First Love (Hikaru Utada Song)
| First love | |
|---|---|
| Hikaru Utada | |
| publication |
 April 28, 1999 August 1, 2000
 |
| length | 4:18 |
| Genre (s) | J-pop , R&B |
| Author (s) | Hikaru Utada |
| album | First love |
| Cover versions | |
| 2010 | Juju |
| 2010 | Boyz II Men |
| 2012 | Ms. Ooja |
| 2013 | May J. |
" First Love " is the third single from Japanese singer Hikaru Utada . It is a release from their Japanese debut album of the same name and was released on April 28, 1999.
"First Love" was used as the theme song of the dorama Majo no Jōken ( 魔女 の 条件 ).
Chart positions and awards
Two different singles were released: a standard version on a CD with a diameter of 12 cm and a version with a diameter of 8 cm. These two versions were not considered as one product in the Japanese Oricon charts, but were evaluated separately.
| Chart (1999) | version | maximum placement |
Sales number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 12 cm | 2 (13 weeks) |
500,890 |
| Japan | 8 cm | 6 (19 weeks) |
303.430 |
In a 2009 Oricon survey of the song respondents would hear if they were broken, “First Live” came in 10th.
Contributors
- Guitar: Hironori Akiyama
- Strings: Yuichiro Goto
- Synthesizer programming: Takahiro Iida, Masayuki Momo
- Arrangement, piano: Kei Kawano
- Music and text: Hikaru Utada
Web links
- Notes and lyrics
- 8cm version on Oricon (Japanese)
- 12cm version on Oricon (Japanese)
Individual evidence
- ↑ First Love (12cm). (No longer available online.) In: Oricon . Formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 28, 2011 (Japanese). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ First Love (8cm). In: Oricon. Retrieved February 28, 2011 (Japanese).
- ↑ 失恋 し た 時 に 聴 き た い 曲 、 男性 は ミ ス チ ル 女性 は は プ リ プ リ. In: Oricon. March 11, 2009, Retrieved February 28, 2011 (Japanese).
