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). Their highly anticipated 8th studio album BAD MODE released digitally on January 19, 2022. In April, Hikaru Utada performed at their very first music festival, Coachella 2022. They were featured in 88rising’s showcase, HEAD IN THE CLOUDS FOREVER on April 16th. Held successful livestreaming event “40 Dai-Wa-Iroiro♫” to celebrate their 40th birthday. The event was the world’s first real-time delivery of music featuring 360 Reality Audio, offering a fully immersive, three-dimensional sound experience to viewers