Forever Your Girl

Forever Your Girl
Forever Your Girl
Studio album by Paula Abdul
Released	June 21, 1988
Studio	Creation Audio, Minneapolis; Studio Masters, Los Angeles, California; Silverlake Studios, Los Angeles, California; Kren Studio, Los Angeles, California; JHL Sound, Pacific Palisades, California; Studio 55, Los Angeles, California; Cochrane Studios, Studio City, California; Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California; House of Music, West Orange, New Jersey;
Genre	Dance-pop; R&B;
Length	44:35
Label	Virgin
Producer	Oliver Leiber; Glen Ballard; Elliot Wolff; L.A. Reid; Babyface; Jesse Johnson; Curtis Williams;
Paula Abdul chronology
Singles from Forever Your Girl
	"Knocked Out"; Released: May 4, 1988; "The Way That You Love Me"; Released: August 2, 1988; "Straight Up"; Released: November 22, 1988; "Forever Your Girl"; Released: February 20, 1989; "Cold Hearted"; Released: June 15, 1989; "Opposites Attract"; Released: November 17, 1989;

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
Christgau's Record Guide	C^[4]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[5]
Number One	^[6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[7]

Forever Your Girl is the debut studio album by American singer Paula Abdul. It was released on June 21, 1988, through Virgin Records. The album was Abdul's breakthrough into the music industry after being a choreographer for high-profile clients including Kate Bush, The California Raisins, George Michael, ZZ Top, Duran Duran and most notably Janet Jackson. At the time of the album's release it was the most successful debut album of all time and was the first time an artist scored four US Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles from a debut album. It is currently certified 7× platinum by the RIAA.

^ Breihan, Tom (December 3, 2021). "The Number Ones: Paula Abdul's "Rush Rush". Stereogum. Retrieved December 22, 2023. Forever Your Girl had been produced on the cheap, and it had been nothing but end-to-end dance-pop bangers.
^ ^a ^b Deggans, Eric (January 1, 1998). "Paula Abdul". In Graff, Gary; du Lac, Josh; McFarlin, Jim (eds.). MusicHound R&B: The Essential Album Guide. Detroit: Visible Ink Press. p. 2.
^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/r131740
^ Christgau, Robert (1990). "A". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X. Retrieved August 16, 2020 – via robertchristgau.com.
^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th Concise ed.). United Kingdom: Omnibus Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-84609-856-7.
^ Martin, David (April 26, 1989). "Albums". Number One. p. 43. Retrieved March 12, 2023.
^ Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City, New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 2. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8. rolling stone paula abdul album guide.

[Breihan_2021-1] Breihan, Tom (December 3, 2021). "The Number Ones: Paula Abdul's "Rush Rush". Stereogum. Retrieved December 22, 2023. Forever Your Girl had been produced on the cheap, and it had been nothing but end-to-end dance-pop bangers.

[Deggans-2] Deggans, Eric (January 1, 1998). "Paula Abdul". In Graff, Gary; du Lac, Josh; McFarlin, Jim (eds.). MusicHound R&B: The Essential Album Guide. Detroit: Visible Ink Press. p. 2.

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[Christgau-4] Christgau, Robert (1990). "A". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X. Retrieved August 16, 2020 – via robertchristgau.com.

[5] Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th Concise ed.). United Kingdom: Omnibus Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-84609-856-7.

[6] Martin, David (April 26, 1989). "Albums". Number One. p. 43. Retrieved March 12, 2023.

[7] Brackett, Nathan; Christian Hoard (2004). The Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York City, New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 2. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8. rolling stone paula abdul album guide.

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