| Good to Go Lover | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Gwen Guthrie |
| Cover: | Gwen Guthrie - Good to go cover.jpg |
| Released: | January 21, 1986 |
| Genre: | Dance-pop, R&B |
| Label: | Polydor (829 532-1 Y-1) |
| Producer: | Gwen Guthrie, David "Pic" Conley (associate), Jerome Gasper (executive) |
| Prev Title: | Just for You |
| Prev Year: | 1985 |
| Next Title: | Ticket to Ride |
| Next Year: | 1987 |
Good to Go Lover is a 1986 studio album by American singer Gwen Guthrie. The album was produced by Guthrie, with musicians performing on the album including Larry Levan, two Surface members and Bernie Worrell, a Parliament-Funkadelic keyboardist.
The album spawned one big hit single, "Ain't Nothin' Goin' On but the Rent", reaching number 1 on both the US Billboard Dance Music/Club Play Singles and Hot Black Singles charts and number 42 on the pop chart.[1] [2] "Ain't Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent" was also a big hit in the UK, where it reached number 5 in the UK Singles Chart.[3] The second single released from the album, a cover of "(They Long To Be) Close To You", reached number 25 in the UK.[3]
| Charts (1986) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard R&B | 20 |
| U.S. Billboard 200 | 89 |
| Australia (Kent Music Report)[4] | 99 |
| UK Albums Chart[5] | 42 |
| Year | Title | Chart positions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Hot 100 | U.S. R&B | U.S. Club Play | U.S. Dance Sales | AUS | UK | ||||
| 1986 | "Ain't Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent" | 42 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 75 | 5 | ||
| 1986 | "Outside the Rain" | — | 51 | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1987 | "(They Long to Be) Close to You" | — | 69 | — | — | — | 26 | ||