How's It Going?

How's It Going?
How's It Going?
Studio album by Arashi
Released	July 9, 2003
Genre	Pop, rock, R&B
Length	65:23
Label	J Storm
Arashi chronology
Singles from How's It Going?
	"Pikanchi"; Released: October 17, 2002; "Tomadoi Nagara"; Released: February 13, 2003;

Last updated February 25, 2025

How's It Going? is the third studio album by Japanese boy band Arashi. The album was released in Japan on July 9, 2003, under their record label J Storm in two editions: a regular and limited edition, with the latter bearing a different cover art and a booklet. It was released digitally on February 7, 2020.^[2]^[3]

Singles

The album contains the singles "Tomadoi Nagara", theme song for the drama Yoiko no Mikata starring Sho Sakurai and a new version of "Pikanchi", the theme song for the movie Pikanchi: Life is Hard Dakedo Happy, which all five members of the group co-starred in.

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Arrangement	Length
1.	"Tomadoi Nagara" (Album version)	Hiroo Ooyagi	Ooyagi	Ooyagi	5:27
2.	"Crazy Ground no Ōsama"	Ma-saya Sho Sakurai	Hiroaki Ohno	Ohno	4:02
3.	"Lucky Man"	Yukie Ozaki Sakurai	Takehiko Iida	Naoki Ōtsubo	5:01
4.	"Shinchōsa no Nai Koibito"	Takeshi	Seikō Nakaoka	Nakaoka	6:15
5.	"Only Love"	Makoto Atoji	Ashley Cadell BJ Caruama John Collins	Tomoki Ishizuka	4:35
6.	"Arashi no Mae no Shizukesa"	Atoji	Akio Shimizu	Ha-j	4:16
7.	"Blue"	Kōsuke Morimoto	Morimoto	Ha-j	5:38
8.	"Walking in the Rain"	Spin	Brian Hobbs Jany Schella Christian Svensson	Jun Abe	3:53
9.	"Palette"	Takeshi Sakurai	Masayuki Iwata	Iwata	3:52
10.	"Dekirudake"	Takeshi Aida	Morimoto	Ōtsubo	4:40
11.	"Te Agero"	Yōji Kubota	Patrik Liotard	Chokkaku	4:37
12.	"15th Moon"	Kubota	Face 2 Fake	Face 2 Fake	4:11
13.	"Donna Kotoba de"	Makihiko Araki	Araki	Araki	4:05
14.	"Pikanchi" (Album version)	Aida	Shin Tanimoto	Chokkaku	4:50
Total length:					65:23

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Chart (2003)	Peak position
Japan (Oricon Albums Chart)^[4]	2

Certifications


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Japan (RIAJ)^[5]	Gold	100,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

↑ "嵐/How's it going?" (in Japanese). Tower Records. Retrieved 27 August 2018.
↑ "旧譜オリジナル・アルバム（全16タイトル）デジタルリリース決定". Johnny's net (in Japanese). February 5, 2020. Archived from the original on February 5, 2020. Retrieved February 5, 2020.
↑ "嵐のオリジナルアルバム16作品256曲、明後日デジタル配信スタート". natalie.mu (in Japanese). February 5, 2020. Archived from the original on February 5, 2020. Retrieved February 5, 2020.
↑ 2003年07月第3週のアルバムランキング情報. Oricon (in Japanese). Retrieved 2009-12-30.
↑ "Japanese album certifications – Arashi – How's it going?" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. July 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2018.Select 2003年7月 on the drop-down menu

External links

How's It Going? product information (in Japanese)

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[1] "嵐/How's it going?" (in Japanese). Tower Records. Retrieved 27 August 2018.

[2] "旧譜オリジナル・アルバム（全16タイトル）デジタルリリース決定". Johnny's net (in Japanese). February 5, 2020. Archived from the original on February 5, 2020. Retrieved February 5, 2020.

[3] "嵐のオリジナルアルバム16作品256曲、明後日デジタル配信スタート". natalie.mu (in Japanese). February 5, 2020. Archived from the original on February 5, 2020. Retrieved February 5, 2020.

[4] 2003年07月第3週のアルバムランキング情報. Oricon (in Japanese). Retrieved 2009-12-30.

[JapanArashiHow's_it_going?albumCertRef-5] "Japanese album certifications – Arashi – How's it going?" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. July 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2018.Select 2003年7月 on the drop-down menu

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