Foreigner: Celebrating Fifty Years

With 10 multi-platinum albums and 16 Top 30 hits, FOREIGNER is universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world with a formidable musical arsenal that continues to propel sold-out tours and album sales, now exceeding 80 million. Responsible for some of rock and roll’s most enduring anthems including “Juke Box Hero,” “Cold As Ice,” “Hot Blooded,” “Waiting For A Girl Like You,” “Feels Like The First Time,” “Urgent,” “Head Games,” “Say You Will,” “Dirty White Boy,” “Long, Long Way From Home” and the worldwide #1hit, “I Want To Know What Love Is,” FOREIGNER still rocks the charts almost 50 years into the game with massive airplay and continued Billboard album chart success. Audio and video streams of FOREIGNER’s hits are approaching 20 million per week. With more Top 10 songs than Journey and Aerosmith, and as many as Fleetwood Mac, FOREIGNER also features strongly in every category in Billboard’s “Greatest of All Time” listing. At times, the band’s weekly catalog sales have eclipsed those of Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, the Rolling Stones, the Who, Def Leppard, Van Halen, Aerosmith and most of their Classic Rock peers (Source: Nielsen SoundScan). FOREIGNER‘s catalog sales were recently celebrated in Business Insider as hitting the Top 40 among the Best Selling Music Artists of All Time. 2017 marked the celebration of FOREIGNER‘s 40th anniversary. The Warner Music Group released a double CD set “40,” which includes 40 songs recorded between 1977 and 2017. The album spent several weeks on the Billboard Top 200 chart and it features two tracks recorded especially for this release, “Give My Life For Love” and a new version of “I Don’t Want To Live Without You.” The album spent nine weeks in the Billboard Top 200 chart. The US anniversary headline tour played 40 shows across the United States where the band was supported by Cheap Trick and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience. Spring of 2024, FOREIGNER executed a sold-out tour of Canada and another Live Nation headline tour of amphitheaters with our partners STYX with attendances of 14,000 to 15,000 in some markets, together with two headline residencies at the Las Vegas Venetian in the spring and fall. The biggest news of the year was FOREIGNER’s nomination to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame followed by an appearance at the induction ceremony in Cleveland which was broadcast on national TV. The band also announced a Hall of Fame celebration tour which began with the fall Las Vegas residency and continues through 2025. The band released TURNING BACK THETIME in the fall. This is part of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame celebration and features FOREIGNER’s hits through the years with a newly released song written by Mick Jones and Lou Gramm and originally recorded in 1996. ‘I Want To Know What Love Is’ became one of a handful of Classic Rock artists’ songs to achieve 1 Billion streams on Spotify. The band hit this landmark before any songs from The Who, Pink Floyd or Bob Dylan. More about FOREIGNER — including individual band member bios, tour dates, merchandise, and more — can be found on the band’s official website, www.foreigneronline.com.