UTADA HIKARU 5th ALBUM RELEASE [2008.3.19]!
 

According to http://towerrecords.co.jp/sitemap/CS...DS_SORT_CD=101, Hikki's new album is slated for release on 2008/03/19

So close to HEART STATION....

Hurry up March 19th!!! Can't wait :D

AHHH!!! *squeals*

Why am I so excited?! haha... I cannot wait **saves money now including for Asia Tour '07 DVD**

Hmm, a month... yea kind close.

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Thanks for the news!

Between this, Kingdom, and Dolce (I already ordered GUILTY finally haha) my tax return better be kind to me.

I wonder if Boku wa Kuma is gonna be on it. @.@

yeah... good question :freak

wow... finally a new Album :D
*hope the time gooooooo~~~~ fast*


thanks for the info!!!

Lol Boku wa Kuma. My baby cousin always wants to watch that pv -_-!

I can't wait for the album too!!!!!!!!!

Maybe an instrumental of Boku wa Kuma as an interlude, ROFL.

its really scary to look at yearly sales at the end of 2008...
i don't know what position ayu will get

How is this relevant to this thread? lol.

The news is official!

^hahaha...
what i mean is that hikki will release her new full length album...and i'm sure it will sell a lot...so i'm afraid of ayu position in the end of this year...
anyway..still looking forward for this album...

finally hikki realese the fifth album :D

hope that's great album..
but this album realese date so close with heart station

WAHH big news...cant wait!
Spring has big releases...

yay! I am pre-ordering this as soon as CDJapan lists it <3

I don't know why but I'm not as excited as when I hear ULTRA BLUE was announced.

*bounces* I'm excited for it, since I love Stay Gold so much.

amazing news! i can't wait!

I'm not as hyped as I was with ULTRA BLUE but I think it will be a really good album!! As long as boku wa kuma will be out of it.

^ Haha, I liked that song.

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Anyway, I will for sure have to pre-order this.
Gah, I'm running out of money!! :thud

Awesomeness!! :D

This is another example of why Jpop makes us broke. I will try to get this no promises.

Yeah, I know how you feel. I need to order Kingdom Yet, but my next paycheck is going to the semi-formal and my class ring, so I'm screwed, haha.

I just had to order a new region free DVD Player because my old one broke. x_x

I can't waiiiiiiiiiit! (^^)

I think you think that because ULTRA BLUE was released 4 years after her last Japanese album, and know we're used to Hikki releasing music again, so its not as special as before. That's why I'm not as excited anyway. But I am excited, don't get me wrong!

:D

woot !! Even though I still think its pretty far away. I cant wait!!

^Too tell you the truth...I'm like really excited but not as excited as I thought I would have been! :laugh I'm definitely buying the album. I'm not downloading it from because....I can't anyway....the files are too big for me to download on my little old laptop. XD

Oh, I just find out from U.BLOG that HEART STATION is the CM tie-in for Japan's Record Company Direct download service (Recochoku). It's going to have a first press sticker as well! hehehe

I wonder what Heart station is gonna sound like ....

Thank God she announced the album already. I was going to pre-order HEART STATION / Stay Gold. The single doesn't matters for me now, I think both songs will be in the album.

.. the link is invalid T_T

Well woohoo! I thought it was gonna come out in like April >.<
Yay! Now we just need a tracklist!

EDIT: ^ I noticed that too. Is this just a rumour then?

ah, right around finals week, lol. :P

i can't wait for it! though, i think UB had the better singles.

Me too! Oh oh! What's your username on U.BLOG, Luv? :laugh

Oh and did you see the rumor about the album's supposed name?
"Etherain Fall". But it's really hard to believe :shrug

oh fantastic, my dad wont ban me from his credit card this year... not at all

TOO MANY GOOD STUFF ALREADY :/

I hadn't signed up yet! :weep I'm too lazy to sign up!

O_O Etherain Fall?! :roflmao It's a nice title but that's not a Hikki-like title! XD

I'm excited. You never know what to expect from Hikki in terms of her songs. I wonder when her next English album will be released. I'm slightly more excited about that than this album.

