Perfume to Release First New Single in Over a Year

The girls’ of Perfume are dropping their first single of the year and their first new single release since 2015.

Perfume’s newest single, titled TOKYO GIRL, is set to hit stores on February 15 and comes over a year after their last single release STAR TRAIN back in October of 2015. The girls’ titular song is set as the theme song or NTV’s newest drama series Tokyo Tarareba Musume. The show, a romantic comedy following the plight of three single women in their 30′s, premiers on Janurary 18th nationwide and is based on the popular Akiko Higashimura penned manga of the same name.

The single will be coupled with another brand new song Houseki no Ame which has a product tie-in for Sunstar Ora2 oral hygeine products.

Perfume [パフューム] is a Japanese pop girl group from Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan, consisting of Ayano Omoto, Yuka Kashino, and Ayaka Nishiwaki. The group was formed in early 2000 inside young talent academy Actors School Hiroshima, and debuted with their first Hiroshima-local single “Omajinai Perori” released on March 21, 2002. A year later they moved to Tokyo, started to work with Capsule’s producer Yasutaka Nakata and released their first nationwide indie single, “Sweet Donuts” on August 6, 2003. In 2005 they got a major contract deal with Tokuma Japan Communications, and released their major debut single “Linear Motor Girl” on September 21.