Love Zone

This article is about the Billy Ocean album. For the song, see Love Zone (song). For the album by Surface, see Love Zone (Surface album).

Love Zone
Studio album by Billy Ocean
Released	January 22, 1986
Recorded	1985
Genre	Contemporary R&B, dance-pop, soul, pop rock
Length	45:01
Label	Jive Records/Arista Records
Producer	Barry Eastmond and Wayne Brathwaite
Billy Ocean chronology
Suddenly (1984)Suddenly1984 Love Zone (1986) Tear Down These Walls (1988)Tear Down These Walls1988

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Love Zone is the sixth album recorded by R&B singer Billy Ocean. The album includes the hit singles "Love Zone" and "There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)", as well as "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going", which had originally been featured on the soundtrack to the 1985 film The Jewel of the Nile. The album was certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of over 2 million copies.

Track listing

1. "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going" (5:45) (Ocean, Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Wayne Braithwaite, Barry Eastmond)
2. "Love Zone" (5:37) (Ocean, Barry Eastmond, Wayne Braithwaite)
3. "Without You" (5:03) (Ocean, Wayne Braithwaite, Barry Eastmond)
4. "There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)" (4:55) (Ocean, Wayne Braithwaite, Barry Eastmond)
5. "Bittersweet" (4:58) (Ocean, Wayne Braithwaite, Barry Eastmond)
6. "It's Never Too Late To Try" (4:54) (Ocean, Barry Eastmond, Wayne Braithwaite, Jolyon Skinner)
7. "Showdown" (4:58) (Ocean, Barry Eastmond, Wayne Braithwaite, Jolyon Skinner)
8. "Promise Me" (4:36) (Jonathan Butler, Jolyon Skinner)
9. "Love Is Forever" (4:15) (Ocean, Wayne Braithwaite, Barry Eastmond)

Expanded Edition (released July 2011)

Bonus Tracks

1. "Love Zone" (Extended Version)
2. "Bittersweet" (Extended Version)
3. "When the Going Gets Tough" (Club Mix)
4. "There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)" (7" Version)

Charts

Chart (1986)	Peak position
Australian Albums Chart	8
Canadian Albums Chart	3
Dutch Albums Chart	7
Finnish Albums Chart	10
German Albums Chart	33
New Zealand Albums Chart	8
Norwegian Albums Chart	3
Swedish Albums Chart	7
Swiss Albums Chart	16
UK Albums Chart	2
U.S. Billboard 200 Chart	6
U.S. Billboard R&B Albums Chart	1

Certifications

Region	Certification	Sales/shipments
United Kingdom (BPI)	Gold	100,000
United States (RIAA)	2× Platinum	2,000,000
*sales figures based on certification alone ^shipments figures based on certification alone xunspecified figures based on certification alone

Production credits

• Executive producer on track 1: Robert John "Mutt" Lange
• Produced by Barry J. Eastmond and Wayne Brathwaite
• Engineer: Steve Power
• Mixing: Nigel Green

See also

• List of number-one R&B albums of 1986 (U.S.)