| Love Machine | |
| Cover: | Love Machine (Morning Musume single - cover art).jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Morning Musume |
| Album: | 3rd-Love Paradise |
| Released: | September 9, 1999 (JP) |
| Recorded: | 1999 |
| Length: | 14:47 (8 cm CD) |
| Label: | Zetima |
| Producer: | Tsunku |
| Prev Title: | Furusato |
| Prev Year: | 1999 |
| Next Title: | Koi no Dance Site |
| Next Year: | 2000 |
is Morning Musume's 7th single, released on September 9, 1999 as an 8 cm CD. It sold a total of 1,646,630 copies, making it a massive hit (a #1 single in Japan) and their highest selling single. In 2004, it was re-released as part of the Early Single Box and again in 2005 as a 12 cm CD. The single also marked the debut of the "Third Generation" member Maki Goto and the departure of Aya Ishiguro.
The original 8 cm CD release was housed in a J-card-type 12 cm slimline single case instead of the then-industry CD snap-pack packaging. The case used was 7 mm thick, showing artwork through the front, and also through the spine and part of the back of the case. The CD itself was inserted upside-down, allowing the artwork on the disc itself to show through the transparent back of the case. This is one of only two 8 cm CD singles released by Morning Musume to adhere this packaging (the other being their eighth single Koi no Dance Site (2000)).
In 2008, a remade version of the song was released by Scott Murphy of Allister in his album Guilty Pleasures 3.[1]
In 2009, the song was remade into Korean by South Korean girl group After School under the name "Dream Girl", and Avex Group posted a "RIKI version" by actor Riki Takeuchi on its official YouTube channel in celebration of the song's tenth anniversary.[2]
In 2013, Moametal of the kawaii metal group Babymetal performed a cover during their Legend 1999 show at NHK Hall.The song was chosen because it was a hit in 1999, the year of Moametal and fellow member Yuimetal's birth.[3]
Love Machine is featured in Ubisoft's Japanese Just Dance Wii U
The lyricist, composer and producer of both songs is Tsunku. "Love Machine" was arranged by Dance☆Man, while "21seiki" was arranged by Shunsuke Suzuki.
This is the original edition of the single and has a catalog number, EPDE-1052.
This edition has a catalog number, EPJE-5035.
This edition was released as the 7th disc of the Early Single Box with catalogue number EPCE-5327 and as an individual release with catalog number EPCE-5319.