Utada Hikaru (24), vastly known in the world of Japanese music as having the highest selling album ever in Japanese history has broken yet another prestigious record. Her latest single, “Flavor of Life”, not only held #1 for 3 consecutive weeks on the Oricon charts (something last done by Ayumi Hamasaki back in 2002 with the single “Voyage”), but also now holds the title as the highest selling Japanese download single of all time. As of April 2007, it has had 5,580,000 downloads, which can be combined with the 720,000 physical CD copies shipped out for a total of 6,300,000 in unit sales. “Flavor of Life -Ballad Version-” was used as the insert song for the highly popular drama “Hana Yori Dango 2″. It was her first drama tie-in since 2002’s “SAKURA Drops”.

http://ikimasshoi.jphip.net/2007/04/...nother-record/

So deserved, it's one of her best songs

omg, wow!

go utada!

<33333

yay!! Good for her!

The only japanese singer I know is Koda Kumi XD (and btw, her music is awesome)

Flavor of life ^_^

LOL, Utada <3

Tonight i'll get some Utada music <3

Cool! I love this song sooo much too!

I'm gonna download this

I can't make my usual bad comment now because I never heard the song.

Congretas to Utada!

the only songs i knew from Utada Hikaru is EASY BREEZY and FIRST LOVE.. and i love it!! <3333333333333333

I hope the American download market will become as big as the Japanese one.. singles are lucky to even get 1 million paid downloads in the US, let alone 5.5 million.

Though I guess there's some correlation with the quality of the music that's released

Omg!!!! This song is great!!!!
There's no doubt why this song received so much donwloads

Utada

She should go internationally... I mean hit Europe & America. At least in Latinamerican she is well known by sing some song of anime and cartoons. She sells and sold more than many other artists and only in Japan

^Oh she did. "Exodus" got the international release, but 0 PR, therefore it didn't sell much anywhere, except Japan of course, where it sold about 1,100,000 copies. ^ _ ^

Of course she did. Utada is THE GREATNESS!!! It's just amazing, cuz all her recent singles have had high debuts and in Japan, they are still too ignorant to count digital downloads. I mean really, one of her last singles, "Keep Trying," has over 2 million downloads and yet didn't reach the #01 spot on Oricon (the Japanese Billboard).

now if only she could do that over here...

YAy! uTada!!