Songs · Billboard Hot 100

Why Can't This Be Love

Van Halen

Entered Mar 15, 1986 · peaked at #3 on May 17, 1986 · 16 weeks on the chart, last seen Jun 28, 1986

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Billboard Hot 100 · #3, 16 wkUK Singles Chart · #8, 15 wk
Record Power
29.8
share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
Weeks at #1
0
never number one
Top-ten weeks
5
weeks at #10 or better
Weeks on chart
16
March 1986 – June 1986

Ranked by Record Power, part of the ChartReign Power model — not a chart published by anyone else. How it works →

The run

Position by week; a gap is a spell off the chart.

What it earned each artist

Record Power is the song's own figure. Power contributed is what the song earned each artist's Career Power: a featured credit takes its reduced share, and a week where the artist had other songs charting is split between them.

ArtistCreditCredit sharePower contributed
Van Halenprimary100%29.7

The top ten the week it peaked

See May 17, 1986 on the timeline →
  1. #1Greatest Love Of AllWhitney Houston
  2. #2West End GirlsPet Shop Boys
  3. #3Why Can't This Be LoveVan Halen
  4. #4What Have You Done For Me LatelyJanet Jackson
  5. #5Live To TellMadonna
  6. #6Your LoveThe Outfield
  7. #7Take Me HomePhil Collins
  8. #8Bad BoyMiami Sound Machine
  9. #9If You LeaveOrchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
  10. #10Addicted To LoveRobert Palmer

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