Forever Your Girl
by Paula Abdul
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Forever Your Girl is ranked as the best album by Paula Abdul.
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Forever Your Girl track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 75 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Forever Your Girl rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1988 | 9/100 | - |
| 2026 | culwin | Top 45 Music Albums of 1988 | 9/45 | 4 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 67 Music Albums of 1988 | 15/67 | 4 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1988 | 5/83 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Decade 1980s | 71/100 | - |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 26 Music Albums of 1988 | 11/26 | 3 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum Zone 32 America Usa 2 | 10/100 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List Zone 32 America Usa 2 | 79/100 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum albums Pt 2 | 87/100 | - |
| 2026 | Jakor | Top 60 Music Albums of 1988 | 16/60 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 45 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 64 | |||
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Forever Your Girl ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/11/2026 16:38 | Jakor | 5,550 | 70/100 |
| ! | 11/05/2025 13:32 | Exist-en-ciel | 16,129 | 70/100 |
| ! | 09/22/2025 05:53 | Sumbody | 1,916 | 75/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 65.6/100, a mean average of 63.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 64.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.8.
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Forever Your Girl forum mentions
Infinity183 08/16/2018 04:03 in Great songs on mediocre/bad albums?
paladisiac 08/29/2014 14:21 in What album are you listening to right now?Forever Your Girl comments
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swhaze TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/16/2014 04:03 | #111948
I think she will be forever my girl...
In 1988 and 1989 you couldn't escape this album. Just when one single would start to fade away, they would drop another hit. It didn't hurt that the videos were pretty good too, ensuring heavy rotation on MTV. Anyhow, the hits are all great pop songs, but the others are just mediocre. But there are 5 hits here. So pretty good.
Forever Your Girl is a harmless, Prince bitting pop album. Nothing more to say other than noting that Abdul was a talented dancer, making the music videos a better avenue for listening to these songs.
VictorVale 04/09/2019 22:10 | #234708
Pop dançante, álbum repleto de sucessos! Katy Perry de sua época (que dançava bem melhor)!
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