In spite of its British roots, the band achieved a much more moderate success in the UK Singles Chart, with only two of their songs, "Waiting for a Girl Like You" and "I Want to Know What Love Is", peaking within the top 20. Foreigners leader from thebeginning has been British guitarist Mick Jones. With cuts stemming from Foreigner, Double Vision, Head Games, and 4, Records lines up ten of their first 11 hit. Four of these singles were certified Gold by the RIAA for shipments of over a million copies, all of them which peaked within the top 3 ("Hot Blooded", "Double Vision", "Waiting for a Girl Like You" and "I Want to Know What Love Is"). FOREIGNER s last album, 2009s 'Cant Slow Down', was the only full-length collection of new songs to have been released by the band since Hansen took over vocals after original singer Lou Gramm. Foreigner On tour Albums Recently Popular Albums with the most listeners in the last 7 days. EPs and CD-singles from Foreigner are also welcome to be added, as long as they are at least 4 songs in length. Album reviews, biography and music news for Foreigner at sputnikmusic. In the 90s they struggled, with Gramm quitting for a short time, then undergoing surgery for a brain tumour. The band’s popularity peaked in the 80s with the albums Foreigner 4 and Agent Provocateur. Overall, Foreigner's albums have sold more than 50 million copies worldwide, almost 40 million of them in the United States alone.Īmong the 39 singles released by the band, 14 of them became top 20 hits in the Billboard Hot 100 chart, including the number-one song "I Want to Know What Love Is" and the number-two "Waiting for a Girl Like You", which spent a record-setting 10 weeks at the #2 position of the chart without ever reaching the top. Foreigner’s debut album, released in 1977, was an instant hit, selling four million copies in the US and shaping the sound of Adult Oriented Rock. In spite of 4 being Foreigner's only chart-topper in the U.S., their best-selling albums are Double Vision and the compilation Records, which were certified seven times Platinum by the RIAA for shipments of over seven million copies. 4 was the band's only chart-topper in the U.S., while Agent Provocateur was their only album to achieved the same feat in the UK Albums Chart. Since then, Foreigner has released nine studio albums, seven of which have reached the top 30 of the Billboard 200 chart. The band was formed in New York City in 1976 by veteran English musicians Mick Jones and Ian McDonald, and American vocalist Lou Gramm. The discography of Foreigner, a British–American rock band, consists of 9 studio albums, 2 live albums, 13 compilation albums, and 39 singles.
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