"First Love" | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Single by Hikaru Utada | ||||
from the album First Love | ||||
Language | Japanese, English | |||
Released | April 28, 1999 | |||
Recorded | 1998 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 4:18 | |||
Label | Toshiba-EMI | |||
Songwriter(s) | Hikaru Utada | |||
Producer(s) | Akira Miyake Utada Sking Teruzane | |||
Hikaru Utada singles chronology | ||||
| ||||
Music video | ||||
"First Love" on YouTube |
"First Love" is a song by the Japanese-American singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada. It was released on April 28, 1999, as the third Japanese language single from her second studio album, First Love , which was issued a month previously. It was certified double platinum for 800,000 copies shipped to stores in Japan. [1]
In a 2009 survey by Oricon, asking respondents what song they wanted to hear with a broken heart, "First Love" was voted in the top 10. [2] "First Love" was performed during Utada's 2010 tour, Utada: In the Flesh 2010. It was also performed during Utada's two-date concert series Wild Life in December 2010. [3] The song and "Hatsukoi" from her 2018 studio album of the same name inspired the 2022 Netflix series First Love . [4] In December 9, 2022, "First Love" was remixed alongside "Hatsukoi" in Dolby Atmos. [5]
The song was used as the theme song for the Japanese drama Majo no Jōken , starring Hideaki Takizawa and Nanako Matsushima.[ citation needed ] "First Love" is featured in the PlayStation 2 rhythm game Unison , released in 2001.
No. | Title | Arrangement | Length |
---|---|---|---|
1. | "First Love" | Kei Kawano | 4:18 |
2. | "First Love" (Strings Mix) | Kawano | 4:22 |
3. | "First Love" (Original Karaoke) | Kawano | 4:21 |
4. | "First Love" (John Luongo Mix) | John Luongo | 4:08 |
Total length: | 17:09 |
No. | Title | Arrangement | Length |
---|---|---|---|
1. | "First Love" | Kawano | 4:18 |
2. | "First Love" (featuring David Sanborn) | Kawano | 4:17 |
3. | "First Love" (Strings Mix) | Kawano | 4:20 |
4. | "First Love" (John Luongo Mix) | Luongo | 4:08 |
Total length: | 17:13 |
Weekly charts
| Year-end charts
|
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
---|---|---|
Japan (RIAJ) [19] 12 cm version | 2× Platinum | 500,000^ |
Japan 8 cm version | — | 303,000 [20] |
Japan (RIAJ) [21] Full-length Ringtone | Platinum | 250,000* |
Streaming | ||
Japan (RIAJ) [22] | 2× Platinum | 200,000,000† |
Japan (RIAJ) [23] 2014 Remaster | Gold | 50,000,000† |
* Sales figures based on certification alone. |
Region | Date | Format(s) | Version | Label | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Japan | April 28, 1999 | Original | [6] [7] | ||
Taiwan | August 2000 | [24] | |||
Japan | November 19, 2004 |
| [25] | ||
Various | December 9, 2022 |
| 2022 Mix | [26] | |
Japan | "First Love / Hatsukoi" 2022 Remastered |
| [5] |
"First Love" | |
---|---|
Promotional single by Juju | |
from the album Request | |
Released | September 15, 2010 |
Genre | J-pop, R&B |
Length | 4:27 |
Label | Sony |
Songwriter(s) | Hikaru Utada |
Producer(s) | Akihisa Matsuura |
"First Love" was covered by the Japanese R&B singer Juju in 2010, on her cover album Request . It was the main promotional single, and was released as a digital download to cellphones on September 15, 2010. [27] Juju performed the song at Hey! Hey! Hey! on September 20. [28]
Chart | Peak position |
---|---|
RIAJ Digital Track Chart Top 100 [29] | 5 |
Region | Date | Format |
---|---|---|
Japan | September 8, 2010 [27] | Ringtone |
September 15, 2010 [27] | Cellphone download |
Hikaru Utada, also known by the mononym Utada, is a Japanese singer, songwriter and producer. Utada is one of the most influential and best-selling musical artists in Japan.
First Love is the debut Japanese-language studio album by Japanese-American recording artist Hikaru Utada, released on March 10, 1999, by Toshiba-EMI.
"Be My Last" is Hikaru Utada's 14th Japanese single, released on September 28, 2005. It was used for the 2005 film Spring Snow, an adaptation of the 1966 Yukio Mishima novel of the same name.
The discography of Japanese-American R&B and pop singer Hikaru Utada consists of eleven studio albums, four compilation albums, eleven video albums and numerous singles and promotional singles. Utada began as a musician in the early 1990s as a member of U3, a family unit made up of her, her mother Junko Utada, also known as 1970s enka singer Keiko Fuji, and her father, musical producer Teruzane Utada. U3 released their debut album Star in 1993, with the hope to debut in America. In 1996, the group was rebranded as Cubic U, an R&B project focusing on Hikaru Utada, resulting in the English language album Precious in 1998 with record label Toshiba EMI.
"This Is Love" is Hikaru Utada's first Japanese digital single. It was released on May 31, 2006 as a promotional single for her fourth Japanese studio album. "This Is Love" was tied-in as the CM song for a Nissin cup noodle campaign and the opening theme for an anime "Freedom," which was also tied into the Nippon campaign. The digital single reached number one in virtually every online music store in Japan prior to the ULTRA BLUE album's release, including the most used store in Japan, iTunes Japan, as well as OnGen, among others. Utada herself is quoted to have said that this song is about expressing that "Love is like a mix of extremes: anxiety and peace."
