''Chubby Groove'' is a collaborative studio album by Japanese singer

Koshi Inaba (born September 23, 1964 in Tsuyama, Okayama) is a Japanese vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. He is best known as the singer and lyricist of the rock duo B'z, the best-selling music act in their native Japan. He has also had a su ...

, of

B'z are a Japanese rock duo, consisting of guitarist, composer and producer Takahiro "Tak" Matsumoto and vocalist and lyricist Koshi Inaba, 佐伯明『B'z ウルトラクロニクル』ソニー・マガジンズ、2003年。新型光�B'zはな� ...

fame, and Native American musician

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. It was released by

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on January 18, 2017.

Overview

The album debuted at #2 at the Japanese

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 and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in N ...

weekly album charts, while #2 at Top Albums Sales and #4 Hot Albums chart list by ''

Billboard Japan ''Billboard Japan'' is a sister organization of the U.S.-based music magazine '' Billboard''. It is operated by the Japanese Osaka-based company Hanshin Contents Link (a subsidiary of Hanshin Electric Railway is a Japanese private railway compa ...

''. It also reached #44 at the ''Billboard Japan'' Top Albums Sales Year End 2017, and #47 at Oricon's year end chart, being certified Gold by

RIAJ The is an industry trade group composed of Japanese corporations involved in the music industry. It was founded in 1942 as the Japan Phonogram Record Cultural Association, and adopted its current name in 1969. The RIAJ's activities include ...

. The song "Overdrive" was used in Japan in a commercial for the new

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and "Trophy" was the image song for the 2017 Wowow Tennis Season. "Aishi-Aisare" peaked at #62 in the

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chart, spending one week there.

Track listing

Personnel

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lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of th ...

, lyrics,

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

on "Sayonara River",

Pow wow A powwow (also pow wow or pow-wow) is a gathering with dances held by many Native American and First Nations communities. Powwows today allow Indigenous people to socialize, dance, sing, and honor their cultures. Powwows may be private or p ...

drums and

backing vocal A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...

s on "Trophy" *

–

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected string ...

, music, keyboards on "Sayonara River" and "Error Message", backing vocals on tracks 8, 10 and 12, drums and percussion on "Blink" and "Trophy", pow wow drums on "Trophy"

Additional personnel

;Backing vocals *

Bernard Fowler Bernard Fowler (born January 2, 1960) is an American musician. He is known for a long association with The Rolling Stones, providing backing vocals since 1989 and on their studio recordings and live tours. Fowler has been a featured guest vocal ...

on "Shirase" and "Nishi-Higashi" *

Luis Montalbert-Smith Luis Montalbert-Smith Echeverría (22 May 1975) is a Costa Rican American-born musician. Is the lead singer and co-founder of the Costa Rican rock music group Gandhi. Early life Luis Montalbert-Smith was born on 22 May 1975 in Washington DC, ...

on tracks 8, 10 and 12 * ao on "Marie" *

Parthenon Huxley Parthenon Huxley (born January 19, 1956) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and producer who is known for his solo albums and for his involvement in ELO Part II and The Orchestra, both of which are latter-day offshoots of the 1970s-80s ...

on "Blink" * Rob Lamothe,

Taylor Hawkins Oliver Taylor Hawkins (February 17, 1972 – March 25, 2022) was an American musician, best known as the drummer of the rock band Foo Fighters, with whom he recorded eight studio albums between 1999 and 2021. Before joining the band in 1997, he ...

, Adrian Harjo and

Logan Staats Logan Staats is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. Staats achieved mainstream success throughout 2018, and in 2019, off his win on the first season of CTV's '' The Launch''. He is best known for his single, "The Lucky Ones" which hit numb ...

on "Trophy" ;Additional guitars *Nard Berings on "Aishi-Aisare" *

Tim Palmer Timothy J. Palmer (born 4 October 1962, in North Shields) is an English record producer, audio engineer, guitarist and songwriter of rock and alternative music. He mixed Pearl Jam's debut album ''Ten'' (1991) and tracks on U2's album ''All Tha ...

on tracks 4, 6 and 10 *

Federico Miranda Federico Miranda (born January 20, 1976, in San Jose, Costa Rica) is the guitarist for the Costa Rican music group Gandhi. Early life When growing up, the young Miranda was always surrounded by music, his sister played the organ and his uncles ...

on "Blink" ;

