Album Summary

Forever, Michael is the fourth studio album by American singer Michael Jackson, released by Motown Records on January 16, 1975. The album is credited as having songs with funk and soul material. Eddie Holland, Brian Holland, Hal Davis, Freddie Perren, and Sam Brown III served as producers on Forever, Michael. It is the final album before Jackson's solo breakthrough with his next album, Off The Wall (1979).

Except for the peak position of number 101 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart and number 10 on the Billboard Top Soul Albums chart, both in the United States, Forever, Michael failed to chart in other countries. Unlike Jackson's previous studio albums, the album was not commercially successful worldwide. However, Forever, Michael was generally well received by contemporary music critics. As part of promotion for the album, three singles were released from Forever, Michael, all of which were moderate commercial successes on the US Billboard Hot 100 and other music charts worldwide.

* In 1981, Motown released the compilation album, One Day In Your Life, named after the third track on Forever, Michael, which was never released as a single for that album. For the promotion of the complication album, One Day In Your Life was released as a single in the United Kingdom, where it reached No. 1, becoming the sixth best-selling single of 1981 in the country. Songs from the album were reissued in 2009 after Jackson's death in June of the same year as part of the 3-disc compilation album Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection.