"First Love" and then "Distance".Quote:

For me I was visiting Japan in 2000 and just bought the #1 and #2 CD's at the time (Hikaru and Ayumi). Distance and Addicted to you were the songs that bit me.

hmmm for me its hard to say...The first song I ever heard of hers was "Simple and Clean" ...That sparked my interest in her especially because that was my fav video game..but the song that made me actually consider myself a fan was "Final Distance"...I remember hearing that song and being so taken and moved by it....And this was back before I could understand Japanese!

First Love was the very first song I heard from her, but I got hooked listening to Automatic and Traveling.

Beautiful World.

By far.

It was FIRST LOVE, when I heard it on the Japanese drama, "Majyo no Jyouken". I was taken aback by the clarity in which she sang the English lyrics. Not only did she pronounce everything with no detectable Japanese accent, the English lyrics actually made sense and tied into the song. At this point in J-Pop, I found that any English used in songs did not make any sense, and it was shocking to hear it being used so effectively. It shocked me even more when I found out that she was 15 when she wrote and recorded the song because her voice seemed so deep and the lyrics were extremely mature for a teenager!!!

the very first song that got me hooked on hikaru was "first love". i don't quite remember how i first heard the song, but i heard it and love it 2 seconds into the song.

Simple & Clean (both remix and original) from Kingdom Hearts. But I never bothered to research her or anything.

It was later that year when I went to an anime con, I picked up a CD with her name on it (First Love), and ironically, fell in love with her.

...Summer Live DVD. It was clear then that she was and is an extraordinary talent.

Simple and Clean. Back then I didn't even know who sung it. But a few years later I started hearing her name and looked her up to find out that she was the one who sung it. XD