"The First Time" is the eighth track from U2's 1993 album, Zooropa. It was never released as a single, although it features on the soundtrack to the 2000 The Million Dollar Hotel movie, and on the greatest hits album, The Best of 1990-2000. Bono says it is a version of the Biblical Prodigal Son who upon being received back into his father's home, decided he didn't like it and left again.

The song was never played live in its entirety until 2005, during the Vertigo Tour (it was snippeted several times in between "Bad" and "Bullet the Blue Sky" during the Zooropa leg of the Zoo TV Tour).

The First Time is a single by R&B/pop music trio, Surface that hit number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1991 for 2 weeks, the song also spent one week at number-one on the US R&B chart.

First Time is the first single to be released from Jebediah's fourth studio album Braxton Hicks. It was released on the 24 May 2004 and reached number 50 on the Australian ARIA Singles Charts.

"First Time" is the first single from Lifehouse's fourth studio album Who We Are.

On April 24, 2007, the band released the single to for radio airplay. Initially, the song played as an hourly feature on Star 98.7 in Los Angeles that day and was later released to general radio. The song debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 48 in May , peaking at number 26. It was #74 on MTV Asia 's list of Top 100 Hits of 2007.

"First Time" is singer Robin Beck's first significant chart hit, released in 1988. It was originally recorded for a Coca-Cola commercial the same year and subsequently released as a single. The single topped the UK singles chart for one week in November and also topped the chart in Germany a year later. It remains her signature song.

In 2006, Sunblock, an electronic music group from Sweden recorded a cover of the song with Robin Beck for their second single and it became their second Top 10 hit, charting at #9 on the UK Singles Chart (see 2006 in British music).