Four singles supported the album: "Big in Japan", "Sounds Like a Melody", "Forever Young", and "Jet Set".

… Once we wore tattered jeans and sweaty leather jacks … now we were homeless millionaires living in hotel suites and airports.

In 1986, singer Marian Gold recalled that he "bought an album of an unknown British band named Big in Japan.

However, record studio executives requested that the band release an additional song between the two singles, and as a result, "Sounds Like a Melody" was written and arranged in just two days.

The rocket-like success of "Big in Japan" was mind-blowing and irritating at the same time and we were scandalized by a horror of losing our artistic innocence ever since we had signed that record-deal.

The single "Big in Japan" made a surprise entry onto the US Billboard Hot 100 at number 66, where it stayed on the chart for several weeks.

Although the title track "Forever Young" was re-released several times as a single by the band's label in the hope of it becoming a hit in the United States, it did not reach any higher than number 65 on the Hot 100.

There is also a super deluxe edition that includes the new remaster on vinyl and comes with a 24-page vinyl-sized booklet, created by the art director of the original album in close collaboration with the band and contains a variety of rare and unpublished photos, sleeve notes and various other testimonies.

[7] All tracks are written by Alphaville; lyrics by Marian Gold, music by Bernhard Lloyd and Frank Mertens.On 10 January 2019, it was officially announced that the album reissue of Forever Young would be released on 15 March 2019.