ONE ROOM DISCO ranked #1 on it’s first week in the Oricon charts selling over 88,075 copies. And for those who live in Japan, Perfume had surprises for them as they did with previous releases. Buying a limited copy of ONE ROOM DISCO and filling the included form, there was many rare goods you could get: “Live backstage invitation”, “Fan’s Home Visit” And lots of goods: 100 “Perfume Original Goods” gifts, 3 “Unique Deluxe One Room Disco CD Sleeve Case”, 1 “Perfume rare T-shirt (Staff T-shirt or Member T-shirt)” and more original goods.

Perfume’s third Live DVD was released on April 23: BUDOUKaaaaaaaaaaN!!!!! with footage from their 2-days Live at Nippon Budoukan on November 6 and 7, 2008. Also with unreleased and backstage footage including a PV for Butterfly []. Also and before you buy the DVD (if you already hadn’t yet!) check out the forums for snapshots or previews. There’s also a complete review at The Bonkurasu Brigade.

They became the new MUSIC JAPAN hostesses [],[]. They have their weekly appearance talking with guests and we can enjoy their performances: One Room Disco, MACARONI (sheleduled fo next week’s program -May 3st-). They promoted ORD in many TV music shows, but this one from Music Station (March 27) was one of the best TV stages to date: One Room Disco @MS 20090327

Perfume also won the Best Choreography Video prize from SPACE SHOWER VMA 09 for Dream Fighter PV.

What’s next? Disco! Disco! Disco!
Those who’re lucky enough to go to Tokyo will enjoy Perfume’s new 2-days live at Yoyogi Stadium on May 9 and 10, latest news says that stage side seats had been added. It was also announced that WOWOW will broadcast the show, so we’ll watch it sooner or later regardless a DVD comes out or not.

DETAILS:

[OPEN/START]
2009, May 09 (Saturday) OPEN 17:00, START 18:00
2009, May 10 (Sunday) OPEN 16:00, START 17:00
Ticket ¥5,250 (tax in)
Ticket on sale: April 11
Play Guide: Pia, Lawson Ticket, e-plus
Enquiry: Hot Staff Promotion, 03-5720-9999
AMUSE　http://www.amuse.co.jp/perfume/news/
TOKUMA　http://www.tkma.co.jp/tjc/j_pop/perfume/schedule.html

Hello. I’m a 29 year old married man. I don’t have any children.

It’s not like I’m really big into music, but I download and listen to a lot of different kinds of music. It doesn’t matter if it is Western or Japanese and I enjoy music from any genre.

The other day, a friend of mine recommended I give perfume a listen, but although it was music that was fairly off my particular radar, I gave them a listen and really liked it. The music videos are also quite spectacular, so I really started to get into them and started to buy DVDs on Yahoo! Auctions and collect all the CDs I could.

When I recommended them to my wife, she quietly listened and said “This is some interesting music, huh?” But then, one day, I asked her over dinner, “Who is your favorite out of the three perfume girls?” She responded angrily, 『殺すぞ』 (korosu zo, “I’ll kill you.”)

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