Perfume

JPN is the third studio album by Japanese girl group, Perfume. As with all their past releases, all the songs on the album were written and produced by Yasutaka Nakata. The album maintains Perfume’s electronic sound but leans towards a more pop-oriented vibe compared to their previous effort, Triangle. (2009)

The album was preceded by the release of five singles, two of them were double a-sides. All the singles alongside their b-sides were included on the album, with the exception of “FAKE IT” from the single “Nee.”

JPN debuted at number one on the Oricon Weekly Albums Chart with 227,000 copies sold, giving the group their highest opening sales to date. It eventually received a platinum certification for sales of over 340,000 copies.

Notably, JPN gave Perfume international exposure and became the group’s first record to be receive a worldwide release, after Universal Music Japan re-released the album in 2012 in over fifty countries to begin the group’s string of global releases.