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This Is the One

Album Cover
Artist
Utada
Single
This Is the One
Released
2009.03.14 (Japan)
2009.03.24 (US Digital)
2009.03.26 (Hong Kong)
2009.04.07 (South Korea)
2009.05.12 (US Physical)
2009.06.10 (Malaysia)
2009.06.23 (Canada)
Catalog Number
UICL-1088
Price
¥3,000 (Japan)
$9.98 (US)
US Tracklist
  1. Come Back to Me
  2. Me Muero
  3. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - FYI
  4. Apple and Cinnamon
  5. Taking My Money Back
  6. This One (Crying Like a Child)
  7. Automatic Part II
  8. Dirty Desire
  9. Poppin'
  10. On And On
Japanese Tracklist
  1. On And On
  2. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - FYI
  3. Apple And Cinnamon
  4. Taking My Money Back
  5. This One (Crying Like a Child)
  6. Automatic Part II
  7. Dirty Desire
  8. Poppin'
  9. Come Back To Me
  10. Me Muero
Japanese edition bonus tracks
  1. Come Back To Me (Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Radio Edit)
  2. Come Back To Me (Quentin Harris Radio Edit)
US edition bonus tracks
  1. Simple and Clean
  2. Sanctuary (Opening)
  3. Sanctuary (Closing)


Information

This Is the One is Utada Hikaru's 8th studio album and the 2nd English studio album. The album contains 6 songs produced by Stargate and 4 songs produced by Tricky Stewart.

In the U.S., in order to promote the album, Utada did several internet interviews, some radio interviews, including the prestigious New York's #1 station Z100 and a live performance in KTLA Morning News and CBS's Early Show.

This Is the One reached #3 on the Oricon weekly charts and sold 77,832 copies during its first week. The album has been #1 on the foreign albums chart for five consecutive weeks since its release. In the U.S., the album reached the #69 on Billboard Top 200 albums ranking, #2 in the iTunes Pop Albums and #18 in the iTunes General Albums ranking (making Utada the first Japanese artist to ever do this).

The album also supported her first U.S. and London Tour, called In The Flesh, that she held during January 15, 2010 and February 12, 2010.

Oricon Chart Positions

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Week Rank Sales
- - - - 1 2 2 3 77,832
2 6 6 5 4 4 4 5 53,782
4 10 8 8 6 6 6 8 28,730
6 7 6 5 5 6 6 6 16,924
6 11 12 12 10 9 10 11 10,038
9 22 16 14 14 13 13 14 7,315
6 22 19 18 19 16 17 16 7,708
13 27 24 21 18 17 20 22 6,072
22 23 25 24 25 22 26 24 4,252
25 40 43 36 27 29 25 19 4,904
29 - - 50 35 31 31 34 3,124
33 - - - - - 45 30 4,179
46 - - - - - - 34 3,276
- - - - - - - 48 2,483
- - - - - - - 50 2,079
- - - - - - - 87 1,849
- - - - - - - 73 1,809
- - - - - - - 105 1,471
- - - - - - - 140 952
- - - - - - - 196 855
- - - - - - - 181 759
- - - - - - - 242 584
- - - - - - - 203 674
- - - - - - - 238 546
- - - - - - - out for one week
- - - - - - - 285 460

Total Reported Sales: 242,657

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