Winter, Again

1999 single by Glay

"Winter, Again"

Single by Glay

from the album Heavy Gauge

Released

February 3, 1999

Genre

Alternative rock

Length

5:13

Label

Mustard/Unlimited

Producer(s)

Glay, Masahide Sakuma

Glay singles chronology

"'Be with You'"
(1998)

"Winter, Again"
(1999)

"'Survival'"
(1999)

"Winter, Again" is the 16th single by Japanese band Glay. It reached #1 on the weekly Oricon charts and sold 1,638,120 copies in 1999, becoming the #2 single of the year. It charted for 18 weeks and sold a total of 1,642,530 copies, becoming Glay's best selling single. The title song was used as the East Japan Railway "SKI SKI" CM song.

Awards

Grand Prize winner at the "32nd Japan Cable Broadcast Awards"^[1]
41st Annual Japan Record Awards "Grand Prix" ^[2]

Covers by other musicians

Glay's song "Winter, Again" was covered by 12012 on the compilation Crush! -90's V-Rock Best Hit Cover Songs-. The album was released on January 26, 2011, and features current visual kei bands covering songs from bands that were important to the '90s visual kei movement.^[3]

Track list

Winter, Again
Young Oh! Oh!
Hello My Life
Winter, Again (instrumental)

References

^ "Nihon Yusen Taisho" (in Japanese).
^ "第41回日本レコード大賞 (The 41st annual Japanese record prize)". jacompa.or.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 2011-03-06.
^ "12012 covers Winter, Again". jame-world.com. Retrieved 2011-03-02.