Final Distance
- Artist
- Utada Hikaru
- Single
- FINAL DISTANCE
- Released
- 2001.07.25
- Catalog Number
- TOCT-4311
- Price
- ¥1,100
- Tracklist
- FINAL DISTANCE
- DISTANCE -PLANITb Remix-
- DISTANCE -m-flo remix- (produced by TAKU of m-flo)
- DISTANCE
- DISTANCE -Original Karaoke-
- FINAL DISTANCE -Instrumental-
- Information
"FINAL DISTANCE" is Utada Hikaru's eighth single. "DISTANCE" was originally scheduled to be released as a single, however it was held back after a shooting occured at an Osaka high school. One of the deceased, Yamashita Rena, had previously won an essay competition writing about Utada being her role model in life, and so Utada re-arranged the song into a ballad to commemorate her, and titled it "FINAL DISTANCE". It was also the "DoCoMo M-stage" CM song. The single reached #2 on the weekly Oricon charts (under Morning Musume's "The Peace!") and charted for 13 weeks. The single became the #24 single of 2001 in Japan. This single, as well as "Hikari" and "SAKURA Drops / Letters", strangely did not chart in the world charts airplay charts or sales charts. In total the single sold over 580,000 units.
Song Information
- Lyrics
- Utada Hikaru
- Music
- Utada Hikaru
- Other Information
- Production: Miyake Akira, Utada Hikaru and Utada Sking Teruzane
- Arrangement: Kawano Kei and Utada Hikaru
- String Arrangement: Saito Neko
- Keyboards and Programming: Kawano Kei
- Synthesizer Programming: Tsunemi Kazuhide
- Acoustic Piano: Kawano Kei
- Strings: Great Eida Strings
- All Vocals: Utada Hikaru
- Recording: Ugajin Masaaki at Studio Terra and Bunkamura Studio (FINAL DISTANCE)
- Mixing: Goh Hotoda at Bunkamura Studio
Disambiguation
There are four versions of "FINAL DISTANCE" to be found in Utada's discography. These different versions are:
- FINAL DISTANCE
- Found on the "FINAL DISTANCE" single as track #1, DEEP RIVER as track #10 and Utada Hikaru SINGLE COLLECTION VOL.1 as track #10.
- FINAL DISTANCE (Instrumental)
- Found on the "FINAL DISTANCE" single as track #6. This is the standard version, but without any vocals.
- FINAL DISTANCE (Unplugged Live)
- Found on the Utada Hikaru Unplugged DVD as track #9. The arrangement is similar to the standard version.
- FINAL DISTANCE (Utada United Live)
- Found on the UTADA UNITED 2006 DVD as track #3. The arrangement is similar to the standard version.
- FINAL DISTANCE [13 years distance mix] / AI + Utada Hikaru (2016 - UH vox.2001 & AI vox.2014)
- Found on the AI's compilation albumThe Feat. Best as track #1. There's a new arrangement that mixes Utada vocals from original song recorde in 2001 and AI's vocals form her cover recorded in 2014, for the tribute album Utada Hikaru no Uta.
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