Well, it’s not surprising that the latest release by B’z has entered the charts on #1 again. The sales data for June 17th has been posted on Oricon. Yes, the 17th, one day before the release. People who pre-ordered it could buy it in stores one day before the actual release.
B’z The Best “ULTRA Pleasure” has sold 116,582 copies so far.
Source: Oricon daily album ranking
The B’z 20th anniversary special website has been updated to have new wallpaper downloads ready for you.
Please check them out HERE.
B’z has finally decided on their tour title for their Pleasure 2008 tour: B’z LIVE-GYM Pleasure 2008 -GLORY DAYS-
Also, the tour schedule has been updated and now includes the dates on which the ticket public sales start for each concert. I added the tour info for you.
Ticket Price: 8,500 Yen(~$77/~53€)
Date: 9/6 & 9/7
Venue: Kobe Univer Kinen Kyougijou(神戸ユニバー記念競技場)
Place for: 45,000 fans
Public sale starts: July 26
Date: 9/13 & 9/14
Venue: Toyota Stadium(豊田スタジアム)
Place for: 45,000 fans
Public sale starts: July 26
Date: 9/20 & 9/21
Venue: Nissan Stadium(日産スタジアム)
Place for: 72,327 fans
Public sale starts: July 27
With the release of B’z The Best “ULTRA Pleasure” just being one day away, new messages from Tak and Koshi have been uploaded so that fans will be able to read their thoughts on the new best-of album release. Of course, we here at OFF THE LOCK have already got it translated for you!
Please check it out below.
The B’z 20th anniversary special website has been updated today to feature the intermediate results on the requests for B’z The Best “ULTRA Treasure”!
You’re probably wondering if your requested songs made it onto one of the 2 discs, but fear not! Song requests can be made until June 30, so this is definitely not the final result! Without any further ado, here are the TOP 40. The songs, which are likely to hit the cds.
If you can read the japanese song titles, you can check out the list on the B’z 20th anniversary special website HERE. If you want to see a transcribed version of the songs, please read on.
With the release of B’z The Best “ULTRA Pleasure” getting closer and closer, another version of an ULTRA Pleasure commercial could be seen during today’s broadcast of CDTV. Please enjoy the video below.
As you have probably noticed, I changed a few things. OFF THE LOCK now uses a new URL scheme for pages and posts. But don’t worry, old links should still be valid.
However, if you were linking B’z Net party to www.offthelock.com/smf, it does not exist anymore. Please update your URLs to http://bznetparty.offthelock.com as other URLs will not work anymore.
Also, I would like to point out that the B’z Net Party forum member yukari_chan designed the new banner you’re seeing there. Thank you very much!
Arthuro
OFF THE LOCK Webmaster
Perhaps you’ve already noticed the new language bar at the top in the header. Yes, that’s right, you can read the latest B’z news in your own language soon. The only thing is, that I don’t speak every language in the world, so we need people to help us translate it to other languages. If you want to help us, please read the detailed description below.
Your work would involve:
- posting news / translating it from the english page
- keep content up-to-date in your language (Pages, etc.)
Requirements:
- excellent writing skills in your native language(grammar, spelling)
- a decent knowledge of english (to be able to translate the news / communicate with us)
- willing to spend 1-2 hours a week to update the blog
- hanging out in our IRC channel regularly would be a plus
Note: We’ve already got English covered. So you may apply for any other language.
If you want to apply, send me an e-mail in english to arthuro[-at-]offthelock[-dot-]com or you can contact me on IRC: #offthelock @ irc.rizon.net
The subject should be “Off the lock job application” and please include the following info:
- Nickname
- Your native language
- 3 reasons why you want to join our team.
- Where you live(timezone…)
- Age
I hope to hear from you soon!
Arthuro
OFF THE LOCK Webmaster
BZ-LIVEGYM.COM has been updated to include the live report on the two days of ACTION in the Hot House Super Arena on May 24 & 25. As always, visit the page HERE and click on “ARENA LIVE REPORT” and select the second entry in the second row.
As for the set lists, they haven’t changed at all. They played the same set list they played in Nippon Budokan.
Head over to the B’z 20th anniversary site to hear samples of the all new ULTRA Pleasure Style BAD COMMUNICATION and, of course, Pleasure 2008. Both are amazing—-certainly reason enough to put in your pre-orders for the best B’z collection yet! If you still aren’t sure, there are samples of the other songs as well, so no worries there.