"Winter, Again" is the 16th single by Japanese band

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. It reached #1 on the weekly

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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" *41st Annual Japan Record Awards "Grand Prix"

Covers by other musicians

Glay's song "Winter, Again" was covered by

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on the compilation ''Crush! -90's V-Rock Best Hit Cover Songs-''. The album was released on January 26, 2011, and features current

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bands covering songs from bands that were important to the '90s visual kei movement.

Track list

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

References

1999 singles Oricon Weekly number-one singles 1999 songs Glay songs Song articles with missing songwriters {{1990s-Japan-single-stub