"Say You Will" is a song by

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Foreigner. It was the first single released from the album ''

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'' (1987), and was co-written by

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and Mick Jones (See

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Reception

The single reached No. 6 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and became their fourth #1 hit on the ''Billboard''

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chart, holding the top spot for four weeks, starting on December 19, 1987. "Say You Will" was one of Foreigner's last two Top 10 chart hits in the United States, followed by the 1988 release of the single "

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" (which reached No. 5 on the Hot 100 chart). The song also became the band's third-highest-charting hit in Germany, where it reached No. 22, faring even better in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and particularly Norway, where it reached No. 4. The video clip for this song, directed by

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, reached No. 1 on

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's Top Twenty chart in February 1988.

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noted that the single was a "good example" of the band's "balancing act" as "the guitar-heavy style of their early work gave way to slick arrangements that pushed electronics to the fore...temper(ing) its rock guitar edge...and Lou Gramm's quasi-operatic vocals...by thick layers of chiming synthesizers and an array of electronic textures." ''

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'' called it a "powerful pop/rock number" with "wide demographic appeal." It is also featured on the band's compilation ''40: Forty Hits From Forty Years 1977-2017'' published in 2017, in an acoustic version with Lou Gramm on vocals as a ''new song''.

Track listing

Chart performance

Year-end charts

References

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