Hikaru Utada, you are always going to be our love and we’re excited for this news!
The J-pop star is ending a five-year career hiatus by writing and singing the theme song of a TV drama that will air starting April 4 in NHK, Japan’s national public broadcasting organization. She announced the news on Twitter the day after her 33rd birthday.
In July 2015, she also announced on her blog that she was working on a new album. She did not mention any details about it or when it will be released, only asking for patience as she transitioned to motherhood, having given birth the same month. Could her new song be part of the new album? Who knows?
Utada was dubbed as the “most influential artist of the decade” in the Japanese landscape by the Japan Times in 2009. She is known for her 1999 album First Love, which holds the record for the best-selling Japanese-language album of all time. There are estimates that she has sold more than 52 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling musicians in Japan. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, she sang “First Love.”
Utada retired in 2011 to focus on her life. In 2014, she married an Italian bartender.
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