''Candy Racer'' (

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Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Kiriko Takemura (Japanese: 竹村桐子, born January 29, 1993), known professionally as Kyary Pamyu Pamyu (Hiragana: きゃりーぱみゅぱみゅ), is a Japanese tarento, singer, and model. Her public image is associated with Japan's ''kawai ...

, released on October 27, 2021 by

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and its imprint KRK Lab as her first album release on the label.

Background

After completing promotions for her fourth studio album ''

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'' in early 2019, Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's contract with

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expired, leaving her as an independent artist. On May 10, 2019, she independently released the digital single " Kimi ga Iine Kuretara" through her agency Asobisystem's in-house label Asobimusic. It served as a theme song to the Japanese drama series ''Mukai no Bazuru Kazoku''. The single was later re-released on vinyl in February 2020. Kyary then performed her next single "Kamaitachi" on her birthday live with her music producer

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on January 29, 2020. The song was released as a digital single on April 24, 2020, during the lockdowns brought by the

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. Her supposed national tour ''Kamaitachi Tour 2020'' was canceled because of the aforementioned pandemic. In early January 2021, Asobisystem announced that Kyary has signed a recording contract with Japanese record label

and has established her own imprint label KRK Lab as part of her tenth anniversary as a singer. She then released a new digital single titled "Gum Gum Girl" on January 29, 2021, which was her 28th birthday. On August 16, 2021, Kyary released a new digital single "Gentenkaihi". On September 10, 2021, the album release was announced. "Jumping Up" was released as a lead track from the album on September 29, 2021, followed by "Dodonpa" on October 13, 2021 with its accompanying lyric video. The music video for the title track was released on November 2, 2021 on YouTube.

Commercial performance

''Candy Racer'' debuted at the twenty-second spot of the

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Weekly Albums Chart, selling 3,065 copies on its first week of release. It continued to chart for three more weeks, and in total sold 3,932 copies.

Track listing

All songs written, arranged, and produced by

Charts

Sales

References

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