Chubby Groove

Chubby Groove
Chubby Groove
Studio album by Inaba/Salas
Released	January 18, 2017
Genre	Dance-rock, pop rock, funk rock, alternative rock, hard rock
Length	45:31
Label	Vermillion
Producer	Koshi Inaba & Stevie Salas
Koshi Inaba chronology
Stevie Salas chronology

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[edit]

The album debuted at #2 at the Japanese Oricon weekly album charts,^[2] while #2 at Top Albums Sales and #4 Hot Albums chart list by Billboard Japan.^[3]^[4] It also reached #44 at the Billboard Japan Top Albums Sales Year End 2017,^[5] and #47 at Oricon's year end chart,^[6] being certified Gold by RIAJ.^[7]

The song "Overdrive" was used in Japan in a commercial for the new Porsche Panamera^[8] and "Trophy" was the image song for the 2017 Wowow Tennis Season.^[9] "Aishi-Aisare" peaked at #62 in the Japan Hot 100 Singles chart, spending one week there.^[10]

Track listing[edit]

All lyrics are written by Koshi Inaba; all music is composed by Stevie Salas, except "Blink", co-written by Parthenon Huxley

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Sayonara River"	3:48
2.	"Overdrive"	3:12
3.	"Wabisabi"	3:14
4.	"Aishi-Aisare" (Love, Be Loved)	3:33
5.	"シラセ (Shirase)" (The News)	4:19
6.	"Error Message"	3:52
7.	"Nishi-Higashi" (East-West)	3:18
8.	"苦悩の果てのそれも答えのひとつ (Kunou no Hate no Sore mo Kotae no Hitotsu)" (What Lies at the End of Agony is Also an Answer)	3:29
9.	"Marie"	3:29
10.	"Blink"	4:53
11.	"My Heart Your Heart"	3:49
12.	"Trophy"	4:35
Total length:		45:31^[1]

Personnel[edit]

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[edit]

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, 2, 3, 6, 7, 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[edit]

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[edit]

Weekly charts[edit]

Chart (2017)	Peak position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[11]	2
Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan)^[4]	4

Year-end charts[edit]

Chart (2017)	Position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[6]	47
Japanese Albums (Billboard Japan)^[5]	44

Certifications[edit]


Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Japan (RIAJ)^[12]	Gold	100,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c "Chubby Groove". iTunes Store. Apple Inc. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
^ "オリコン週間 CDアルバムランキング 2017年01月09日～2017年01月15日". Oricon. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
^ "Top Albums Sales - 2017 January 30". Billboard Japan. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Hot Albums - 2017 January 30". Billboard Japan. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Billboard Japan Top Albums Sales Year End 2017". Billboard Japan. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
^ ^a ^b "CDアルバムランキング - 2017年度". Oricon. Retrieved 10 January 2018.
^ "ゴールド等認定作品一覧　2017年3月" (in Japanese). RIAJ. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
^ "B'z稲葉浩志×PORSCHE、コラボによるスペシャルムービー公開". Barks (in Japanese). 14 January 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
^ "B'z稲葉×錦織圭、テニスについて語り合う特番がWOWOWで". Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. 7 December 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
^ "Inaba/Salas - Chart History". Billboard. Eldridge Industries. Archived from the original on May 9, 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
^ "CHUBBY GROOVE | INABA/SALAS". ORICON NEWS (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-22.
^ "Japanese album certifications – Inaba/Salas – Chubby Groove" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan.

[iTunes-1] "Chubby Groove". iTunes Store. Apple Inc. Retrieved 10 January 2018.

[2] "オリコン週間 CDアルバムランキング 2017年01月09日～2017年01月15日". Oricon. Retrieved 10 January 2018.

[3] "Top Albums Sales - 2017 January 30". Billboard Japan. Retrieved 18 November 2018.

[:0-4] "Hot Albums - 2017 January 30". Billboard Japan. Retrieved 18 November 2018.

[:2-5] "Billboard Japan Top Albums Sales Year End 2017". Billboard Japan. Retrieved 10 January 2018.

[:1-6] "CDアルバムランキング - 2017年度". Oricon. Retrieved 10 January 2018.

[7] "ゴールド等認定作品一覧　2017年3月" (in Japanese). RIAJ. Retrieved 18 November 2018.

[8] "B'z稲葉浩志×PORSCHE、コラボによるスペシャルムービー公開". Barks (in Japanese). 14 January 2017. Retrieved 12 January 2018.

[9] "B'z稲葉×錦織圭、テニスについて語り合う特番がWOWOWで". Natalie (in Japanese). Natasha, Inc. 7 December 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2018.

[10] "Inaba/Salas - Chart History". Billboard. Eldridge Industries. Archived from the original on May 9, 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2018.

[11] "CHUBBY GROOVE | INABA/SALAS". ORICON NEWS (in Japanese). Retrieved 2023-01-22.

[JapanInaba/SalasChubby_GroovealbumCertRef-12] "Japanese album certifications – Inaba/Salas – Chubby Groove" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan.

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