First Love

by Hikaru Utada

First Love cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 10 March 1999
  • Label: Eastworld
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 54:07
  • Community rating: 3.22/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released when the artist was only sixteen, this monumentally successful album shattered Japanese sales records and remains the country's best-selling album of all time[cite: 1]. The incredibly influential release definitively shifted the J-Pop landscape by masterfully integrating highly rhythmic, American-style contemporary R&B and dance-pop sensibilities into mainstream Japanese music[cite: 1].

Genres

Descriptors: Ballad, rhythmic, melodic, party

Tracklist

  1. Automatic (5:28)
  2. Movin'on without you (4:37)
  3. In My Room (4:19)
  4. First Love (4:17)
  5. 鐢樸亜銉儕 锝濸aint It, Black (5:02)
  6. time will tell (5:26)
  7. Never Let Go (3:57)
  8. B & C (4:20)
  9. Another Chance (5:21)
  10. Interlude (0:16)
  11. Give Me A Reason (6:22)
  12. Automatic - Johnny Vicious Remix (4:37)

Credits

  • Utada Hikaru - primary artist, written-by, vocals
  • Shigeaki Hashimoto - computer [pro tools operation]
  • Toshikatsu Kashiwabara - computer [pro tools operation]
  • Hidenobu Okita - directed by
  • Minori Nakamura - directed by [assistant director]
  • Takayasu Kanehara - hair, make-up
  • Fusao Shimazaki - promotion
  • Ikeda Anju - promotion

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