Love the World

"Love the World"
Single by Perfume
from the album Triangle
B-side	"Edge"
Released	July 9, 2008
Format	CD single, CD+DVD, digital download
Recorded	2008
Genre	J-pop, electropop, retro-pop, chiptune
Length	4:32
Label	Tokuma Japan Communications
Writer(s)	Yasutaka Nakata
Producer(s)	Yasutaka Nakata (中田ヤスタカ)
Perfume singles chronology
"Baby Cruising Love/Macaroni" (2008) "Love the World" (2008) "Dream Fighter" (2008)
Music video "Love the World" on YouTube

"Love the World" (stylized as "love the world") is Perfume's 7th major single. It was released on July 9, 2008 and debuted at number one on the Oricon chart, becoming the first electropop song from an electropop act to do so, Yellow Magic Orchestra's song "Kimi ni, Mune Kyun" being the previous record holder at #2, twenty-five years prior. Love the World is Perfume's best-selling single in the span of their career.^[1][2]

The single's B-side, "edge", was used as background music for a KOSE Fasio commercial starring Aya Ueto.

Track listing

All tracks written by Yasutaka Nakata. 

CD
No.	Title	Length
1.	"love the world"	4:35
2.	"edge"	6:31
3.	"love the world -Original Instrumental-"	4:35
4.	"edge -extended mix-"	8:41

DVD
No.	Title	Length
1.	"love the world -Video Clip-"

Oricon chart positions

Year	Chart	Position	Sales
2008	Oricon daily	1	95,980
	Oricon weekly	1
	Oricon yearly	47	136,575

External links

• Music video on Clipland

References

1. "テクノ史上初！Perfumeオリコン1位" (in Japanese). Sankei Sports. 2008-07-15. Archived from the original on 2008-07-17. Retrieved 2008-07-15.
2. "Perfume achieves technopop's first #1 single". Tokyograph.com. 2008-07-16. Retrieved 2008-11-21.