Game (Perfume album)

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Game
Studio album by Perfume
Released April 16, 2008
Recorded 2006-2008
Genre J-pop, bitpop, techno, electro-house, chiptune, synthpop
Length 56:16
Label Tokuma Japan Communications
Producer Yasutaka Nakata
Perfume chronology

Perfume: Complete Best
(2006)		 Game
(2008)		 Triangle
(2009)
Singles from Game
  1. "Fan Service (Sweet)"
    Released: February 14, 2007
  2. "Polyrhythm"
    Released: September 12, 2007
  3. "Baby Cruising Love/Macaroni"
    Released: January 16, 2008

Game (typeset as GAME) is the double platinum first original studio album (second overall) by J-pop group Perfume, and is their first album to feature wholly new material, as opposed to the previously released Perfume: Complete Best, which was a compilation. It was released on April 16, 2008 as a CD and as a CD+DVD set. When Game debuted at number 1 on the Oricon charts, the album became the first technopop album to reach at number 1 since Yellow Magic Orchestra did so with their album Naughty Boys in 1983. According to Tokyograph, this makes Perfume only the second technopop group ever to achieve this position.[1] The album was recently released on iTunes worldwide along with the other, previously unavailable, albums of their career.

"Ceramic Girl" was used as the ending theme of Sumire Jūrokusai!!, while "Butterfly" was used to promote Mugen no Frontier: Super Robot Wars OG Saga.

Game sold a total of 467,203 copies in Japan and has been certified Double Platinum by RIAJ. The album is currently the group's highest selling album, as well as Nakata Yasutaka's highest-selling produced album or material in his career, yielding him a string of four successful albums in the same year.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Yasutaka Nakata, all music composed by Yasutaka Nakata.
CD
No. Title Length
1. "Polyrhythm (ポリリズム Poririzumu)"   4:09
2. "Plastic smile"   4:36
3. "Game"   5:06
4. "Baby Cruising Love"   4:41
5. "Chocolate Disco (チョコレイト・ディスコ Chokoreito Disuko)"   3:46
6. "Macaroni (マカロニ Makaroni)"   4:39
7. "Ceramic Girl (セラミックガール Seramikku Gāru)"   4:34
8. "Take Me Take Me"   5:28
9. "Secret Secret (シークレットシークレット Shīkuretto Shīkuretto)"   4:57
10. "Butterfly"   5:41
11. "Twinkle Snow Powdery Snow"   3:49
12. "Puppy Love"   4:32
DVD
No. Title Length
1. "Polyrhythm (Live at Liquidroom Nov.8 '07)"    
2. "Seventh Heaven (Live at Liquidroom Nov.8 '07)"    
3. "Macaroni: Original Version"    
4. "Ceramic Girl: Drama Another Version"    
5. "Macaroni: A-chan Version"    
6. "Macaroni: Kashiyuka Version"    
7. "Macaroni: Nocchi Version"    

Sales

Year Sales
2008 391,439[2]
2009 61,415[3]
2010 10,486[4]
Total 467,203[5]

Critical reception

Music Magazine ranked Game at number 9 in the 00s best 100 albums (domestic).[6][7]

References

  1. ↑ "Perfume becomes first technopop group at #1 since YMO". tokyograph.com. April 23, 2008. Retrieved November 21, 2008. 
  2. ↑ http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/release/d/754236/1/
  3. ↑ http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/release/d/754236/1/
  4. ↑ http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/release/d/754236/1/
  5. ↑ http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/release/d/754236/1/
  6. ↑ "Music Magazine July 2010" (in Japanese). Retrieved 1 April 2011. 
  7. ↑ Zero-age Best Albums 100 (domestic) (in Japanese). Music Magazine. July 2010. ASIN B003NRFJ9Y. 
Preceded by
I Loved Yesterday by Yui		 Japan Oricon Charts number-one album
April 23, 2008 		Succeeded by
Dream "A" Live by Arashi
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