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.

"However"
Single by Glay
from the album Review
ReleasedAugust 6, 1997
GenrePop rock, power pop, progressive rock
LabelPlatinum Records
Producer(s)Glay, Masahide Sakuma
Glay singles chronology
"'Kuchibiru'"
(1997)
"However"
(1997)
"'Yuuwaku'"
(1998)

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.

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Covers by other musicians

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"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

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  1. However
  2. I'm Yours

References

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  1. ^ "Nihon Yusen Taisho" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2009-01-04.
  2. ^ "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.