Foreigner is universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world, racking up scores of smash hits, multi-platinum albums, and sold out concert tours.
From Cold As Ice to Hot Blooded, Urgent to Jukebox Hero, Waiting For A Girl Like You to the chart topper I Want To Know What Love is, Foreigner's thrilling mix of blustery blues and impeccably crafted pop continues to captivate generation after generation of music fans.
Today, over 70 million albums later, Foreigner is an ensemble of talented musicians each adding their individual credentials to the mix to make the band stronger and more powerful than ever.
To read about each member of the band, please select from the photos below.
January 2012
The year proved to be the most successful since founder Mick Jones reformed the band in 2004 by adding vocalist Kelly Hansen. Foreigner released their latest album, ‘Feels Like The First Time’, in September. The Billboard Chart three disc set included new digital studio recordings of their greatest hits, a DVD of their nationally broadcast PBS TV special and ‘Acoustique’, a CD featuring a fresh unplugged studio approach to some of their most memorable music. Foreigner ended the year on a high note with the band’s biggest ever one-week digital single sales. Album sales were at their highest since the 80’s, and Foreigner out performed 2011 catalog sales of AC/DC, The Eagles and The Stones. In April, Foreigner entered the Top 10 at Classic Rock Radio for the first time. Please see the chart below.
| Artist |
Classic Rock |
Nielsen Chart |
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Radio Airplay |
Catalog |
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Position |
Sales Position |
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| LED ZEPPELIN |
1 |
3 |
| VAN HALEN |
2 |
8 |
| ROLLING STONES |
3 |
6 |
| PINK FLOYD |
4 |
1 |
| AEROSMITH |
5 |
2 |
| AC/DC |
6 |
5 |
| BOSTON |
7 |
10 |
| EAGLES |
8 |
7 |
| ZZ TOP |
9 |
9 |
| FOREIGNER |
10 |
4 |
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| Catalog sales source: Nielsen SoundScan YTD 12.31.11 |
| Airplay source: Mediabase as at April 2011 |
The band’s Summer 2011 tour with Journey broke records in several major markets and played to hundreds of thousands of fans throughout Europe and America. A select run of Winter and Spring 2012 dates ends on April 14th with a headline appearance before an expected 140,000 strong crowd at the NASCAR Samsung 500 at the Texas Motor Speedway. No other heritage band makes more NASCAR appearances than Foreigner. Summer 2012 plans will be announced shortly.
Foreigner songs continue to be featured in some of the biggest movies, TV shows and commercials. The band is the only artist to have three songs in the forthcoming Warner Summer blockbuster ‘Rock Of Ages’ in which Tom Cruise sings ‘I Want To Know What Love Is’, and Alec Baldwin, Russell Brand and Diego Boneta perform a medley that includes ‘Juke Box Hero’.
Foreigner ‘4’ spent more weeks on the Billboard chart at #1 than any album by AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, U2, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Genesis, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton and any artist in Atlantic Records’ 60 year history.
Foreigner have 9 Top 10 hits (that’s just one less than The Eagles, as many as Fleetwood Mac, and more than Journey, Crosby, Stills and Nash, ZZ Top, Bad Company, The Steve Miller Band, Alice Cooper, Genesis, Def Leppard, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Robert Plant and a whole lot more).
The band is consistently in the Top 15 at Classic Rock Radio. As a result of the depth of the catalog, the band gets more airplay at this important format than Tom Petty, Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, Def Leppard, U2, Bruce Springsteen, The Who and most of its peers.
Their hit single, ‘Waiting For A Girl Like You’ was #2 on the singles chart for a total of 14 weeks. This is a record in the history of Billboard magazine. It helped drive Foreigner to #49 on Billboard’s Hot 100 All Time Top Artists Chart. To put that in perspective, The Eagles are #54, Fleetwood Mac are #73 and Aerosmith are #90.
Foreigner’s leader and founder, Mick Jones, wrote or co-wrote every Foreigner song, and produced or co-produced every album. He produced Billy Joel’s ‘Storm Front’ and Van Halen’s ‘5150’, the career best selling albums of both artists, and he has written songs with artists as diverse as Ozzy Osbourne and Eric Clapton, with whom he wrote ‘Bad Love’. Eric received a Grammy for that one!
The Foreigner catalog has sold more than 70 million albums.
Foreigner have sixteen Top 30 hits. They are:
I Want To Know What Love Is 1
Waiting For A Girl Like You 2
Double Vision 2
Hot Blooded 3
Urgent 4
Feels Like The First Time 4
I Don’t Want To Live Without You 5
Say You Will 6
Cold As Ice 6
That Was Yesterday 12
Dirty White Boy 12
Head Games 14
Blue Morning, Blue Day 15
Long, Long Way From Home 20
Juke Box Hero 26
Break It Up 26
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