First Love (Utada Hikaru song)
- Artist
- Utada Hikaru
- Single
- First Love (8cm single)
- Released
- 1999.04.28
- Catalog Number
- TODT-5300
- Price
- ¥1,020
- Tracklist
- First Love
- First Love (Strings Mix)
- First Love (Original Karaoke)
- First Love (John Luongo Remix)
- Artist
- Utada Hikaru
- Single
- First Love (12cm single)
- Released
- 1999.04.28
- Catalog Number
- TOCT-4150
- Price
- ¥1,020
- Tracklist
- First Love
- First Love (featuring David Sanborn)
- First Love (Strings Mix)
- First Love (John Luongo Remix)
- Information
"First Love" is Utada Hikaru's third single, re-cut from her first album of the same name. "First Love" was used as the theme song for the dorama Majo no Jouken. The single was released in two versions: an 8cm single as well as a standard 12cm single. Originally, different versions of the same product were given different placings on Oricon charts. The 12cm single reached #2 on Oricon charts while the 8cm version reached #6. Both versions stayed in the charts for 13 weeks. The 12cm sold 500,890 units and was the #42 single of 1999, while the 8cm version sold 303,430 units and was the #72 single of the year. Combining the sales of both versions, the single had 804,320 sales, which would have made it the #18 single for 1999. The single reached #26 on World Charts for single airplay, and reached #20 for sales.
In 2016, after the release of Utada's sixth Japanese studio album Fantome the song started to rank within the top 100 on the Recochoku download charts.
Song Information
- Lyrics
- Utada Hikaru
- Music
- Utada Hikaru
- Other Information
- Arrangement & Strings Arrangement: Kawano Kei
- Keyboards & Programming: Kawano Kei
- Synthesizer Programming: Momo Masayuki, Iida Takahiro
- Guitar: Akiyama Hironori
- Strings: Goto Yuichiro strings
Disambiguation
There are eight versions of "First Love" to be found in Utada's discography . These different versions are:
- First Love
- Found on both "First Love" singles as track #1 and on First Love and on Utada Hikaru SINGLE COLLECTION VOL.1 as track #4.
- First Love (Original Karaoke)
- Found on the 8cm "First Love" single as track #3. It is the standard version of the song, except without Utada's vocals.
- First Love (Strings Mix)
- Found on the "First Love" 8cm single as track #2 and on the 12cm single as track #3. It is similar to the standard version of the song, except that Utada's vocals are replaced by strings.
- First Love (John Luongo Remix)
- Found on both "First Love" singles as track #4. This is an upbeat dance remix of "First Love".
- First Love (Bohemian Summer 2000 Live)
- Found on the "Bohemian Summer 2000" concert DVD as track #16.
- First Love (Unplugged Live)
- Found on "Utada Hikaru Unplugged" DVD as track #3. This version has an acoustic 'unplugged' arrangement to it.
- First Love (Budokan Live)
- Found on "Utada Hikaru in Budokan 2004 Hikaru no 5" DVD as track #15. The arrangement is similar to the standard version.
- First Love (UTADA UNITED 2006 Live)
- Found on "UTADA UNITED 2006" DVD as track #8. The arrangement is similar to the standard version.
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