As expected, popular boy band Arashi topped the charts this past week with their 8th album, "Dream A live." It sold close to 221,000 copies, easily beating out BENNIE K, who made the #2 spot with "BEST OF THE BESTEST" (74,000 copies). No other new releases made the Top 10, but Perfume led the rest of the pack, selling 60,000 more copies of "GAME."

Meanwhile, TVXQ's "Beautiful you / Sennen Koiuta" took #1 on the singles chart with 62,000 in sales. Maaya Sakamoto, C-ute, and Ryu Si-won all had around 30,000 in sales with their latest singles, but they couldn't budge male idol trio Shuchishin, who stuck around at #2 for the third week in a row.

Aside from B'z at #6, the rest of the Top 10 were new releases: w-inds., WaT, Shunsuke Kiyokiba, and v-u-den (with their final single before they officially disband).

The wife of musician/producer Tsunku gave birth on Tuesday. The couple are now the proud parents of twins - one boy and one girl.

Tsunku's wife is a former model named Kanako. They married in June 2006.

Jun Matsumoto wasn't the only Johnny's artist to appear in the U.S. this week for a movie promotion. On Monday, Koichi Domoto attended the American premiere of the "Sushi Ouji!" movie, which was screened at the Walter Reade Theater in New York.

The city was an appropriate choice for the screening, given that the film is set in The Big Apple. The PR campaign also took advantage of the link between the city's initials and one of Domoto's catchphrases in the movie, "nigitte yaru!" (translated as "I will crush you!").

At the event, Domoto introduced himself in English by saying "I'm Sushi Prince," which was greeted with a round of applause. When asked about a possible sequel, he seemed hopeful that the film gets turned into a series. However, the film still has not been given any formal release dates outside of Japan, where it opened on April 19.

On Wednesday, Nikkan Sports revealed the winner of the Best Supporting Actor prize in its 11th Drama Grand Prix. Following up on the previous day's announcement of Maki Horikita as Best Actress, the drama series "Hanazakari no Kimitachi e" found its second winner in Toma Ikuta, who had his breakthrough role as Shuichi Nakatsu.

Ikuta has been gaining in popularity since that drama. Last season, he co-starred with Riko Narumi in the high-profile adaptation of the hit manga "Honey and Clover."

27-year-old comedienne Miyuki Torii attended a DVD release event on Tuesday at a Tower Records store in Shibuya. At the end of the event, she surprised everyone by declaring that she got married in March of last year, though many of the attendees thought she was just joking at the time.

Torii's agency later confirmed that she was telling the truth. Her husband is an older office worker, but no further details were given.

Hello! Project has announced that Ayaka Kimura, the only remaining member of the unit Coconuts Musume, is leaving the group as well. The official announcement says that she has graduated from Hello! Project as of Wednesday, April 30.

Ayaka said that she aims to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, though no concrete plans have been revealed yet.