Chubby Groove Explained

Chubby Groove
Type:	studio album
Artist:	Inaba/Salas
Cover:	Chubby_groove.jpg
Released:	January 18, 2017^[1]
Genre:	Dance-rock, pop rock, funk rock, alternative rock, hard rock
Length:	45:31
Label:	Vermillion
Producer:	Koshi Inaba & Stevie Salas

Chubby Groove is a collaborative studio album by Japanese singer Koshi Inaba, of B'z fame, and Native American musician Stevie Salas. It was released by Vermillion Records on January 18, 2017.

Overview

The album debuted at #2 at the Japanese Oricon weekly album charts,^[2] while #2 at Top Albums Sales and #4 Hot Albums chart list by Billboard Japan.^{[3] [4]} It also reached #44 at the Billboard Japan Top Albums Sales Year End 2017,^[5] and #47 at Oricon's year end chart,^[6] being certified Gold by RIAJ.^[7]

The song "Overdrive" was used in Japan in a commercial for the new Porsche Panamera^[8] and "Trophy" was the image song for the 2017 Wowow Tennis Season.^[9] "Aishi-Aisare" peaked at #62 in the Japan Hot 100 Singles chart, spending one week there.^[10]

Personnel

• Koshi Inaba – lead vocals, lyrics, acoustic guitar on "Sayonara River", Pow wow drums and backing vocals on "Trophy"
• Stevie Salas – guitar, music, keyboards on "Sayonara River" and "Error Message", backing vocals on tracks 8, 10 and 12, drums and percussion on "Blink" and "Trophy", pow wow drums on "Trophy"

Additional personnel

Backing vocals

• Bernard Fowler on "Shirase" and "Nishi-Higashi"
• Luis Montalbert-Smith on tracks 8, 10 and 12
• ao on "Marie"
• Parthenon Huxley on "Blink"
• Rob Lamothe, Taylor Hawkins, Adrian Harjo and Logan Staats on "Trophy"

Additional guitars

• Nard Berings on "Aishi-Aisare"
• Tim Palmer on tracks 4, 6 and 10
• Federico Miranda on "Blink"

Bass

• Armand Sabal-Lecco on tracks 2, 3, 6 and 7
• Shawn Davis on "Shirase" and "Marie"
• Juan Alderete on "Kunou no Hate no Sore mo Kotae no Hitotsu"
• Abel Guier on "Blink"
• Dorian Heartsong and Stuart Zender on "Trophy"

Drums and percussion

• Matt Sherrod on tracks 1–3, 6–8 and 11, Glockenspiel on "My Heart Your Heart"
• Mark Shulman on "Aishi-Aisare"
• Massimo Hernandez and Matt Sorum on "Blink"
• Taylor Hawkins on "Blink" and "Trophy", rock drums on "Trophy"
• Steve Ferrone – drums on "Shirase"
• David Leach – percussion on "Shirase"
• Denny Seiwell – percussion on "Nishi-Higashi"
• Adrian Harjo and Logan Staats – pow wow drums on "Trophy"

Keyboards

• Amp Fiddler on tracks 1, 2, 6, 8 and 9
• Hideyuki Terachi on "Sayonara River" and "Error Message"
• Lou Pomanti on tracks 5, 7, 9, 11 and 12
• Matt Sherrod on "Error Message" and "My Heart Your Heart"
• Ricky Peterson on "Nishi-Hiashi"
• Luis Montalbert-Smith and Tim Palmer on "Blink"

Other musicians

• Hideyuki Terachi – pre-production programming
• Nard Berings – electronic treatment on tracks 1, 3, 7 and 12, programming on "Aishi-Aisare"
• Matt Sherrod – electronic treatment on "Nishi Shigashi", programming
• Lou Pomanti – electronic treatment on "Blink"
• Jean Marie Horvat – heartbeat on "My Heart Your Heart"

Technical personnel

• Koshi Inaba – production
• Stevie Salas – production
• Tim Palmer – mixing, engineering
• Justin Shturtz – mastering
• Alberto Oritz – engineering
• Erich Gobel – engineering
• ET Thorngren – engineering
• Hiroyuki Kobayashi – engineering
• Mark Williams – engineering
• Misha Pecheco – engineering
• Rob Lamothe – engineering
• Nard Berings – engineering
• Dorian Heartsong – engineering
• Stuart Zender – engineering
• Matt Sherrod – engineering
• Lou Pomanti – engineering

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2017)	Peak position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[11]	2
Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan)	4

Year-end charts

Chart (2017)	Position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)	47
Japanese Albums (Billboard Japan)	44

Notes and References

1. Web site: Chubby Groove. iTunes Store. Apple Inc. 10 January 2018.
2. Web site: オリコン週間 CDアルバムランキング 2017年01月09日～2017年01月15日. Oricon. 10 January 2018.
3. Web site: Top Albums Sales - 2017 January 30. Billboard Japan. 18 November 2018.
4. Web site: Hot Albums - 2017 January 30. Billboard Japan. 18 November 2018.
5. Web site: Billboard Japan Top Albums Sales Year End 2017. Billboard Japan. 10 January 2018.
6. Web site: CDアルバムランキング - 2017年度. Oricon. 10 January 2018.
7. Web site: ゴールド等認定作品一覧　2017年3月. RIAJ. 18 November 2018. Japanese.
8. Web site: B’z稲葉浩志×PORSCHE、コラボによるスペシャルムービー公開. Barks. 12 January 2018. Japanese. 14 January 2017.
9. Web site: B'z稲葉×錦織圭、テニスについて語り合う特番がWOWOWで. Natalie. Natasha, Inc.. 12 January 2018. Japanese. 7 December 2016.
10. Web site: Inaba/Salas - Chart History. https://web.archive.org/web/20180509095051/https://www.billboard.com/music/inaba-salas/chart-history/japan-hot-100/song/1012012. dead. May 9, 2018. Billboard. Eldridge Industries. 12 January 2018.
11. Web site: CHUBBY GROOVE INABA/SALAS . 2023-01-22 . ORICON NEWS . Japanese.