[Utada Hikaru] 8th Album News/Updates

23rd January 2009, 01:36 PM

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8th Album News/Updates

This Is The One
Utada Hikaru's 8th album

Release date

March 14, 2009

March 24, 2009

Pre-order
Amazon.com | Best Buy | YesAsia | CDJapan

Track list
01. On And On
02. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence - FYI
03. Apple And Cinnamon
04. Taking My Money Back
05. This One (Crying Like A Child)
06. Automatic Part II
07. Dirty Desire
08. Poppin’
09. Come Back To Me
10. Me Muero

Singles
- Come Back To Me [listen] [cover art] [music video]

Info
- Utada worked on the album with Stargate and C. "Tricky" Stewart
- It was recorded in Tokyo, New York and Atlanta

On the web/in the press
- Official album cover and track list - Utada.jp
- "This Is The One" delayed until March 14, 2009 for release in Japan - Utada.jp
- LiveDaily Song of the Day: Utada - "Come Back To Me" - LiveDaily
- Utada at various GRAMMY events: [1] [2] [3] [4]
- Utada Sits Down With Ningin - Ningin
- "A Conversation with Utada" - Interview by Examiner.com
- "Come Back To Me" listed on Amazon's music store - Amazon.com
- Island Records hires director Anthony Mandler for "Come Back To Me" music video - VideoStatic.com
- Utada to Unveil New Single “Come Back To Me” (Press release) - Island Records

Spoiler:

(January 21 -New York, NY) In the small world of pop artists who write their own music enters the big voice of artist/songwriter Utada who is set to reveal her new single “Come Back to Me” this month. Utada, already one of the world’s biggest recording artists, will release her new album on March 24, 2009 on The Island Def Jam Music Group.

“Come Back to Me”, the soulful yet energetic ballad produced by the hitmaking team Stargate (Ne-Yo, Rihanna, Beyonce), will officially debut on pop radio on February 9th and will be available via iTunes. The sparkling, mid-tempo hit showcases the 26-year-old singer’s powerful husky-sweet vocals and natural effervescence, placing her indisputably into the landscape with major female artists like Madonna, Beyonce, Rihanna and Mariah Carey.

Utada’s forthcoming album is comprised of 10 self-penned songs recorded with top producers Stargate and Tricky (Britney Spears, Madonna, Mariah Carey). Recording took place in New York, Atlanta and Tokyo.

On creating the album Utada comments, “I like to make music that’s mutli-layered. You might just want to dance, without really diving into the lyrics. And then if you like words, you might notice the references I make to Captain Picard or Winona Ryder. Both things are equally important to me—to be catchy, so when you hear it on the radio it sticks out, and to have that depth. "

Producer Stargate comments, “Working with Utada was great. She walks in, has confidence about her, integrity, and a voice that you can’t believe. We were really blown away.”

Born and raised in Manhattan and educated at Columbia University, Hikaru Utada had strong ties to Japan as her father, Utada Teruzane, was an accomplished musician and producer and her mother, Keiko Fuji, was a successful Japanese enka (ballad) singer. With such a musically prolific family, Utada would reside between New York City and Tokyo and the recording studio literally became her second home. By age 11, Utada had written and recorded her first song. By the time she graduated from junior high school, the bi-lingual singer had signed onto a major record label EMI and released her first Japanese album. With a number of album and single releases over the last ten years in Japan, the young star has become one of the most successful and acclaimed pop singers in Japanese music history with record sales of over 52 million.

www.utada.com <http://www.utada.com/>

- Utada releases new single 'Come Back To Me' - Monsters and Critics
- Most Anticipated: 2009 Edition - HX Magazine
- Utada Hikaru's new English-language single - Angry Asian Man
- J-pop prepares an assault on the West in '09 - The Japan Times Online

- Utada's Myspace blog
- Utada's U3 blog

Requesting and Keeping Track of Come Back To Me

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I thought this might be useful for just putting a lot of the stuff coming in about the article in one place for people who just want to scan and see what's up with her album. I know things can get lost in some threads sometimes so this might help I hope. If you guys find anything out worth mentioning feel free to post it of course.

Last edited by rikku411; 1st March 2009 at 03:35 AM.