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I didn't do blog 20 yesterday, because I slept for 12 hours instead of the 1 hour powernap that I planned... Is it okay to do an extra blog to make up for it today?

Blog 20
I'm very happy now that I can sleep regularly again!!! I haven't had too much trouble with power naps, though I haven't had all that fun trying to sleep yesterday.

I finally got the ULTRA BLUE (don't ask me why, it is capitalized!!!) album from Utada Hikaru on the iTunes on this computer.
So far, it has only 5 plays, so quite a bit far from the top 2 albums (there are 5 in total). Actually, its last.

1. Corinne Bailey Rae-Corinne Bailey Rae (honestly, this album is chock-full of potential singles)
Plays: 100 Tracks: 11
2. Maroon 5-It Won't Be Soon Before Long Plays: 95 Tracks: 11

I guess I might as well do the top 10 tracks today...
AI-Don't Stop
Rihanna-SOS
Corinne Bailey Rae-Trouble Sleeping
Esthero-In Tha Mood (I actually think that she's a better song writer than Utada Hikaru, anyways, this is the best song I've listened to for the past week or so)
Jamie Cullum-Get Your Way
Chantal Kreviazuk-Wonderful
The Last Goodnight-Pictures Of You
Maroon 5-Can't Stop
Maroon 5-Must Get Out
Alicia Keys-Karma (her new single, 'No One', to me sounds pretty bad. I think its because of her belting , though I'm not sure if that's the proper term or not)

Blog 21
I finally caught up on the weeks of Hikaru Utada news that I hadn't followed.
Apparently her record company released 'Automatic' as a free download on Chaku-uta for 4 days.
Argh.
It got 400,000 downloads.
Argh.
Anyways, I wouldn't have been able to download it, because Chaku-uta is an NTTDoCoMo mobile song downloading service, and I don't have a NTTDoCoMo phone.
By the way, she still gets her royalties, and her record company and managing office pays for the rest of the fees.
Whatever, EMI's rich enough, and her dad manages her, so its okay. I'm sure Utada can spare some money for her dad.

By the way, she has a new single, 'Heart Station/Stay Gold' to be released on February 20, 2008, if my memory doesn't fail me. I heard a preview of Stay Gold, its 1:30 minutes long and can be found on YouTube.
IT. IS. AWESOME.
Honestly.
I heard it once, and I thought immediately that this was the best song I've ever heard from Utada Hikaru.
I just hope that the rest of song lives up to the promised that this preview brings.
Honestly, please please just go to YouTube and search Utada Hikaru Stay Gold and listen to the preview. It really is an awesome song. (By the way, I'm too lazy to upload it or whatever to blogger).

She also has a new album soon after the release of HS/SG. It would mean that it would be a full 4 new singles since her last album (as in not including singles off her last album)
Boku wa Kuma
Flavor of Life (Utada HIkaru's biggest single EVER, 8.3 million downloads, Japan's number one single EVER, although not the number one Japanese language single ever-its a song called 'Sukiyaki' which hit Billboard number 1-, and possibly the worlds best selling digital single ever-either more than 5 million or more than 7 million-)ring tones and digital songs
(anyways, there is no official digital download chart for the world
-Daniel Powter's Bad Day sold 1.7 m digital song downloads in USA
-Akon's Smak That sold 2.1m ringtones in USA
-Recording Industry of Japan registeres a previous song which sold 4 m in Japan as the worlds best selling digital single
Beautiful World/Kiss & Cry
Heart Station/Stay Gold

By the way, most fans recognize 'Deep River' and 'Ultra Blue' as her best albums, with the former having a very small advantage.
I agree so too, they both have awesome songs, but Deep River has better singles.
But anyways, I haven't listened to all of her albums yet.

Anyways, Utada Hikaru now has the distinction of having the best selling album and best selling single in Japan of all time!
Well, actually, no.
Because of chart rules for Oricon, digital downloads are not accounted for in actual song counts, so Utada Hikaru sold only 650,000 copies of Flavor of Life, which is wayyyyy down the list. Its the number 2 song of 2007, though.
That is so outdated...

Actually, nevermind, I'm adding the video...