Hikaru Utada Breaks Records With Her New Album!

Singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada's seventh original album, Hatsu Koi, has once again topped the Oricon charts with an amazing 204,000 copies. With Hatsu Koi becoming first, this will mark her ninth album (including her Best Of albums) to have reached such an achievement. This amounts her total copies sold to 7,762,000 across all of her albums.

With Hatsu Koi, this will also mark her seventh consecutive original album to become first on the Oricon charts for female solo artists; she beats longtime rival BoA, who was at six. Hikaru is also two albums away from all-time best, Ayumi Hamasaki, who currently sits at nine albums straight.

You can buy Hatsu Koi here, and check out our Artist Spotlight on Utada below!