Hikaru Utada (born January 19, 1983 in Manhattan, New York) is a Japanese-American singer, songwriter, arranger, and producer. She is known by her stage name Utada in the United States and Europe. Since the release of her Japanese debut album First Love, which went on to become the best-selling album in Oricon history, Utada has had three of her Japanese studio albums in the list of Top 10 best-selling albums ever in Japan (number 1, 4, 8) and six of her albums (including one English-language and one compilation) charting within the 275 Best-Selling Japanese albums list.
