However (song)

This article is about the song. For the adverb, see wikt:however.

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
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)

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

1. However
2. I'm Yours