<figure id="attachment_410858" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-410858" style="width: 5472px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="b2def616"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/01/5e3e44c043a506629336aac58b5f64d4.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-410858" class="wp-caption-text">On January 22, Snow Man released his first best album, which set a brilliant record in the &#8220;Oricon Weekly Album Ranking&#8221; as the album with the &#8220;highest first-week sales in Reiwa&#8221;&#8230; (Photo taken in March, 2010) (Photo taken in March 2010)</figcaption></figure>
<h3><span class="strongInContent"> Seriously, I don&#8217;t know a single song.</span></h3>
<p> Snow Man released their best album &#8220;THE BEST2020 &#8211; 2025&#8221; on January 22. The album sold 1,105,000 copies on its first day of release, the first time in the history of &#8220;Oricon Daily Album Ranking. Although Snow Man has no enemies on the way, the news has been met with cold reception from some netizens.</p>
<p> According to Oricon, the first day record for the best album &#8220;THE BEST2020 &#8211; 2025&#8221; was set on March 2, 2009. According to Oricon, the first-day record for the best album &#8220;THE BEST2020 &#8211; 2025&#8221; was &#8220;the first album in history to reach a million in first-day sales&#8221; (Oricon News, original text) in the Daily Ranking, which started announcing sales numbers on March 2, 2009.</p>
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<p> The album, which sold 1,395,000 copies in its first week, topped the &#8220;Oricon Weekly Album Ranking&#8221; (announced on January 28, &#8217;25). Arashi&#8217;s album &#8220;5×20 All the BEST!!!&#8221; dated July 8, &#8217;19. 1999-2019,&#8221; and became the &#8220;highest first-week sales in Reiwa&#8221; in the same ranking.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> While Snow Man has been a big hit in this way, some netizens have reacted with a sense of dismay, saying, &#8220;Even though their best album has sold so well, I really don&#8217;t know any of their songs,&#8221; and &#8220;What will their best song be? What is going to be the representative song? Some even sarcastically commented, &#8220;It&#8217;s amazing that Snow Man has sold a million albums, even though most of their songs are unknown to everyone except their fans.</span></p>
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<p> On the 5th anniversary of their debut, Snow Man announced their stadium live &#8220;Snow Man 1st Stadium Live～Snow World～&#8221; in a live broadcast on their official YouTube channel. Stadium in Tokyo on April 19 and 20, and at Nissan Stadium in Kanagawa on June 7 and 8.</p>
<p> Including before the renovation, this is the third group from the former Johnny&#8217;s s office (now STARTO ENTERTAINMENT) to hold concerts at the National Stadium, following SMAP and Arashi. Nissan Stadium is also the third group to hold a concert at Nissan Stadium, following SMAP and Kanjani Eight (now SUPER EIGHT), and Snow Man is the third group to do so.</p>
<p> Although the National Stadium concert in particular will follow in the footsteps of SMAP and Arashi, who have been described as &#8220;national idol groups,&#8221; fans of STARTO and others have voiced harsh opinions about the event.</p>
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<h3>To be recognized as a &#8220;national group&#8221;&#8230;</h3>
<p> On social networking sites,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I thought Snow Man would be standing on the national stage sooner rather than later.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I thought the national stage was a place for national idols and artists to perform.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I&#8217;m bothered by the fact that Snow Man is called a &#8220;national idol in both name and reality&#8221; because I feel like it&#8217;s not true.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> I think the reason why Snow Man can&#8217;t be called a national idol is because of their name recognition. Arashi and SMAP were known by men and women of all ages at least back then.</span></p>
<p> The debate over Snow Man&#8217;s music has developed into a discussion of whether or not they are a &#8220;national group.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> Many people who are concerned about Snow Man&#8217;s music know their debut song &#8220;D.D.&#8221; and &#8220;Brother Beat,&#8221; the theme song for the movie &#8220;Osomatsu-san,&#8221; in which they starred in &#8217;22, &#8230;&#8230;. If they can find a new representative song, they may finally be recognized as a &#8220;national group&#8221; by many people.</span></p>
<p> The members of Snow Man are active as actors in dramas and movies, and also appear in many variety shows. I hope that they will continue to produce representative songs while utilizing their individual strengths and giving back to the group&#8217;s activities.</p>
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 Kazuhiko Nakamura

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