SPEED, Japan's best-selling girl-group!!!Best Selling Girl Groups Worldwide Look who's number 7
SPEED~~
#181
Posted 26 April 2009 - 03:11 AM
#182
Posted 26 April 2009 - 04:15 AM
A download link for Ashita no Sora is pretty hard to come by online. I haven't found one. So I uploaded my copy to megaupload It's the whole CD that I've uploaded so instrumentals are included too.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D48UPYKG
Credit goes to Cassandra for this beautiful set
Finally saw Rika on 27/05/10 at the H&A Concert in London
#183
Posted 28 April 2009 - 09:46 PM
Definitely worth the wait since the last single (over half a yr!!!). I can't wait for the pv! And please guys join the SPEEDisback forum. -)
My MM Scout team: Koharu (Moon), Aika (Mercury), Riho (Mars), Risa (Jupiter), Sayumi (Venus), Mizuki (Pluto), Hitomi (Uranus), Miki (Neptune), Rika (Saturn), Eri (Tuxedo Kamen), Mari (Healer), Ayumi (Fighter), Kaori (Maker)
#184
Posted 28 April 2009 - 11:35 PM
S.P.D has grown on me a lot (like I thought it would) I want a PV so badly and want to hear the b-side.
It'd be nice if Takako and Hitoe got solo lines sometime. I feel sorry for them. In terms of the songs, they're just 2 extra faces
Credit goes to Cassandra for this beautiful set
Finally saw Rika on 27/05/10 at the H&A Concert in London
#185
Posted 29 April 2009 - 05:14 AM
#187
Posted 10 May 2009 - 12:26 PM
#188
Posted 10 May 2009 - 12:58 PM
I'm really looking forward to seeing how this sells though Ashita no Sora sold roughly 70k, so it'd be nice to see this sell the same. I don't think it will, but I hope I'm proved wrong
Credit goes to Cassandra for this beautiful set
Finally saw Rika on 27/05/10 at the H&A Concert in London
#189
Posted 23 May 2009 - 04:26 PM
The Best -Premium Re Tracks- CD + DVD
The Best -Premium Re Tracks- CD
The tracks are re-recorded versions of their hits.
Look at the first press item for the CD + DVD version - a cellphone strap. Interesting, never seen a first press item like that before. Strange how it says the DVD includes the Ashita no Sora PV. I doubt that will be the only thing on it.
I'm looking forward to this, though I don't think it'll be anything amazing. I liked the melody on the Ashita no Sora CD, but it doesn't compare to the original versions. Still, I'll probably pre-order this nearer the time, or next month.
I was going to order CD + DVD S.P.D. but like Ashita no Sora, first press is already sold out
Hopefully though, that means high sales
Credit goes to Cassandra for this beautiful set
Finally saw Rika on 27/05/10 at the H&A Concert in London
#190
Posted 24 May 2009 - 09:39 PM
Female pop group SPEED, which reunited last year, has announced their first nationwide tour in six years. Although they initially broke up in 2000, they have had brief reunions since then for charity events, including a "Save the Children" concert tour in 2003.
Now back together permanently, the group already put out a new single in November and is releasing their second, "S.P.D.," on May 27. This is said to be their first time having a song created by musicians outside Japan, as the single's title track is written by Kye Sones, Peter Martin, and Jonathan Shave.
In addition, SPEED has scheduled a best "re-track" album for August 5, followed by a national tour starting in September. Titled "FamilyMart presents SPEED LIVE 2009," the tour begins in Nagoya on September 5-6 and ends in Niigata on October 25. It covers 16 shows in 10 cities, including concerts at Osaka-jo Hall and Nippon Budokan.
#191
Posted 06 June 2009 - 03:49 PM
YouTube - SmaSpeLive_160309
(SPEED performed 3 of their old songs ("STEADY", "BODY & SOUL", "my graduation") together with SMAP)
and during the first couple of minutes of the vid, they reminisced about their appearance on this particular show 12 years ago, :
YouTube - SPEED Pちゃん
which was uploaded by a Japanese "boy", whose channel contains loads of rare vids of SPEED's late 1990s TV appearances/performances during their heyday, :
YouTube - SKYWORK83's Channel
#192
Posted 06 June 2009 - 11:39 PM
Who's the girl without the hat at 0:47-0:55? I really like that part...! It looks so cool! ** The woman with the hat is so cool too o.o~!
#194
Posted 07 June 2009 - 09:27 AM
She appears to be:Who's the girl without the hat at 0:47-0:55?
http://en.wikipedia....rakaki</strong>
"Arakaki Hitoe" - Google Image Search
#195
Posted 15 June 2009 - 10:55 AM
granted i not the go to guy for speed photos and i could be wrong but her eyes do look like Eriko to me
voted Mari's Greatest Fan in the 2010 & 2011 Greatest Fan Awards...thanks to all who voted for me and thanks to Sprinklebuns♥Yutorin for siggy
#196
Posted 16 July 2009 - 10:54 PM
Credit goes to Cassandra for this beautiful set
Finally saw Rika on 27/05/10 at the H&A Concert in London
#197
Posted 16 July 2009 - 11:18 PM
And Momusu is 8th~!SPEED, Japan's best-selling girl-group!!!Best Selling Girl Groups Worldwide Look who's number 7
I thought MM was the best selling female group in Japan but they're the best SINGLE selling female group in Japan!
I got confused... MM has 5 Oricon records~!!
Speed is awesome~! I like White Love, My Graduation and Long Way Home~!
Dorky Haro-Chan is my favorite Haro-Chan~!
Siggy Made By Hotaru~Ruru!!!
#198
Posted 16 July 2009 - 11:25 PM
Credit goes to Cassandra for this beautiful set
Finally saw Rika on 27/05/10 at the H&A Concert in London
#199
Posted 17 July 2009 - 02:31 AM
As I've replied to something similar you said before:^ I love MM a lot, but I don't want them to take SPEED's record for best selling Japanese female group. SPEED have kept their lineup the same, and each member will have earned that record from scratch.
If I've counted correctly, MoMusu have had 18 different line-ups so far; so strictly speaking, SPEED has way outsold any single MoMusu line-up, even if we just compare SPEED with all the Old-School/Gold Era MoMusu line-ups combined (when their CD sales were at their highest)...I love MM, both past and present, but I think that is what is unfair for them to hold the highest single sales. I'd now say it's impossible to beat them.
And it's true that:
Strictly speaking, we should only start calculating the present line-up's singles sales from 2007 onwards!Members in MM now are adding on to what their senpais achieved, not started from scratch.
Even if we start calculating from "Mr Moonlight" in late 2001, when Takahashi and Niigaki debuted, MoMusu's singles sales would still be 7-8 million less than SPEED's 11 million copies sold!
MoMusu seems to be selling around 50k per single for the past few years, which is about the same amount as their pre-debut single in 1997, "Ai no Tane"!I think MM will have to go for many more years to break SPEED's record, unless they have gigantic boosts in sales.
Let's say they manage to sell 100k per single for all their upcoming singles, they would need to sell 7 (or 8),000,000 / 100,000 = 70 (or 80) more such singles!
I highly doubt that will ever happen!
#200
Posted 17 July 2009 - 02:34 AM
And I agree, it's going to be hard for them to break Speed's record!
Dorky Haro-Chan is my favorite Haro-Chan~!
Siggy Made By Hotaru~Ruru!!!
1 user(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 1 guests, 0 anonymous users