Hikaru Utada

Hikaru Utada's debut single “Automatic/time will tell” released on December 9, 1998 and sold over two million copies, catapulting them to top-artist-status at age 15. Their first album, First Love, released a few months later and marked the highest number of CDs sold in Japan, a record that remains unbroken to this day. All albums that followed have topped the charts. The theme song for video game KINGDOM HEARTS Ⅲ, "Face My Fears" was released as a single in 2019. The track was co-created with Skrillex and marked Utada's first Billboard Top 100 in the US. An EP of the A.G. Cook co-produced single "One Last Kiss" and their first self-cover "Beautiful World (Da Capo Version)" released March 10, 2021, and the former counted the artist's first time reaching 100 million streams. The two tracks are both themes appearing in the feature film EVANGELION:3.0+1.0 THRICE UPON A TIME (SHIN EVANGELION). In 2022, Utada released their eighth album, “BAD MODE,” featuring collaborations with Skrillex, A.G. Cook, and Floating Points, earning critical acclaim as Pitchfork's Best Album of the Year. That same year, they made their festival debut at Coachella with 88rising. In 2024, marking 25 years since their debut, Utada released their greatest hits album “SCIENCE FICTION”, followed by the highly successful HIKARU UTADA SCIENCE FICTION TOUR 2024, which included stops in Hong Kong and Taipei.