Forever Your Girl

***Forever Your Girl*** is the debut studio album by American singer and dancer Paula Abdul. It was released on June 21, 1988, through Virgin Records. The music on the album is primarily dance-pop, new jack swing and R&B.

## Accolades

|Organization|Country|Accolade|Year|Result||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="6"|MTV Video Music Awards|rowspan="17"|United States|Best Female Video (Straight Up)|rowspan="6"|1989|rowspan="4"|
|Best Dance Video (Straight Up)||||||||
|Best Choreography in a Video (Straight Up)||||||||
|Best Editing (Straight Up)||||||||
|Best New Artist in a Video (Straight Up)|rowspan="2"|||||||
|Breakthrough Video (Straight Up)||||||||
|rowspan="5"|American Music Awards|Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist|rowspan="4"|1990|rowspan="2"|||
|Favorite Dance Artist||||||||
|Favorite Pop Rock Album|rowspan="4"|||||||
|Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist||||||||
|Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist|1991|||||||
|Billboard Music Awards|#1 World Album|1990||||||
|rowspan="1"|Soul Train Awards|Best R&B/Urban Contemporary Song of the Year (Straight Up)|1990|||||
|rowspan="2"|People's Choice Awards|Favorite Female Artist|rowspan="2"|1990|rowspan="1"|||
|Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer|rowspan="1"|||||||
|rowspan="2"|Grammy Awards|Best Vocal Performance, Female (Straight Up)|1990|||||
|Best Music Video (Short Form) Opposites Attract|1991|rowspan="1"||||||
|rowspan="2"|Juno Awards|rowspan="2"|Canada|International Single of the Year (Straight Up)|1990|rowspan="2"||
|International Album of the Year|1990|||||||
|Brit Award|United Kingdom|International Breakthrough Act|1990|||||

## Personnel

Adapted from AllMusic.

- Paula Abdul – lead vocals
- Marvin Gunn and Bruce DeShazer AKA Tony Christin - backing vocals
- Peter Arata – mixing assistant
- Babyface – keyboards, producer, backing vocals
- Glen Ballard – drums, producer, programming
- Russ Bracher – engineer
- Pattie Brooks – backing vocals
- Wally Buck – engineer
- Francis Buckley – engineer, mixing
- Annette Cisneros – assistant engineer
- Dave Cochran – guitar, backing vocals
- Keith "KC" Cohen – mixing, producer
- Delisa Davis – backing vocals
- Tami Day – backing vocals
- Jimmy Demers – backing vocals
- Eddie M. – saxophone on "I Need You"
- Al Fleming – assistant engineer
- Basil Fung – guitar
- Jon Gass – engineer, mixing
- Bobby Gonzales – guitar
- Danny Grigsby – assistant engineer
- Evelyn Halus – backing vocals
- Dann Huff – guitar
- Tim Jaquette – engineer, mixing
- Jesse Johnson – drums, keyboards, producer
- Cliff Jones – assistant engineer, engineer
- Kayo – synthesizer, synthesizer bass
- Oliver Leiber – arranger, drum programming, guitar, keyboards, producer, programming
- Jeff Lorber – drum programming, engineer, guest artist, keyboards, producer
- Yvette Marine – backing vocals
- Pat McDougal – assistant engineer
- Lucia Newell – backing vocals
- Ricky P. – keyboards
- Pebbles – guest artist, backing vocals
- L.A. Reid – drums, guest artist, percussion programming, producer
- Angel Rogers – backing vocals
- Josh Schneider – assistant engineer
- Daryl Simmons – backing vocals
- Bob Somma – guitar
- St. Paul – arranger, bass, keyboards, Organ, vocoder
- Kendall Stubbs – engineer
- Randy Weber – programming, synthesizer
- Steve Weise – engineer
- Troy Williams - saxophone on "Forever Your Girl"
- Wild Pair – vocals, backing vocals

## Charts

|Chart (1989-1990)|Peak position|
| --- | --- |
|style="text-align:center;"|94|

|Chart (1989)|Position|
| --- | --- |
|6||
|72||
|3||
|24||
|20||
|9||
|92||
|6||
|79||

|Chart (1990–1999)|Position|
| --- | --- |
|style="text-align:center;"|53|

|Chart|Position|
| --- | --- |
|align="center"|10|

## Infobox (album)

- **name**: Forever Your Girl
- **type**: studio
- **artist**: Paula Abdul
- **border**: yes
- **released**: June 21, 1988
- **recorded**: October 1987 – April 1988
- **length**: 44:35
- **label**: Virgin Records, Virgin
- **next title**: Shut Up and Dance: Mixes
- **next year**: 1990