Arashi 嵐

Arashi (嵐, literally Storm) is a Japanese boy band formed under the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates, which announced the formation of the group on September 15, 1999 in Honolulu, Hawaii. After releasing one studio album, one greatest hits album and six singles under the Pony Canyon record label, the group moved to the Johnny's subsidiary label J Storm in 2001, which was initially set up for their succeeding releases.[1] In 2008, nine years after their debut, their singles "Truth/Kaze no Mukō e" and "One Love" took the top two placings on the annual Oricon sales ranking, attesting to the group's longevity in the Japanese music scene in spite of their idol group image.

In 2009, Arashi became the first artist to top the singles, album and music DVD charts and to emerge as the best-selling artist of the year within the same year in the forty-two years of Oricon's history.[3][4] They also became the third artist in Oricon history to monopolize the top three best-selling singles and the first to dominate the top two placings on the singles chart for two consecutive years.