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Armand Sabal-Lecco Armand Sabal-Lecco is a Cameroonian bass guitarist, composer and multi-instrumentalist best known for playing bass-guitar on Paul Simon's The Rhythm of the Saint's tour in 1989. Sabal-Lecco has worked with Paul Simon, the Brecker Brothers, Her ...

on tracks 2, 3, 6 and 7 * Shawn Davis on "Shirase" and "Marie" *

Juan Alderete Juan Alderete de la Peña (born September 5, 1963) is an American musician, best known as the longtime bassist of Racer X, the Mars Volta and Marilyn Manson. Biography Alderete was born in Los Angeles, California the fourth of five children. ...

on "Kunou no Hate no Sore mo Kotae no Hitotsu" *

Abel Guier Abel Guier is the bass guitarist for the Costa Rican music group Gandhi and Mimayato. Abel joined Gandhi in 1996, before the recording of their first album ''El Jardín del Corazón''. He knew the rest of the band from their highschool years ...

on "Blink" * Dorian Heartsong and

Stuart Zender Stuart Patrick Jude Zender (born 18 March 1974) is an English bassist. He is best known as a former member of the band Jamiroquai. Biography Early life Zender was born in Sheffield, England. He comes from a family with a musical background: ...

on "Trophy" ;

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and

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

Matt Sherrod Matthew Sherrod (born 11 July 1968) is an American drummer, musician, and a former member of the band Crowded House. Sherrod first became known as a musician playing drums for rock artist Beck. In 2007, following the 2005 death of Crowded House's ...

on tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 and 11,

Glockenspiel The glockenspiel ( or , : bells and : set) or bells is a percussion instrument consisting of pitched aluminum or steel bars arranged in a keyboard layout. This makes the glockenspiel a type of metallophone, similar to the vibraphone. The ...

on "My Heart Your Heart" * Mark Shulman on "Aishi-Aisare" *

Massimo Hernandez Gandhi is a Costa Rican rock band, formed in 1993, characterized for mixing diverse influences ranging from hard rock to Latin rhythms. Playing to audiences in Central America, Mexico, USA and the UK, sharing stage with Sting, Aerosmith and Deep ...

and

Matt Sorum Matthew William Sorum (born November 19, 1960) is an American drummer. He is best known as both a former member of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he recorded three studio albums, and as a member of the supergroup Velvet Revolver. ...

on "Blink" *

on "Blink" and "Trophy", rock drums on "Trophy" *

Steve Ferrone Steve Ferrone (born 25 April 1950) is an English drummer. He is known as a member of the rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from 1994 to 2017, replacing original drummer Stan Lynch, and as part of the "classic lineup" of the Average Wh ...

– drums on "Shirase" * David Leach – percussion on "Shirase" *

Denny Seiwell Denny Seiwell (born July 10, 1943) is an American drummer and a founding member of Wings. He also drummed for Billy Joel and Liza Minnelli and played in the scores for the films ''Waterworld'', ''Grease II'', and '' Vertical Limit''. His drum ...

– percussion on "Nishi-Higashi" * Adrian Harjo and

– pow wow drums on "Trophy" ;

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Amp Fiddler Joseph Anthony "Amp" Fiddler is an American singer, songwriter, keyboardist, and record producer from Detroit, Michigan. His musical styles include funk, soul, dance and electronica music. He is probably best known for his contributions to the ...

on tracks 1, 2, 6, 8 and 9 *Hideyuki Terachi on "Sayonara River" and "Error Message" *Lou Pomanti on tracks 5, 7, 9, 11 and 12 *

on "Error Message" and "My Heart Your Heart" *Ricky Peterson on "Nishi-Hiashi" *

and

on "Blink" ;Other musicians * Hideyuki Terachi – pre-production programming * Nard Berings – electronic treatment on tracks 1, 3, 7 and 12, programming on "Aishi-Aisare" *

– electronic treatment on "Nishi Shigashi", programming * Lou Pomanti – electronic treatment on "Blink" * Jean Marie Horvat –

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on "My Heart Your Heart"

Technical personnel

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– production *

– mixing,

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* Justin Shturtz – mastering * Alberto Oritz – engineering * Erich Gobel – engineering * ET Thorngren – engineering * Hiroyuki Kobayashi – engineering * Mark Williams – engineering * Misha Pecheco – engineering * Rob Lamothe – engineering * Nard Berings – engineering * Dorian Heartsong – engineering *

– engineering *

– engineering * Lou Pomanti – engineering

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

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