This is Love
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- Artist
- Utada Hikaru
- Song
- This Is Love
- Lyrics
- Utada Hikaru
- Music
- Utada Hikaru
- Other Information
- Arrangement: Utada Hikaru
- Keyboards and Programming: Utada Hikaru
- Additional Programming: Tomita Yuzuru and Alexis Smith
- Information
This is Love was used as a CM song for the Nissin Cup Noodles "FREEDOM" campaign. The song reached #1 within a few of days in almost all the online music stores when it was made avalable to be purchased online prior to the ULTRA BLUE's release. 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 20th, 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. In March 2007 This is Love would recieve a triple platnium certifcation for Chaku-Uta downloads from RIAJ.
This is Love is also the opening theme to the OAV "FREEDOM".
Disambiguation
There are two versions of This Is Love to be found in Utada's discography (listed chronologically). These different versions are:
- This Is Love
- Found on ULTRA BLUE album as track #1. It was used as a radio single to promote the album (much like Play Ball and Parody before it). It was able to be purchased online from 2006.05.31 onwards (prior to the release date of Ultra Blue).
- This Is Love (UTADA UNITED LIVE)
- Found on UTADA UNITED 2006 DVD as track #3. This was used as one of the three songs to promote the DVD's release over airways and on music video channels.
