Hikaru Utada's second English album, "This Is The One," finally hit U.S. stores last week. Already doing well in Japan, the album also proved successful in America, achieving #69 on the Billboard album charts. This makes her just the 7th artist from Japan to enter the chart's top 100. The last Japanese artist to break the top 100 was in 1986, when rock band Loudness ranked #64 with "Lightning Strikes." The first was Kyu Sakamoto in 1963, followed by Isao Tomita, Tsutomu Yamash*ta, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Yoko Ono, and finally Loudness. "This Is The One" was released on March 14 in Japan and debuted at #3 there and ranked 1st on the foreign albums chart for multiple weeks. Source: Tokyograph
"The last Japanese artist to break the top 100 was in 1986, when rock band Loudness ranked #64 with "Lightning Strikes." The first was Kyu Sakamoto in 1963, followed by Isao Tomita, Tsutomu Yamash*ta, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Yoko Ono, and finally Loudness." pffffffft, yoko ono doesn't count. congrats to utada though.
So she was top #3 of the official billboard top 100 charts right? Thats well deserved because the album is really good.
I am glad Utada Hikaru made the Top 100 here in the USA I had my friends listen this Album and love it too! I don't Think YOKO ONO has made the charts I have never once seen her albums in the top 10 Only when she did an Album With John Lennon that she was at #1
Wow, that's far higher than I thought she'd make it, considering how the album promotion just stopped completely midyear. And nothing on the blog - where did she go?
I love her English and of course Japanese songs even though I am not Japanese. Just ran across her song Flavor of Life in a Japanese series, and got hooked. Hikki rules! Wish she would come to Toronto in the near future for a concert.
