I'm the obsessive type when it comes to songs → yeah, not the people, the actual music. Don't you all hate the accusations that every major fan of foreign group X = 12 year old teenybopper just trying to jump on some internet fad because they can't fit in at school?

So, the following tracks are those that I've been over-playing and humming along to all year, much to the annoyance of everyone except my best friend. However, at one…

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2010 has been one heck of a year for boy band quintet Arashi (嵐). This year alone they have: released five number one singles; sold over a million copies of their ninth album; starred in a total of seven dramas between them; released their first double platinum concert DVD; and now their sixth single of 2010, Hatenai Sora 「果てない空」, is on the way! If that is not enough for one year, leader Ohno Satoshi (大野智) also released his second solo single, Yukai Tsukai Kaibutsu- kun 「ユカイツーカイ怪物くん」, in July and…

So, it came out.

He is leaving. Jin Akanishi (赤西仁) is leaving KAT-TUN.

As of yesterday this is what all the sources say. Forget the rumours in the papers that flew around before now, because all this was just speculation. They were stories conjured by the press to scare us and to purposefully cause commotion. Reporters wanted you to think of the worst possible scenarios; they really wanted you to believe Akanishi was leaving. Was there any proof of this? No, of course not. The papers just wanted to capture your attention.

But now people are saying…

KAT-TUN's 12th single, Going!, was released two days ago on Wednesday, May 12th 2010. According to the Oricon Charts, first day sales hit 99,770 units. This falls short of their previous release's – Love yourself ～君が嫌いな君が好き～ – sales of 157,788 by a dramatic 58,018. Even with lower first day sales than usual they're still likely to take number one on the Oricon Charts for the week starting May 24th 2010.

Nothing less to be expected from KAT-TUN, right?

So what's with the drop in sales in comparison to their previous releases?

Maybe this is just a silent protest…