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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 Studios in New York in 1996.[1] The album was never released commercially in the US, due to internal problems with the label EMI. It was only available to music industry insiders. The album was released in Japan on January 28, 1998; the album failed to chart on the Oricon weekly charts. After the huge success of Utada's First Love, the album was re-released on March 31, 1999 and peaked at #2 on the Oricon charts with 702,060 copies sold.

Precious
Studio album by Cubic U
Released	January 28, 1998
Recorded	August 5–20, 1996
Studio	Sony Music Studios, New York City
Genre	R&B
Length	54:42
Label	Toshiba EMI
Producer	Hikaru Utada, Teruzane Utada, Fuji Keiko, Michael C. Warner, Booker T. Jones, Bert Price
Cubic U chronology
Precious (1998) First Love (1999)
Singles from Precious
"Close to You" Released: January 28, 1997

Track listing

Note: Several promo copies of the album have the track "Here and There and Back Again" as track 5. This was not released physically.

Release history

Country	Date	Version	Label
Japan	January 28, 1998	Original	Toshiba-EMI
	March 31, 1999	Re-release

Singles

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

References

На других языках

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- [en] Precious (Cubic U album)

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[es] Precious (álbum de Cubic U)

Precious es el primer álbum del estudio de Utada. Este álbum lo sacó bajo el sobrenombre Cubic U (U3). Totalmente en inglés, no causó gran furor en el público estadounidense, pero en Japón vendió más de 700,000 copias y quedó en el puesto número 4. También incluye el tema Close to you, un éxito de The Carpenters. Tiene diferentes versiones: la japonesa, que incluye 13 canciones, y la americana, que incluye 12 canciones.

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