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 Studio in New York in 1996. The album was released in both the United States and Japan on January 28, 1998; the album failed to chart on the
Oricon weekly charts and US
Billboard 200. After the huge success of Utada's
First Love, the album was re-released in Japan on March 31, 1999 and peaked at #2 on the
Oricon charts with 702,060 copies sold.