Summerdelics

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Summerdelics
Summerdelics.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 12, 2017
Genre Pop rock
Length62:41 (regular edition)
Label Pony Canyon
Producer Glay and Seiji Kameda
Glay chronology
Music Life
(2014)
Summerdelics
(2017)
No Democracy
(2019)

Summerdelics is the fourteenth studio album by Japanese pop rock band Glay, released on July 12, 2017. It was released in three versions: the regular edition with the album, a special edition with the album and two live DVDs, and another special edition with the album, four live albums and three blue rays. [1]

Contents

It sold over 53,000 copies within less than a week, [2] debuting at #1 both at the Oricon weekly charts and the Billboard Japan Top Albums Sales, staying in the former for 5 weeks and in the latter for 9. [3] [4] In the end of the year, it reached #51 at the Billboard Japan Top Albums Sales Year End 2017 [5] and #58 at Oricon's. [6]

Several songs of the album were used way ahead of its release date in anime, TV series and sports events. "Deathtopia" was released as a single on August 3, 2016, and both the song and its b-side "Chou Onsoku Desutini" (which is also the album's fourth track) were used as the opening themes of the anime Kuromukuro . [7] "Sora ga Aozora de Aru Tame ni" was also used as an opening theme for an anime: Ace of Diamond . [8] " The Other End of the Globe" was used as the opening theme for Netflix's Final Fantasy XIV: Daddy of Light. [9] "Scoop" was used as the ending theme of TV Asahi's Onegai! Ranking. [10]

"XYZ" was composed for the TV commercial of the Chiba leg of the 2017 Red Bull Air Race World Championship. [11] "Long Run" was used as the official song of the 2017 Hokkaido Marathon. [12] Also, "Supernova Express 2017" is a new version of the previously released song "Supernova Express 2016", which was used as the image song of Hokkaido Railway Company's Hokkaido Shinkansen. [13]

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Sin Zombie (シン・ゾンビ)" Hisashi Hisashi3:54
2."Binetsu Agirl Summer (微熱Ⓐgirlサマー)"HisashiHisashi3:54
3."XYZ" Takuro Takuro3:15
4."Chou Onsoku Destiny (超音速デスティニー)"HisashiHisashi4:32
5."Long Run (ロングラン, Rongu Ran)"TakuroTakuro5:25
6."The Other End of the Globe" Teru, TakuroTeru4:46
7."Deathtopia (デストピア, Desutopia)"HisashiHisashi3:59
8."Heroes"TeruTeru4:14
9."Summerdelics"Takuro Jiro 4:10
10."Sora ga Aozora de Aru Tame ni (空が青空であるために)"TeruTeru4:06
11."Scoop"TakuroJiro3:32
12."Seija no Inai Machi (聖者のいない町)"TakuroTakuro6:42
13."Supernova Express 2017"TakuroTakuro4:40
14."Lifetime"JiroJiro5:32
Total length:62:41

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