"Face My Fears" is a song by Japanese-American singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada and American record producer

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, released on January 18, 2019, by

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. Along with its English-language counterpart, it serves as the opening theme song to the Square Enix video game ''

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''. It was written as a collaboration between Utada, producer

, and R&B songwriter

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. The song was released in both English and Japanese versions, alongside " Chikai" (which was previously released in their seventh Japanese album '' Hatsukoi'') and its English counterpart, "Don't Think Twice", as a

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on January 18, 2019, making it their first release on the format in eleven years since their 2008 single " Prisoner of Love". It is also their first release with original English songs since "

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" in 2009.

Composition

Utada requested that the producer

produce a remix of the song " Chikai" for ''

'', 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

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 their first Hot 100 entry. The song sold 10,000 pure downloads and had 2.5 million streams in the first week in the US.

Track listing

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Release history

References

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