Face My Fears

"Face My Fears" is a song by Japanese singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada and American musician Skrillex, released on January 18, 2019, by Epic Records Japan. Along with its English-language counterpart, it serves as the opening theme song to the Square Enix video game "Kingdom Hearts III". It was written as a collaboration between Utada, producer Skrillex, and R&B songwriter Poo Bear.
The song was released in both English and Japanese versions, alongside "Chikai" (which was previously released in her seventh Japanese album "Hatsukoi") and its English counterpart, "Don't Think Twice", as a CD single on January 18, 2019, making it her first release on the format in eleven years since her 2008 single "Prisoner of Love". It is also her first release with original English songs since "This Is the One" in 2009.
Composition.
Utada requested that the producer Skrillex produce a remix of the song "Chikai" for "Kingdom Hearts III", 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 Poo Bear 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 her first Hot 100 entry. The song sold 10,000 pure downloads and had 2.5 million streams in the first week in the US.