Air Supply’s Now and Forever charted in the U.S.

First posted 1/18/2009; updated 9/10/2020.

Now and Forever Air Supply

Charted: June 19, 1982 Peak: 25 US, -- UK, -- CN, 27 AU Sales (in millions): 1.0 US, -- UK, 1.0 world (includes US and UK) Genre: adult contemporary

Tracks: Song Title (date of single release, chart peaks) Click for codes to singles charts. Now and Forever Even the Nights Are Better (6/12/82, 5 US, 44 UK, 1 AC, 35 AU, airplay: 1 million) Young Love (9/18/82, 38 US, 13 AC) Two Less Lonely People in the World (11/13/82, 38 US, 4 AC, 46 AU) Taking the Chance Come What May One Step Closer Don’t Be Afraid She Never Heard Me Call What Kind of Girl The Players: Russell Hitchcock (vocals) Graham Russell (vocals, rhythm guitar) Rex Goh, David Moyse (guitars) Dave Green (bass) Frank Esler-Smith (keyboards) Ralph Cooper (drums)

Rating: 2.626 out of 5.00 (average of 5 ratings)

About the Album: Now and Forever sort of marked the end of an era for Air Supply. After their fifth album, Lost in Love, finally broke them in America in 1980, the soft-rock group went on a streak of seven top-five hits, three each from Lost in Love and follow-up album The One That You Love and then one more (Even the Nights Are Better) from Now and Forever. The group followed up that single with two more top 40 hits – Two Less Lonely People in the World and Young Love – from Now and Forever. However, it was their last studio album to go platinum. The next year, the band would find success with their Greatest Hits collection, a multi-platinum, top 10 album which featured all seven of the aforementioned top-ten hits plus their eighth and final top-ten, “Making Love Out of Nothing at All.” After that, the band didn’t go platinum again, didn’t hit the top ten again, and only made one more trip into the top 40 (“Just As I Am,” #19 in 1985). A five-year run isn’t bad in the pop world, but Air Supply might have fared better with, well, better fare. “Like all…[Air Supply] albums, [Now and Forever] has an uneven selection of material; the best songs were the singles…Even when the group performs weak material, they sound fine, but the lack of first-rate songs became disheartening after a while.” AMG.

Resources and Related Links: Air Supply’s DMDB Encyclopedia entry Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide WK Wikipedia