"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 ???? (Qng B Z Jn) in Mandarin.
"Automatic" was used in the Honda Life CM, and was also featured in beatmania GB 2 GatchaMIX for the Game Boy Color.
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.
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