64 on the Japanese Oricon weekly albums chart. The mini-album was their first chart placement, reaching No. In November 2015 they released their sophomore mini-album New Beginning. In August 2014, they released the maxi-single 'Ai to Jōnetsu no Matador' (titled 'Love, Passion, Matador' internationally). The group released their debut mini-album Maid in Japan in January 2014, written in collaboration with musicians Masahiko Fukui and Kentaro Akutsu. Įarly in their history, Band-Maid regularly performed live at various venues around the Tokyo area.

Their first performance as a five-piece was at the P Festival at Shibuya-AX on August 22, 2013. The band then decided to recruit an additional lead singer and selected Saiki Atsumi during auditions. On Jthey had their first live performance at the PP Audition held at Osaka Deep, as a quartet with Kobato on vocals. Hirose in turn suggested bassist Misa, with whom she had attended music school. Tōno had performed as a singer-songwriter and suggested her occasional backing drummer Akane Hirose for the new band. Kobato recruited lead guitarist Kanami Tōno after an Internet search. Singer/guitarist Miku Kobato, formerly an employee of a Japanese maid café, envisioned forming a band that juxtaposed the maid image with rock music. In late 2020, the band left Revolver Records and signed with Pony Canyon.

The band's albums have been released internationally through JPU Records since 2016. Originally signed to Gump Records (an imprint of the Platinum Passport artist management and talent agency), they switched to major label Nippon Crown's sub-label Crown Stones in 2016 and later moved to new sub-label Revolver Records in 2019. The band combines a rock sound with a maid image modeled on Japanese maid cafés. Band-Maid (stylized as BAND-MAID® until March 2016) is a Japanese rock band formed in 2013.

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