Stay Gold (Utada Hikaru)

"HEART STATION / Stay Gold" Cover

Artist

Utada Hikaru

Song

Stay Gold

Lyrics

Utada Hikaru

Music

Utada Hikaru

Other Information

Arrangement: Utada Hikaru

Keyboards, Programming and Acoustic Piano: Utada Hikaru

Additional Programming and Acoustic Piano: Tomita Yuzuru

Recording: Matsui Atsushi

Mixing: Goetz B. for 365 Artists

Produced by Utada Hikaru, Miyake Akira and Utada Skingg Teruzane

"Stay Gold" is a song recorded by Utada Hikaru, first released as an A-side on her "HEART STATION / Stay Gold" single. It was used as a Kao Asience Shampoo 2007 CM song. The song was first announced in late September and was released as a download at Chaku-Uta and other places on December 12, 2007. "Stay Gold" debuted on Japan's radio stations on Monday, January 7th, 2008, and topped the FM radio daily charts after only one day. In it's first week, the song surpassed 150,000 downloads, and also became the fourth most downloaded Chaku-Uta ringtone for the month of December of 2007 according to RIAJ.

Disambiguation

There are two known versions of "Stay Gold" to be found in Utada's discography. These include:

Stay Gold

Found on the "HEART STATION / Stay Gold" single as track #2 and on HEART STATION as track #5.

Kiss & Cry (Original Karaoke)

Found on the "HEART STATION / Stay Gold" single as track #4. This is the standard version except without the main vocals.