First Love (album)
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| First Love | |||||
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| Studio album by Utada Hikaru | |||||
| Released | March 10 1999 | ||||
| Recorded | August-November 1998 | ||||
| Genre | J-Pop, R&B | ||||
| Length | 54:17 | ||||
| Label | EMI Music Japan | ||||
| Producer | Akira Miyake, Teruzane Sking, Utada Hikaru | ||||
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First Love is an album by Utada Hikaru, released in 1999 (see 1999 in music). It has sold well over ten million copies to date as of 2007 worldwide, and is the best-selling CD debut album as well as the all-time overall highest-selling CD album in Japanese music history, with 7.650 million units shipped.[1] [2] It topped the Oricon Weekly Albums chart for a total of six non-consecutive times.
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[edit] Track listing
- "Automatic" -Album Edit– 5:28
- "Movin' on without you" – 4:37
- "In My Room" – 4:19
- "First Love" – 4:17
- "Amai Wana ~Paint It, Black~" (甘いワナ ～Paint It; "Love Trap ~Paint It, Black~"?) – 5:02
- "time will tell" – 5:26
- "Never Let Go" – 3:57
- "B&C -Album Version–" - 4:20
- "Another Chance" – 5:21
- "Interlude" – 0:16
- "Give Me A Reason" – 6:22
- "Automatic -Johnny Vicious Remix-" – 4:37
[edit] Singles
The single "First Love" is consider as a recut single it was released a month after the album's released.
| Date | Title | Peak position | Weeks | Sales |
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| December 9 1998 | 08cm - "Automatic / time will tell" | #4 | 23 | 772,080 |
| December 9 1998 | 12cm - "Automatic / time will tell" | #2 | 23 | 1,290,700 |
| February 17 1999 | 08cm - "Movin' on without you" | #5 | 12 | 346,820 |
| February 17 1999 | 12cm - "Movin' on without you" | #1 | 13 | 879,760 |
| April 28 1999] | 08cm - "First Love" | #6 - Recut | 19 | 303,430 |
| April 28 1999 | 12cm - "First Love" | #2 - Recut | 13 | 500,890 |
[edit] Charts
First Love - Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)
| Release | Chart | Peak Position | Debut Sales | Sales Total | Worldwide Sales | Chart Run |
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| March 10, 1999 | Oricon Daily Albums Chart | #1 | ||||
| March 10, 1999 | Oricon Weekly Albums Chart | #1 (6 weeks) | 2,000,000 | 7,650,215 | 10,056,000 | 84 |
| March 10, 1999 | Oricon Yearly Albums Chart | #1 | ||||
| March 10, 1999 to Present | Best-Selling Albums in Japanese History | #1 |
[edit] Personnel
All Japanese names are in Western order (given name before family name).
- Hikaru Utada (vocals)
- Akira Nishihira (arrangement, keyboards & programming)
- Kei Kawano (arrangement, additional keyboards)
- Shinichiro Murayama (arrangement, keyboards & programming)
- Toshiyuki Mori (arrangement, keyboards & programming)
- Jun Isomura (arrangement)
- Tsuyoshi Kon (guitar)
- Yoshiaki Kusaka (guitar)
- Hironori Akiyama (guitar)
- Yuji Toriyama (guitar)
- Masayoshi Furukawa (guitar)
- Yuichiro Honda (guitar)
- Yuichiro Goto (strings)
- Jullian Hernandez (additional chorus)
- Nobuhiko Nakayama (synthesizer programming)
- Takahiro Iida (synthesizer programming)
- Masayuki Momo (synthesizer programming)
- Taka & Speedy (rhythm arrangement, rhythm programming)
- Akira Miyake (producer)
- Teruzane Sking Utada (producer)
- Hidenobu Okita (director)
- Masaaki Ugajin (all vocals' recording)
- Masaaki Ugajin, Masashi Kudo, Seiji Motoyama, Takehiko Kamata, Bob Allecca, Mike Brown (back track recording)
- Hotoda Goh (mixing)
- Ted Jensen (mastering)
[edit] Miscellanea
| Trivia sections are discouraged under Wikipedia guidelines. The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones. |
- All songs are written by Utada Hikaru except for the line "I see a red door and I want to paint it black" from "Amai Wana ~Paint It, Black~" ("Paint It, Black" is written by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones).
- "Interlude" was made into a song called "Kotoba ni Naranai Kimochi" on her Distance album.
- The song "Never Let Go" features the same beat used in "Take Him Back" by Monica, and was originally used in Sting's "Shape of My Heart". Hikaru said that Monica so inspired her with her R&B that she decided to use that beat.
- "First Love" was featured in a popular Japanese drama, Majo no Jōken (Forbidden Love).
[edit] References
| Utada Hikaru |
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| Albums |
| Japanese studio albums "First Love" • "Distance" • "Deep River" • "Ultra Blue" • Untitled (Japanese) Compilations |
| Various |
| Full discography | Albums | Singles |
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