Forevermore (Yuna song)

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"Forevermore"
Yuna - Forevermore.jpg
Single by Yuna
from the album Rouge
Released5 April 2019
Genre Pop
Length3:53
Label Verve Forecast Records, UMG Recordings
Songwriter(s) Yunalis Zarai, Alexandra Govere, Robin Hannibal
Producer(s) Robin Hannibal
Yuna singles chronology
"Crush"
(2016)		"Forevermore"
(2019)		"Blank Marquee"
(2019)
Music video
"Forevermore" on YouTube

"Forevermore" is a song by Malaysian singer-songwriter Yuna, released as the first single from her fourth international studio album (her seventh overall), Rouge . The song, which tells about Yuna's life experience grew up in Malaysia, [1] it was co-written by Yuna, Alexandra Govere and Robin Hannibal and released on 5 April 2019 by Verve Music Group. [2]

Contents

Commercial performance

"Forevermore" debuted at number-one on Malaysia's RIM Domestic Chart on 11 April 2019, her first number-one since the reintroduction of the official chart in 2017. [3]

Music video

The music video for "Forevermore" was produced by 33.3 Creative [4] and filmed in 11 locations in Malaysia including Kuala Lumpur and Perlis, it was directed by Yuna's husband, Adam Sinclair. [5] [6] According to her, the song is about growing up in a small town and coming from a small country and how that "environment made me strive to be the best that I can be". The official music video was released on the same day. [2] [7]

Since its release, the video has garnered more than 3 million views.

Format and track listing

  1. "Forevermore" – 3:53

Personnel

Song

Music video

Charts

Chart (2019)Peak
position
Malaysia (RIM) [9] 1

Release history

CountryDateFormatLabel
Malaysia5 April 2019 Digital download, [8] streaming [10] Verve Music Group

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References

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  2. 1 2 Michael Chiang (5 April 2019). "Yuna sings an ode to Malaysia in new single 'Forevermore'". Star2. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
  3. ↑ RIM (11 April 2019). "RIM CHARTS Top 10 Most Streamed Domestic Singles in Malaysia" (PDF). RIM.org.my. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
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