4
by Foreigner
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4 is ranked as the best album by Foreigner.
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4 track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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4 rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | byuzak | Top 41 Music Albums of 1981 | 3/41 | 5 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | Platinum year 1981 | 5/71 | - |
| 2026 | fabm0 | All Time Pt 5 | 2/100 | - |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Top 100 Music Albums of 1981 | 95/100 | 0 |
| 2026 | svk4ever | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 65/100 | 7 |
| 2026 | zonrod | Top 49 Music Albums of 1981 | 39/49 | 1 |
| 2026 |  zags7000 | Top 100 Music Albums of 1981 | 28/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | thenat | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 27/100 | 15 |
| 2026 | stevengnz | Top 97 Music Albums of 1981 | 2/97 | 5 |
| 2026 | WayneMC | BBC Music Magazine: 1981-The 21 Greatest Albums | 4/21 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 191 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 739 | |||
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4 ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 10/02/2026 03:20 | Philly28 | 968 | 69/100 |
| ! | 09/07/2026 23:25 | shawnd27 | 26 | 74/100 |
| ! | 08/06/2026 08:28 |  Squonk007 | 773 | 24/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 71.8/100, a mean average of 70.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 71.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.1.
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4 comments
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Production wise, this album takes Foreigner up a notch. After listening to the first three tracks, three great rockers, you are ready for the ballad Waiting For A Girl Like You. Unfortunately it is followed by the relatively weak Luanne. Side two starts of with one of their best tracks Urgent followed by two excellent rock tracks. Unfortunately it tapers off a little. Foreigner last great effort.
There was a time back in the early eighties when this album lived on AOR radio. Nothing revolutionary or groundbreaking here - just catchy songs that one remembers the lyrics to decades later.
Easy to get snobbish about Foreigner compared to some of the truly great artists around in 1981 and not scoring pop hits, but for what it is, "4" is one of the best its respective genre has to offer, along with Journey's "Escape" and Boston's s/t debut. Who cares about coolness when you have this many solid songs on one album?
I had this album back in the day, when there were such things as albums. I didn't buy this when I transferred to cds (and subsequently to digital). I haven't missed it. This is dreck, popular dreck maybe, but still dreck.
Urgent, Girl On the Moon, Juke Box Hero and Waiting For a Girl Like You are guilty pleasures and hold up as great ballads. The rest of the album is cheesy.
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