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{{Infobox song
| name       = Come Back to Me
| cover      = Come Back To Me Cover.jpg
| alt        =
| type       = single
| artist     = [[Hikaru Utada|Utada]]
| album      = [[This Is the One (album)|This Is the One]]
| released   = {{Start date|2009|1|21}}
| recorded   = 2008
| studio     =
| venue      =
| genre      = [[Pop music|Pop]], [[Contemporary R&B|R&B]]
| length     = 3:58
| label      = [[Island Def Jam Music Group|Island Def Jam]]
| writer     = [[Hikaru Utada]], [[Stargate (production team)|Stargate]]
| producer   = Stargate, Utada, [[Teruzane Utada|Sking U]]
| prev_title = [[Prisoner of Love (Hikaru Utada song)|Prisoner of Love]]
| prev_year  = 2009
| next_title = [[Dirty Desire]]
| next_year  = 2009
| misc       = {{Audio sample
| type      = single
| file      = Come Back to Me.ogg
}}
}}
"'''Come Back to Me'''" is a [[Pop music|pop]] and [[Contemporary R&B|R&B]] song by [[Japanese American]] [[pop singer]] [[Hikaru Utada]], released under the [[mononym]]ous moniker Utada. The song was written by Utada and [[Stargate (production team)|Stargate]] and was produced by Utada, Stargate and her father, [[Teruzane Utada|Sking U]]. "Come Back to Me" is the first single from her second English-language album ''[[This Is the One (album)|This Is the One]]''.  In the United States, the song has peaked at number five on the [[Hot Dance Club Play|''Billboard'' Hot Dance Club Play]] and number 69 on the [[Pop 100]] chart.
==Background==
The production of "Come Back to Me" started in 2008. Utada took a few demo tracks that [[Stargate (production team)|Stargate]] had produced and just started to write.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://asiancemagazine.com/2009/02/28/utada-is-crossing-back-to-north-america|title=Utada is Crossing back to North America|work=Asiance Magazine|access-date=May 7, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305201912/http://asiancemagazine.com/2009/02/28/utada-is-crossing-back-to-north-america|archive-date=2009-03-05|url-status=dead}}</ref> "Come Back to Me" was chosen as the [[lead single]] because Utada felt the song "enters the listener naturally" and "comes into them easily".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kiwibox.com/article/39246 |title=Utada Exclusive Interview |work=Kiwibox |access-date=May 7, 2009 |date=February 20, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228061705/http://www.kiwibox.com/article/39246 |archive-date=February 28, 2009 }}</ref>
==Critical reception==
Adam Benjamin Irby of ''Bleu Magazine'' called the song a "[[Mariah Carey|Mariah]]-esque" song, that is musically reminiscent of "[[We Belong Together (Mariah Carey song)|We Belong Together]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thebleumag.com/2009/03/bleu_critic_utada_this_is_the.html |title=Bleu Critic: Utada 'This Is The One' |work=Bleu Critic |last=Irby Benjamin |first=Adam |access-date=May 7, 2009 |date=April 20, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090601053442/http://www.thebleumag.com/2009/03/bleu_critic_utada_this_is_the.html |archive-date=June 1, 2009 }}</ref> Michael Botsford of ''AudioScribbler'' said that the song is "cheesier than your local pizzeria's finest, but it knows it. It's a not a song that we warmed to, but I imagine every teenage girl in the country who's suffered a break up will well up at the eyes when they hear it."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.audioscribbler.co.uk/reviews/9906 |title=Utada - This Is The One |work=AudioScribbler |last=Botsford |first=Michael |access-date=May 7, 2009 |date=March 26, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422053000/http://www.audioscribbler.co.uk/reviews/9906 |archive-date=April 22, 2009 }}</ref>
==Chart performance==
