[Utada Hikaru] ʕ•̫͡•ʔ Upcoming 2018 Album and Tour in the 57th thread ʕ•̫͡•ʔ

[Baco__]

Originally Posted by snowo

seriously idk why my last post here was deleted. it had useful information about single sales and this feels like censoring. if y'all wanted to delete something, at least you should have kept the part where I talk about the single. chile... we're humans, we fight, we laugh and we move on.

Could you post it again?

[hud]

Originally Posted by Baco__

Could you post it again?

sure. I said that Hatsukoi, the single, was sitting at #5 on the iTunes single chart and #3 on the Oricon weekly digital single chart, selling 21,828 copies last week, making a total of 120,872 so far!

[oaristos]

Originally Posted by snowo

sure. I said that Hatsukoi, the single, was sitting at #5 on the iTunes single chart and #3 on the Oricon weekly digital single chart, selling 21,828 copies last week, making a total of 120,872 so far!

That's quite a lot! I'm glad the single is selling so well, but it's Utada and it's good music so I'm not that surprised Thanks for the information!

[orbitalaspect]

Originally Posted by oaristos

That's quite a lot! I'm glad the single is selling so well, but it's Utada and it's good music so I'm not that surprised Thanks for the information!

The one thing I've never liked since the end of the UB era is how different the public may respond to one Utada single over the next. They're all decent sellers, but look at Forevermore vs. Anata. Anata turns around and sells 300k, Forevermore went what... gold? Hatsukoi then does gold? And they're really not all that different?

I wonder if it has to do with the tie-ins. I wish Utada would do a full physical single for Chikai though. Just something with a nice, Passion-style PV for the return of KH. It'll probably be the last major game release for KH until a solid remake gains interest in like ~10 years.

[bluegie]

Originally Posted by orbitalaspect

The one thing I've never liked since the end of the UB era is how different the public may respond to one Utada single over the next. They're all decent sellers, but look at Forevermore vs. Anata. Anata turns around and sells 300k, Forevermore went what... gold? Hatsukoi then does gold? And they're really not all that different?

Maybe the album is dropping soon, so people want to wait for the album instead? Generally speaking, Hatsukoi is holding on better on digital charts compared to Forevermore.

[ahtka-chan]

Originally Posted by orbitalaspect

The one thing I've never liked since the end of the UB era is how different the public may respond to one Utada single over the next. They're all decent sellers, but look at Forevermore vs. Anata. Anata turns around and sells 300k, Forevermore went what... gold? Hatsukoi then does gold? And they're really not all that different?

I wonder if it has to do with the tie-ins. I wish Utada would do a full physical single for Chikai though. Just something with a nice, Passion-style PV for the return of KH. It'll probably be the last major game release for KH until a solid remake gains interest in like ~10 years.

Passion has elements of KH in its PV, so it would be nice to have a MV of Chikai providing some insight of what the world of KH3 would look like. I don't see it happening, though.

I love all the singles (which a possible exception of Play A Love Song) and, for some reason, I miss some good RnB beats in Hatsukoi. I think it would miss nicely

[ayumi_croatia]

Play A Love Song is easily my favorite and my favorite song from her in years.