Songoftheday 6/4/20 - Those days of love are gone our time is through, still I burn on and on all of my life only for you...
from the album Daydream (1995)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: ineligible to chart
Billboard Hot 100 Airplay peak: #9 (one week)
Weeks in the Hot 100 Airplay Top-40: 17
Today's song of the day comes from Mariah Carey, whose fifth studio album Daydream had spun off an incredible string of three #1 hits in "Fantasy", "Always Be My Baby", and the record-breaking (at the time) "One Sweet Day" with Boyz II Men. Also, from the set her cover of Journey's "Open Arms" went top ten in the UK. So possibly to boost more sales from the album, the next "single" promoted to radio wasn't released commercially. "Forever", written and produced by Mariah with Walter Afanasieff, the track basically is a sweet 50's retro kiss-off to a former lover that she will hold in her heart (um, Tommy Mottola, I think she means you). Radio took to it kindly, and MTV and VH1 played her concert performance from Tokyo, Japan as the video...
Since "Forever" wasn't released as a physical "single", it was not able to appear on Billboard magazine's official Hot 100 pop chart. However, the song got enough mainstream radio love to go all the way to #9 on the Airplay component of the list in August of 1996. It spent six weeks at #2 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart, while peaking at #16 on their Adult Top-40 format tally. Internationally, the single went to #11 in Canada, and slipped into the top-40 in New Zealand at #40. A fifth song from the record not released commercially, the soft adult soul of "Underneath The Stars", got to #69 on Billboard's R&B Airplay chart in the late summer of 1996.
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Here's the studio version of "Forever" played on the radio from Daydream...
Next up, from her Fantasy:Live show in Madison Square Garden in New York...
Up tomorrow: Hip Hop trio heads to Jamaica for revise this reggae classic.
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