First Love (album)
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| Studio album by Hikaru Utada | ||||
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August to December 1998 |
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| Label (s) | EMI Music Japan | |||
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Title (number) |
12 |
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running time |
54:37 |
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First Love ( dt. First Love ) is the first Japanese-language studio album of the Japanese singer Hikaru Utada . The album was released on March 10, 1999 in Japan and is the best-selling album in Japanese music history. It sold more than 7.65 million copies, according to Oricon , the Recording Industry Association of Japan added that 8.53 million copies were in circulation. It is also the only album to be awarded 32 × platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) . This corresponds to eight million units sold in Japan.
It sold more than two million copies in its first week and was at the top of the Oricon charts for six weeks. In addition, First Love is the most successful album in Asian music history with 10 million units sold worldwide.
A 15th anniversary version of the album was released through Universal Music Japan in March 2014.
Track list
| # | title | translation | arranger | length |
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| 1. | Automatic (album edit) | Automatically | Akira Nishihira, Taka & Speedy, Kei Kawano |
5:28 |
| 2. | Movin 'on Without You | Carry on without you | Shin'ichiro Murayama | 4:38 |
| 3. | In My Room | In my room | Shin'ichiro Murayama | 4:19 |
| 4th | First love | First love | Kei Kawano | 4:17 |
| 5. | Amai Wana ( 甘 い ワ ナ ) Paint It Black | Sweet trap. Paint it black | Akira Nishihira | 5:02 |
| 6th | Time will tell | The future will show | Toshiyuki Mori, Jun Isomura |
5:27 |
| 7th | Never Let Go | Never let go | Kei Kawano | 3:57 |
| 8th. | B&C (album version) | B&C | Akira Nishihira, Taka & Speedy |
4:20 |
| 9. | Another chance | Another chance | Akira Nishihira, Taka & Speedy |
5:22 |
| 10. | Interlude | Interlude | 0:17 | |
| 11. | Give me a reason | give me a reason | Akira Nishihira | 6:28 |
| 12. | Automatic (Johnny Vicious Remix) - bonus track | Automatically | 4:54 |
Sales figures and chart placements
Charts
| Charts | Positions |
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| Daily Oricon album charts | 1 |
| Oricon weekly album charts | 1 |
| Oricon Annual Album Charts (1999) | 1 |
| Oricon Annual Album Charts (2000) | 82 |
Sales
| Charts | First week | All in all | Charts stay |
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| Oricon Album Charts (Japan) | 2,026,870 | 7,650,215 | 85 weeks |
| Taiwan | 450,000 | ||
| Worldwide | 10,056,000 |
occupation
- Hikaru Utada (voice)
- Anthony Jimenez Corton (additional chorus)
- 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 (string instruments)
- Jullian Hernandez (additional refrain)
- 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 voice recordings)
- Masaaki Ugajin, Masashi Kudo, Seiji Motoyama, Takehiko Kamata, Bob Allecca, Mike Brown (backtrack recordings)
- Hotoda Goh (mix)
- Ted Jensen (Mastering)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oricon 宇多田 ヒ カ ル (Japanese), accessed August 27, 2012
- ↑ Oricon ト レ ン デ ィ ド ラ マ と と も に 訪 れ た 90 年代 の ミ リ オ ン セ ー ル ス 時代 (Japanese), accessed August 27, 2012
- ↑ musictvprogram 歴 代 ア ル バ ム ラ ン キ ン グ TOP280 ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Japanese). Retrieved August 27, 2012
- ^ RIAJ The Changed Music Industry (Japanese; PDF; 1.2 MB), accessed August 27, 2012
- ↑ RIAJ > レ コ ー ド 産業 界 の 歴 史 (Japanese), accessed August 27, 2012
- ↑ a b Oricon 1999 年 03 月 第 4 週 の 邦 楽 ア ル バ ム ラ ン キ ン グ 情報 (Japanese), accessed August 27, 2012
- ↑ Baidu 亚洲 地区 专辑 销量 最高 的 是 多少 张 (Chinese), accessed August 27, 2012
- ↑ a b c d Generasia First Love (English), accessed on August 27, 2012
- ↑ Generasia 2000 Oricon Top 100 Albums , accessed on August 27, 2012
- ↑ Oricon First Love / 宇多田 ヒ カ ル ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Japanese). Retrieved August 27, 2012
