“Waiting for a Girl Like You”
Single cover
Single by Foreigner from the album 4
Released	1981
Genre	Power ballad, synth pop
Length	4:49
Label	Atlantic
Writer(s)	Mick Jones and Lou Gramm
Producer	Robert John “Mutt” Lange and Mick Jones
Foreigner singles chronology
"Urgent" (1981) "Waiting for a Girl Like You" (1981) "Juke Box Hero" (1981)

"Waiting for a Girl Like You" is a song by British-American rock band Foreigner. The distinctive synthesizer theme was performed by the then-unknown Thomas Dolby.

It was the second single released from the album 4 (1981), and was co-written by Lou Gramm and Mick Jones. It has become one of the band's most famous songs worldwide, peaking at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and at #8 on the UK Singles Chart. Despite not reaching the top of the Hot 100, it reached #1 on the Mainstream Rock Chart for one week.

"Waiting for a Girl Like You" achieved an odd chart distinction by spending a record-setting 10 weeks in the #2 position of the Billboard Hot 100 chart, without ever reaching the top. It was held off the #1 spot by Olivia Newton-John's single "Physical" for the first nine of those weeks, and by Hall and Oates's "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" for the remaining week. In 2002, Missy Elliott matched Foreigner's runner-up accomplishment when her "Work It" single also spent ten weeks at #2 without reaching #1. Whitney Houston's "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" spent eleven weeks at #2, but also spent one week at #1.

This song is featured in the 2002 video game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City as part of the Power Ballads radio station Emotion 98.3.

The song is also featured in the video game RoadKill.

Rick Springfield recorded a cover version of this song on his most recent album, The Day After Yesterday.

Cliff Richard also recorded a cover version of this song on his 2007 album, Love... The Album, which reached #13 on the UK Album Chart.

The song appears in the game Karaoke Revolution Party.

The songs lists at #80 on Billboard's Greatest Songs of all time[1]

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