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; Artist | ; Artist | ||
: [[Utada Hikaru]] | : [[Utada Hikaru]] | ||
; Single | ; Single | ||
: Flavor Of Life | : Flavor Of Life | ||
; Released | ; Released | ||
: 2007.02.28 | : 2007.02.28 | ||
; Catalog Number | ; Catalog Number | ||
: TOCT-40095 | : TOCT-40095 | ||
; | ; Price | ||
: | : ¥1,100 | ||
; Tracklist | ; Tracklist | ||
# Flavor Of Life | # Flavor Of Life | ||
# Flavor Of Life -Ballad Version- | # Flavor Of Life -Ballad Version- | ||
# Flavor Of Life (Original Karaoke) | # Flavor Of Life (Original Karaoke) | ||
# Flavor Of Life -Ballad Version- (Original Karaoke) | # Flavor Of Life -Ballad Version- (Original Karaoke) | ||
# Flavor Of Life -Antidote Mix- (CD Only Bonus Track) | # Flavor Of Life -Antidote Mix- (CD Only Bonus Track) | ||
; Information | ; Information | ||
Flavor Of Life is Utada Hikaru's 18th single. The ballad version of this song was used as the insert song for the [[Dorama|dorama]] [[Hana Yori Dango|Hana Yori Dango 2]]. Flavor Of Life, when first released as a ringtone on the 5th of Januarry, debuted at #14 on the ringtones chart, and, as of February 28, 2007, has held the #1 position for 36 non-consecutive days. In the first six days since release it had been downloaded over 100,000 times, and after 45 days on the charts had been downloaded over 1.5 million times. In January alone this resulted in a triple platinum certification from RIAJ. Flavor Of Life -Ballad Version- would eventually receive both a two million certification for [[Chaku-Uta]], and a double platinum certification for [[Chaku-Uta Full]] downloads from RIAJ. The original would later receive both a million certification and a triple platinum certification for the same. Flavor Of Life would eventually rank as the best-selling ringtone of all time in Japan, recording 5.580 million downloads in sales by the end of March 2007. Flavor Of Life also became the first single to recieve a platnium certication for PC downloads from RIAJ. The CD single itself would reach #1 on the [[Oricon]] Weekly charts thrice, her only other single to do this to date besides [[Hikari (Utada Hikaru)|Hikari]] in 2002. The physical single release of Flavor Of Life features the "Antidote Mix" of the song, not available through other means such as digital download. Flavor Of Life -Ballad Version- was ranked the #2 most downloaded song of 2007 on [[Recochoku]]. The original version was #11 on the chart. Flavor Of Life sold a reported total of 644,259 copies, making it the #2 single of 2007. | |||
==Song Information== | |||
; Lyrics | |||
: [[Utada Hikaru]] | |||
; Music | |||
: [[Utada Hikaru]] | |||
; Other Information | |||
;;; Original Version | |||
: Arrangement: [[Utada Hikaru]] | |||
: Keyboards and Programming: [[Utada Hikaru]] | |||
: Additional Programming: [[Tomita Yuzuru]] and [[Alexis Smith]] | |||
: Acoustic Guitar: [[Alexis Smith]] | |||
: All Vocals: [[Utada Hikaru]] | |||
: Recording: [[Matsui Atsushi]] | |||
: Mixing: [[Goetz B.]] for 365 Artists | |||
: Produced by [[Utada Hikaru]], [[Miyake Akira]] and [[Utada Skingg Teruzane]] | |||
;;; Ballad Version | |||
: Arrangement: [[Utada Hikaru]], [[Tomita Yuzuru]] and [[Alexis Smith]] | |||
: String Arrangement: [[Utada Hikaru]], [[Tomita Yuzuru]] and [[Alexis Smith]] | |||
: Keyboards & Programming: [[Alexis Smith]] | |||
: Acoustic Piano: [[Okamoto Hiroshi]] | |||
: Acoustic Guitar: [[Kon Tsuyoshi]] | |||
: Eletric Bass: [[Alexis Smith]] | |||
: Strings: [[Kinbara Chieko Strings]] | |||
: All Vocals: [[Utada Hikaru]] | |||
: Recording: [[Matsui Atsushi]] | |||
: Mixing: [[Goetz B.]] for 365 Artists | |||
: Produced by [[Utada Hikaru]], [[Miyake Akira]] and [[Utada Skingg Teruzane]] | |||
==Disambiguation== | |||
There are three versions of Flavor Of Life to be found in Utada's discography (listed chronologically), plus two karaoke tracks. These different versions are: | |||
Flavor | ; Flavor Of Life | ||
: Found on Flavor Of Life single as track one. This version has no PV. | |||
; | ; Flavor Of Life -Ballad version- | ||
: Found on Flavor Of Life single as track two. This version is considered the main PV. This version (and its PV) was leaked much earlier than the original track release, due to it being used in Hana Yori Dango Season 2 as the backing track for the insert clip. | |||
* [2007.02.24] CDTV | ; Flavor Of Life (Original Karaoke) | ||
* [2007.02.26] HEY! HEY! HEY! (Ballad Version) | : Found on Flavor Of Life single as track three. This is the original version without any vocals. | ||
* [2007.03.02] Music Fighter | |||
* [2007.03.02] Music Station (Ballad Version) | ; Flavor Of Life -Ballad version- (Original Karaoke) | ||
* [2007.03.08] Utaban | : Found on Flavor Of Life single as track four. This is the ballad version without any vocals. | ||
; Flavor Of Life -Antidote Mix- | |||
: Found on Flavor Of Life single as track five. This version is a much more R&B style. Some fans have expressed that it reminds them of Utada's original style. | |||
==TV Performances== | |||
* [2007.02.24] [[CDTV]] | |||
* [2007.02.26] [[HEY!HEY!HEY!]] (Ballad Version) | |||
* [2007.03.02] [[Music Fighter]] | |||
* [2007.03.02] [[Music Station]] (Ballad Version) | |||
* [2007.03.08] [[Utaban]] | |||
==Charts== | ==Charts== | ||
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'''Total Reported Sales:''' | '''Total Reported Sales:''' 648,572 | ||
{| | |||
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; <font size="3">Chaku-Uta downloads for the Ballad Version</font> | |||
{| style="margin: 1em; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse" border="1" cellpadding="2" | |||
|- style="background: #efefef" | |||
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! Wed | |||
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! Fri | |||
