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It sold just over 2.35 million copies in its first week of release,[1] charting at number one on the weekly, monthly and yearly Oricon charts. Deep River is ranked as Japan’s fifth-highest album in debut sales, and eighth in the all-time album sales in Japan.       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4The final track, “Hikari”, would be her first single to reach number one on the Oricon Weekly Singles chart three times, and the Japanese version of the theme song for Square Enix’s RPG video game, Kingdom Hearts. The English version, “Simple and Clean”, (released on her “Colors” single), also accompanied promotion of Kingdom Hearts in overseas versions. The album was cited by many fans and critics as Utada’s most acclaimed work, as well as achieving the Triple Crown at the 17th Golden Disc Awards in Japan.[2]According to the IFPI, the album is listed at number 18 on the Top 50 Global Best Selling Albums for 2002.[3]Table of Contents       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Track listing[edit]Singles[edit]Personnel[edit]Vocals[edit]Instrumentation[edit]Production[edit]Technical[edit]Artwork[edit]References[edit]Track listing[edit]All tracks are written by Hikaru Utada.Title1.“Sakura Drops (SAKURA\u30c9\u30ed\u30c3\u30d7\u30b9, Sakura Doroppusu)“4:582.“Traveling”5:143.“Shiawase ni Nar\u014d (\u5e78\u305b\u306b\u306a\u308d\u3046, Let’s Be Happy)“4:464.“Deep River”4:375.“Letters”4:486.“Play Ball (\u30d7\u30ec\u30a4\u30fb\u30dc\u30fc\u30eb, Purei B\u014dru)“4:147.“Tokyo Nights (\u6771\u4eacNIGHTS)“4:438.“A.S.A.P.”4:569.“Uso Mitai na I Love You (\u5618\u307f\u305f\u3044\u306a I Love You, The Dubious I Love You)“4:4910.“Final Distance”5:3811.“Bridge (Interlude)”1:0912.“Hikari (\u5149, Light)“5:02All songs were arranged by Kei Kawano and Hikaru Utada, except for the following:1. “Sakura Drops” \u2013 arrangement: Hikaru Utada and Kei Kawano (the order of the name was changed)7. “Tokyo Nights” \u2013 with string arrangement: Kei Kawano8. “A.S.A.P.” \u2013 arrangement: Yuichiro Honda, additional rhythm track arrangement: Kei Kawano and Hikaru Utada10. “Final Distance” \u2013 with string arrangement: Neko SaitoSingles[edit]Personnel[edit]Credits adapted from the album\u2019s liner notes.[4]Vocals[edit]Instrumentation[edit]Hikaru Utada \u2013 arrangement (all tracks)Kawano Kei \u2013 arrangement (track 1), additional arrangement (track 8), keyboards, cembalo (track 7), guitar sample (track 2), drums (track 9)Saito Neko \u2013 string arrangement (track 10), violin (track 11)Akira Hironori \u2013 acoustic guitar (tracks 4-5, 12), electric guitar (tracks 1-6), electric sitar (track 4)Honda Larry Yuchiro \u2013 arrangement, string arrangement, keyboards (track 8), acoustic guitar (track 5), electric guitar, electric bass (track 9), guitar sample (track 1)Kon Tsuyoshi \u2013 acoustic guitar (track 4)Char \u2013 acoustic guitar (track 5)Toriyama Yuji \u2013 acoustic guitar (track 5)HISASHI \u2013 acoustic guitar (track 5)Utada Sking Teruzane \u2013 acoustic guitar (track 5)Kanzo \u2013 guitar sample (track 1)Saito Mitsutaka \u2013 electric bass (track 2)Great Eida Strings \u2013 strings (tracks 7, 10)Abe Masahi Cello Octet \u2013 strings (track 8)Ishibashi Masakazu \u2013 oboe (track 7)Production[edit]Hikaru Utada \u2013 songwriting (all tracks), executive productionUtada Sking Teruzane \u2013 executive productionMiyake Akira \u2013 executive productionTechnical[edit]Hikaru Utada \u2013 basic programmingTad Jensen \u2013 masteringUgajin Masaaki \u2013 recordingMatsui Atsushi \u2013 recordingGoh Hotoda \u2013 recording, mixingKawano Kei \u2013  programming (all tracks)Honda Larry Yuchiro \u2013 programming (track 8)Tsunemi Kazuhide \u2013 synthesizer programming (all tracks)Artwork[edit]Kiriya Kazuaki \u2013 art direction, photographyCho Kenji \u2013 art direction, designMayama Yuki \u2013 stylingInagaki Ryoji \u2013 hair, make-upJapan (Oricon)ReleaseChartPeak positionDebut salesSales totalChart runJune 19, 2002Oricon Daily Albums Chart1June 19, 2002Oricon Weekly Albums Chart12,350,1703,605,00056June 19, 2002Oricon Yearly Albums Chart1References[edit]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki21\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki21\/deep-river-hikaru-utada-album\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Deep River (Hikaru Utada album)"}}]}]