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Perfume was formed in 2001 and originally consisted of Ayaka "A-chan" Nishiwaki, Yuka "Kashiyuka" Kashino, and Yuuka Kawashima. Shortly after the band's formation, Kawashima left the group to concentrate on her studies and was replaced by Ayano "Nocchi" Ōmoto. The group's name came from the kanji 香, meaning "fragrance", in the three original members' given names. On early singles, the name Perfume was written in hiragana as "ぱふゅーむ". It was around this time they met choreographer MIKIKO, who has worked with the group ever since.
In 2002, Perfume released two limited edition singles, "Omajinai Perori" and "Kareshi Boshūchū", sold only in Hiroshima on Momiji Label. The band moved to Tokyo in 2003 to be produced by capsule's Yasutaka Nakata, and by 2004 had released three more singles: "Sweet Donuts", "Monochrome Effect", and "Vitamin Drop", all of which were released on Bee-Hive Records. The group's first three live performances were given around this time, gaining fans with their energetic performances.
Perfume transitioned to a major label in 2005, releasing "Linear Motor Girl" through Tokuma Japan Communications on September 21st of that year. Two further singles, "Computer City" and "Electro World", saw the group christening themselves as a "near future technopop unit". Their debut album, Perfume ~Complete Best~, compiled their six most recent singles and charted as high as #33 on the Oricon charts when it was first released. The album re-entered the charts after the release of their second album, reaching #25.

Perfume's first major commercial success came from their single "Polyrhythm", which was used by NHK for their Kankyō Recycle Campaign. On the day of its release, "Polyrhythm" debuted at number #4 on the Oricon charts, settling at #7 for the weekly ranking; the single sold over 60,000 copies. Shortly after, Perfume released their sixth single, "Baby Cruising Love/Macaroni", which achieved greater success than "Polyrhythm" by achieving #3 on the daily and weekly charts. Their second album, Game, became the second technopop album in history to debut at #1, behind Yellow Magic Orchestra's Naughty Boys in 1983. Game was certified double-platinum by RIAJ for shipment of 500,000 copies.[6] Perfume engaged on their first major tour of Japan from April 27 to June 1st of 2008. The tour, Perfume First Tour "GAME", was released on DVD on October 15, 2008.
On July 9, 2008, Perfume's seventh major label single, "Love the World", debuted on the Oricon sales chart at #1, becoming the first technopop song ever to do so, breaking Yellow Magic Orchestra's record of "Kimi ni, Mune Kyun." debuting at #2 in 1983.[7][8] Two follow-up singles, "Dream Fighter" and "One Room Disco", would perform just as well (the latter also reaching #1 on Oricon.)
During this time, Perfume began limited engagement live shows at famous venues. The first concert, Budoukaaaaaaaaaan!!!!!, took place at the famous Nippon Budokan on November 6th and 7th, 2008 and was filmed for broadcast on NHK and was released on DVD on April 22, 2009. The second, Disco!Disco!Disco!, took place at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium on May 9th and 10th, 2009. Perfume began broadcast of a comedy sketch program titled Perfume's Chandelier House in April of 2009, shortly after the release of "One Room Disco".
Perfume released their third album, Triangle (⊿ ) on July 8th, 2009, with a second tour of Japan which began in August. Triangle was certified platinum by RIAJ for selling over 250,000 copies.

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Where ARE these girls. It seems like it's been forever since ⊿

it'll almost be one year since "one room disco" was released, too. they really need to release a new single in the spring!

I'm dying for new music!!!
By the way if you have some spare change and haven't got Love the World limited edition there's some copies back in stock at CD Japan.
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview....-73330&ref=myp
I bought one just for the music video :D

i really hoping that they will release a DVD with all of their PV collections :(

Has anyone found scans of the live photo book?

A~chan <3. Nocchi looks so different every time I see her xD

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Originally Posted by NintendoHTF1242 (Post 2232831)

Have a knife fight!

bahahaha I was confused then I "Oh"ed :roflmao

What happened with these ladies? I was listening to them today, and I realized that I had totally played all their songs out. I need new Perfume!

^My sentiment is the same. =[ Harsh reality seems to be that Mr. Nakata just isn't providing them with any new material....and meanwhile Ami Suzuki gets some :weep

^ ami isn't getting anything from nakata right now. her single got cancelled. :grumpy but i hope they'll release it eventually, lol.

curse you deep river! Those are utada tour pictures in your sig and all this time i was trying not to spoil a single thing for me when I see her in new york in a few days T___T
oh well, too late now. <<

anyways I think they might be on a hiatus or something. taking a break from the jpop life lol. I hope this break they are taking is to help with their creative juices or something. hehe

nakata is going to release his capsule album next month, maybe he doesnt has much time to write other songs for the other artist?

Well the album's probably been done for a while =\..I'd like to think he at least has something in the works for them.