The single entered the [[Pop 100 Airplay|''Billboard'' Pop 100 Airplay]] and [[Hot Dance Club Play]] chart on the issue date of March 28, 2009 at number 75 and number  43 respectively. The single peaked at number 69 and number 5 on their respective charts.<ref>{{cite magazine|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=utada|chart=Pop 100 Airplay}}|title=Pop 100 Airplay week of April 11, 2009|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=May 7, 2009}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref><ref name="hdcp">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/2009-05-09/dance-club-play-songs |title=Hot Dance Club Play week of May 9, 2009 |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |access-date=May 7, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226174815/http://www.billboard.com/charts/2009-05-09/dance-club-play-songs |archive-date=December 26, 2013 }}</ref> On the [[Pop 100|''Billboard'' Pop 100]] chart, the single debuted at number 93 on the issue date of April 11, 2009.<ref name="pop100">{{cite magazine|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=utada|chart=Pop 100}}|title=Pop 100 week of April 11, 2009|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=May 7, 2009}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> On the issue date of May 9, 2009, "Come Back to Me" entered the [[Rhythmic Airplay Chart]] at number 39.<ref name="rhythmic">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=378&cfgn=Singles&cfn=Rhythmic+Top+40&ci=3107968&cdi=10192023&cid=05/09/2009|title=Rhythmic Top 40 week of May 9, 2009|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=May 7, 2009}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} </ref>
==Music video==
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The music video for "Come Back to Me" was directed by [[Anthony Mandler]] and was filmed in two days, January 27 and 28, 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bluewin.ch/fr/index.php/680/?id=7733|title=Hikaru Utada: "This Is The One" avec "Come Back To Me"|publisher=[[Swisscom]]|access-date=May 7, 2009|language=sv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706222902/http://www.bluewin.ch/fr/index.php/680/?id=7733|archive-date=2011-07-06|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=443472705&blogID=467774845|title=This is Utada|publisher=[[MySpace]]|access-date=May 7, 2009|date=January 31, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090204150859/http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=443472705&blogID=467774845|archive-date=2009-02-04|url-status=dead}}</ref> The theme of the video comes from the fashion style of the 1920s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gossipgirls.com/node/270498|title=Utada Interview with Gossip Girls|publisher=[[Gossip Girls]]|access-date=May 7, 2009}}</ref> The video premiered on February 27, 2009.
The video starts with Utada playing a [[Vox (musical equipment)|Vox]] piano. As she sings she reminisces on the times shared with her ex-boyfriend.
==Track listing==
{{tracklist
| headline = iTunes track listing (Single)
| title1 = Come Back to Me
| length1 = 3:57
}}
{{tracklist
| headline = iTunes track listing (Remixes)
| title1 = Come Back to Me ([[Tony Moran|Tony Moran & Warren Rigg]] Club Mix)
| length1 = 9:12
| title2 = Come Back to Me (Tony Moran & Warren Rigg Radio Edit)
| length2 = 4:31
| title3 = Come Back to Me ([[Seamus Haji|Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel]] Club Mix)
| length3 = 8:19
| title4 = Come Back to Me (Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Radio Edit
| length4 = 4:03
| title5 = Come Back to Me (Tony Moran & Warren Rigg Dub)
| length5 = 8:07
}}
'''Other versions'''
* "Come Back to Me (Instrumental)" (3:57)
* "Come Back to Me ([[Quentin Harris]] Radio Edit)" (4:24)
* "Come Back to Me (Quentin Harris Club Mix)" (8:03)
* "Come Back to Me (Quentin Harris Dub)" (8:01)
* "Come Back to Me ([[Mike Rizzo]] Radio Edit)" (3:15)
* "Come Back to Me (Mike Rizzo Funk Generation Club Mix)" (7:57) - Mike Rizzo also produced this mix, however it wasn't officially released, so was leaked by Rizzo himself.
# Both "Come Back to Me (Seamus Haji & Paul Emanuel Radio Edit)" and "Come Back to Me (Quentin Harris Radio Edit)" were featured as bonus tracks on the Japanese release of ''This Is the One''.
# "Come Back to Me (Tony Moran & Warren Rigg Radio Edit)" was featured on Utada's first English compilation album, ''[[Utada the Best]]''.
