This Is Love (Hikaru Utada song)
2006 single by Hikaru Utada
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"This Is Love" is Hikaru Utada's first Japanese digital single (23rd overall). It was released on May 31, 2006 as a promotional single for their fourth Japanese studio album, Ultra Blue.
| "This Is Love" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by Hikaru Utada | ||||
| from the album Ultra Blue | ||||
| Released | May 31, 2006 | |||
| Recorded | 2006 | |||
| Genre | Techno, Electro[1] | |||
| Length | 4:58 | |||
| Label | EMI Music Japan | |||
| Songwriter | Hikaru Utada | |||
| Producer | Hikaru Utada | |||
| Hikaru Utada singles chronology | ||||
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"This Is Love" was used in a Nissin cup noodle campaign and was the opening theme for Freedom, which was also tied into the Nippon campaign. The digital single reached number one in virtually every online music store in Japan prior to the Ultra Blue album release, including the most used store in Japan, iTunes Japan, as well as OnGen, among others. Utada herself is quoted to have said that this song is about expressing that "love is like a mix of extremes: anxiety and peace."
On December 20, 2006 iTunes Japan released a list of top downloaded singles and albums; "This is Love" ranked as #9 making it the 9th most downloaded song for 2006.[2]