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Forever Young by Alphaville
Forever Young is an album by Alphaville, released in 1984. 5 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 46 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Forever Young”, on 26 lists and voted number one twice.
Forever Young, Alphaville's first album, arrived on 27 September 1984, and it's synth-pop from Münster with a lump in its throat. Marian Gold sings in a high, yearning croon while Bernhard Lloyd and Frank Mertens stack up keyboards that glitter like frost on a windowpane; the band took its name from Godard's 1965 film Alphaville, and the chilly romance fits.
"Big in Japan" throbs with nervous neon energy, and "Sounds Like a Melody" and "Jet Set" joined it as singles. The title track is the slow-motion anthem at its center. The album went top 20 in six European countries and all the way to number one in Norway and Sweden, and Afternoons in Utopia came next, in 1986. A super deluxe reissue followed in March 2019.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Forever Young on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forever Young | 26 | #1 | 2 | 1988–2026 | |
| 2 | Big in Japan | 17 | #23 | – | 1984–2023 | |
| 3 | Sounds Like A Melody | 1 | #56 | – | 1991 | |
| 4 | Forever Young (Album Version) | 1 | #211 | – | 2003 | |
| 5 | A Victory of Love | 1 | #1932 | – | 2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.