Perfume, the first electro-pop group to have a #1 album in 25 years

[minkAYuko]

This week perfume achieved the #1 position on Oricon weekly chart and by doing this not only they broke a personal record since GAME is their first #1 album ever (they've released 2 albums so far) but they've also just broke another record on the whole Japanese music scene.

Perfume is now the first electro-pop group to have a #1 album in weekly charts in 25 years (24 years and 11 months) this honor used to belong to the band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO).

That's how game charted this week:

Spoiler:

GAME debuted the 15th above this artists:
2. HY
3. ゆず
5.ACIDMAN
7. Mariah Carey
9.ゲーム・ミュージック
10. Rize
15. オムニバス
16. ザ・ラスト・シャドウ・パペッツ
20.tacica


2008.04.15
Position: #1
Index: 35,493
Estimate Sales (1st dya): 35,493 x 1.75 = 60,338

2008.04.16
Position: #3
Index: 13,216
Estimate sales (2nd day): 13,216 x 1.75 = 23,128

2008.04.17
Position: #2
Index: 8,544
Estimate sales (3rd day): 8,544 x 1.75 = 14,952

2008.04.18
Position: #1
Index: -,---
Estimate sales (4th day): -,--- x 1.75 = --,---

2008.04.19
Position: #1
Index: 9,891
Estimate sales (5th day): 9,891, x 1.75 = 17,309

2008.04.20
Position: #1
Index: 11,573
Estimate sales (6th day): 11,573, x 1.75 = 20,252

2008.04.21
Position: #1
Index: 4,664
Estimate sales (7th day): 4,664, x 1.75 = 8,162

Total Weekly Sales: 154,304

thanks to CHAS_AYU for the layout

another interesting facts are:

• 『Perfume～Complete Best～』 went from 83 poisition to 25.
• 『Fan Service～Prima Box～』 from top 300 to 80.
• 「ポリリズム」 from 96 position to 54.
• 「Baby cruising love」 from 146 position to 74.

CD only
HQ COVERS
CD+DVD limited edition

CONGRATULATIONS PERFUME!
WELL DESERVED HONORS

BUY your copy NOW!
HMV (direct link)
Amazon(direct link)
CDJAPAN(direct link)
Play-Asia (direct link)

You can Stream the whole album right here
(in case they ask you to log in, you can also try here)

Official Links:

• Article on this record, on ORICON
• Article on this record, on Livedoor
• Article on this record, on Yahoo!
• Oricon daily chart
• Oricon Weekly chart
• YMO (wiki)
• Perfume Official site

AHS official Perfume Thread

Credits: Big Thanks to marcelosama for his help, mika2468 as well and ¡YAY!POP blog for the original info in spanish.