It's Gonna Be Alright (Ruby Turner song)

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"It's Gonna Be Alright"
Ruby Turner - Its Gonna Be Alright single cover.jpg
Single by Ruby Turner
from the album Paradise
B-side "Sexy" [1]
Released1989 (1989)
Genre R&B
Length4:28
Label Jive
Songwriter(s) Ruby Turner [2]
Producer(s)
Ruby Turner singles chronology
"What Becomes of the Brokenhearted"
(1989)
"It's Gonna Be Alright"
(1989)
"Paradise"
(1990)

"It's Gonna Be Alright" is a song written [2] and performed by Jamaican contemporary R&B singer Ruby Turner, issued as the lead single from her third studio album Paradise . It contains a sample of "Keep On Movin'" by Soul II Soul. [4] The song reached #1 on the Billboard R&B chart on February 17, 1990. [5]

Contents

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1990)Peak
position
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [6] 39
US Dance Club Songs ( Billboard ) [7] 5
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ( Billboard ) [8] 1

UK: 57

Year-end charts

Chart (1990)Position
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard) [9] 55

Cover versions

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