However (song)

1997 single by Glay

"However"

Single by Glay

from the album Review

Released

August 6, 1997

Genre

Pop rock, power pop, progressive rock

Label

Platinum Records

Producer(s)

Glay, Masahide Sakuma

Glay singles chronology

"'Kuchibiru'"
(1997)

"However"
(1997)

"'Yuuwaku'"
(1998)

However is the 12th single release by Japanese band Glay on August 6, 1997. It debuted at #1 on the Oricon chart, appearing at that position for 5 weeks in total, selling 1,341,980 copies.

The title song was used as the ending song for the TV drama "Ryakudatsu Ai Abunai Onna" (略奪愛・アブない女, lit. "Despoiled Love: Dangerous Woman") aired on TBS channel, whose opening theme was another Glay song, "Freeze My Love", and all the music was instrumental versions of Glay's songs.

Awards

Grand Prize winner at the "30th Japan Cable Broadcast Awards"^[1]
39th Annual Japan Record Awards "Excellent work prize" ^[2]

Covers by other musicians

"However" has been recorded by Kiyoshi Maekawa in his album Ballad Selection, in 1999, and by Ayumi Nakamura in her album Voice, in 2008. Debbie Gibson recorded an English-language cover of the song in her 2010 Japan-only release Ms. Vocalist.

Track listing

However
I'm Yours

References

^ "Nihon Yusen Taisho" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2009-01-04.
^ "第39回日本レコード大賞 (The 39th annual Japanese record prize)". jacompa.or.jp (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-12-19. Retrieved 2008-01-01.