Stay Forever
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"Stay Forever" is the title of a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Hal Ketchum
. It was released in January 1995 as the third single from his album Every Little Word
. The song reached #8 on the Billboard
Hot Country Singles & Tracks
chart in May 1995.
magazine reviewed the song unfavorably, saying that Ketchum does his "vocal best" to rescue the ballad. He goes on to call it a "not-so-special song."
Hal Ketchum
Hal Michael Ketchum is an American country music artist. He has released ten studio albums since 1986, including nine for the Curb and Asylum-Curb labels. Ketchum's 1991 album Past the Point of Rescue is his most commercially successful, having been certified gold by the Recording Industry...
. It was released in January 1995 as the third single from his album Every Little Word
Every Little Word
Every Little Word is the title of the fourth album released by country music artist Hal Ketchum in 1994 . It peaked at #31, better than his previous album, on Billboards Top Country Albums chart. Of the five singles released from the album, "Stay Forever" was the most successful, peaking at # 8 on...
. The song reached #8 on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Hot Country Singles & Tracks
Hot Country Songs
Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales...
chart in May 1995.
Critical reception
Larry Flick, of BillboardBillboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
magazine reviewed the song unfavorably, saying that Ketchum does his "vocal best" to rescue the ballad. He goes on to call it a "not-so-special song."
Chart performance
"Stay Forever" debuted at #69 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of February 11, 1995.| Chart (1995) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks | 8 |
| U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 | 24 |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 10 |