==Charts==
===Weekly charts===
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{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|-
! scope="col"| Chart (2009)
! scope="col"| Peak<br/>position
|-
! scope="row"| Japan ([[Japan Hot 100]])<ref>{{cite AV media |url=https://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=hot100&year=2009&month=03&day=23 |title=Japan Hot 100 Singles week of March 20, 2009 |date=March 18, 2009 |publisher=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |access-date=February 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419175417/https://www.billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=hot100&year=2009&month=03&day=23 |archive-date=April 19, 2023 |url-status=live |via=}}</ref>
| 3
|-
! scope="row"| Japan [[RIAJ Digital Track Chart|Digital Track Chart]] (''[[Recording Industry Association of Japan|RIAJ]]'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://satsuki.musicdb.gr.jp/all_info/ranking_weekly/WeeklyRankingAction.do?term=2009f&weeklyCd=20090421&rankKbn=50 |title=レコード協会調べ 2009年04月15日～2009年04月21日 ＜略称：レコ協チャート（「着うたフル(R)」）＞ |date=2010-04-24 |publisher=[[RIAJ]] |access-date=2010-09-17 |language=Japanese |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722105944/http://satsuki.musicdb.gr.jp/all_info/ranking_weekly/WeeklyRankingAction.do?term=2009f&weeklyCd=20090421&rankKbn=50 |archive-date=2011-07-22 }}</ref>
| 32
|-
! scope="row"| Japan [[List of number one Reco-kyō Chart singles 2006–09|Reco-kyō]] Ringtones (''[[Recording Industry Association of Japan|RIAJ]]'')<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/chart/w090320_1.html |title=レコード協会調べ 2月度有料音楽配信チャート（「着うた（R）」）＜略称：2月度レコ協チャート（「着うた（R）」）＞ |date=2010-03-10 |publisher=[[RIAJ]] |access-date=2010-09-17 |language=Japanese|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326054701/http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/chart/w090320_1.html|archive-date=March 26, 2009}}</ref>
| 34
|-
{{single chart|Billboarddanceairplay|11|artist=Hikaru Utada|rowheader=true|accessdate=February 10, 2020|refname="danceairplaychart"}}
|-
{{single chart|Billboarddanceclubplay|5|artist=Hikaru Utada|rowheader=true|accessdate=February 10, 2020|refname="danceclubplaychart"}}
|-
! scope="row"| US [[Billboard charts#Discontinued charts|Global Dance Tracks]] (''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'')<ref>[{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=utada|chart=Global Dance Tracks}} ]{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref>
| 28
|-
! scope="row"| US [[Pop 100]] (''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'')<ref name="pop100" />
| 69
|-
{{singlechart|Billboardrhythmic|39|artist=Hikaru Utada|accessdate=February 10, 2020|rowheader=true}}
|}
===Certification===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Chart
!Amount
|-
|''RIAJ'' full-length cellphone downloads<ref>{{cite web | script-title=ja:レコード協会調べ 5月度有料音楽配信認定 ＜略称：5月度認定＞ | url=http://www.riaj.or.jp/data/others/chart/w090620.html | work=[[RIAJ]] |language=Japanese | date=2010-06-20 | access-date=2010-09-17}}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"|100,000+
|}
==Release history==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Region
! Date
! Format
|-
|rowspan="2"|Japan
||January 21, 2009
||[[Airplay (radio)|Airplay]]
|-
|| February 18, 2009
||Digital Download
|-
|| United States
|| February 10, 2009
|| Airplay, [[Music download|Digital Download]]
|}
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==References==
{{Reflist|2}}
{{Hikaru Utada songs}}
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[[Category:2009 singles]]
[[Category:Hikaru Utada songs]]
[[Category:Music videos directed by Anthony Mandler]]
[[Category:Songs written by Hikaru Utada]]
[[Category:2009 songs]]
[[Category:Songs written by Mikkel Storleer Eriksen]]
[[Category:Songs written by Tor Erik Hermansen]]
[[Category:Song recordings produced by Stargate (record producers)]]
[[Category:Contemporary R&B ballads]]
[[Category:Pop ballads]]