Which 1987 Keith Sweat album includes the new jack swing hit “I Want Her”?

Keith Sweat’s 1987 album featuring the new jack swing hit “I Want Her” is Make It Last Forever.

Released in November 1987, the album was Sweat’s debut studio record. It was produced largely by Sweat and Teddy Riley, whose rhythmic programming, drum-machine patterns, and sharply syncopated grooves helped define the emerging new jack swing sound.

“I Want Her” appears as a central track on the album and became Sweat’s breakthrough hit. It reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Black Singles chart and No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album also produced “Something Just Ain’t Right,” “Don’t Stop Your Love,” and its title-track duet with Jacci McGhee.

Listeners sometimes confuse the album title with the 1988 single “Make It Last Forever,” which was released after “I Want Her.” Other distractors are later Keith Sweat albums: I’ll Give All My Love to You arrived in 1990, while Keep It Comin’ followed in 1991.