Precious (Cubic U album)

Precious is the debut English album by Cubic U (Hikaru Utada's stage name before her debut in Japan), which was recorded at Sony Music Studio in New York in 1996. The album was released in both the United States and Japan on January 28, 1998; the album failed to chart on the Oricon weekly charts and US Billboard 200. After the huge success of Utada's First Love, the album was re-released in Japan on March 31, 1999 and peaked at #2 on the Oricon charts with 702,060 copies sold.

Track listing

American track listing

All songs written and composed by Utada Hikaru and Charlene Harrison, except for "Close to You", which is a cover version of the Burt Bacharach–Hal David composition "(They Long to Be) Close to You" made famous by the Carpenters.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"My Little Lover Boy"	4:28
2.	"Lullaby"	4:38
3.	"How Ya Doin'"	3:05
4.	"I Don't Love You"	4:51
5.	"Here and There and Back Again" (on promo copies only)	4:47
6.	"Promise"	5:24
7.	"Ticket 4 Two"	5:23
8.	"Take a Little While"	3:52
9.	"100 Reasons Why"	4:31
10.	"Work Things Out"	4:31
11.	"Close to You"	4:39
12.	"Precious Love"	5:20
13.	"How Ya Doin' (Rap Version)" (bonus track)	3:46

Note: Several US-promo copies of the album have the track "Here and There and Back Again" as track 5. This was not on the re-released Japanese version.

Release history

Country	Date	Version
Japan	January 28, 1998	Original
United States	January 28, 1998	Original
Japan	March 31, 1999	Re-release

Single

Date	Title	Peak position	Weeks	Sales
January 28, 1997	"Close to You"	---	---	---

Charts

Precious - Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

Release	Chart	Peak Position	Sales Total	Chart Run
March 31, 1999 (Re-release)	Oricon Daily Albums Chart
	Oricon Weekly Albums Chart	2	702,060	17 weeks
	Oricon Yearly Albums Chart	35	702,060

Utada Hikaru

Discography Songs Awards

Japanese-language studio albums	First Love Distance Deep River Ultra Blue Heart Station

English-language studio albums	Precious Exodus This Is the One

Compilation albums	Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 1 Utada Hikaru Single Collection Vol. 2 Utada the Best

Other albums	Utada Hikaru no Uta

Tours	Bohemian Summer 2000 Utada Hikaru In Budokan 2004 Utada United 2006 Utada: In the Flesh 2010 Wild Life

Related articles	Teruzane Utada Keiko Fuji

Utada Hikaru songs

Discography

First Love	"Automatic" "First Love" "Movin' On Without You" "Time Will Tell"

Distance	"Addicted to You" "Can You Keep a Secret?" "Eternally" "For You" "Time Limit" "Wait & See (Risk)"

Deep River	"Final Distance" "Hikari" "Letters" "Sakura Drops" "Traveling"

Exodus	"Devil Inside" "Easy Breezy" "Exodus '04" "You Make Me Want to Be a Man"

Ultra Blue	"Be My Last" "Colors" "Dareka no Negai ga Kanau Koro" "Keep Tryin'" "Passion" "This Is Love"

Heart Station	"Beautiful World" "Boku wa Kuma" "Fight the Blues" "Flavor of Life" "Heart Station" "Kiss & Cry" "Prisoner of Love" "Stay Gold"

This Is the One	"Come Back to Me" "Dirty Desire"

Single Collection Vol. 2	"Can't Wait 'Til Christmas" "Hymne à l'amour (Ai no Anthem)" "Goodbye Happiness" "Show Me Love (Not a Dream)"

Collaborations	"Do You"

Other songs	"Sakura Nagashi" "Hanataba wo Kimi ni" "Manatsu no Tooriame"

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