Movin' on Without You

"Movin' on Without You"
Single by Hikaru Utada
from the album First Love
Released	February 17, 1999
Format	CD, Maxi Single
Recorded	October 1998
Genre	Pop, dance-pop
Length	4:38
Label	EMI Music Japan
Writer(s)	Hikaru Utada
Producer	Hikaru Utada
Hikaru Utada singles chronology
"Automatic/Time Will Tell" (1998) "Movin' on Without You" (1999) "First Love" (1999)

"Movin' on Without You" is a song by Hikaru Utada, released as her third single (her second in Japanese) on February 17, 1999. "Movin' on Without You" sold 1,227,000 copies and hit #5 (8 cm) and #1 (12 cm) on the Oricon charts.There were two versions of this released: An 8 cm single as well as a standard 12 cm single. Originally, different versions of the same product were given different placings on Oricon charts. It sold 473,530 in its first week. It had a tie-in as the Japanese CM song for the Nissan Terrano. The 12 cm single sold 880,000 units in Japan; peaking at #1 on the charts and staying on the charts for 13 weeks. The most recent figures (2006.05.26) show that the 12 cm version sold 879,760 units and the 8 cm version sold 346,820 units in Japan, making the 12 cm single the #16 single of 1999 in Japan. However, if both single's sales were combined, their total would have been 1,226,580 which would have made this the #7 single for the year. This single reached #30 on World Charts for single airplay, and reached #10 for sales.

Track listing

8cm Version
No.	Title	Arranger	Length
1.	"Movin' on Without you"	Shin'ichiro Murayama	4:38
2.	"B&C"	Akira Nishihira, Taka & Speedy(rhythm track arrangement)	4:20
3.	"Movin' on Without You (Original Karaoke)"		4:41

12 cm version
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Movin' on Without You"	4:38
2.	"B&C"	4:20
3.	"Movin' on Without You (Tribal Mix)"	4:46

Charts

"Movin' on Without You" - Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

	Release	Chart	Peak Position	Sales Total	Chart Run
8 cm	February 17, 1999	Oricon Daily Singles Chart
		Oricon Weekly Singles Chart	5	346,820	12
		Oricon Yearly Singles Chart
12 cm		Oricon Daily Singles Chart
		Oricon Weekly Singles Chart	1	879,760	13
		Oricon Yearly Singles Chart

Information

"Movin' on Without You" was featured in a US commercial for the Nissan Maxima.

"B&C", the b-side of the single, was re-mastered into a version that has Utada's voice in auto-tune, and has a "sudden car stop screech" background, all in the song's last part, making it more "cleaner" for the First Love album (now known as the "Album Version") than the version found in this single.

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