Say You Will (Foreigner song)

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"Say You Will"
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Single by Foreigner
from the album Inside Information
B-side "A Night to Remember"
ReleasedNovember 1987 [1]
Genre Rock
Length4:12 (album version)
3:59 (7" single version)
5:24 (12" version)
Label Atlantic
Songwriter(s) Mick Jones and Lou Gramm
Producer(s) Mick Jones and Frank Filipetti
Foreigner singles chronology
"Down on Love"
(1986)		"Say You Will"
(1987)		"I Don't Want to Live Without You"
(1988)
Music video
"Say You Will" on YouTube

"Say You Will" is a song by British-American rock band Foreigner. It was the first single released from the album Inside Information (1987), and was co-written by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones (See 1987 in music).

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Reception

The single reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became their fourth #1 hit on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, holding the top spot for four weeks, starting on December 19, 1987. [2] [3]

"Say You Will" was one of Foreigner's last two Top 10 chart hits in the United States, followed by the 1988 release of the single "I Don't Want to Live Without You" (which reached No. 5 on the Hot 100 chart). The song also became the band's third-highest-charting hit in Germany, where it reached No. 22, faring even better in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and particularly Norway, where it reached No. 4. The video clip for this song, directed by David Fincher, reached No. 1 on MTV's Top Twenty chart in February 1988.

Allmusic noted that the single was a "good example" of the band's "balancing act" as "the guitar-heavy style of their early work gave way to slick arrangements that pushed electronics to the fore...temper(ing) its rock guitar edge...and Lou Gramm's quasi-operatic vocals...by thick layers of chiming synthesizers and an array of electronic textures." [4]

Cash Box called it a "powerful pop/rock number" with "wide demographic appeal." [5]

It is also featured on the band's compilation 40: Forty Hits From Forty Years 1977-2017 published in 2017, in an acoustic version with Kelly Hansen on vocals as a new song.

Track listing

U.S. 7" single (Atlantic – 789169-7)
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Say You Will" 4:12
2."A Night To Remember" Lou Gramm, Mick Jones 3:58
Total length:7:52

Chart performance

Chart (1987–88) [6] Peak
position
Canada Top Singles (RPM) [7] 13
Dutch Top 40 14
German Singles Chart22
Australian Singles Chart6
Norwegian Singles Chart4
Swiss Singles Chart20
UK Singles Chart [8] 71
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [2] 6
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary [9] 41
U.S. Billboard Album Rock Tracks [3] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1988)Position
Canada Top Singles (RPM) [10] 98
United States (Billboard) [11] [12] 73

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "Foreigner singles".
  2. 1 2 "Foreigner Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  3. 1 2 "Foreigner Mainstream Rock Songs". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  4. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/song/t284520
  5. ↑ "Single Releases" (PDF). Cash Box. November 28, 1987. p. 6. Retrieved 2022-11-06.
  6. ↑ Lescharts.com - Say You Will (Retrieved on November 3, 2008)
  7. ↑ "RPM Top 100 Singles Chart - March 12, 1988 (page 6)" (PDF). www.worldradiohistory.com. Retrieved November 8, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Foreigner singles". The Official Chart Company. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  9. ↑ "Foreigner Adult Contemporary". Billboard. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  10. ↑ "Top 100 Singles of '88" (PDF). www.worldradiohistory.com December 24, 1988 (page 9). Retrieved November 8, 2023.
  11. ↑ "1988 The Year in Music & Video: Top Pop Singles". Billboard. 100 (52): Y-20. December 24, 1988.
  12. ↑ "Billboard Top 100 – 1988" . Retrieved October 3, 2016.


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