I Wanna Have Some Fun Explained

I Wanna Have Some Fun
Type:studio
Artist:Samantha Fox
Cover:Samantha Fox - I Wanna Have Some Fun (album).png
Released:November 1988
Studio:
  • Battery, London, UK
  • Bolland, Blaricum, Netherlands
  • PWL, London, UK
  • Sigma Sound, New York City
Length:50:58
Label:Jive
Prev Title:Samantha Fox
Prev Year:1987
Next Title:Just One Night
Next Year:1991

I Wanna Have Some Fun is the third studio album by English singer Samantha Fox. It was released in November 1988 by Jive Records. The album features production from previous collaborators Full Force, Stock Aitken Waterman, Steve Power and Steve Lovell, as well as new collaborators, such as Rob and Ferdi Bolland, Kevin Saunderson, Fred Zarr and Chris Tsangarides.

Singles

"Love House" was released in November 1988 as the album's first single in the United Kingdom, reaching number 32 on the UK Singles Chart. The album's title track served as the first single in the United States, where it peaked at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100, while it was released as the third and final single in the UK in June 1989, reaching number 63. The album's second UK single, a cover of Dusty Springfield's "I Only Want to Be with You" (retitled "I Only Wanna Be with You"), was released in January 1989 and became Fox's best-performing single in over a year, peaking at number 16 on the UK chart. It was also the second single in the US, where it peaked at number 31 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Love House", on its release as the third and final single in the US, failed to reach the top 100.

Track listing

Notes

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1988–1989)! scope="col"
Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[1] 151
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[2] 20
Japanese Albums (Oricon)[3] 37

Year-end charts

Chart (1989)! scope="col"
Position
Canada Top Albums/CDs (RPM)[4] 58
US Billboard 200[5] 96

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Response from ARIA re: Samantha Fox ARIA chart history, received 19 June 2018 . 28 March 2020 . Imgur. N.B. The "High Point" number in the "NAT" column displays the release's peak position on the national chart. The I Wanna Have Some Fun album is erroneously listed as "Samantha Fox" on the albums chart.
  2. Book: Pennanen, Timo . Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 . Finnish . 1st . Helsinki . . 2006 . 978-951-1-21053-5.
  3. Web site: http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/artist/73219/ranking/cd_album/ . ja:サマンサ・フォックスのアルバム売り上げランキング . Samantha Fox's album sales ranking . Japanese . . 24 March 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121023151855/http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/artist/73219/ranking/cd_album/ . 23 October 2012.
  4. Top 100 Albums of '89 . RPM . 51 . 8 . 23 December 1989 . 14 . 0315-5994 . Library and Archives Canada.
  5. Web site: https://archive.today/20120721024542/http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/charts/archivesearch/article_display/854788 . Billboard.BIZ: Top Pop Albums of 1989 . July 21, 2012 . May 6, 2022 . dead .