! Sat | |||
! Sun | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 1/1-1/7 | |||
| - | |||
| - | |||
| - | |||
| - | |||
| 14 | |||
| 5 | |||
| 2 | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 1/8-1/14 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 1/15-1/21 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 1/22-1/28 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 1/29-2/4 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 2/5-2/11 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 2/12-2/18 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 2/19-2/25 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 4 | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 2/26-3/4 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 3/5-3/11 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 3/12-3/18 | |||
| 4 | |||
| 4 | |||
| 4 | |||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | |||
| 6 | |||
| 5 | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 3/19-3/25 | |||
| 5 | |||
| 5 | |||
| 5 | |||
| 4 | |||
| x | |||
| x | |||
| x | |||
|} | |||
'''Total Ring Tone Downloads:''' 7,700,000+ | |||
| | |||
; <font size="3">Chaku-Uta downloads for the Original Version</font> | |||
{| style="margin: 1em; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse" border="1" cellpadding="2" | |||
|- style="background: #efefef" | |||
! Week | |||
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! Tue | |||
! Wed | |||
! Thu | |||
! Fri | |||
! Sat | |||
! Sun | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 2/19-2/25 | |||
| 45 | |||
| 28 | |||
| 19 | |||
| 13 | |||
| 12 | |||
| 7 | |||
| 5 | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 2/26-3/4 | |||
| 5 | |||
| 4 | |||
| 3 | |||
| 3 | |||
| 3 | |||
| 3 | |||
| 3 | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 3/5-3/11 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 3/12-3/18 | |||
| 3 | |||
| 3 | |||
| 3 | |||
| 3 | |||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | |||
| 6 | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 3/19-3/ | |||
| 6 | |||
| 7 | |||
| 7 | |||
| 7 | |||
| x | |||
| x | |||
| x | |||
|} | |||
; <font size="3">Chaku-Uta downloads for the Ballad Version's PV</font> | |||
{| style="margin: 1em; border: 1px #aaa solid; border-collapse: collapse" border="1" cellpadding="2" | |||
|- style="background: #efefef" | |||
! Week | |||
! Mon | |||
! Tue | |||
! Wed | |||
! Thu | |||
! Fri | |||
! Sat | |||
! Sun | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 2/19-2/25 | |||
| - | |||
| 4 | |||
| 3 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 2/26-3/4 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 1 | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 3/5-3/11 | |||
| 1 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 2 | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 3/12-3/18 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 3 | |||
| 3 | |||
| 3 | |||
| 3 | |||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | |||
|- align="center" | |||
| 3/19-3/25 | |||
| 5 | |||
| 6 | |||
| 6 | |||
| 5 | |||
| x | |||
| x | |||
| x | |||
|} | |||
|} | |||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
* [http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/release/d/696985/1/ Oricon Profile] | * [http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/release/d/696985/1/ Oricon Profile] | ||
{{Utada Hikaru}} | |||
[[Category:J-Pop (releases)]] | [[Category:J-Pop (releases)]] | ||
[[Category:2007 Singles]] | [[Category:2007 Singles]] | ||
[[Category:2007 Number 1 Singles]] | |||
[[Category:2007 Oricon Top 100 Singles]] | |||
[[Category:2007 Songs]] | |||
[[Category:Utada Hikaru Songs]] | |||
[[Category:Dorama Theme Song]] | [[Category:Dorama Theme Song]] | ||
Revision as of 20:26, 20 May 2009
- Artist
- Utada Hikaru
- Single
- Flavor Of Life
- Released
- 2007.02.28
- Catalog Number
- TOCT-40095
- Price
- ¥1,100
- Tracklist
- Flavor Of Life
- Flavor Of Life -Ballad Version-
- Flavor Of Life (Original Karaoke)
- Flavor Of Life -Ballad Version- (Original Karaoke)
- Flavor Of Life -Antidote Mix- (CD Only Bonus Track)
- Information
Flavor Of Life is Utada Hikaru's 18th single. The ballad version of this song was used as the insert song for the dorama Hana Yori Dango 2. Flavor Of Life, when first released as a ringtone on the 5th of Januarry, debuted at #14 on the ringtones chart, and, as of February 28, 2007, has held the #1 position for 36 non-consecutive days. In the first six days since release it had been downloaded over 100,000 times, and after 45 days on the charts had been downloaded over 1.5 million times. In January alone this resulted in a triple platinum certification from RIAJ. Flavor Of Life -Ballad Version- would eventually receive both a two million certification for Chaku-Uta, and a double platinum certification for Chaku-Uta Full downloads from RIAJ. The original would later receive both a million certification and a triple platinum certification for the same. Flavor Of Life would eventually rank as the best-selling ringtone of all time in Japan, recording 5.580 million downloads in sales by the end of March 2007. Flavor Of Life also became the first single to recieve a platnium certication for PC downloads from RIAJ. The CD single itself would reach #1 on the Oricon Weekly charts thrice, her only other single to do this to date besides Hikari in 2002. The physical single release of Flavor Of Life features the "Antidote Mix" of the song, not available through other means such as digital download. Flavor Of Life -Ballad Version- was ranked the #2 most downloaded song of 2007 on Recochoku. The original version was #11 on the chart. Flavor Of Life sold a reported total of 644,259 copies, making it the #2 single of 2007.
