''Always & Forever'' is the debut studio album by British girl group
Eternal
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. It was released through
EMI on 29 November 1993 before
Louise Nurding
Louise Elizabeth Redknapp (née Nurding, born 4 November 1974) is an English singer, songwriter and media personality. She was a member of Eternal, an R&B girl group which debuted in 1993 with their quadruple-platinum studio album '' Always & ...
left to embark on a solo career prior to the release of the follow up album, ''
Power of a Woman'' (1995). The album became a commercial success, spending 63 weeks in the top 40 of the
UK Albums Chart, selling over one million copies in the UK alone and yielding six hit singles. As of 1997, the album had sold over four million copies worldwide.
In June 2019, ''Always & Forever'' was ranked at number 15 on the
Official Charts Company's ''Top 40 biggest girl band studio albums of the last 25 years''.
Single releases
''Always & Forever'' yielded six top 20 singles, two of which reached top 5: "
Stay" and "
Oh Baby I...". "Stay" was the first single to be released from the album, peaking at No. 4 in the
UK Singles Chart. This was followed by "
Save Our Love" and "
Just A Step From Heaven", both of which peaked at No. 8. "
So Good" was the next single, peaking at No. 13, followed by "
Oh Baby I..." which reached No. 4. "
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" was the final single released from the album, peaking at No. 15 in the UK Singles Chart.
Commercial performance
''Always & Forever'' was a huge success, peaking at number 2 on the
UK Albums Chart, and was later certified 4× Platinum by the
BPI for sales of over 1.2 million copies. The album spent over 76 weeks in the charts. After its release at the end of 1993, it slowly climbed the album chart peaking at No. 3 in May 1994 shortly after the release of the third single, "Just A Step From Heaven". The album stayed in the chart throughout 1994 becoming that year's third best-selling album in the UK,
before climbing to No. 2 in January 1995. The album broke records for being the first to sell over one million copies in the UK by a female group.
As of 2015, it is the only album by a debut act to contain six top 15 hits and the first album by a female group to be nominated for best album at the
BRIT Awards. The album had an
American
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release in March 1994, selling 81,000 copies by December 1994.
Track listing
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
Eternal (band) albums
1993 debut albums
EMI Records albums
New jack swing albums
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