Quite a bit of MTV promotion for Utada in Europe!
First off http://www.mtv.co.uk/utada/
Quote:
First Listen: Utada
Japan’s biggest pop star is about to start making waves in the West. If you haven’t already heard of 21-year-old Utada then all that’s about to change with her signing to Island/Def Jam. Utada was born in Manhattan to Japanese parents who were heavily involved in the music industry – her mother is a traditional Japanese singer and her father a musician and producer. She spent her childhood jetting between New York and Tokyo and at just 11 recorded her first song. By 13 she had recorded a whole album of tracks in English, but a year later a producer at Toshiba EMI persuaded her write in Japanese.
The result was the biggest selling album in Japanese history, an album that shifted 10 million copies and held onto the No.1 spot for six weeks. Her next two long players also entered the Japanese chart at the top spot, as did the DVD of her first tour. In 2002 she took part in the world’s largest ever web chat, with more than a million devotees logging on in an hour. Now MTV can exclusively debut Exodus, Utada’s first English language album, featuring Timbaland and Jon Theodore from the Mars Volta. You can listen to the album here for free before its release on October 24.
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Next, http://www.mtv.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=891&Item id=66
Great interview through MTV Netherlands... She sounds a lot less nervous with her English this time...
And from MTV France http://www.mtv.fr/jhtml/art/MaExclu.jhtml?a=3337
Cheers!