^Oh thank you, they are beautiful ^o^

Apparently Perfume is going to be on Music Japan tomorrow? I wonder why..

Please be a new single announcement!!

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Originally Posted by RyRyMini (Post 2240595)

Apparently Perfume is going to be on Music Japan tomorrow? I wonder why..

They're always on Music Japan lol. Because they're hosts for the show since mid-2009 I think.

Uggh I just read that. I failed, sorry guys ><

*sigh* Well, at least those magazine scans are really pretty, but I'm starting to feel desperate for SOME NEWS about Perfume releasing SOMETHING new. It's getting really frustrating! After all their releases, they suddenly just stop cold? I mean, they never made an announcement about going on hiatus, did they? Did we... miss that? I'm worried that when they do come back, they're not going to have the amount of popularity that they did... :/

NEW PERFUME SINGLE IN APRIL!!!

OMFG! :thud

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お待たせしました!!
2010年4月、Perfume 約1年振りのNew Singleリリース決定!!

※詳細は決まり次第お知らせします。
※各CDショップへのお問い合わせは､2/23(火)以降にお願いします｡

Perfume 2010年のBrand New Songをお楽しみに♪

http://www.amuse.co.jp/perfume/news/...5c2d66siddfms0

This will be the only jpop item I will have preordered in a loooooooooong time! Can't wait! :luv2

OMG, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!!
Yayyyy!!!!!!!!

Finally! Jeez that took forever.

wheee!!! can't wait!!! I'm so going to get it!!

IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME.

:cool

**** yesss. I hope it's released in the beginning of the month!

Yay!
I can't wait! ^^

awesome! i can't wait! :heart

woooooohaaaaa ~! Triple spring release !! Ayu, NEWS and now Perfume !! OMG I'm too lucky !
*faints*

YYYEAAAAYY!! GONNA ORDER IT!! thx god!!!

I THINK I JUST YELLED AND SCARED EVERYONE AROUND ME.

FINALLY!!!!

...Perfume appears on U.S TV show American Dad! Valentines episode!

http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/xc8guz

This is kinda....lmao....@_@ The Japanese funk music that everyone in the future loves....if only that were the case....

CDTV's list of artists most wanted as girlfriends

Kashiyuka #16, A-Chan #9, Nocchi #8......................Ayu #19....and BoA.....BoA???? .....belongs in the Boyfriend category dontcha think? :rolleyes

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Originally Posted by DEEP RIVER (Post 2244165)

OMg it thought it was fake but I just download the episode and OMG I lOVE american dad! and I love PErfume so that equals MORE LOVE! thanks for the info!!!! omg

thats really cute to add perfume's song XD

Kashi below A-Chan?! The end of the world is coming.

:P

OMG PERFUME IN AMERICAN DAD!? Amazing! Holy crap XD If only Utada or BoA got this kind of promotion for their American albums.

I saw that on tv. i didn't know it was perfume. I'm not a fan of their early early work. I like everything from Game up till now XD but i think it was cool that they used perfume in family guy. I prob would have found it more exciting if i recognized the song myself and not online when someone pointed it out to me later lol.

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Originally Posted by jiarongisme (Post 2244388)

Kashi below A-Chan?! The end of the world is coming.

:P

As long as Nocchi is above both of them :rolleyes

New Chocolate Disco Live?

Oh thanks a lot, WOOWW i don't know how they can dance

lol, perfume so lip syncs live all the time. but they're so cute when they do it. :P

Oh so they did perform on Music Japan!!
And Nana-chan wished A-chan a happy birthday!! hehehe
hideous pattern on their costumes 0_0
I thought it was a bit WTF that Kashi was below the other two on the lovers ranking...

Woah, the performance was so random. I mean, it just came out of nowhere lol. But I do like it. :yes

^ not really, beacuase it's a song about valentine plus in a recent poll by oricon chocolate disco was number 2, so japanese ppl remember it.

I wonder if the next single will be a new "Disco" song!! that way will have 3! n_n

I'm quite interested in this - I think I should be keeping an eye on them in my spare time...

Well it's nice to see them performing something!

Though I really do wonder if they ever tire of lip syching so much...

They should try to not lipsync some of their songs like Polyrhythm...Baby Cruising Love, Macaroni....those are do-able live....but then again...I'd rather they lipsync than sound all tired and crapp xD

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Originally Posted by DEEP RIVER (Post 2245064)

they actually can sing especially a-chan :grumpy baby cruising love still sound good without vocoder in a show, i think it was MS

I found it! They should sing live more often

Yay for new single and wow they appeared on an American TV show XD

I prefer Baby cruising love than Chocolate Disco

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I prefer Baby cruising love than Chocolate Disco

:yes but I always love One Room Disco! XD

is that baby cruising Love ~without vocaloid~ version?? sounds better......love their voice!!

