"Linear Motor Girl" is the first major label single (sixth overall) of

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

ese

electropop Electropop is a hybrid music genre combining elements of electronic and pop genres. Writer Hollin Jones has described it as a variant of synth-pop with heavy emphasis on its electronic sound. The genre was developed in the 1980s and saw a re ...

girl group A girl group is a music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together. The term "girl group" is also used in a narrower sense in the United States to denote the wave of American female pop music singing groups, many of who ...

Perfume Perfume (, ; french: parfum) is a mixture of fragrant essential oils or aroma compounds (fragrances), fixatives and solvents, usually in liquid form, used to give the human body, animals, food, objects, and living-spaces an agreeable scent. Th ...

. It was released on September 21, 2005 in Japan, and was the group's first release under

Tokuma is a publisher in Japan, headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. The company was established in 1954 by Yasuyoshi Tokuma in Minato, Tokyo. The company’s product portfolio includes music publishing, video game publishing, movies, anime, magazines, ...

. The single is recognized and considered the group's debut single by Japanese media.

Background

"Linear Motor Girl" is the 6th single released by Perfume. The single sold for four weeks in the charts and sold 2,600 copies. After that, their releases started to move up on the charts.

Track listing

References

{{authority control Perfume (Japanese band) songs Japanese-language songs Songs written by Yasutaka Nakata Billboard Japan Hot 100 number-one singles 2005 singles Song recordings produced by Yasutaka Nakata 2005 songs