However (song)
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{{Infobox song
| name = However
| cover = Glay - However.jpg
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| type = single
| artist = Glay
| album = Review
| released = August 6, 1997
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| genre = Pop rock, power pop, progressive rock
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| label = Platinum Records
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| producer = Glay, Masahide Sakuma
| prev_title = 'Kuchibiru'
| prev_year = 1997
| next_title = 'Yuuwaku'
| next_year = 1998
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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 {{nihongo|"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"{{cite web| url=http://www.cansystem.info/taisho/index.html| title=Nihon Yusen Taisho| language=Japanese| access-date=2009-01-04| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165600/http://www.cansystem.info/taisho/index.html| archive-date=2016-03-03| url-status=dead}}
- 39th Annual Japan Record Awards "Excellent work prize" {{cite web|url=http://www.jacompa.or.jp/rekishi/d1997.htm |title=第39回日本レコード大賞 (The 39th annual Japanese record prize) |work=jacompa.or.jp |accessdate=2008-01-01 |language=Japanese |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071219044647/http://www.jacompa.or.jp/rekishi/d1997.htm |archivedate=2007-12-19 }}
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
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Category:Oricon Weekly number-one singles
Category:Japanese television drama theme songs
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