"Beautiful World" is a song by Japanese American musician Hikaru Utada. It served as the theme song for Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone, the 2007 film reboot of the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion. It was released as a double A-side single on August 29, 2007 along with her song "Kiss & Cry", which had been released digitally three months earlier. In 2009, a remix of the song, "Beautiful World " served as the theme song of the second film in the series, Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance.
"Heart Station" is a song by Japanese musician Hikaru Utada, which was released as a double A-side single alongside her song "Stay Gold" on February 20, 2008. The title track for her album Heart Station, the song was heavily promoted on radio stations, for three weeks it was the number one song on the newly established Billboard Hot Top Airplay chart, despite only managing to reach number two on the Billboard Japan Hot 100.
"Prisoner of Love" is Hikaru Utada's 21st Japanese single and 30th single overall, released on May 21, 2008. This was her first Japanese recut single in nine years, after the first one "First Love" in 1999. It is also her first single to be released only in CD+DVD format. "Prisoner of Love" serves as the insert song for the Japanese television drama, Last Friends, while the original version is used in the opening theme. It won the Best Theme Song Award in the 57th Drama Academy Awards. "Prisoner of Love" was the 3rd most downloaded song in Japan during 2008.
"Eternally" is a song by Japanese musician Hikaru Utada, from their 2001 album Distance. It was re-arranged in 2008 as "Eternally (Drama Mix)" for use in the Maki Horikita starring Fuji TV drama Innocent Love. It was released as a digital single on October 31, 2008, and eventually released onto CD in March 2009, on an EMI compilation album I: Zutto, Zutto, Aishiteru (i(アイ)~ずっと、ずっと、愛してる~).
Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 2 is Japanese pop singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada's second compilation album, released on November 24, 2010, by EMI Music Japan, the same day as her Universal-released English language compilation album, Utada the Best. The album includes two discs, with the first being a 13-track greatest hits album spanning 2004–2009, while the second is an extended play featuring new material. Along with Utada the Best, this remained Utada's last album release for six years, until 2016's Fantôme, due to an announced hiatus. Several of the new songs achieved commercial success, with "Goodbye Happiness" reaching number one on Billboard's Japan Hot 100 chart, and "Can't Wait 'Til Christmas" reaching number one on the Recording Industry Association of Japan's digital track chart. Both songs have been certified by the association as gold records for full-length cellphone downloads.
"Goodbye Happiness" is a song by Japanese American singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada. It was released as the lead track from Utada's second Japanese compilation album, Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 2, in November 2010. The song was commercially successful, topping Billboard's Japan Hot 100 chart in December 2010, and in January 2011 was certified gold by the RIAJ for more than 100,000 full-length downloads to cellphones.
"Show Me Love (Not a Dream)" is a song by Japanese singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada. Used as the theme song for the film Tomorrow's Joe (2011), it was released as a digital download preceding Utada's second Japanese compilation album, Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 2, on November 17, 2010.
"Can't Wait 'Til Christmas" is a song by Japanese singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada. It was released on Utada's second Japanese compilation album, Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 2, on November 24, 2010.
"Sakura Drops" is a song by Japanese-American musician Hikaru Utada. It was released as a double A-side single with the song "Letters" on May 9, 2002.
"Stay Gold" is a pop song by Japanese American musician Hikaru Utada. Used in a high-profile campaign for Kao Corporation's Asience shampoo commercials in 2007, the song was released as a double A-side single with Utada's song "Heart Station" on February 20, 2008.
Fantôme is the sixth Japanese studio album by Japanese-American singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada. Although Utada announced an indefinite hiatus from the public eye in August 2010, she continued writing and composing material with her father, Utada Teruzane, and long-term collaborator, Miyake Akira. Musically, Fantôme contains a collection of tracks that utilizes acoustic and stripped-down instrumentations, alongside influences of pop, electronic, and R&B music. The lyrical content delves into themes of grief, sadness, love, and death—mostly influenced by the death of her mother, her second marriage, and the birth of her son in 2015.
"Hatsukoi" is a song by Japanese-American singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada. It is her fifth single under the label Epic Records Japan and was taken from her upcoming seventh Japanese-language studio album Hatsukoi. The song was released as a digital download on May 30 and was used as a tie-in for the Japanese television drama Hana Nochi Hare - Hanadan Next Season. It's the second song that Utada delivers to the series, after Flavor of Life in 2007.
Hatsukoi is the seventh Japanese-language studio album by Japanese–American recording artist Hikaru Utada. It was released on June 27, 2018, as her first album under Sony Music Japan sublabel Epic Records Japan. The release coincided with the commemoration of her 20th Anniversary as an artist in Japan. A national tour was announced to support the album in November 2018. The five previously released songs were confirmed in the album track list, for a total of twelve songs, including the title track "Hatsukoi" and the Kingdom Hearts III theme song "Chikai".
One Last Kiss is an extended play by Japanese musician Hikaru Utada, which was released in the US on March 9, 2021. It was released for promotion of the Japanese animated film Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time around the time of the film's release. It contains all the previously released theme songs that were made for the Rebuild of Evangelion film series. It also contains the theme song "One Last Kiss", which was co-produced by A. G. Cook and released in conjunction with the film on March 10, 2021.
Science Fiction is the first greatest hits album and fourth overall compilation album by Japanese-American singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada, released on April 10, 2024, through Epic Records Japan and USM Japan. Commemorated the 25th anniversary of their career, the album consists of two discs with 26 tracks, including new mixing and re-recording of their previous singles and three original track "Gold ", "Naniiro Demo Nai Hana", and "Electricity". In support of the album, Utada will embark on the Science Fiction Tour in 2024.