Utada Hikaru: one of Japan's best singers!Anyone who absolutely loves Utada Hikaru, or even just loves one of her songs are welcome to join! And invite your friends while you're at it!!! Our Utada Hikaru group is better than all the other Utada groups on DrawingNow cuz we're the first one!!! YEAH!
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"I can never really enjoy being famous." -Utada Hikaru
Utada Hikaru (宇多田ヒカル, Utada Hikaru born January 19, 1983), also known by her fan-nickname of Hikki (ヒッキー, Hikkī), is a American pop singer-songwriter, arranger and record producer. Her proper Japanese-language debut album, First Love, released in March 1999 when she had just turned 16, charted at #1 for an astonishing six non-consecutive weeks on the Oricon Albums chart, and went on to become the best-selling album of all time in Japan with over 7.65 million copies sold to date in Japan alone (10.056 million worldwide to date), cementing her status in the music industry in Japan. The release of her later works only help her reign as one of Japan's top artist, with three of her Japanese studio albums being rank in the Top 10 all-time best-selling albums in Japan ranking (#1, #4, #8), making her one of the most indefinitely successful and popular singers in J-pop history. She has had 12 #1 hits to date on the Oricon Singles chart, with a record five of them being million-sellers and four placing in the Top 100 List of Japan's All-Time Best-selling Singles (the former record for a female solo or group artist she has tied with Namie Amuro, Ayumi Hamasaki, and Pink Lady). In addition, Hikaru has won the Nihon Golden Disk "Song of the Year" award for fourteen of her singles since 2000 and has won the Golden Disc "Pop/Rock Album of the Year" award for all four of her Japanese studio albums. In 2003 Utada Hikaru was ranked the #24 Japanese pop artist in its survey of "Top 100 Japanese Pop Artists of All Time" by HMV, and #10 in HMV's "Top 30 Best Japanese Singers of All Time" in 2006.
In 2007, her single "Flavor of Life" reached #2 in worldwide digital download single sales with over 7.2 million downloads (the only non-American artist to hold such a distinction), and she sold a total of 12 million digital ringtones and songs in that same year, making her the first artist ever to have this many digital sales in a year's time. In addition to being a singer, Hikaru is also known for doing almost all of her music, lyrics, and arrangement herself.
Taken from WIKI
"Because when you're making something, if it overlaps with something or if it's like anything else, that doesn't really count as a creation, right?" - Utada Hikaru
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USEFUL LINKS:
UBlog News Site ~Best Utada fansite ever!~ - http://utada-online.net/blog/
Utada Hikaru Official Website - http://www.emimusic.jp/hikki/index_e.htm
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Watch Dramas Utada Hikaru sang in this year!!!
Hana Yori Dango 2 - Flavor Of Life
MV - Flavor Of Life
Last Friends - Prisoner Of Love
MV - Prisoner Of Love
*Warning* If you're under the age of 13 please don't watch this.
Utada had sang Do You ft. Ne-Yo
Listen to it!!
Utada Hikaru also sang a cover of Green Days "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams". Listen to it. It's waaay better!
Hikki gets better and more famous!
Utada Hikaru and her mother - Together Better
Utada Hikaru can speak some French for people who didn't know!
Utada Hikaru Feat Boo Katagi Michelle
Utada Hikaru has sang with soo much people... no one even knew.
Timbaland, Utada, & Kiley Dean - By Your Side (I love it)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5iCn2RCx6E
(Embedding wasn't allowed)
Utada brought the goods in Japan and brought a little in America
Utada Hikaru, Foxy Brown & Pharrell - Blow My Whistle
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Utada's new Album (Heart Station)
1)Fight the Blues - Utada
2) Heart Station - Utada
3) Beautiful World - Utada
4) Flavor of Life ~Ballad Ver.~ - Utada (Featured in a Japanese Drama: Hana Yori Dango 2 (Boys over Flower 2)
5) Stay Gold - Utada
6) Kiss and Cry - Utada
7) Gentle Beast Interlude - Utada
8) Celebrate - Utada
9) Prisoner Of Love - Utada (Featured in a Japanese Drama: Last Friends)
10) Teiku 5/ Take 5 - Utada
11) Boku Wa Kuma (I'm A Bear) - Utada
12) Niji-Iro Basu (Rainbow-Colored Bus) - Utada
13) Flavor Of Life (Original) - Utada
News Update:
Remixed Utada song chosen for "Innocent Love" theme
Hikaru Utada will be singing the theme song for the drama series "Innocent Love," which stars popular actress Maki Horikita. This will be Utada's first song for a drama in Fuji TV's prized Monday night time slot since "Can You Keep A Secret?" for the 2001 hit "HERO."
This past spring, Utada sang the theme for the popular drama "Last Friends." That show's production staff are also working on "Innocent Love," and they decided to offer her another tie-in. But rather than requesting a new song, they chose the ballad "Eternally," originally recorded for her second album "Distance" in 2001. The producers reportedly felt that the song strongly matched the image of the drama.
Apparently, the song will use a re-edited version of the original vocal recording. It was remixed at a London recording studio to emphasize the vocals more, resulting in a new version titled "Eternally -Drama Mix-."
The song will be released digitally and as a chaku-uta, starting on the drama's premiere date of October 20. Currently, there are no plans for a CD release.
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Hikki Rocks! Listen to Utada's new CD.
Also... Her English Album will be coming out soon!
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