Foreign Affair  by Tina Turner

Tina Turner celebrates her fifty years with the seventh album of her career in 1989, which is titled Foreign Affair. This album comes three years after her most recent recording work, the mediocre Break Every Rule. Foreign Affair did not reach the success of Private Dancer, but it certainly comes second in commercial appeal after it, with its 6,000,000 sales worldwide.

With Foreign Affair, Tina Turner makes a second career within her second career. Six of the twelve songs on the album are tested as singles and all of them, in one way or another, will become hits - mainly in Europe. For this success, Tina Turner needed to collaborate with a plethora of other people who wrote or produced her album. Among them, we find Dan Hartman, Albert Hammond, Mike Chapman, and many more. The great success of the album - and one of the largest in Tina Turner's entire career - was the single of the song The Best. It was no coincidence that the double collection released two years later with hits by the great performer Tina Turner, was named Simply The Best, a phrase from that particular song.

Foreign Affair reached No. 31 on the Billboard. In contrast, in Europe, it reached No. 1 in the following countries: United Kingdom, Sweden, Switzerland, Greece, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, and Norway.