However is the 12th single release by Japanese band Glay

Glay

Glay is a rock/pop band from Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan formed by guitarist Takuro and vocalist Teru in high school in 1988. Glay primarily composes songs in the rock and pop genres, but they have also composed songs using elements of different styles such as reggae and gospel...

 on August 6, 1997. It debuted at #1 on the Oricon

Oricon

, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...

 chart, appearing at that position for 5 weeks in total, selling 1,341,980 copies.

The title song was used as 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

• Grand Prize winner at the "30th Japan Cable Broadcast Awards"
• 39th Annual Japan Record Awards "Excellent work prize"

Covers by other musicians

"However" has been recorded by Kiyoshi Maekawa

Kiyoshi Maekawa

is a Japanese singer and tarento.He is best known as the first lead vocalist of Hiroshi Uchiyamada and Cool Five, which was formed in 1967 and debuted in 1969 with the Japan Record Award-winning song "Nagasaki wa Kyō mo Ame Datta"...

 in his album Ballad Selection, in 1999, and by Ayumi Nakamura in her album Voice, in 2008.