Love Is Forever (Billy Ocean song)

"Love Is Forever"
Single by Billy Ocean
from the album Love Zone
Released 1986
Format 7", 12" single
Recorded 1985
Genre R&B, funk
Length 4:15
Label Jive
Songwriter(s) Wayne Anton Brathwaite, Barry James Eastmond, Billy Ocean
Producer(s) Barry Eastmond, Wayne Brathwaite
Billy Ocean singles chronology
"Love Zone"
(1986)		 "Love Is Forever"
(1986)		 "Love Really Hurts Without You"
(1986)

"Love Zone"
(1986)		 "Love Is Forever"
(1986)		 "Love Really Hurts Without You"
(1986 Dance Mix)
(1986)

"Love Is Forever" is the final track from Love Zone, the 1986 album by Billy Ocean. The song was written by Ocean along with Barry Eastmond and Wayne Braithwaite and was the last of his three number ones on the Adult Contemporary chart. "Love Is Forever" spent three weeks at number one and peaked at number sixteen on the Billboard Hot 100.[1] "Love Is Forever" also peaked at number ten on the soul chart.[2]

Chart performance

Chart (1986) Peak
position
Canadian Singles Chart 35
UK Singles Chart[3] 34
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 16
U.S. Billboard Hot Black Singles 10
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary 1

References

  1. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 184.
  2. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 436.
  3. ↑ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 631. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
Preceded by
"The Way It Is" by Bruce Hornsby and The Range		 Billboard Adult Contemporary number-one single
December 20, 1986 (3 weeks) 		Succeeded by
"This Is the Time" by Billy Joel


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