Automatic/Time Will Tell

Single infobox
Name = Automatic / Time Will Tell


Artist = Utada Hikaru
from Album = First Love
Released = December 9, 1998
Format = CD, Double A-side Single
Recorded = August 1998
Genre = Pop/R&B
Length = N/A
Label = EMI Music Japan
Writer = Utada Hikaru
Producer = Utada Hikaru
Last single = "Close To You"
(1997)
This single = "Automatic / Time Will Tell"
(1998)
Next single = "Movin' on without you"
(1999)

"Automatic / Time Will Tell" is a double A-side single released by Utada Hikaru, released as her second single overall and her first official Japanese language single. It was released on December 9, 1998. "Automatic / time will tell" debuted with 42,210 copies sold in its first week, but it went on to sell 2,063,000. The single hit #4 (8cm) and "#2" (12cm) on the Oricon charts.

In 1999, a Hong Kong singer and actress Kelly Chen covered Automatic as _zh. 情不自禁 (Qíng Bù Zì Jìn) in Mandarin.

"Automatic" was used in the Honda Life CM, and was also featured in beatmania GB 2 GatchaMIX for the Game Boy Color [cite web | url=http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/gbcolor/file/576410/2700 | title=GameFAQs Song List FAQ for the Beatmania series] .

Automatic / time will tell is Utada Hikaru's first official single in the Japanese market, though there have been prior releases under the name "U3" as part of a family unit and Cubic U. Automatic was a tie-in track as the ending theme song to the Fuji TV show "Warau Inu no Seikatsu -YARANEVA!!-" as well as the Honda Life CM song, whereas time will tell was used as the ending theme song to the Fuji TV show Gokigenyou. There were two versions of this released: an 8cm single as well as a standard 12cm single. Originally, different versions of the same product were given different placings on Oricon charts. This meant that the single reached #2 (the 12cm version) and #4 (the 8cm version) on Oricon charts. The #1 spot went to KinKi Kids' Happy Happy Greeting / Cinderella Christmas. The most recent figures (May 26, 2006) show that the 12cm version sold 1,290,700 units and the 8cm version sold 772,080 copies in Japan. Both versions charted for 22 weeks. The 12cm version placed #5 on the 'top singles of 1999' chart, while the 6cm version placed at #22. However, if the sales were combined then the single would have gained 2,062,780 sales and ranked as the #2 single for the year of 1999. A peculiar thing about this single's Oricon rankings is that despite KinKi Kids' Happy Happy Greeting / Cinderella Christmas beating it in initial Oricon charts, that single did not even appear on the list of top singles for the year. This single reached #20 on World Charts for single airplay, and reached #4 for sales [ [http://wiki.theppn.org/Automatic_/_Time_Will_Tell Automatic / Time Will Tell - Wiki.theppn ] ] .

Track listing

* 8cm Version
#Automatic
#Time Will Tell
#Automatic (Original Karaoke)

* 12cm Version
#Automatic
#Time Will Tell
#Time Will Tell (Dub Mix)

* Vinyl Version

Tracklist (Side A)
#Automatic

Tracklist (Side B)
#Time Will Tell
#Time Will Tell (Dub Mix)

Charts

"Automatic / Time Will Tell" - Oricon Sales Chart (Japan)

References

External links

* [http://www.toshiba-emi.co.jp/hikki/ Hikki's Website] — official Toshiba EMI site