Song · Papa Roach
“Forever” by Papa Roach
From the album The Paramour Sessions (2006)
“Forever” by Papa Roach appears on 17 radio countdowns from 14 stations between 2007 and 2023. It was first released in 2006 on the album The Paramour Sessions. Its best result is #3 on the Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2007. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #35 alternative song of 2007, #3,356 alternative song of all time and #450 of the '00s.
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"Forever" was the second single Papa Roach pulled from The Paramour Sessions, the Californian band's fifth album, and it finds them aiming squarely at the arena rafters. Howard Benson produced it with the band and added keyboards, Lenny Castro filled in the percussion, and Chris Lord-Alge mixed it into a big, glossy hard-rock surge. The writing credit is shared by Jacoby Shaddix, Jerry Horton, Tobin Esperance and David Buckner.
It parked at number 2 on both the Modern Rock chart, for nine weeks, and the Mainstream Rock chart, for six, and crossed over to 55 on the Hot 100, their second-best showing there. Fans made their own clips for it in a YouTube contest, while the official video was shot in Brighton, England, with Meiert Avis directing, and first aired on AOL in the summer of 2007.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 54 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2007 | 107 |
| 2007 | 75 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2007 | 91 |
| 2007 | 50 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2007 | 106 |
| 2007 | 3 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2007 | 101 |
| 2007 | 18 | 89X Detroit, MI / Windsor, ON | 89X Top 89 Songs of 2007 | 89 |
| 2007 | 9 | CHOI Radio X Quebec City, QC | CHOI Top 101 Songs of 2007 | 101 |
| 2007 | 4 | WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2007 | 105 |
| 2007 | 6 | KWOD Sacramento, CA | KWOD Top 106 Songs of 2007 | 106 |
| 2007 | 16 | 88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH | 88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2007 | 88 |
| 2008 | 38 | 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT | 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2008 | 99 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 55 | WJRR | WJRR Top 101 Songs of the Decade | 101 |
| 2010 | 103 | 94.1 The Zone | 94.1 The Zone 210 Most Played Songs of the Decade | 210 |
| 2014 | 216 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2014) | 500 |
| 2015 | 245 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2015) | 500 |
| 2019 | 358 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019) | 500 |
| 2020 | 475 | DC101 | The DC101 Top 500 | 500 |
| 2023 | 357 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2023) | 500 |
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