:laugh Sign up! Sign up! :laugh


o.o! That's what I thought too! :D Buuutttt~! You never know! :headache

Ooo exciting! Cannot wait! Seriously can't.

I was thinking it said "Ethereal Fall" and was excited! Is "etherain" a real word?

^I second this.

Ooh, great! Two years later, after her previous album. Can't wait for this one!

this is great!!!

thanks for the info!! =)

please exclude boku wa kuma >_<

i don't want the new album to waste any space for that children song !!!

I hope there's a song similar to Passion <3

i luv BOKUWA KUMA XD
n STAY GOLD is awesome!!
HIKKI never sell low o_O

this album worth buy :D

the album has something to do with 'DEATH'...

it might be called 'DEATH NOTES' !!! LOL :P

waww scary title..
i think more dark song maybe

How morbid...first thing that came to mind was another "Kremlin Dusk?" - but in Japanese

Jesus Christ :tired
Where you saw that?

Thanks for the info! Only two months.

:laugh

O-kay! I hope she doesn't name it anything strange. If the title is going to be death-themed than she should it something like, "Lost Soul" or "Black Tears"...you something, dark...deathy! XD

yay! new albummmmm!! can't wait

DEATH

woooahh.. Hikki always amaze me... O_O
"death notes" sounds cool...

let's wait

Could be awesome!

I am excited for this. So in 2008 we have NEW AYU, NEW KUMI, and NEW HIKKI. I hope this album will be just as great as ULTRA BLUE but for some reason I don't think it will be. I didn't like the singles as much as I did from ULTRA BLUE.

:shakehead
'DEATH'? Ah~! is dark Hikki emerging?! :laugh
Eh, I kind of don't believe this, but then again, wikipedia AND wikitheppn had it on their sites :shrug

^I'll trust wiki.theppn before I trust wikipedia. People on wikipedia lie and provide so much wrong information that you have to look for sources first before going to wikipedia. XD

I remember when it was said that Distance sold 5 million copies and Single Collection sold 3.5 million copies. I believe that for like months...until I came here or some other site and her true sales were reported. Poor me..I was fooled. After all this time, it is still said on wikipedia. Someone needs to update her wikipedia page anyway.

err..the death thingy is from hikki's latest blog entry..

the last few sentences :

アルバム完成までもう一息DEATH

かなり限界DEATH

一刻も早く終わってほしいDEATH

( ・(ｪ)・)ﾉ ほなさいなら～

Pre-order the album on CDJapan~

^Yaaaaay! I can pre-order from CDJapan now....but I'm not since I can get a sweet deal on yesasia. I'll just wait for that sweet deal on yeasia for now.


Thankies, dokidokisuru!

You can also preorder from YA: http://us.yesasia.com/en/prdTransfer...id-1010019300/

^OH! Thankies rikku! :shughug

I'll pre-order it soon. (Like I said earlier I need to get my credit card which I should before her album comes out! :P)

Hikki is getting crazy, fact. I think she should put the album title as "DEATH TO MY WEIGHT!", this could be awesome :)

J/K

*SLAP* STOP TALKING ABOUT HIKKI'S WEIGHT!:wtf

At least she's not like some of these anorexic female singers who are scared to look at meat without puking their f-ckin' guts out. I'm mad at you, Cloud! That's one too many fat jokes coming from you mister. Hikki looks good with some of that weight on her anyway. :P

LMAO :roflmao Who are these anorexic female singers, Luv? :innocent

^I'm not one to gossip, Cloud! Just know that most of them are on AVEX! Oops! I'm not suppose to gossiping. Bad me! (:D)

I think this will generally be a better album than ULTRA BLUE. Only for the fact that the Singles were amazing this time around. Even more so than Keep tryin' (which is hard for me to admit). I pray she will have some amazing filler tracks instead of some of the crappy ones on ULTRA BLUE. I think one of the only non single tracks for that cd i liked was BLUE.

ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT SATOMI TAKASUGI AND CSJH THE GRACE? :grumpy NOW I'LL KILL YOU :wtf

^ You're the one who said it, not me! I just said that most of them are on AVEX! :innocent

:roflmao

I didn't like BLUE that much. Don't get me wrong, it was nice song but I didn't enjoy that much. My least fave track in Ultra Blue was Kairo. Ugh, that track was absolutely boring...and annoying. Making Love and One Night Magic are my most two fave none tracks on Ultra Blue.

