Love the World

"Love the World" (stylized as "love the world") is Perfume's 7th major single. It was released on July 9, 2008 and debuted at number one on the Oricon chart, becoming the first electropop song from an electropop act to do so, Yellow Magic Orchestra's song "Kimi ni, Mune Kyun" being the previous record holder at #2, twenty-five years prior. Love the World is Perfume's best-selling single in the span of their career.[1][2]

"Love the World"
Single by Perfume
from the album Triangle
B-side"Edge"
ReleasedJuly 9, 2008
Recorded2008
GenreJ-pop, electropop, retro-pop, chiptune
Length4:32
LabelTokuma Japan Communications
Songwriter(s)Yasutaka Nakata
Producer(s)Yasutaka Nakata (中田ヤスタカ)
Perfume singles chronology
"Baby Cruising Love/Macaroni"
(2008)
"Love the World"
(2008)
"Dream Fighter"
(2008)
Music video
"Love the World" on YouTube

The single's B-side, "edge", was used as background music for a KOSE Fasio commercial starring Aya Ueto.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Yasutaka Nakata.

CD
No.TitleLength
1."love the world"4:35
2."edge"6:31
3."love the world -Original Instrumental-"4:35
4."edge -extended mix-"8:41
DVD
No.TitleLength
1."love the world -Video Clip-" 

Oricon chart positions

Year Chart Position Sales
2008 Oricon daily 1 95,980
Oricon weekly 1
Oricon yearly 47 136,575

References

  1. "テクノ史上初!Perfumeオリコン1位" (in Japanese). Sankei Sports. 2008-07-15. Archived from the original on 2008-07-17. Retrieved 2008-07-15.
  2. "Perfume achieves technopop's first #1 single". Tokyograph.com. 2008-07-16. Retrieved 2008-11-21.
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