However (song) explained

However
Cover:Glay - However.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Glay
Album:Review
Released:August 6, 1997
Genre:Pop rock, power pop, progressive rock
Label:Platinum Records
Producer:Glay, Masahide Sakuma
Prev Title:'Kuchibiru'
Prev Year:1997
Next Title:'Yuuwaku'
Next Year: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 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

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

  1. However
  2. I'm Yours

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nihon Yusen Taisho. Japanese. 2009-01-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165600/http://www.cansystem.info/taisho/index.html. 2016-03-03. dead.
  2. Web site: 第39回日本レコード大賞 (The 39th annual Japanese record prize) . jacompa.or.jp . 2008-01-01 . Japanese . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20071219044647/http://www.jacompa.or.jp/rekishi/d1997.htm . 2007-12-19 .