Future Pop (album)

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Future Pop
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Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 15, 2018
Recorded2016–2018
Genre
Length42:09
Label
Producer Yasutaka Nakata
Perfume chronology
Cosmic Explorer
(2016)
Future Pop
(2018)
Perfume the Best: P Cubed
(2019)
Singles from Future Pop
  1. "Tokyo Girl"
    Released: February 15, 2017
  2. "If You Wanna"
    Released: August 30, 2017
  3. "Mugen Mirai"
    Released: March 14, 2018
  4. "Let Me Know"
    Released: August 1, 2018 (digital download)

Future Pop is the sixth studio album by Japanese girl group Perfume, released on August 15, 2018 by Universal Music Japan sublabels Universal J and Perfume Records. The album debuted at the top spot [3] of the Oricon Weekly Albums Chart with 79,282 copies on its first week of release, making it their seventh number-one album in Japan. [4] The album also yielded its first number-one release on the Oricon Weekly Digital Albums chart with 7,396 downloads. [4] The album comprises a total of twelve tracks, with three of them being released as maxi singles: "Tokyo Girl", "If You Wanna", and "Mugen Mirai", plus their respective B-sides "Houseki no Ame", "Everyday", and "Fusion", and six previously-unreleased tracks, with one of them being the album's promotional single, "Let Me Know".

Contents

Track listing

All songs written, arranged, and produced by Yasutaka Nakata.

No.TitleLength
1."Start-Up"0:54
2."Future Pop"3:03
3."If You Wanna"2:43
4."Tokyo Girl"4:27
5."Fusion"4:32
6."Tiny Baby"3:41
7."Let Me Know"3:25
8."Chorairin" (超来輪; Ultra Future Loop)3:43
9."Mugenmirai" (無限未来; Infinite Future)3:41
10."Housekino Ame" (宝石の雨; Rain of Jewels)3:57
11."Tenku" (天空; Sky)4:39
12."Everyday"3:47
Total length:42:09

DVD bonus track list

No.TitleLength
1."Tokyo Girl (video clip)" 
2."If You Wanna (video clip)" 
3."Everyday (video clip)" 
4."無限未来 (Mugenmirai) (video clip)" 
5."Let Me Know (video clip)" 
6."Perfume No Tadatada Radio Ga Sukidakara Radio! 3" 

Charts

Chart (2018)Peak
position
Japanese Weekly Albums Chart (Oricon) [4] 1
Japanese Weekly Digital Albums Chart (Oricon) [4] 1
US World Albums ( Billboard ) [5] 4

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Japan (RIAJ) [6] Gold100,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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