Forever Words | |
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Studio album by various artists | |
Released | April 6, 2018 |
Genre | Country Folk, Americana |
Language | English |
Label | Legacy |
Producer | John Carter Cash |
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 75/100[1] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
Classic Rock Germany | 8/10[2] |
Gaffa | [3] |
Forever Words is a 2018 album by various artists recording poetry and lyrics by Johnny Cash set to music for the first time. The album follows a 2016 book release of the poems entitled Forever Words: The Unknown Poems (ISBN 0399575138).[4] The album includes a posthumously released track by Chris Cornell, who died in 2017. In 2020 and 2021, a deluxe version of the album was released in four waves, with a total of 18 additional songs. The first and second waves were released on October 23 and December 11, 2020 with the two remaining waves set for release on February 5 and April 2, 2021 respectively.[5][6][7]
Deluxe Edition:
Chart (2018) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums (ARIA)[8] | 19 |
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[9] | 52 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[9] | 30 |
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[9] | 118 |
Dutch Albums (MegaCharts)[9] | 28 |
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[10] | 48 |
New Zealand Heatseeker Albums (RMNZ)[11] | 8 |
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[9] | 40 |
US Billboard 200[12] | 66 |
US Billboard Country Albums[12] | 9 |