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[article] 'Flavor' single claims digital crown
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Utada Hikaru tune sells 7 mil units |
Why always Hikkiß her music isnt THAT good
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It's awesome. Flavor of Life is great but soooooo big numbers? Awesome .... just awesome ... Hope her Kiss & Cry / Beautiful World Single is doing great in the charts.
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It's really awesome, Flavor of Life is a good song! Congrats hikki.
Though mainly it gained its success from the popular Drama and hikki's divorce so I wouldn't say it's a natural success or an up rising... Without them I think that it might've been just a quarter from the total sales but I like hikki so congrats anyway ^_^. |
Wow o__o
That's a hell of a lot. Congrats Hikki :) |
i think its just a tune not a copy..but its still a WOW thing to achieve
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Looks like they included her ringtone sales in to the 7.7 million.
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^Yeah, at least 7,000,000 of those sales are just ringtones...
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Congrats to Hikki anyway, that single was so successful. :0 |
This is a clear case of record labels stretching numbers to make their artists look more successful than they are. You can't come FoL's overall sales with singles that were released before the era of digital downloads...
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LOL Dont tell that! shes is amazing! ...but opinions are opinions. lol |
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2x Platinum on cellphones and Gold on PCs for full song downloads. Adding to the physical sales, I think that would put it around 2 million. |
^Did the company/hikki got the same money from physical copies and downloads of the full single? (Well, generally ont just hikki).
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wow... though i didn't like the original that much, congrats =3 |
i didn't think that the flavor of life single was amazing, but it was a great single overall. congrats to utada!
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wow thats huge. it wasnt one of her greatest singles in my opinion. im more excited about Beautiful World/Kiss & Cry. I hope that single sells well also.
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Basically, Utada Hikaru is a blessing to everyone that likes music. I hope she won't get all "I WANT TO END MY CAREER ON A HIGH" on us. D: |
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I personally think that Hikki's strength lies most in her composition...I'm not too big a fan of her voice (which borders on whiny/off key at times). I must admit that Flavor of Life is good though. I didn't feel this way before watching HYD 2, but yeah it's a great song! XD
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Congratulations to Hikki!! ^__^ Although, of all songs, why Flavor Of Life? o-o I love it and all but I don't think it's one of her best songs ever D: Oh well, I'm still happy for her
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that's alot ^_^
congratz HikkiChan =) |
Wow, this single was such a success it's shocking. I'm glad for Hikki though, because I've always loved her. And I think it was a great single, even if I think there are other singles that are perhaps more deserving of such an honor. Still, the tie-in to such a hugely popular drama was obviously an enormous influence on sales.
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Well, she made a decent comeback after her last three singles not as successful. But I didn't think Flavor of Life was that spectacular.
But I thought it fit the theme of HYD 2 better than Planetarium did HYD |
I give thanks to that show.
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hikki's on FIRE!
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WOTT..
that was really great for hikki ^^ |
Congratz to hikki :D!
Of her releases this year i really like Flavor of life, Flavor of life -ballad version- and beautiful world. The others are so-so and i hate Kiss & Cry. |
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yet she seems to sell so much.... oh well.. i love her personality ^_^ |
I think the song is good, but just good, nothing special :/
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Congrats to hikki ^^
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This is crazy nuts. Ubelievable. Congrats to Hikki. I really wish that people would have payed more attention to the Original Version instead though. It is so much more interesting than the Ballad Version, I mean COME ON. In terms of ballads, Hikki has done better with Be My Last. Ayu's JEWEL was and still is 1,000,000+ better than the Ballad Version of Flavor...
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I like the Original version more the Ballard version. I thought that Hikki could have done a PV for the Original version. Have you seen the performance for the Original version? I really liked it plus she had a great since of style (clothes-wise). I wished I could have worn what she had worn during that performance.
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At first I didn't really think FOL was that excellent (yeah compared to Be My Last, Dareka, Sakura, etc.). But it turns out this song has a strong grow on in my mind. Now I really think it deserves what it gets. Yes probly the song is not that unique in a way.. I mean it's like a normal love song compared to those Be My Last Dareka blah blah blah, but it's unique in hikki's discography for its simplicity + wonderful lyrics. |
Hikki's music is ok but I really dont like the fact that she achieves things without putting much effort in it.
But congrat to her anyway :D |
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Janko, her music is amazing! She's really talented, some of her works are masterpieces! It's a shame she didn't do well in the U.S. |
I personally love Hikki, but for some reason I wasn't a big fan of Flavor of Life. I really think that it was all because of all those tie-ins....
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^ Exactly. I hate it when people say that.
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She was the one who did in that specific genre though. So you can say she made J-R&B more popular and recongizible.
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First, you didn't have to post four times in a row. Then secondly, R&B has been in Japan way before Hikki. For example, the song Kumi covered with EXILE, WON'T BE LONG. When did that come out? 1990, before Hikki was even eight years old...
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^If I'm not mistaken both versions of WON'T BE LONG was pop, not R&B. The only person I can say who covered R&B was Namie but she was more pop, not R&B. Like I said early, Hikki was the only who solely did R&B during those times.
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Secondly...I was sticking up for my friend whom you smashed just because you thought Hikki didn't bring R&B into Japan. Lastly...I really don't want to fight :no Honestly, lets just keep it at that. I will apologize first, sorry kaorineko :( |
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She was the one in the wrong :rolleyes |
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LOL I'm sorry if it was a mistake it's just what I heard... And to you too austin... |
(About the R&B thing) How about Toshinobu Kubota?
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Hmmm....good one?! I thought he was considered pop and just currently went R&B?!
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...:rolleyes I totally wasn't hating, but whatever. I was just responding.
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The thing that got me into hikki is some of her best catchy songs, but her voice is really good as well but no better, ayu's voice is really good too. Quote:
You don't need to try to prove that hikki is better though, she's your most favorite singer so of course she'll be better in anything for you hehe XD At this we should all stop, and stop bringing here other artists other than hikki. |
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We just should stick to hikki here XD |
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Even if Hikki's music usually bores me to tears, I'll congratulate her because I kinda like FOL and it did have massive success.
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Kinda expected flavor of life to be number one! To me, it was quite a good ballad and the tie-in with hana yori dango makes it even more sellable
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^Wat chu talkin' bout Peger? :grumpy
Hikki can sing her ass off if she wanted to. True she didn't perform her best at UU06 (I think she did though) but look at her other performances and you'll she that sista can throw down. Listen to more of her R&B songs to find good results of her soulful voice. :yes |
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hikki's music is just jawdropping beautiful
she improves with every album, and ULTRA BLUE is perfection she can sing, her music style is my kind of music, and she writes and composes every one of her songs talk about amazing ayu just can't compete with her but, ayu and hikki are two of the best things to ever happen to japanese music |
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