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 
OrganizationCountryAccoladeYearResultMTV Video Music AwardsUnited StatesBest Female Video (Straight Up)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)American Music AwardsFavorite Pop/Rock Female Artist1990 rowspan="2" Favorite Dance ArtistFavorite Pop Rock Album rowspan="4" Favorite Soul/R&B Female ArtistFavorite Pop/Rock Female Artist1991Billboard Music Awards#1 World Album1990Soul Train AwardsBest R&B/Urban Contemporary Song of the Year (Straight Up)1990People's Choice AwardsFavorite Female Artist1990rowspan="1"Favorite All-Around Female Entertainerrowspan="1"Grammy AwardsBest Vocal Performance, Female (Straight Up)1990Best Music Video (Short Form) Opposites Attract1991rowspan="1"Juno AwardsCanadaInternational Single of the Year (Straight Up)1990rowspan="2"International Album of the Year1990Brit AwardUnited KingdomInternational Breakthrough Act1990

Track listing

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 

+Weekly chart performance for Forever Your Girl by Paula AbdulChart (1989-1990)PeakpositionJapanese Albums (Oricon)94

+Year-end chart performance for Forever Your Girl by Paula AbdulChart (1989)PositionCanada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)6Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)72US Billboard 2003US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)24Chart (1990)PositionAustralian Albums (ARIA)20Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)9European Albums (Music & Media)92US Billboard 2006US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)79

+Decade-end chart performance for Forever Your Girl by Paula AbdulChart (1990–1999)Position US Billboard 20053

+All-end chart performance for Forever Your Girl by Paula AbdulChartPositionUS Billboard 200 (Women) 10

Certifications

References

Category:1988 albums
Category:Debut albums
Category:Paula Abdul albums
Category:Dance-pop albums
Category:New jack swing albums
Category:R&B albums