"Forever" is a song written and produced by American singer Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff for Carey's fourth studio album, Daydream. The protagonist of this 1950s-inspired romantic ballad knows that her relationship is over, but that the boy will be hers forever in her mind. It was released as the album's fifth single in 1996 (see 1996 in music) in most markets outside the U.S. (excluding the United Kingdom) and was not intended to chart on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, as Billboard magazine rules at that time stipulated that a song must have a commercial release to be eligible for inclusion on the Hot 100.

"Forever" was still a major radio airplay hit in the U.S., reaching the top ten on the Hot 100 Airplay chart and the top five of Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart. It also reached the top twenty in Canada and the top forty in Australia. The single's video, put together by Carey herself, is made up of scenes of her performing the song live in Japan at the Tokyo Dome intercut with black-and-white sequences in which she explores Japan. The track listings for the song's major CD single releases include its album version and a live recording, the album cut of the Daydream track "Underneath the Stars", and a live version of "Make It Happen" (1992).

"Forever" is an improvisational song from The Cure partially based on the song "Three" from Seventeen Seconds.

The first version of Forever ever played was at a gig on their 1980 Seventeen Seconds Tour at Herford, Germany. It was supposed to be a dedication to Simon Gallup, The Cure's bassist, on his 20th birthday. The song has since been played at the end of Cure shows right after "Killing an Arab" is played in the encores. One version is featured on the remastered deluxe edition of Faith, another is featured on the cassette tape version of Concert/Curiosity. The Curiosity version was re-released on CD as a part of The Top Deluxe Edition. It is mostly found on bootleg concerts. No two versions of "Forever" are alike because Robert Smith tends to make up the lyrics and, occasionally, the chords of the song as it goes along. The progression, however, is usually the same as "Three". Some versions have been known to last for over 10 minutes. "Forever" was last played live in Mexico City on September 6th, 2004 following "A Forest".

"Forever" is a Kiss song from the Hot in the Shade album. It peaked at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making it the band's first American Top 40 single since "I Was Made For Lovin' You" reached #11 in 1979. It was the band's seventh and, to date, last Top 20 US single. The song was co-written by guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley and American pop singer/songwriter Michael Bolton, who was then at the peak of his commercial popularity, and with whom guitarist Bruce Kulick had played previous to Kiss.

Musically, "Forever" is a prototypical power ballad. It begins with Stanley singing over an acoustic guitar intro, with the full band coming in for the first refrain.

"Forever" was released as a music video that received heavy airplay on MTV, attaining the #1 position on the video channel's "Most Requested Videos" show several times. It is perhaps the most understated video Kiss has released, as it showed the band (then consisting of Stanley, Gene Simmons, Bruce Kulick and Eric Carr) playing the song in an empty room.

Despite the success of "Forever," Hot in the Shade became the first Kiss album to fail to reach platinum status since 1982's Creatures of the Night.

The song was #3 on VH1's Awesomely Bad Metal songs.

Forever is the title of a song written by Dennis Wilson and his close friend Gregg Jakobson. It was released in 1970 as the ninth track on The Beach Boys' Sunflower album and features Dennis on lead vocals. The song, along with the rest of the album was produced by The Beach Boys.

The lead vocal is sung by Dennis Wilson. With backing vocals sung by his brothers, Brian and Carl, his cousin Mike Love and Alan Jardine.

Notably, Brian Wilson (the brother of Dennis and generally considered the genius behind the Beach Boys) declared, "Forever has to be the most harmonically beautiful thing I've ever heard. It's a rock and roll prayer."

An a cappella of the original version of the song was included on The Beach Boys' Hawthorne, CA anthology album.

On their 1992 album Summer in Paradise, it featured John Stamos on lead vocals.

The song was also sung by John Stamos on two occasions, both on the TV show Full House, in which he played the character Jesse Katsopolis. The first was a recording sung at his character's wedding, and the second was a recording sung for his character's twin boys.

1987 single from 80's group Into A Circle, with remix from Bronski Beat's Larry Steinbeck.

• 12" (1987, Abstract, 12ABS044) Forever (Remix), Forever, O Siren

Forever is the second single from the Metalcore band As I Lay Dying off of their second album Frail Words Collapse. It is considered their most recognizable song, and in almost every show it's played as the final song of their set. It features clean vocals (made by the ex-bassist Clint Norris) as most of the singles by As I Lay Dying. There was a video made for the song, which consists of a live performance with dubbed-over music.

"Forever" is the second single from Papa Roach's fourth major label album, The Paramour Sessions.

"Forever" peaked at #2 on the Mainstream Rock Chart and #2 on the Modern Rock Tracks. It also peaked as the sixth most downloaded rock song on iTunes and peaked at #57 overall.

There was a contest on YouTube in which fans created their own videos for the song, with the official video, directed by Meiert Avis, shot on May 23, 2007 in the Los Angeles area. On June 15, 2007 the video made it's official debut on AOL.http://music.aol.com/video/forever/papa-roach/1846159

"Forever" is a 2001 single by Sandra and reached #47 on the official German Charts. The track was also included on her 2002 album The Wheel Of Time.

The video was directed by Thomas Job and was the last Sandra single for which an official video was made.

"After Forever" is the second track featured on Black Sabbath's third studio album, Master of Reality. The song is one of three on this album that were written solely by Tony Iommi. The other two are the instrumentals "Embryo" and "Orchid."

The song has alienated and bewildered some fans because of its extremely pro-Christian lyrics. On the surface, the song appears to take a stance against the Satanists who had started to latch onto the band because of the Satanic themes of such songs as "Black Sabbath" and "N.I.B.". The song's message, in essence, is that atheism for the sake of popularity and youthful arrogance is foolish, and that belief in God will come either now or at death, when it is too late. Some also take the other side of the argument, believing it to be a somewhat over the top satire of Christian messages. Nevertheless, it remains a very popular song among fans.

Forever was the first single released from Kid Rock's 2001 "Cocky". The song represents the signature formula of mixing hip hop vocals over funk metal gutairs and heavy drums. It was a last minute addition to Cocky when he and Al Sutton were finishing the mixing process of the album. The video was shot at a live concert at the Michigan State Fairgrounds and edited into a music video, it was only 37 degrees outside during the concert. The song peeked at # 18 on Mainstream Rock charts and # 21 on the Modern Rock Charts. Internationally it was # 37 in Austriala ,#52 in Germany, and #75 in Sweden.

Forever is the second single by the band Sturm und Drang. It was only released as a radio promo, and there was no music video for it. The band recorded another version of it, featuring Udo Dirkschneider on backing vocals. This version is able to downnload at www.sturmis.com.