| "Heart Station" | ||||
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| Single by Hikaru Utada | ||||
| from the album Heart Station | ||||
| Released | February 20, 2008 | |||
| Recorded | 2007 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 4:37 | |||
| Label | EMI Music Japan | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Hikaru Utada | |||
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| "Heart Station" on YouTube | ||||
"Heart Station" is a song by Japanese musician Hikaru Utada, which was released as a double A-side single alongside her song "Stay Gold" on February 20, 2008. It served as the fifth single from her fifth Japanese-language album Heart Station. "Heart Station" was fully written, composed and produced by Utada herself. The song was created with the image of a song that would come on if you were to turn on your car radio on a late-night highway on your way home from work or play, with the title meaning a place that transmits radio waves from the heart. Musically, it is a midtempo pop ballad. Lyrically, it speaks about bidding someone adieu and still trying to reach them and maintain their presence in your life.
Commercially, "Heart Station" fared well in Japan. The song was heavily promoted on radio stations; for two weeks it was the number one song on the then-newly established Billboard Hot Top Airplay chart. Despite this success, it only managed to reach number two on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, being blocked by "Step and Go" from the boy band Arashi. "Heart Station" was certified three times by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) in different categories, including platinum for digital sales, gold in PC downloads, and gold in physical shipments.