NEWS & Arashi FC

<img src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc319/Rinoa94_2007/Che/70.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc319/Rinoa94_2007/Che/5.jpg" border="0" /> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong>NEWS</strong>, is a six-member Japanese musical group consisting of Keiichiro Koyama, Ryo Nishikido, Tomohisa Yamashita, Takahisa Masuda, Shigeaki Kato and Yuya Tegoshi. The group's name is an acronym based on the cardinal directions (North, East, West, South) and the members locations.Formed in 2003 by Johnny Kitagawa as a nine member group under the label Johnny's Entertainment, NEWS released a promotional single NEWS Nippon , which was used for the World Cup of Volleyball Championships. In 2004, Takahiro Moriuchi left the group and the remaining eight members released their debut single, "Kibō: Yell" , which debuted atop the Oricon charts. In 2006, the group released their fifth consecutive number-one single, "Sayaendō/Hadashi no Cinderella Boy" , as the current six-member group due to the controversy surrounding then-members Hiroki Uchi and Hironori Kusano.After a brief hiatus, they released their seventh number-one single, "Hoshi o Mezashite" . In 2008, they released their tenth single, Happy Birthday, which made NEWS the second Japanese group after label-mates KinKi Kids to have ten consecutive number-one singles since their debut. <strong>Members:</strong> <img src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc319/Rinoa94_2007/Che/pichan.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc319/Rinoa94_2007/Ryochan.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc319/Rinoa94_2007/keichan.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc319/Rinoa94_2007/shige.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc319/Rinoa94_2007/Massu.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc319/Rinoa94_2007/tegonyan.jpg" border="0" /> <strong>Ex-Members:</strong> <img src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc319/Rinoa94_2007/uchi.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc319/Rinoa94_2007/notti.jpg" border="0" /><!--spoiler--></span></div> <img src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc319/Rinoa94_2007/Che/6.jpg" border="0" /> <div class="spoiler"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.nextSibling.nextSibling.style.display='block';this.style.display='none';" value="Show spoiler"> <span class="spoiler_content" style="display:none"><input type="button" class="button" onClick="this.parentNode.style.display='none';this.parentNode.parentNode.childNodes[0].style.display='block';" value="Hide spoiler"><br><strong>Arashi</strong> (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. The group was initially signed to Pony Canyon and released one studio album, one greatest hits album and six singles, beginning with their 1999 eponymous debut single, before moving to the Johnny's subsidiary label J Storm in 2001, which was initially set up for their succeeding releases. While their debut single debuted atop the Oricon weekly chart selling a little over half a million copies, the group subsequently faced slowly declining sales. With the release of their eighteenth single "Love So Sweet", Arashi began gaining commercial success as "Love So Sweet" was used as the opening theme song for the high-rating drama Hana Yori Dango 2, making it one of the top five best-selling singles of 2007 in Japan and the group's first single to exceed 400,000 copies sold overall in nearly seven years. For the next two years, Arashi gained a number of achievements and records as they became the first artist to place the top two rankings on the Oricon singles yearly chart for two consecutive years with their singles "Truth/Kaze no Mukō e" and "One Love" in 2008 and "Believe/Kumorinochi, Kaisei" and "Ashita no Kioku/Crazy Moon (Kimi wa Muteki)" in 2009,simultaneously topped the 2009 Oricon singles, album and music DVD yearly charts, and became the third artist in Oricon history to monopolize the top three best-selling singles of the year. <strong>Members:</strong> <img src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc319/Rinoa94_2007/ohno.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc319/Rinoa94_2007/sho.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc319/Rinoa94_2007/aiba.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc319/Rinoa94_2007/nino.jpg" border="0" /> <img src="http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc319/Rinoa94_2007/matsujun.jpg" border="0" /><!--spoiler--></span></div> <strong>Upcoming Birthdays:</strong> <strong>Ninomiya Kazunari=June 17</strong> <strong>Masuda Takahisa=July 4</strong> <strong>Kato Shigeaki=July 11</strong>