Heavy Gauge

Heavy Gauge

Infobox Album | Name = Heavy Gauge
Type = studio
Artist = Glay


Caption = Heavy Gauge's cover design was striking in that it glowed in the dark.
Released = October 20 1999
Recorded =
Genre = Japanese rock/pop
Length = 65:35
Label = Pony Canon/PolyGram
Mustard/Unlimited Records
Producer = Masahide Sakuma
Glay
Last album = pure soul
(1998)
This album = "Heavy Gauge"
(1999) | Next album = "Glay Drive ~complete best~"
(2000)
Misc = Singles
Name = Heavy Gauge
Type = studio
single 1 = Be With You
single 1 date = November 25 1998
single 2 = Winter, Again
single 2 date = February 3 1999
single 3 = Survival Survival was the very first video single Glay released.]
single 3 date = May 19 1999
single 4 = koko dewanai, dokoka e
single 4 date = August 8 1999
single 5 = Happiness | single 5 date = January 1 2000

Heavy Gauge is the 5th released album from the Japanese rock band Glay. In this album Glay dabbles in the gospel genre for the first time, using Gospel choirs in songs such as "Will Be King" and "Happiness". This album also marks a milestone in Glay's career with their hit song "Winter, Again". The song won Single of the Year (1999) at the Japan Record Award. Many songs from the album were used in the Meiji Seika Kaisha advertising campaigns for their "Horn" and "Flan" product food lines. The album reached #1 on Oricon charts and sold about 2,370,000.

Track listing

#Heavy Gauge
#Fatsounds
#Survival
#nihongo|koko dewanai, dokoka e|ここではない、どこかへ (Translation: If not here, then where)
#happiness
#summer FM
#Level Devil
#Be With You
#Winter, Again
#Will Be King
#ikigai (生きがい)
#Savile Row -Savile ROW 3 banchi- (Savile Row -サヴィルロウ　３番地-)

Album chart information

Oricon Top Ranking: #1
Weeks on: 19
Overall Glay Ranking: #4
(NOTE: Overall Glay Ranking is how it is ranked against Glay's other albums according to the Oricon)

References

External links

* [http://www.oricon.co.jp/artists/9010/ Oricon] - Glay's profile on the Oricon
* [http://www.glay.co.jp/ HAPPY SWING SPACE SITE] - Official Site


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