Song Information
- Lyrics
- Utada Hikaru
- Music
- Utada Hikaru
- Other Information
- Original Version
- Arrangement: Utada Hikaru
- Keyboards and Programming: Utada Hikaru
- Additional Programming: Tomita Yuzuru and Alexis Smith
- Acoustic Guitar: Alexis Smith
- All Vocals: Utada Hikaru
- Recording: Matsui Atsushi
- Mixing: Goetz B. for 365 Artists
- Produced by Utada Hikaru, Miyake Akira and Utada Skingg Teruzane
- Ballad Version
- Arrangement: Utada Hikaru, Tomita Yuzuru and Alexis Smith
- String Arrangement: Utada Hikaru, Tomita Yuzuru and Alexis Smith
- Keyboards & Programming: Alexis Smith
- Acoustic Piano: Okamoto Hiroshi
- Acoustic Guitar: Kon Tsuyoshi
- Eletric Bass: Alexis Smith
- Strings: Kinbara Chieko Strings
- All Vocals: Utada Hikaru
- Recording: Matsui Atsushi
- Mixing: Goetz B. for 365 Artists
- Produced by Utada Hikaru, Miyake Akira and Utada Skingg Teruzane
Disambiguation
There are three versions of Flavor Of Life to be found in Utada's discography (listed chronologically), plus two karaoke tracks. These different versions are:
- Flavor Of Life
- Found on Flavor Of Life single as track one. This version has no PV.
- Flavor Of Life -Ballad version-
- Found on Flavor Of Life single as track two. This version is considered the main PV. This version (and its PV) was leaked much earlier than the original track release, due to it being used in Hana Yori Dango Season 2 as the backing track for the insert clip.
- Flavor Of Life (Original Karaoke)
- Found on Flavor Of Life single as track three. This is the original version without any vocals.
- Flavor Of Life -Ballad version- (Original Karaoke)
- Found on Flavor Of Life single as track four. This is the ballad version without any vocals.
- Flavor Of Life -Antidote Mix-
- Found on Flavor Of Life single as track five. This version is a much more R&B style. Some fans have expressed that it reminds them of Utada's original style.
TV Performances
- [2007.02.24] CDTV
- [2007.02.26] HEY!HEY!HEY! (Ballad Version)
- [2007.03.02] Music Fighter
- [2007.03.02] Music Station (Ballad Version)
- [2007.03.08] Utaban
Charts
Oricon Chart Positions
Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | Week Rank | Sales |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
- | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 270,605 |
1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 140,479 |
1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 79,727 |
1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 48,243 |
4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 26,156 |
3 | 14 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 17,908 |
5 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 12,535 |
6 | 24 | 22 | 20 | 16 | 12 | 12 | 20 | 9,206 |
9 | 27 | 26 | 22 | 20 | 18 | 16 | 23 | 7,638 |
15 | 20 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 20 | 6,626 |
19 | 42 | 43 | 31 | 28 | 35 | 24 | 36 | 3,634 |
28 | 47 | - | 43 | 42 | 48 | 32 | 47 | 2,257 |
33 | - | - | - | 44 | 42 | 44 | 64 | 2,193 |
46 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 75 | 1,561 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 111 | 870 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 113 | 904 |
- | - | - | - | - | 47 | - | 103 | 1,051 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 106 | 845 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 115 | 727 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 143 | 752 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 161 | 601 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 161 | 566 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 101 | 976 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 96 | 1,037 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 126 | 836 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 136 | 586 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 163 | 484 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 196 | 400 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 129 | 587 |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | 117 | 626 |
Total Reported Sales: 648,572
Total Ring Tone Downloads: 7,700,000+ |
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External Links
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