Only in My Dreams

"Only in My Dreams"
Single by Debbie Gibson
from the album Out of the Blue
A-side	"Vocal (3:50)"
B-side	Dub (4:42) (U.S., 89322; JPN, P-2305) Dreamix (4:18) (UK, A9322)
Released	December 16, 1986 (1986-12-16)
Recorded	1986
Genre	Freestyle[1] electropop[1] bubblegum pop[2]
Length	3:53 (Album Version) 3:42 (Single Version)
Label	Atlantic
Songwriter(s)	Deborah Gibson
Producer(s)	Fred Zarr
Debbie Gibson singles chronology
"Only in My Dreams" (1986) "Shake Your Love" (1987)
Music video
Only in My Dreams on YouTube

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Number One	[3]

"Only in My Dreams" is the debut single by American singer-songwriter and actress Debbie Gibson, who was 16 years old at the time of its release. The song was officially released by Atlantic Records on December 16, 1986. It was later remixed and re-released in February 1987. The song showcased Gibson's songwriting skills as she solely wrote it, with Fred Zarr producing it.

The song became a sleeper hit, eventually rising to the number four position on the Billboard Hot 100, making Gibson one of the few teenage singers to have a top five hit. While it did not enter the top fifty in the UK upon its original release, "Only in My Dreams" was re-issued in 1988 following the chart success of following single "Shake Your Love", which led it peaking at number eleven. Elsewhere, the song peaked at number five in Canada while entering the top twenty in New Zealand and Ireland.

Gibson has re-recorded the song twice following its release. She first re-recorded it in 1997 for her sixth studio album Deborah (1997), when it was released to clubs in February 1998. She later re-recorded it on her Japan-only ninth studio album Ms. Vocalist (2010), this time recorded in Japanese.

The song was voted 95th on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 80s.