First Love (Hikaru Utada album)
First Love (German First Love ) is the first Japanese -language studio album of Japanese singer Hikaru Utada. The album was released on 10 March 1999 in Japan and is the best selling album in Japanese music history. It sold more than 7.65 million, according to Oricon time, the Recording Industry Association of Japan, however, reported figures of 8.53 million. It is also the only album by the Recording Industry Association of Japan ( RIAJ ) with 32 - × Platinum Award. This corresponds to eight million units sold in Japan.
It sold more than two million copies in its first week and was for six weeks at the top of the Oricon charts. In addition, First Love is with 10 million units sold worldwide, the most successful album in the Asian music history.
About Universal Music Japan, a 15th Anniversary version of the album will be released in March 2014.
Title list
Sales figures and charts rankings
Charts
Sales
Occupation
- Hikaru Utada ( voice )
- Anthony Jimenez Corton (additional chorus )
- Akira Nishihira ( Arrangement, Keyboards & Programming )
- Kei Kawano ( Arrangement, additional keyboards )
- Shinichiro Murayama ( Arrangement, Keyboards & Programming )
- Toshiyuki Mori ( Arrangement, Keyboards & Programming )
- June Isomura ( Arrangement)
- Tsuyoshi Kon (guitar)
- Yoshiaki Kusaka (guitar)
- Hironori Akiyama (guitar)
- Yuji Toriyama (guitar)
- Masayoshi Furukawa (guitar)
- Yuichiro Honda ( guitar)
- Yuichiro Goto ( string instruments )
- Jullian Hernandez (additional chorus )
- Nobuhiko Nakayama ( synth programming)
- Takahiro Iida ( synth programming)
- Masayuki Momo ( synth programming)
- Taka & Speedy (rhythm arrangement, rhythm programming)
- Akira Miyake (producer)
- Teruzane Sking Utada (producer)
- Okita Hidenobu (Director)
- Masaaki Ugajin (all vocal recordings )
- Masaaki Ugajin, Masashi Kudo, Seiji Motoyama, Takehiko Kamata, Bob Allecca, Mike Brown ( Backtrack - recordings)
- Hotoda Goh ( Mix)
- Ted Jensen ( Mastering)