"Love the World" (stylized as "love the world") is

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 ...

's 7th major single. It was released on July 9, 2008 and debuted at number one on the

Oricon , established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in Nov ...

chart, becoming the first electropop song from an electropop act to do so,

Yellow Magic Orchestra Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO for short) is a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals). The group is conside ...

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

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Love The World 2008 songs Perfume (Japanese band) songs Songs written by Yasutaka Nakata Oricon Weekly number-one singles Billboard Japan Hot 100 number-one singles Song recordings produced by Yasutaka Nakata