I thought I heard that Yasutaka wouldn't let them sing their newer material live? Maybe I'm wrong..

Even in this performance of Baby cruising love, it sounds like most of the lines have playback too =\

Maybe....iunno....they sang One Room Disco sort of liveish....

.....and also NIGHT FLIGHT @ MS was live-ish to some extent.

Sort of...not really though. I think they should cut out the playback because mixing electronic & regular voices sounds kinda strange.

^ ^ i think they are singing with the playback too, its nice for them to do so, instead of lipsync all the time

EDIT: they are sing it during the verse only :laugh

I just saw the American Dad episode. I couldn't for the life of me remember what the song title was though, so I went home and listened to all their tracks til I found Monochrome Effect xD

Then I remembered how awesome Perfume are and hoped they were coming out with new stuff soon….viola! A new single in April? Sounds great!

My friends all thought Monochrome Effect was a love song until I found a live with subs for them to watch, they thought it was really funny they picked that song to use…I wonder who the Jpop fan is in their staff?

I wonder how much they had to pay to use it? =o

Some fan art....waiting for more news is killing me x_x

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1. Black Light
2. phenolphthalein
3. Sakura ドロップス (宇多田ヒカル cover)
4. Black Light Instrumental
5. Juicy Fragrance
DVD
1. Black Light (TV Clip)
2. Sakura ドロップス

^ phenolph....what?! :laugh

but those covers are pretty cool. :P

The girls look great in the covers! A-chan!!!!!!!!!! cut your fringe a bit.... :D

phenolphthalein is so random. Of all things, a lab substance. XD

If only these were real, I need some news NAO.

I love the cd only cover ^0^

3. Sakura ドロップス (宇多田ヒカル cover)

LOL NO THANK YOU

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Originally Posted by jiarongisme (Post 2251291)

phenolphthalein is so random. Of all things, a lab substance. XD

If only these were real, I need some news NAO.

exactly :laugh remind me of my high school days :love

from natalie.mu twitter, i think the single will be released on 4/14?

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Perfume、2010年第1弾シングル4月14日リリース http://natalie.mu/music/news/28047

EDIT: http://www.perfume-web.jp/information/
now confirmed on perfume's website. large scale up tie-up and CD/CD+DVD versions. :D

Nice I can't wait!!!!!

what is "large scale up tie up"?

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Originally Posted by pocoyo~po~yo (Post 2252156)

what is "large scale up tie up"?

at the moment, i don't think they've announced it yet. so we'll just wait and see, i guess.

I'ts official, yay!!!!!

i wonder what the tie-in is? large scale, imo, is usually a dorama tie-in, but we'll see~
but yes!! at least we have an official release date now. :D

a drama tie-in would be kinda possible, seeing as how it's being released in april, and dramas premiere in april for the spring season. but i dunno, i just hope it's better than some CM tie-in or something, lol.

Awesome! Can't wait to hear it. :D

Single up for preorder!!

CD JAPAN

Regular edition
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=TKCA-73525

Limited edition
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=TKCA-73520

On the yesasia info it says it's being marketed as their 10th Anniversary since formation single.

Waah, finally, a single *______*. I was starting to get really impatient too xD. Thanks for the info! I think I might actually preorder this~.

wowo I fogrot that perfume's 10th anivversary was comming, I wonder if they'll make something abour it.

I think I'll pre-order!!! just hope ayu releases info for her next album then I'll beordering both

I hope they have some awesome goodies with this single :yes

Hmmm....I'll wait a while....maybe till the covers come out....my birthday's all the way off in May.....if the preorders sell out I'll get myself over to Kinokuniya....really excited about this single though!

finally some new stuff!

Now we need to see some covers!!

i can't wait ^_^, i hope nice covers

Does anyone have some good Perfume wallpapers?

Thanks, i haven't Perfume wallpapers

here is one more for those who need bigger:

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OMG they just aired the American Dad episode with Perfume in it on Cartoon Network....so satisfying

^ Haha I kno rite? I watched it just for that. Such a painful experience since American Dad! fails :|

Hey guys, look at what I found

SHINee's Key dancing to "ONE ROOM DISCO" & "Chocolate Disco" in a Japanese SHINee fan meeting
for those who don't know, Key has a reputation for knowing A LOT of girl group dances XD

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Originally Posted by AsukaRoses (Post 2265002)

Fixed. ;)

Woah, first Kuu, now Perfume. XD

^ And that's super cool! =D

dammed I forgot to buy perfume's single with my ayu order, got super excited T_T, but this will be a good way for me to let go the singles and focus on only albums and DVD's... will be difficult but I'm trying.

sad -_-

Title of new Perfume single is ナチュラルに恋して (Natural Ni Koi Shite/Fall in Love Naturally)

http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yasuyuyu/20100307/p1