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''Game'' (stylized as GAME) is the first full-length studio album of Japanese girl group Perfume, released on April 16, 2008 by Tokuma Japan Communications. ''Game'' musically re-invents the technopop genre, which declined through the 1990s and 2000s decades in the Japanese music scene. The album explores electronic dance genres including house, J-pop, bubblegum pop and techno. Many tracks in ''Game'' touches upon themes of fun, dancing, love and music. The album's production and lyrical content was handled by Japanese producer Yasutaka Nakata. Three singles were released from ''Game''. ''Fan Service (Sweet)'' was a double A-side single consisting "Chocolate Disco" and "Twinkle Snow Powdery Snow". The second single "Polyrhythm" became the group's first charting single on Oricon, and the third double a-side single "Baby Cruising Love/Macaroni" was released as the final single. Upon its release, ''Game'' received mixed to favorable reviews from most music critics, many of whom complimented the mixture of genres and overall composition of the album, while criticism was directed towards the album content for being lifeless and overproduced. Commercially, ''Game'' became the group's first album to top the Oricon Albums Chart and became Nakata's first produced album to do so. The album was certified double platinum by Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ). Becoming the group's highest selling effort to date, the group promoted the album on their nationwide ''Perfume First Tour: Game'' concert tour. ==Background== In 2000, Ayaka Nishiwaki, Yuka Kashino, and Yuka Kawashima, often known as A-chan, Kashiyuka and Kawayuka, formed the group inside young talent academy Actors School Hiroshima run by Shinhiroshima Telecasting. However, before they could debut, Kawashima had left the group to pursue an education.〔 This led Nishiwaki to find a replacement for Kawashima, and Ayano Omoto, known as Nocchi, was announced the third member of the group.〔 Two years later, the group recorded two singles "Omajinai Perori" and "Kareshi Boshūchū" which received little attention in Japan. In 2003, the group signed to Bee-Hive Records and released three singles; "Sweet Donuts", "Monochrome Effect" and "Vitamin Drop". Although many artists at Beehive were being dropped by their management Amuse, Inc., they felt Perfume in particular had potential to breakthrough and allow Perfume to release another single.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://blog.yomiuri.co.jp/popstyle/2007/10/post_fefc.html )〕〔Robson, Daniel, "(Will the world wake up to the scent of Perfume? )", ''Japan Times'', 18 May 2012, p. 18〕 But in doing so, Perfume left Beehive Records and signed with Tokuma Japan Communications to release their future music. The group released ''Fan Service: Sweet'' and, while sales were not high, the success of the singles A-side track "Chocolate Disco" begun to play on radio stations throughout Japan.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://natalie.mu/music/news/32663 )〕 Furthering their success, commercial director Akira Tomotsugi noticed Perfume on the radio and was interested in shooting a campaign, featuring the girls.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.j-cast.com/2008/04/24019427.html )〕 The group's first album, ''Perfume: Complete Best'', a compilation album featuring unreleased and previous tracks, became successful in Japan, peaking at number twenty-four and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for shipments of 150,000 units. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Game (Perfume album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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