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Stats: Utada Hikaru: The Receipts
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Utada Hikaru: The Receipts
宇多田 ヒカル
Truly deserving of the title of Queen of J-pop, Utada is one of Japan's most successful and widely known singers. In overall record sales she breaks the top five Japanese artists in history, and is perhaps best known for having the best selling Japanese-language album in music history as well as the biggest Japanese-language hit single of the digital age. Among her many other accomplishments, she released the fastest-selling album in the history of the world and has tied Ayumi Hamasaki for the most million-selling Japanese-language singles. Her work is praised by critics and has become a staple of the J-pop world despite her current hiatus.
Sales in this thread will include global figures when available, such as for First Love.
Record Sales
Total Record Sales: 60,830,058
Physical Albums: 25,211,811
Physical Singles: 15,518,247
Digital Singles: 20,100,000
 AlbumsFirst Love 10,056,000
Distance 4,472,343
Deep River 3,605,000
Singles Collection Vol. 1 2,586,347
Exodus 1,129,393
Heart Station 1,021,620
Ultra Blue 909,113
Precious 702,060
Singles Collection Vol. 2 451,000
This Is The One 258,657
Utada the Best 20,278
Singles
"Flavor of Life" 8,651,000
"Beautiful World/Kiss and Cry" 3,035,000
"Prisoner of Love" 2,282,000
"Automatic/Time Will Tell" 2,062,780
"Heart Station/Stay Gold" 1,877,000
"Addicted to You" 1,784,050
"Wait & See (Risk)" 1,662,060
"Can You Keep a Secret?" 1,484,940
"Keep Tryin'" 1,325,000
"Be My Last" 1,251,000
"Movin' on Without You" 1,226,580
"First Love" 1,054,000
"Boku wa Kuma" 1,017,000
"For You/Time Limit" 909,000
"Colors" 893,790
"traveling" 856,140
"This Is Love" 850,000
"Sakura Drops/Letters" 686,720
"Hikari" 598,130
"Final Distance" 582,120
"Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro" 365,206
"Passion" 312,000
"Eternally (Drama Mix)" 300,000
"Sakura Nagashi" 250,000
"Come Back to Me" 100,000
"Goodbye Happiness" 100,000
"Fight the Blues" 80,000
"Remix: Fly Me to the Moon" 20,000
"Easy Breezy" 2,731
"Devil Inside" -
"Exodus '04" -
"You Make Me Want to Be a Man" -
"Dirty Desire" -
"Hymne à l'amour" -
"Show Me Love (Not a Dream)" -
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My queen 
What angers me most about her receipts is that her best song, and second best song of all time, Passion, broke her streak of #1 singles. 
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Queen of J-Pop 
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Quote:
Originally posted by Kworb
My queen
What angers we most about her receipts is that her best song, and second best song of all time, Passion, broke her streak of #1 singles. |
I know, it's so frustrating.  It really deserved #1. It even underperformed digitally; as you can probably tell, Utada has taken advantage of the digital market in a way that few singers have been able to do in Japan, but "Passion" didn't really seem to catch on despite it's quality.
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The Goddess of Music. 
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what a beast 
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The Queen Of Asia
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I need her to get out of hiatus and slay us again Queen Hikaru has left her throne for too long 
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"Flavor of Life" 8,651,000
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+8 million in Japan only? 
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Originally posted by greeneyedsoul
+8 million in Japan only? |
Yeah, there was an article from a reputable source that showed it sold 8 million downloads there. On top of that, it's sold about 651,000 in physical copies.
The digital market in Japan used to be massive before it was basically snuffed out by greedy label tactics.
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Queen of J-Pop
Beautiful World should be her best selling single, as it is her best.
Never realized First Love sold that much
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