QOOPIE's Timeout Song for Altiri Chiba Gets October 21 Release
The release turns a venue-only cue into a wide distribution, the step that carries a club's in-arena identity beyond the home games where it was heard.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Altiri Chiba, a men's professional basketball club in the B.LEAGUE, is using "CLUTCH," a new song written for the club by the band QOOPIE, as its timeout song at home games for the 2026-27 season. The track goes to streaming and major download services including the iTunes Store, RecoChoku, and mora on Wednesday, October 21.
The song arrived through the dance team rather than the front office. In the 2025-26 season, Altiri Chiba's performance team Aills used QOOPIE's "Alaska" for its halftime routine, a performance that won the B.LEAGUE AWARD SHOW 2025-26 Best Performance Award. Members of the band visited home games afterward, and the club asked them to produce a timeout song for the 2026-27 season.
The four-member band formed in Nagoya in 2017. Its April 2026 release "FUNKHIGHWAY" is a full album, and the band handled the incidental music for the TV Tokyo drama 9 "Borders: Metropolitan Police Department Special Incident Response Team" in 2026.
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