Английская Википедия:Face My Fears

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox song "Face My Fears" is a song by Japanese-American singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada and American record producer Skrillex, released on January 18, 2019, by Epic Records Japan. Along with its English-language counterpart, it serves as the opening theme song to the Square Enix video game Kingdom Hearts III. It was written as a collaboration between Utada, producer Skrillex, and R&B songwriter Poo Bear.

The song was released in both English and Japanese versions, alongside "Chikai" (which was previously released in her seventh Japanese album Hatsukoi) and its English counterpart, "Don't Think Twice", as a CD single on January 18, 2019, making it her first release on the format in eleven years since her 2008 single "Prisoner of Love". It is also her first release with original English songs since "This Is the One" in 2009.

Composition

Utada requested that the producer Skrillex produce a remix of the song "Chikai" for Kingdom Hearts III, since it was known that he was a fan of the game. He proposed to instead make a completely new song. Utada agreed to collaborate with him and songwriter Poo Bear to write the song.

The song was written in the same key as "Passion", to make it easier for Skrillex to mix both songs during his concerts. The song also has the same chords as "Dearly Beloved", the recurring musical theme for the main menu in the Kingdom Hearts series.

Commercial performance

The song topped China's Kugou New Song chart and 8 digital download services in Japan.

In Japan, the single debuted at the sixth spot of the Oricon Weekly Singles chart with 12,732 copies sold on its first week of release, as well as debuting at number three of the Oricon Combined Singles chart with 33,462 equivalent units. Moreover, The Japanese version of "Face My Fears" debuted at the fourth spot of the Oricon Weekly Digital Singles chart with 14,686 downloads.

The song debuted at number 98 on the Billboard Hot 100 on the week dated February 2, 2019, giving Utada her first Hot 100 entry. The song sold 10,000 pure downloads and had 2.5 million streams in the first week in the US.

Personnel

Credits adapted from Youtube Music

• Hikaru Utada - associated performer (track 1 and 3)
• Skrillex - associated performer (track 1 and 3)
• Chris Dave - drums (all tracks)
• Jason "Poo Bear" Boyd - arranger (track 1 and 3), composer (track 1 and 3), lyricist (track 1 and 3), producer (track 1 and 3)
• Jodi Milliner - bass (all tracks)
• Reuben James - piano (track 1 and 3)
• Steve Fitzmaurice - recording engineer (all tracks)
• Masahito Komori - vocal engineer (all track)
• Tom Norris - mixing engineer (track 1), programmer (track 1)
• Ben Parker - guitar (tracks 2, 4)
• Simon Hale - conductor (tracks 2, 4), piano (tracks 2, 4), strings (tracks 2, 4)
• Perry Montague-Mason - strings (tracks 2, 4)
• Darren Heelis - programmer (tracks 2, 4), recording engineer (tracks 2, 4)
• Bob Ludwig - mastering engineer (all tracks)

Charts

Weekly charts

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Chart (2019)	Peak position
France Download (SNEP)	52
Japan Daily Singles (Oricon)	2
Japan Daily Digital Singles (Oricon)	2
Japan Weekly Singles (Oricon)	6
Japan (Japan Hot 100)	3
New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ)	24
UK Singles Downloads (OCC)	30
US World Digital Song Sales (Billboard)	1

Year-end charts

Chart (2019)	Position
US Hot Dance/Electronic Songs (Billboard)	49
US World Digital Songs (Billboard)	6

Release history

Region	Date	Format	Label
Various	January 18, 2019	CD single	Шаблон:Hlist
		Digital download
		Streaming
	March 6, 2019	12-inch single (Japan)
	March 29, 2019	12-inch single (US)	Шаблон:Hlist