Chubby Groove is a collaborative studio album by Japanese singer Koshi Inaba, of B'z fame, and Native American musician Stevie Salas. It was released by Vermillion Records on January 18, 2017.
Overview The album debuted at #2 at the Japanese Oricon weekly album charts, while #2 at Top Albums Sales and #4 Hot Albums chart list by Billboard Japan. 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 song "Overdrive" was used in Japan in a commercial for the new Porsche Panamera and "Trophy" was the image song for the 2017 Wowow Tennis Season. "Aishi-Aisare" peaked at #62 in the Japan Hot 100 Singles chart, spending one week there.
Track listing
Personnel Koshi Inaba – lead vocals, lyrics, acoustic guitar on "Sayonara River", Pow wow drums and backing vocals on "Trophy" Stevie Salas – guitar, 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 on "Shirase" and "Nishi-Higashi" Luis Montalbert-Smith on tracks 8, 10 and 12 ao on "Marie" Parthenon Huxley on "Blink" Rob Lamothe, Taylor Hawkins, Adrian Harjo and Logan Staats on "Trophy"
Additional guitars Nard Berings on "Aishi-Aisare" Tim Palmer on tracks 4, 6 and 10 Federico Miranda on "Blink"
Bass Armand Sabal-Lecco on tracks 2, 3, 6 and 7 Shawn Davis on "Shirase" and "Marie" Juan Alderete on "Kunou no Hate no Sore mo Kotae no Hitotsu" Abel Guier on "Blink" Dorian Heartsong and Stuart Zender on "Trophy"
Drums and percussion Matt Sherrod on tracks 1–3, 6–8 and 11, Glockenspiel on "My Heart Your Heart" Mark Shulman on "Aishi-Aisare" Massimo Hernandez and Matt Sorum on "Blink" Taylor Hawkins on "Blink" and "Trophy", rock drums on "Trophy" Steve Ferrone – drums on "Shirase" David Leach – percussion on "Shirase" Denny Seiwell – percussion on "Nishi-Higashi" Adrian Harjo and Logan Staats – pow wow drums on "Trophy"
Keyboards Amp Fiddler 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 Matt Sherrod on "Error Message" and "My Heart Your Heart" Ricky Peterson on "Nishi-Hiashi" Luis Montalbert-Smith and Tim Palmer on "Blink"
Other musicians Hideyuki Terachi – pre-production programming Nard Berings – electronic treatment on tracks 1, 3, 7 and 12, programming on "Aishi-Aisare" Matt Sherrod – electronic treatment on "Nishi Shigashi", programming Lou Pomanti – electronic treatment on "Blink" Jean Marie Horvat – heartbeat on "My Heart Your Heart"
Technical personnel Koshi Inaba – production Stevie Salas – production Tim Palmer – mixing, engineering 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 Stuart Zender – engineering Matt Sherrod – engineering Lou Pomanti – engineering
Charts
Weekly charts Chart (2017)PeakpositionJapanese Albums (Oricon)2Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan)4
Year-end charts Chart (2017)Position Japanese Albums (Oricon) 47 Japanese Albums (Billboard Japan) 44
Certifications
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