You sucks Luv :grumpy XD

^Nah! Tell that to the anorexics over at AVEX! :lmfao

=/ Hikki doesn't look fat to me...?

:roflmao

I know! I don't know where all the "Hikki is fat" is coming from. A little meat on bones doesn't hurt anyway. I still wanna know when did weighting 130 pounds make you "fat"?

Cloud you are a big \/ss!!
Stop talking about Hikki's weight!
She's fineeeee

Hikki's a natural beauty. She doesn't even need makeup most of the time to express her beauty. Wow where'd you get that Hikki weighed 130 lbs? For her height, that would put her bmi in the borderline chub category, so I don't think she weighs that much.

This album is gonna be awesome. I'm definitely buying it, and her singles haven't left me disappointed so far.

^ I agree! I agree! :laugh my words exactly :yes 'Natural beauty'.

I luv that "natural" beauty comment and that's exactly how Hikki looks. If you need proof then check out her COLOR PV. All natural beauty baby! :P If you don't believe that you must don't what natural beauty is and how it looks! :mischief

Oh, I don't Hikki weights 130 lbs. I was just saying that many now consider 130 as fat! :rolleyes I believe Hikki was less than that.

So it looks like we're getting the ballad version of Flavor Of Life on the album. According to U.Blog anyway. Damn, I wanted the original!

^Yeah yeah! :laugh Then they went on to say that there was going to be some other strings related song in the album O.O Sounds awesome! XD Do you have an account on there,Yume?

^What's your account name, AyUta? I made an account so, I'm waiting for my password. Ugh! I just came from U.BLOG and this user name InnerRise gets on my nerves. He can't seem to post a comment without causing conflict.....but when he adn Alex are at it, It is sooooooo funny! :lmfao

^ My user name is...
"No one can compare to Hikki" :laugh I just love that user name :P


Alex is cool, but InneRise can be a pain in the butt sometimes XD

YAY!! I get my taxes back ^^ Soo I am gonna finally get my first REAL, japanese CD !!^^ I cant wait lol

Account on what? Sorry if that sounded like a really stupid question :innocent

On the U.BLOG :D

oh :D that's what I thought you meant but didn't wanna sound stupid if I was wrong ;) But no, I don't have an account but visit the website everyday for Hikki news!

:laugh That's how I used to be until I got irritated and decided to join. I wanted to post comments and such. :D That's the best Hikki updater besides Bluehikari.

OMG! I sooooo see your post when I'm on U.BLOG! Your post be pretty funny yet agreeable whenever I read them. XD

My username is Luv ~Sakura~....I think! :laugh I forgot...so I have to check again.

HEART STATION LEAKEEEDD~~~!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaplYFwn9yA

I will rip it!!!

^ I wish you could rip it...I so wanna hear it instead being on youtube but oh, well. I have to stick to youtube for now.

HEART STATION is waaaaaay better than Stay Gold! :yes

will listen now!! :D

I think my heart stopped.
Wow. Heartstation is amazing...

I want lyrics now @_____@
I miss you~

AHHHHHHHHHHHH! :laugh
I MUST listen! Wow, I had a feeling it was going to leak today O.o;

LOVE IT!!!! Much more than Stay Gold. And it surprised me being like the only song that isn't 5 + minutes so far from this album's era.

I really liked it. And I agree, it sounds better than Stay Gold.

Okay, to me, its like Hikki was experimenting during her Ultra Blue time, and now with Heart Station, it sounds the style she liked, and was able to produce top quality stuff @_@

I think Heartstation is pure art. XD

^Woooow! You expressed it so well. :glomped It is pure art. I'm listening to it now! I'm in luv with HEART STATION! I wanna PV sooo badly. I'm going to be sad if she promotes this beautiful single without any PVs! :(

heart station..
i'm watching now... :D

Yea...the Beautiful World and HEART STATION style are really gd...their styles are similar and its really gd...

Aw, the YouTube link is dead. :(