Big Mountain and Honorebel release Forever Yours with crossover remixes

Big Mountain and Honorebel did not release Forever Yours as a one-off single. They put out a four-track package on May 22, 2026 through Phantom Music Group, with Zojak World Wide also showing up in platform metadata, and the format says plenty about the target audience: reggae heads, pop-curious listeners, DJs and playlist programmers all got their own way in.

Reggaeville’s release listing breaks the song into the original, the VXXK Groovy Pop Remix, the Pop Remix and the EDM Remix, while Beatport separately surfaced the original mix and the EDM remix. Beatport tagged the release as Caribbean/reggae, gave the original mix a runtime of 3:01 and the EDM version 2:41, and that split alone makes the strategy clear. The original keeps the roots-facing core intact, while the pop and EDM versions push the record toward club sets, crossover playlists and more radio-friendly lanes.

That approach fits Big Mountain’s history. The band first broke through with Touch My Light in spring 1993, then moved far beyond the reggae circuit with Baby, I Love Your Way, which climbed to No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart after its appearance on the Reality Bites soundtrack. Unity sold more than a million copies worldwide, and the group played Reggae Sunsplash in both 1994 and 1995. Big Mountain later returned with Perfect Summer in May 2016 after a 14-year gap between albums, followed by Hear That Sound in 2023, and the band’s own site says it now draws about 3.4 million monthly Spotify listeners.

Forever Yours also builds on an existing working relationship between the two acts. Big Mountain and Honorebel had already teamed up on If Only I Knew, which Reggaeville premiered in 2021, with the video description crediting Honorebel as Richard Bailey and pointing to recording in Jamaica and Florida. Honorebel, identified elsewhere as Richard Mark Bailey, is a Jamaican-born singer, rapper, songwriter, producer and the CEO of Phantom Music Group, and he first gained broader mainstream notice in 2009 with Now You See It alongside Pitbull and Jump Smokers.

Put together, the release looks less like a standard single drop and more like a deliberate crossover playbook. Forever Yours keeps its reggae base, but the mix package gives Big Mountain and Honorebel multiple routes into the market, which is exactly the kind of rollout that can travel from Caribbean playlists into clubs, pop spaces and DJ crates without losing the song’s core identity.