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"Waiting for a Girl Like You" is a 1981 power ballad [2] by the British-American rock band Foreigner released as the second single from the album 4 (1981) and was co-written by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones. The opening motif was written by Ian McDonald [4] and the distinctive synthesizer theme was performed by the then-little-known Thomas Dolby.
The album was a commercial success worldwide, holding the No. 1 position on the Billboard 200 chart for a total of 10 weeks. It eventually sold over six million copies in the U.S. alone. Several of its singles were hits, including "Urgent", "Waiting for a Girl Like You" and "Juke Box Hero".
Among the 47 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 number 2 position of the chart without ever reaching the top.
"Urgent" was the most successful single from the 4 album on album-oriented rock radio, though it was outsold by the album's later single, "Waiting for a Girl Like You", which reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1981 and remained at that spot through the end of the following January, for a total of ten weeks, being certified Gold.
The album produced three hit singles: "Urgent", "Waiting for a Girl Like You", and "Juke Box Hero". In 1984, Foreigner released their fifth studio album, Agent Provocateur, which reached No. 1 in the UK and included their biggest hit single, "I Want to Know What Love Is". The song topped the charts in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia, reached ...
The original nine-track album was released in 1984 and reached number one on the US Billboard 200 chart on April 21, 1984, where it stayed until June 23, 1984. [3] It contained six Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 hits, three of which reached the Top 10, including two number-one hits, " Footloose " by Kenny Loggins and " Let's Hear It for the Boy " by ...
The Definitive Collection is a double-disc compilation album by the band Foreigner, ... "Waiting for a Girl Like You" "I Want to Know What Love Is" (Jones)
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