Hatsukoi (Hikaru Utada album)

"First Love") is the seventh Japanese-language studio album (tenth overall) by Japanese–American recording artist Hikaru Utada.

Internationally, the album reached the peak in 7 different countries in the iTunes store, such as Finland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Macau and New Zealand.

[6] In Japan, the album debuted at #1 in Oricon daily chart, selling more than 79,000 copies in the first day alone.

The song was used as a tie-in for Suntory Water campaign starring Utada, starting on June 10.

On December 8, 2017, the album's third single "Anata" was released as a digital download along with its corresponding promotional music video.

The song was used as a tie-in for the movie Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura,[13] and has been featured in a Sony campaign to promote a wireless headphone line, in which she herself also appeared.

[14] On April 25, 2018, the album's fourth single, "Play a Love Song", was released as a digital download.

It is the second song Utada delivers to the Hana Yori Dango drama series, after "Flavor of Life" in 2007.

[16] "Chikai", along with its English-language counterpart "Don't Think Twice", served as the theme song to the Square Enix video game Kingdom Hearts III.

[21] "Shittosarerubeki Jinsei" was featured on the soundtrack to the film Parallel World Love Story.